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CELPIP Listening Part 4: Listening to a News Item

CELPIP Listening Part 4 Practice Test: Small-Town Robotics Champions

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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. Before the final round, the Moose Jaw team

  2. The students repaired their robot with

  3. Priya Sandhu suggests that the team

  4. In the contest, robots had to

  5. We can infer that the trip to Texas

Transcript (read it after you answer)

NARRATOR: Six students from a small high school in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, have captured first place at a national robotics competition in Montreal, defeating more than forty schools, several of them from Canada's largest cities. The weekend contest challenged teams to build a robot capable of sorting coloured blocks and stacking them on a moving platform in under two minutes. The Moose Jaw squad, competing for only the second time, entered the final round in last place after their robot's arm malfunctioned during qualifying. Overnight, the students dismantled the mechanism in their hotel room, replacing a cracked gear with a component fashioned from a plastic spatula borrowed from the breakfast buffet. The improvised repair held, and the robot completed the final task with eleven seconds to spare. Team captain Priya Sandhu, seventeen, attributed the victory to persistence rather than sophisticated equipment, noting that the team's annual budget is a fraction of what larger programs spend. Their teacher, Glen Moreau, says the school has already received inquiries from local businesses. The team now qualifies for an international championship in Texas next spring, although organizers caution that travel costs, estimated at fifteen thousand dollars, have not yet been covered.

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Answer key

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  1. Before the final round, the Moose Jaw team A. was ranked lowest of the finalists.
  2. The students repaired their robot with B. an ordinary kitchen utensil.
  3. Priya Sandhu suggests that the team D. won despite limited resources.
  4. In the contest, robots had to C. arrange objects quickly.
  5. We can infer that the trip to Texas A. still depends on raising money.

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