CELPIP Listening Practice Course: Part 4: Listening to a News Item
Untimed topic quiz: 15 questions on Part 4: Listening to a News Item, with an explanation after each answer. Questions and answers are shuffled every time.
Topic quiz 5: Part 4: Listening to a News Item
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Question 1 of 15
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Answer: C. One speaker giving a formal, factual report
Part 4 is one speaker, formal, factual and descriptive, like a radio or TV news report.
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Question 2 of 15
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Answer: D. Note her last name with her role
In news items, people are introduced by full name and then by last name only. Noting the last name with the role helps you follow them.
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Question 3 of 15
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Answer: B. Answer the easiest ones first, then the rest
In Part 4 you can answer in any order, so answer the easy ones first. Then come back and answer every question, because blanks are scored as incorrect.
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Question 4 of 15
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Answer: C. cracks were found in its steel supports
The report says engineers found cracks in two of the bridge's steel supports during an inspection.
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The City of Lakeview will close the Mill Creek pedestrian bridge for repairs starting next Monday. Engineers found cracks in two of the bridge's steel supports during a routine inspection last month.
The bridge links the east-side neighbourhood to Riverside Park, and about two thousand people cross it every day. City engineer Maria Delgado says the repairs should take about six weeks.
Delgado says a free shuttle bus will run every fifteen minutes between the two ends of the bridge while it is closed. Cyclists are asked to use the Bay Street bridge, about one kilometre to the south.
The work is expected to cost about four hundred thousand dollars. The city says most of that money will come from a provincial infrastructure fund.
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Question 5 of 15
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Answer: D. six weeks
City engineer Maria Delgado says the repairs should take about six weeks.
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The City of Lakeview will close the Mill Creek pedestrian bridge for repairs starting next Monday. Engineers found cracks in two of the bridge's steel supports during a routine inspection last month.
The bridge links the east-side neighbourhood to Riverside Park, and about two thousand people cross it every day. City engineer Maria Delgado says the repairs should take about six weeks.
Delgado says a free shuttle bus will run every fifteen minutes between the two ends of the bridge while it is closed. Cyclists are asked to use the Bay Street bridge, about one kilometre to the south.
The work is expected to cost about four hundred thousand dollars. The city says most of that money will come from a provincial infrastructure fund.
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Question 6 of 15
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Answer: C. ride a free shuttle bus
Delgado says a free shuttle bus will run every fifteen minutes between the two ends of the bridge. Cyclists are sent to the Bay Street bridge.
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The City of Lakeview will close the Mill Creek pedestrian bridge for repairs starting next Monday. Engineers found cracks in two of the bridge's steel supports during a routine inspection last month.
The bridge links the east-side neighbourhood to Riverside Park, and about two thousand people cross it every day. City engineer Maria Delgado says the repairs should take about six weeks.
Delgado says a free shuttle bus will run every fifteen minutes between the two ends of the bridge while it is closed. Cyclists are asked to use the Bay Street bridge, about one kilometre to the south.
The work is expected to cost about four hundred thousand dollars. The city says most of that money will come from a provincial infrastructure fund.
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Question 7 of 15
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Answer: A. a provincial infrastructure fund
The report says most of the four hundred thousand dollars will come from a provincial infrastructure fund.
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The City of Lakeview will close the Mill Creek pedestrian bridge for repairs starting next Monday. Engineers found cracks in two of the bridge's steel supports during a routine inspection last month.
The bridge links the east-side neighbourhood to Riverside Park, and about two thousand people cross it every day. City engineer Maria Delgado says the repairs should take about six weeks.
Delgado says a free shuttle bus will run every fifteen minutes between the two ends of the bridge while it is closed. Cyclists are asked to use the Bay Street bridge, about one kilometre to the south.
The work is expected to cost about four hundred thousand dollars. The city says most of that money will come from a provincial infrastructure fund.
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Question 8 of 15
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Answer: D. volunteering at a food bank
The report says she got the idea while volunteering at a food bank.
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A high school student in Pine Ridge has found a new way to fight hunger in her community. Sixteen-year-old Leila Haddad started a program that collects unsold food from local bakeries and grocery stores.
Haddad got the idea while volunteering at a food bank, where she learned that many families run out of food near the end of the month. Since January, her team of twenty student volunteers has collected more than three tonnes of food.
Every Friday afternoon, the volunteers pick up the food in a borrowed school van and deliver it to two community kitchens. The school board has now given the program a grant of five thousand dollars to buy coolers and pay for fuel.
Haddad says her next goal is to start the same program at three more schools in the district by next fall.
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Question 9 of 15
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Answer: D. every Friday to two community kitchens
Every Friday afternoon, the volunteers deliver the food to two community kitchens. Three schools is her future goal.
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A high school student in Pine Ridge has found a new way to fight hunger in her community. Sixteen-year-old Leila Haddad started a program that collects unsold food from local bakeries and grocery stores.
Haddad got the idea while volunteering at a food bank, where she learned that many families run out of food near the end of the month. Since January, her team of twenty student volunteers has collected more than three tonnes of food.
Every Friday afternoon, the volunteers pick up the food in a borrowed school van and deliver it to two community kitchens. The school board has now given the program a grant of five thousand dollars to buy coolers and pay for fuel.
Haddad says her next goal is to start the same program at three more schools in the district by next fall.
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Question 10 of 15
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Answer: C. buy coolers and pay for fuel
The grant of five thousand dollars is to buy coolers and pay for fuel. The van is borrowed from the school.
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A high school student in Pine Ridge has found a new way to fight hunger in her community. Sixteen-year-old Leila Haddad started a program that collects unsold food from local bakeries and grocery stores.
Haddad got the idea while volunteering at a food bank, where she learned that many families run out of food near the end of the month. Since January, her team of twenty student volunteers has collected more than three tonnes of food.
Every Friday afternoon, the volunteers pick up the food in a borrowed school van and deliver it to two community kitchens. The school board has now given the program a grant of five thousand dollars to buy coolers and pay for fuel.
Haddad says her next goal is to start the same program at three more schools in the district by next fall.
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Question 11 of 15
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Answer: B. start it at three more schools by next fall
Haddad says her next goal is to start the program at three more schools in the district by next fall.
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A high school student in Pine Ridge has found a new way to fight hunger in her community. Sixteen-year-old Leila Haddad started a program that collects unsold food from local bakeries and grocery stores.
Haddad got the idea while volunteering at a food bank, where she learned that many families run out of food near the end of the month. Since January, her team of twenty student volunteers has collected more than three tonnes of food.
Every Friday afternoon, the volunteers pick up the food in a borrowed school van and deliver it to two community kitchens. The school board has now given the program a grant of five thousand dollars to buy coolers and pay for fuel.
Haddad says her next goal is to start the same program at three more schools in the district by next fall.
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Question 12 of 15
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Answer: B. there were not enough de-icing trucks
Daniel Brooks says the problem was not the runways, which stayed open. There were not enough de-icing trucks for all the planes.
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Heavy snow caused long delays at Northfield International Airport yesterday. More than forty flights were cancelled, and many others left two to three hours late.
Airport spokesperson Daniel Brooks said the problem was not the runways, which crews kept open all day. Instead, there were not enough de-icing trucks to clear ice from all of the planes waiting to take off.
Brooks says the airport will add four new de-icing trucks before the end of the month. Travellers flying this week are asked to check their flight status online before leaving home, and to arrive at least two hours before domestic flights.
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Question 13 of 15
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Answer: D. a spokesperson for the airport
The report introduces him as airport spokesperson Daniel Brooks and later calls him Brooks.
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Heavy snow caused long delays at Northfield International Airport yesterday. More than forty flights were cancelled, and many others left two to three hours late.
Airport spokesperson Daniel Brooks said the problem was not the runways, which crews kept open all day. Instead, there were not enough de-icing trucks to clear ice from all of the planes waiting to take off.
Brooks says the airport will add four new de-icing trucks before the end of the month. Travellers flying this week are asked to check their flight status online before leaving home, and to arrive at least two hours before domestic flights.
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Question 14 of 15
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Answer: C. add four new de-icing trucks
Brooks says the airport will add four new de-icing trucks before the end of the month.
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Heavy snow caused long delays at Northfield International Airport yesterday. More than forty flights were cancelled, and many others left two to three hours late.
Airport spokesperson Daniel Brooks said the problem was not the runways, which crews kept open all day. Instead, there were not enough de-icing trucks to clear ice from all of the planes waiting to take off.
Brooks says the airport will add four new de-icing trucks before the end of the month. Travellers flying this week are asked to check their flight status online before leaving home, and to arrive at least two hours before domestic flights.
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Question 15 of 15
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Answer: D. check their flight online before leaving home
Travellers should check their flight status online and arrive at least two hours before domestic flights.
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Heavy snow caused long delays at Northfield International Airport yesterday. More than forty flights were cancelled, and many others left two to three hours late.
Airport spokesperson Daniel Brooks said the problem was not the runways, which crews kept open all day. Instead, there were not enough de-icing trucks to clear ice from all of the planes waiting to take off.
Brooks says the airport will add four new de-icing trucks before the end of the month. Travellers flying this week are asked to check their flight status online before leaving home, and to arrive at least two hours before domestic flights.
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