This is the new Cambridge First Certificate in English Listening test, 2016.
Practicing on these Cambridge FCE Listening tests helps raise your score in the Cambridge English First exams. These tests are also very good to exercise English listening skills.
Correct answers & audio transcript are posted below.
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TRANSCRIPTS
Question 1.
Er ... Excuse me everybody ... this will only take a minute. We have an announcement and the announcement is: Could the owner of the grey Skoda, registration CRA 179P please remove his car from its parking space at the far end of the street? Sorry, we appreciate this is your legal parking space, but if your car remains there, the floats won't be able to get past and then everybody will be complaining.
Question 2.
Ah well ... there doesn't appear to be anything the matter with the
camera itself. But I don't think you paid much attention to the instruction manual. And don't worry about the film, I wound it back into its container. Now, if you look here into the battery compartment, this should be put in this way round with the little metal bit pointing down towards the base of the camera ... and then if you depress the shutter just a bit, you'll see this little light comes on - so now we have power.
Question 3.
G = Gerald C = Cecilia
G: And our first caller today is Cecilia. Cecilia, what is your question for Gerald?
C: Well, I've been having quite a lot of trouble with my Swiss Cheese plant. I just can't get it to do what I want. It's in quite a large pot now, I transplanted it last spring, but the leaves and stems haven't spread out at all. I've been wondering if it could be root-bound.
G: Well, Cecilia, this is more common than you might think. What
you've got to do is ...
Question 4.
W = Woman M = Man
W: I'm terribly sorry sir, but we can't allow you to do that here.
M: But why ever not? I've paid my money, now just leave me alone.
W: I'm awfully sorry, but we simply can't allow it. You see the flash
disturbs other visitors and damages the colouring in our priceless antique paintings.
M: Well, what about that man over there with the dog?
W: I think you will find, sir, that he is not using a flash.
M: Well, I'm going to talk to the manager.
Question 5.
Well, Peter, I do have rather a tight schedule on Friday ... let's see ... at 3:30 I've a meeting with my agent. That goes on till 3:45 and then I have to drive to the office for the departmental heads meeting at 4:15 and that won't be finished till quarter to six at the earliest ... No, I know what. I'll cancel my agent. After all, I'm the one who's paying his fee. He'll just have to lump it ... and then we can meet at quarter to four and I'll still get to the meeting for 4:15.
Question 6.
W = Woman M = Man
W: ... and now turning to a subject that we discussed last week. We
have had a number of phone calls from other customers who also
suffered the same inconvenience as a result of booking 'Horden Sun and Save' package deals last summer. We have also been informed that the Office of Fair Trading have in fact carried out an investigation and issued the following statement:
M: While not directly responsible, Horden's Limited should provide
compensation of no less than sixty pounds for each individual ...
Question 7.
Well, Samantha's really calmed down in the last month or so. In fact, she's been a lot better behaved since she had her last little adventure. You did hear about that, didn't you? It is really quite incredible. I mean, she actually survived a whole wash cycle in the washing machine. It's a good thing I came back before it started to spin ... and her fur did come out such a beautiful, snowy white colour afterwards. Mind you she won't go near the washing machine again.
Question 8.
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CORRECT ANSWERS
1A - 2B - 3A - 4A - 5A - 6C - 7A - 8B
