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CELPIP Listening Part 4: Listening to a News Item

CELPIP Listening Part 4 Practice Test: Salmon in the Classroom

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. The water in the aquarium was kept very cold in order to

  2. The person who saved the project in March was

  3. Each morning, students had to

  4. Some students were discouraged to learn that

  5. Belanger mentions the mentors to show that the project

Transcript (read it after you answer)

NARRATOR: Students at a Cornwall high school said goodbye to some unusual classmates this week. Since January, a Grade 11 biology class has been raising salmon from eggs in a refrigerated aquarium at the back of the classroom, a partnership with a regional conservation group that hopes to return the fish to streams where they have become rare. Teacher Monique Belanger explains that the water must stay barely above freezing, imitating a riverbed in winter, so students took turns recording the temperature every morning, including weekends. The project nearly collapsed in March, when an ice storm knocked out power in the school's neighbourhood for two days. With the eggs in jeopardy, a student's grandfather, a retired electrician, arrived with a portable generator and kept the chiller running. Of the two hundred eggs originally delivered, roughly one hundred and sixty survived. On Tuesday, the class released the young fish into a creek east of the city, where volunteers will monitor their progress. Belanger was candid that only a tiny fraction will reach adulthood, a sobering statistic for some students. Still, she insists the lesson extends well beyond biology: several students have already volunteered to return next year as mentors.

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Answer key

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  1. The water in the aquarium was kept very cold in order to D. copy the conditions of a natural river.
  2. The person who saved the project in March was C. a family member of a student.
  3. Each morning, students had to A. check how cold the water was.
  4. Some students were discouraged to learn that B. most of the released fish will not survive.
  5. Belanger mentions the mentors to show that the project A. has made students want to stay involved.

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