CELPIP Listening Part 4 Practice Test: A Window Display Draws Crowds to Hollowmere

MAN: A modest gift shop on Hollowmere's Bridge Street, owned by Aditi Sharma, has drawn crowds far beyond what its shelves would suggest. Sharma sells stationery and small ceramics found in similar shops across the region; what has changed, tourism officials say, is the front window, which Sharma redesigns every few weeks using only objects already stocked inside, once assembling a lighthouse from stacked teacups and folded napkins. The shift began quietly last winter, during a stretch of slow trade when, Sharma recalled, she had more time than customers and rearranged the window mainly to keep herself occupied. A visitor's photograph of one display, showing a miniature harbour built from buttons and glass beads, circulated online before Sharma had taken it down, and within weeks coach operators added her storefront to routes that had stopped only at the town's restored lighthouse. Marcus Whitfield, who runs a bakery two doors down, said weekend foot traffic past his counter has climbed noticeably since the buses began arriving, though he admits he cannot explain to puzzled tourists why a window, rather than a shop, is the actual attraction. Sharma herself seems ambivalent about the notice; asked whether she would keep redesigning the display every few weeks, she said only that she was still working out what people respond to. Tourism board member Naomi Reid called the trend promising but cautioned that nothing about it has been formally planned or guaranteed to continue.