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CELPIP Listening Part 4: Listening to a News Item

CELPIP Listening Part 4 Practice Test: A Diner Turns Back the Clock

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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. The owner held the event mainly to

  2. During the day, the kitchen

  3. Lisa MacKinnon

  4. We can infer that the money in the jar

  5. Walter Gaudet's final comment suggests that he

Transcript (read it after you answer)

NARRATOR: A Charlottetown diner marked its seventy-fifth anniversary on Saturday by rolling its menu back to 1950, and the response was overwhelming. The Harbourview Diner unlocked its doors at six in the morning, when coffee cost a nickel and a hot turkey sandwich went for thirty-five cents. By seven, the line stretched around the block. Owner Lisa MacKinnon, whose grandparents founded the restaurant, says she anticipated a busy day, but not a queue of nearly four hundred people, some of whom had driven from Moncton. The kitchen ran out of turkey before noon and switched to grilled cheese, which nobody seemed to mind. MacKinnon admits the promotion lost money, roughly four thousand dollars by her estimate, but she describes it as a gesture of gratitude rather than a business decision. Customers were encouraged to drop their spare change into a jar for the local food bank, and many contributed far more than their bill. By closing time, the jar held over six thousand dollars. One devoted regular, ninety-one-year-old Walter Gaudet, ordered the identical breakfast he had eaten on opening day as a teenager. He told reporters it tasted exactly the same, though he conceded his memory might be generous.

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Answer key

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  1. The owner held the event mainly to C. thank the diner's customers.
  2. During the day, the kitchen A. had to replace a menu item.
  3. Lisa MacKinnon D. belongs to the family that started the diner.
  4. We can infer that the money in the jar B. was larger than the diner's loss.
  5. Walter Gaudet's final comment suggests that he C. may not remember the taste accurately.

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