Eight Situations - Test 3

B2 First · Listening Multiple Choice Extracts · Cambridge English First 3, Cambridge University Press

You will hear people talking in eight different situations. For questions 1–8, choose the best answer (A, B or C).

You hear a young woman who is an apprentice cook talking about her apprenticeship.

How does she feel about it?

grateful to be working in a four-star restaurant

pleased that her teacher told her about the opportunity

confident about fulfilling her ambitions

You hear two students talking about passing the time on bus journeys.

What technique to do they both sometimes use?

listening to music

observing the world outside

concentrating on what's happening inside

You hear a cycle coach telling his group about the ride they are going to do.

What instruction does the coach give?

Don't go too fast on the return route.

Stick together on the main road.

Don't take the first sign to the destination.

You hear part of an interview in which a writer talks about autobiographies.

What does the writer say about them?

He prefers working on books about people he knows.

He is unlikely to write one himself.

He thinks the more popular ones are very boring.

You hear a journalist telling a colleague about her time at university.

How did she first get interested in journalism?

by doing research online

by accepting a chance request

by reading a particularly interesting article

You hear a man and a woman talking about a new clothes shop they have visited.

What does the man say about having a member of staff to welcome customers?

It seems like a worthwhile idea.

Other people might appreciate it.

Worse things happen in other shops.

You overhear a woman talking on the phone to a friend.

What is the woman talking about?

an idea for a small short-term business

the various career options open to her

her role in a forthcoming expedition

You hear part of a broadcast on the radio.

What type of broadcast is it?

a programme advertisement

a wildlife documentary

a news summary

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