C1 Advanced Listening Multiple Choice (Extracts) Practice
C1 Advanced (CAE) · Listening Part 1 · 19 free exercises
Short unrelated recordings, each with multiple-choice questions. At C1 Advanced: three extracts, two questions each. You hear each extract twice, and the speakers’ attitude or purpose matters as often as the facts.
Listening Multiple Choice (Extracts): Short recordings, quick decisions.
- Short — extracts
- A B C — multiple choice
- Heard twice — each recording
- Opinion — and feeling
Quick understanding of feeling, opinion and agreement between speakers — not facts. Topics and speakers change every extract, and the answer is usually said in different words from the question.
What real learners get wrong: C1 learners average 87% — the friendliest listening part. Every wrong answer is a word that appeared in the recording, or a missed reset at a new extract.
The method
- Read the questions for each extract before it plays.
- Reset completely at each new extract — new speakers, new topic.
- Listen for attitude words ("to be honest", "I’m not so sure"), not facts.
- First play decides; second play confirms.
- Check which speaker the question is about — the man, the woman, or both.
The traps
- The word you heard: You catch a question’s exact word and pick that option — but the speaker used it to mean the opposite.
- Not resetting between extracts: Focus that lingers on the last extract misses the start of the next.
- Facts over feelings: Most questions ask about opinion or agreement — catching facts but missing attitude gets it wrong.
- Two speakers, one question: Check whose view the question wants before you answer.
All Listening Multiple Choice (Extracts) exercises
Cambridge English Advanced 1, Cambridge University Press
Cambridge English Advanced 2, Cambridge University Press
Cambridge Exam Booster for Advanced, Cambridge University Press
Ready for C1 Advanced 4th Edition Workbook, Macmillan Education
Ready for C1 Advanced 4th Edition, Macmillan Education
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