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CELPIP Listening Part 4: Listening to a News Item

CELPIP Listening Part 4 Practice Test: A Rescue at the Beach

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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 swimmer got into trouble because he

  2. Tremblay helped the swimmer by

  3. Tremblay's lifesaving course taught him to

  4. After the rescue, the swimmer

  5. Tremblay's comments about the rescue show that he is

Transcript (read it after you answer)

NARRATOR: A sixteen-year-old from Nanaimo is being praised for his quick thinking after he helped rescue a struggling swimmer on Sunday afternoon. Owen Tremblay was paddleboarding with his sister near a popular beach north of the city when he heard someone shouting. A vacationer in his sixties from Alberta had swum out farther than he anticipated and was caught in a strong current that kept dragging him away from shore.

NARRATOR: Rather than diving into the water, Tremblay paddled over, told the exhausted swimmer to hold on to the front of his board, and gradually pushed him back toward the beach. Meanwhile, his sister called nine-one-one. Paramedics examined the man on the sand, and he did not need to go to hospital.

NARRATOR: Tremblay completed a lifesaving course only last month, and he credits his instructor for teaching him never to approach a panicking swimmer without something that floats. The vacationer's family has since expressed their gratitude publicly, and a local community group plans to give Tremblay an award. Tremblay, however, insists he was simply in the right place at the right time. What he would really like, he says, is for permanent warning signs about the current to be installed at that beach.

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Answer key

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  1. The swimmer got into trouble because he C. was carried out by moving water.
  2. Tremblay helped the swimmer by A. using his board to bring him in.
  3. Tremblay's lifesaving course taught him to B. bring something buoyant when helping a swimmer.
  4. After the rescue, the swimmer D. was checked where he came ashore.
  5. Tremblay's comments about the rescue show that he is A. modest about what he did.

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