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CELPIP Listening Part 4: Listening to a News Item

CELPIP Listening Part 4 Practice Test: Groceries by Bicycle

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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. 1. Bell started delivering groceries because

  2. 2. Some of Bell's customers thank him by

  3. 3. Bell's trailer was

  4. 4. During the February snowstorm, Bell

  5. 5. Bell's plan to recruit other students suggests that he

Transcript (read it after you answer)

NARRATOR: A Guelph university student has turned his daily bike rides into a lifeline for dozens of local seniors. Twenty-year-old Marcus Bell began delivering groceries last winter after his grandmother, who no longer drives, admitted she had been skipping meals rather than walking to the store on icy sidewalks. At first, Bell simply picked up her weekly order along with his own. Before long, neighbouring residents were requesting the same favour. Bell now completes approximately thirty deliveries a week, pulling a trailer that he built himself from an old baby stroller and some plywood. He charges nothing for the service, although several customers insist on paying him in homemade cookies. Bell admits the hills and the weather are not always easy, and in February a snowstorm forced him to borrow his roommate's car for an entire week. A local grocery store recently learned of his work and has offered to donate a second trailer and cover repairs to his bicycle. Bell, who is studying nutrition, hopes to recruit other students so that the deliveries can continue after he graduates next spring.

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Answer key

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  1. 1. Bell started delivering groceries because D. his grandmother struggled to get to the store.
  2. 2. Some of Bell's customers thank him by A. giving him baking they have made.
  3. 3. Bell's trailer was B. built from materials he reused.
  4. 4. During the February snowstorm, Bell C. drove a car belonging to someone else.
  5. 5. Bell's plan to recruit other students suggests that he A. wants the service to outlast his time at school.

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