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.
... which, of course, comes with a three-year guarantee. And finally,
there's the 'Amitron Eco'. You'll notice right away that it's a more expensive model but, in the long run, it'll cut a substantial slice off your family's electricity and water bills. This particular model has been specially designed to be economical with both water and energy making running costs a third less, although it has the same features as all our other models and does the job just as well. Would you care to have a look at the technical profile ... ?
Question 2.
... and Alvin Major's guests tonight include the singer 'Lolita', the ghost writer Peter Miller and Bobby Antonio, then after the 9 o'clock news, Penelope Parchment has a particularly difficult case to solve when one of her house guests goes missing ... and can Penelope take time out to patch up her shaky marriage? That's 'Just Penelope' at 9:45 ... and then to round off the evening on Channel 9, Robert Mulholland presents another another ...
Question 3.
M = Man W = Woman
M: No, don't get that one. That's the one that had a bitter taste.
W: But that one's the best value. It says here that it makes more than fifty cups.
M: And have you ever counted them? ... Look, every jar's got the same amount ... see! It says on the label 450 grams.
W: Well, what's wrong with this one then?
M: It's the flavour. You didn't like it either. Look, this one's only 9 pence extra. Couldn't we just try it once and see ... ?
Question 4.
You have reached the Piddleton Technical College freephone information service. Courses starting next month include Norwegian clogdancing and traditional English floral dancing - both classes taking place on Mondays and Wednesdays. Cookery courses for the new year are in Chinese, South American and Indian cuisine and will take place at the centre on weekday evenings apart from the Indian cookery course on Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays, which will consequently last an extra 2 weeks beyond the usual 5-week duration.
Question 5.
Well, when I first started, I bought a copy of 'How to Get the Most
Out of your Trumpet'; but I think it made a lot of things unnecessarily difficult. I mean, it helps anyway having a teacher to show you what to do because no book can really explain what you have to do with your mouth when you're blowing. Mind you, it does have some useful diagrams that helped me pick up the fingering ... but if I were you, I'd spend my money on having some actual lessons with a proper instructor.
Question 6.
Hello, is that George? ... Yes, very well thank you ... and you? ... Yes, I was wondering if you'd like to come to dinner on Thursday night ... it'll just be a small gathering ... Oh, what a pity. Still, you deserve a break with all that work you do. You've been quite run down recently - and we don't want you getting ill. Will you be going abroad?
Question 7.
Well, the bus station is not too far. You'll be able to get there on foot quite easily. You keep going along this road until there's a bend and you follow it all the way round and then there's a big hill in front of you. That's called St Mark's Hill. So, you go all the way up St Mark's Hill, over the top and right down to the traffic lights ... and the bus station is just after the lights ... on your left ... and if you get to the river, you know that you've gone too far.
Question 8.
T = Teacher L = Lucy
T: Er ... Lucy can I have a word?
L: 'Imbecile' ... that's a word, sir.
T: No, no, I want to talk to you.
L: Look, sir, I promise I'll try to pay more attention and bring the right books next time, I just thought that everyone would find it interesting - my Dad does.
T: Look, that's not the problem ... haven't you been missing your
classes quite a lot recently?
L: Oh, no sir. I didn't miss them at all. We had a great time.
T: Lucy, this has got to stop. It's high time you changed your attitude, young lady.
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CORRECT ANSWERS
1C - 2C - 3A - 4B - 5A - 6A - 7C - 8B
