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CELPIP Listening Part 4: Listening to a News Item

CELPIP Listening Part 4 Practice Test: A Bicycle at a Yard Sale

By Iris

A free Listening Part 4 practice test in the CELPIP format: 5 questions with the answer key. Play each recording once, as in the real test, answer, then check your answers at the bottom of the page. The transcript is under each recording.

Questions
5
Format
1 news report, questions after it
Question style
Multiple choice, 4 options
Play like the real test
Each recording plays once, then each question with 30 seconds to answer (Parts 4–6: one timer for the part). No pausing to replay, like test day.

  1. 1. Fortin went to the yard sale to

  2. 2. Fortin knew the bicycle was his because of

  3. 3. The seller decided to

  4. 4. Fortin's parents believed the bicycle had been

  5. 5. Fortin's plans for the bicycle suggest that he

Transcript (read it after you answer)

NARRATOR: An Oshawa man took an unexpected trip down memory lane last weekend when he spotted his childhood bicycle at a neighbourhood yard sale. Forty-six-year-old Daniel Fortin was out searching for a secondhand lawnmower on Saturday morning when a faded red bicycle with a white banana seat caught his attention. Fortin says there was no doubt, because of the initials he had scratched under the seat when he was nine years old. The bike had disappeared from his family's garage in 1988, and his parents assumed it had been stolen. The seller, a retired schoolteacher, explained that she had purchased it at a church rummage sale decades ago for her own son, who eventually outgrew it. After hearing Fortin's story, she refused to accept the twenty dollars marked on the price tag. Fortin acknowledges the bicycle is now far too small for him to ride. Instead, he intends to restore it with his eleven-year-old daughter throughout the winter, and he hopes she will be riding it by next spring. As for the lawnmower, he went home without one.

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Answer key

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  1. 1. Fortin went to the yard sale to C. buy equipment for his yard.
  2. 2. Fortin knew the bicycle was his because of B. letters he had cut into it.
  3. 3. The seller decided to D. let him have it for nothing.
  4. 4. Fortin's parents believed the bicycle had been A. taken by a thief.
  5. 5. Fortin's plans for the bicycle suggest that he B. wants to share it with his child.

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