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
Speaker 1.
I quite liked the place when I first moved there in early September. The furniture was cheap but adequate, and for the rent I was paying, that was fair enough. Everything seemed to be working until later in the year, when I put the central heating on - and nothing happened. I phoned the landlady and she said not to worry, that it was always slow like that at first. But even when it did come on it hardly warmed the place up at all. And then it went off altogether. Again and again that happened, and I spent most of the winter evenings there wrapped in blankets. I left as soon as I could afford a better place.
Speaker 2.
I’ll always have wonderful memories of that apartment in the countryside, not because it was particularly comfortable, but on account of what you could see from the living room: green fields running down to a rushing river, with tall evergreen trees either side of it. I particularly loved that scene in winter, when there was snow on the ground and the outside temperature was below freezing.
It was so quiet, too. There was an old lady living next door, but I rarely saw or heard her, and there was hardly ever a sound from the upstairs neighbours, either.
Speaker 3.
That first flat I had certainly wasn’t a big place. It had a small living- room and bedroom, and a really tiny kitchen that overlooked the rubbish bins in the yard. And although it’d recently been decorated and was looking quite nice, the furniture was very ordinary, so I’d say that really I was being overcharged for what it was. In fact I don’t think I would’ve stayed there as long as I did if I hadn’t become so friendly with the next-door neighbours. Which was just as well because, as you know, I like playing my music pretty loud. And they never once complained!
Speaker 4.
I know you can’t ask for luxury if you’re spending so little on rent, but I think it’s reasonable to expect the owner to do some basic maintenance if he’s taking money off you. In the bathroom, for instance, the water pipes made a terrible noise every time you turned a tap on, and though I realised it wasn’t dangerous, that certainly wasn’t the case in the kitchen, where you ran the risk of an electric shock whenever you switched anything on. There were bare cables there, and even though I kept telling the landlord, he seemed in no hurry to have anything done about it.
Speaker 5.
It was a pity I had to leave that flat because in many ways I liked being there. It was warm, even during the coldest nights of January, and the owner was fair, charging me a reasonable rent and immediately getting things fixed whenever anything went wrong. But he couldn’t do anything about the couple next door.
who seemed to spend nearly all their time having arguments. I tried turning up the TV but I could still hear them, and when I saw the woman in the hall one morning and mentioned it to her, she got quite angry. So, sadly, I had to pack my bags and find somewhere else.
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CORRECT ANSWERS
19B - 20C - 21E - 22A - 23D
