This is the new Cambridge First Certificate in English Listening test, 2016.
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Correct answers & audio transcript are posted below.
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TRANSCRIPTS
Speaker 1.
Well, I suppose some of it was quite nice but it really could have been so much better. After all, I went to a lot of effort this year to make it something special, but somehow it didn't quite work. I mean everybody had masses to eat, there were eight of us sitting down to dinner, and we must have spent a fortune on presents this year, but looking around the room, you couldn't see it in people's faces. And then there was all the quarrelling over what we were going to watch on TV, and I don't seem to remember a single person actually saying thank you and really meaning it.
Speaker 2.
I was all set to have another unexciting Christmas in the bedsitter
where I'm living now. Of course, I'd sent my kids Christmas presents but I knew I wouldn't be hearing from them. My ex-wife doesn't allow it. So I'd bought myself a two pound chicken from Dewhursts and a four-pack of Lion Brand Extra and I got a stack of pound coins for the electric meter so that at least I could be warm and watch some telly.
And then, just as I was just putting the chicken into the oven, there
was a knock at the door and it was the father of the family just
across the road saying they'd noticed that I was going to be alone
that day and would I like to join them. And of course, I had a wonderful time.
Speaker 3.
It isn't over yet. I mean, we've had the actual festivities on the 25th,
but there's so much more to Christmas than that. Our parish church is putting on a festival of 9 lessons and carols on Sunday evening. And if that's not your cup of tea then there's the Charitable Association Santa Claus pram-race on Monday, although I won't be taking part in that this year. And this Christmas it's even been snowing so I'll be taking my grandchildren up to Connerston Hill for some tobogganing or they can build a snowman if the snow's good enough. That's on Tuesday and then ...
Speaker 4.
It wasn't as good as it's been in the past. For a start the telly was
pretty disappointing, especially after last year's. I mean we had 'Terminator' last Christmas Eve, but all we got this year was 'Robocop' again. And the weather, huh, the weather's been really bad, so most of the football was cancelled and then to top it all, our video machine broke down on Christmas day so there's been nothing to watch all Christmas. And then, just to finish off any last chance of a decent holiday, someone suggested we all played Monopoly. Well, I went out to walk the dog in the snow.
Speaker 5.
Well, I wouldn't say I enjoyed it. I spent the three days before the
twenty-fifth standing outside Fielding's pet shop with a placard trying to stop people buying pets as presents. And did they listen? People were going in and out of the pet shop all day and you should have seen the number of baby cats, dogs and rabbits that people were buying as presents. And you know what's going to happen to them. The same as every year. A week after Christmas they'll be out on the streets fending for themselves in temperatures well below zero. But what's most distressing is the tropical birds. These beautiful animals can die in a matter of hours if left outside.
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CORRECT ANSWERS
19D - 20F - 21A - 22B - 23C
