Listening Tests – Answer key

Listening Test 1A / 1B Listening Test 2A / 2B

Maria: Hi, Sam. What are you doing? Max: Here we are guys. This is our table. Eva,
Sam: Oh, hi Maria. I’m walking my dog. What are the blue chair is yours, and Julia, the red
you doing? chair is yours.
Maria: I’m in the park, too. I’m watching Charlie and Eva & Julia: Thanks, Max.
Joe. They’re playing baseball. Can you see Max: And the yellow one is mine! This place is
Charlie? He’s talking with Joe right now. cool.
Sam: No, I can’t. Who’s Joe? Eva: Yes, it is. There are tables outside, too.
Maria: Joe is in my class. He’s from San Diego. He There are 50 people here, but it isn’t noisy.
plays lots of sports, you know … baseball, Julia: Max, can I have a menu?
soccer … . He has short, black hair, and Max: Sure, here you are. And here are some
he’s very tall and slim. He’s talking with napkins.
Charlie right now. He’s very good-looking. Julia: Thanks. Wow! It’s a big menu. Look, there
Sam: Oh, yes. I can see him now. Can he play are lots of dishes.
basketball, too? Eva: Is it expensive here? It’s a beautiful
Maria: Yes, he can. restaurant.
Sam: Great! I need a player for our basketball Max: No, it isn’t. It’s a cheap restaurant, but the
team! Who is the boy with the long, blond menu is good. Do you want a hamburger,
hair? He isn’t playing baseball. I think he’s Eva?
sunbathing. Eva: No, I don’t like hamburgers. Do they have
Maria: That’s Karl. He can’t play baseball. He’s so any sausages?
bad! But he’s very tall, and he can play Max: Yes, they do, with French fries.
basketball. Eva: That sounds nice. Can I have that?
Sam: That’s great! Max: What about you, Julia?
Julia: I don’t know. I want my favorite, a
Answers to Listening Test 1A hamburger with cheese, but I can’t see it.
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Julia: Cool. Can I have that? Oh, is there any
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water in the bottle on the table, Max?
Max: No, there isn’t. But here comes the waiter.
Excuse me, can we have some water and
some glasses, please?
Waiter: Of course.
Max: Great! Now, let’s order …

Answers to Listening Test 2A

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Answers to Listening Test 2B

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Listening Test 3A / 3B Listening Test 4A / 4B

Interviewer: How many stores are there in your DJ: Welcome to the Mystery Show. In the studio
town, Ben? today, we have Isobel Hardy from the
Ben: There are a lot of small stores, a few American Sea Museum.
grocery stores, and an expensive big Isobel: Hi.
shopping mall. DJ: Isobel is here to talk about a mystery ship.
Interviewer: When do you go shopping? So Isobel, tell us more.
Ben: I normally go to the stores on Saturdays Isobel: Well, the name of the ship was the Mary
with my sister. Celeste.
Interviewer: Where do you usually go shopping? DJ: So, what is the mystery?
Ben: I like to go to the small stores near my Isobel: Well, on November fifth, 1872, it started its
house or buy things on the internet. journey from New York to Genoa, Italy. But it
Interviewer: What do you buy on the internet? didn’t arrive.
Ben: I buy music. Today, I want to buy some DJ: Did it disappear?
cool hip hop songs. Isobel: Yes, it did, but not for long.
Interviewer: I see. Do you go to the mall? DJ: Oh?
Ben: Sometimes. I don’t like shopping malls Isobel: A month later, people from another ship saw
very much, but I was at the one in our the Mary Celeste. It was on the sea near
town on the weekend with my sister. Portugal.
Interviewer: Can you tell me about it? DJ: So did they go onto the Mary Celeste?
Ben: Yes, it was big and noisy. There were a Isobel: Yes, they did.
lot of stores, and I felt tired and bored. DJ: What did they see?
Interviewer: Why were you bored? Isobel: Well, there weren’t any people on the ship
Ben: There weren’t many good stores, but and some of the equipment was missing.
there was a cool music store on the But the ship was OK.
third floor. DJ: So no one knows where the people went?
Interviewer: How many people were there? Isobel: No one knows where they went, or why they
Ben: There were a lot of people. And I was left the ship.
surprised because there was a famous DJ: What a mystery! Well …
guitarist there, too.
Answers to Listening Test 4A
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Answers to Listening Test 4B
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