CAMBRIDGE ENGLISH QUALIFICATIONS

Listening Practice Test 1

There are 25 questions.
You have 20 minutes.
You will need a pen or pencil
and some coloured pencils or
pens.
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Listen and draw lines. There is one example.

Richard Katy Harry William

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Sarah George Emma

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Listen and write. There is one example.

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Grandfather’s

Grandfather’s first job: he was a

fi r e fi g h t e r
.... .. .. ... .. .. .. .. .. ....
1 Town where he worked: .............................................

2 The first thing he had to do: find a ..................................

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3 What he liked wearing most: his .......................................

4 Number of people in his team: .............................................

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5 Why he enjoyed this job: it was

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Aunt Betty is talking about some of her things. Where is

each thing now?

Listen and write a letter in each box. There is one example.

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chess B

crown

violin

sunglasses

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necklace
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A
C
E
H

B
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Listen and tick (✓) the box. There is one example.

Who phoned Michael today?

Listening

A B ✓ C

1 What will Michael go and see?

A B C

2 Which station will Michael arrive at?

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3 When must Michael be ready to go?

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A B C

4 Where will Michael have his lunch?

A B C

5 What does Michael want to buy?

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A B C
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Listen and colour and write. There is one example.

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Reading and Writing Practice Test 1

There are 44 questions.
You have 40 minutes.
You will need a pen or a pencil.
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Look and read. Choose the correct words and write them
on the lines. There is one example.

a chemist a restaurant an octopus

You buy this in a post office and put

Writing
Reading and

it on an envelope before you send a s ta

.... .. .
it.
a key
m p a hotel
1
People work to make many kinds ... .. ..
of things in this place, for example
fridges or cookers. ..............
2
This strange animal has eight
arms but no legs and lives in the
sea. ..............
3
When you go on holiday, you may
a camel a castle
stay in one of these places. ..............
4
You use these to cut things like
paper or card when you want to
..............
make a model of something.
5
This animal carries a large shell on its
back and walks very slowly. ..............
6
This is usually made of metal. You scissors
an eagle
might need it to open a door or
..............
start the engine of a car.
7
If you go to the zoo, you might see
this animal, but it usually lives in
..............
the desert.
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In story books, this is usually the
home of a king or queen. ..............
a tortoise beetles
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You can use this to tidy your hair
after you have washed it. ..............
10
This bird has very strong wings and
eats fish and other small animals like
mice or rabbits. ..............
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a stamp a factory money

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Sophia is talking to her friend, Frank. Sophia is asking

Reading and
Frank some questions about City Park. What does
Frank say?

Writing
Read the conversation and choose the best
answer. Write a letter (A-H) for each
answer.
You do not need to use all the letters. There is one example.

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Sophia: Have you been to City Park yet, Frank?

Frank: ..............................B.....................................

Questions
1 Sophia: What can you do there?

Frank: ...................................................................

2 Sophia: So, what did you and your sister do first?

Frank: ...................................................................
3
Sophia: And did you meet anyone from our class
there?

Frank: ...................................................................
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4 Sophia: So, you didn’t go on a river boat?

Frank: ...................................................................

5 Sophia: How long did you stay there?

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Writing
Reading and

A Mum says we can do that next time. We just fed the swans.

B Yes, I went there with my family last Sunday. (example)

C I’m not sure. Tomorrow perhaps.

D Well, you’d enjoy skateboarding and playing volleyball most, I think.

E As soon as I did, Sophia.

F I didn’t see any of our friends, actually.

G I can’t remember … two or three hours?

H She couldn’t come, but I went on the swings and then played golf.
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Read the story. Choose a word from the box. Write the

Reading and
correct word next to numbers 1–5. There is one
example.

Writing
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Example

jobs puzzles alone feel oceans

decided sold magazine interesting prepare

After school last Tuesday, Helen told her mother about her lessons. ‘We

talked about different .........j.o..b..s.......... in our English class,’ she

said. ‘Geography is my favourite subject, but I think I want to be a

journalist and work for an important newspaper or a famous

(1) ........................ .’
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‘Well,’ her mother said, ‘watch this programme about the sea on TV with

me. It’s just beginning now. It’s about a problem with our environment.’

At the end of the programme, Helen said, ‘Wow! There’s so much plastic

in all our (2) ........................ . That’s terrible! I must write about it.’
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That night, Helen sent a message to the college website. ‘Students will

think that’s really (3) ........................,’ she thought. Then she sent a

letter to the city newspaper.

Writing
Reading and

The next morning, she got an email from the newspaper.

‘They have (4) ........................ to put my letter on page one, Mum!’

she said. ‘Everyone in the city will see it!’

‘You’re a journalist, Helen!’ Mum said. ‘How does that

(5).......................?’

‘Amazing!’ Helen answered.

(6) Now choose the best name for the story.

Tick one box.

Mum gets an exciting job

Helen’s wonderful surprise

Funny programmes on television

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Read the text. Choose the right words and write them on the lines.

Reading and
The history of the telephone

Writing
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Example
Today, millions ...........o..f........... people in the world feel very
worried or unhappy if they don’t have a phone
1 in ........................ bag or pocket! But a hundred years
2
........................, in many countries, people didn’t know
3 ........................ about telephones. People who had a phone
4 ........................ their home couldn’t use it outside to speak to
5 a friend, and phones were ................... too large and heavy to
put in pockets. Phones in the 21st century are very different.
6 You can do lots of things with a phone now -......................only
chat, but text and go online, for example. Some people think
Antonio Meucci was the first person to invent the telephone

7 but other people say it was an engineer who was ...................

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Alexander Bell. Alexander designed his phone in 1876. A year

8 later, the first person Alexander ................... to on his phone

was Thomas Watson. ................... Thomas picked up the
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phone, he decided to say, ‘Hello!’ If we ................... a phone
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today, we still say ‘Hello’, don’t we!
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Example of by off

1 they them their

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Reading and

2 ago yet over

3 anyone anything anywhere

4 in on along

5 many much more

6 not no no-one

7 call called calling

8 speak spoken spoke

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9 Where When Why

10 answer answered answering

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Look at the pictures and read the story. Write some

Reading and
words to complete the sentences about the story. You
can use 1, 2, 3 or 4 words.

Writing
Harry and the music competition

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Harry loved singing. He was already quite good at playing the guitar and
wanted to have piano and violin lessons, too. Last week, Harry’s music
teacher, Mr Kite, told the students about a competition. Anyone could
enter. Students could sing or just play their favourite tune.

‘It will be on Saturday, March 18th in the Queen’s Theatre. The first prize will
be ten lessons on the instrument you like the most!’ Mr Kite said.
It was only March 4th, so Harry had two weeks to practise. Every
evening, he tried to choose a special song to sing. It was difficult but two
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days before the competition, he heard a song on his grandmother’s radio

that he really loved. He found it online. He listened to it again and again
and practised it a lot. When he went up on the stage to sing his song,
Harry was worried. ‘Will I forget the words?’ he thought. But he didn’t
and he sang very well.
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‘Which song did you sing, Harry?’ his grandmother asked that evening.
‘It was called I’m So Lucky!’ he said.
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‘And which instrument are you going to learn?’

‘I’ve thought about this very carefully,’ Harry said. ‘The drums!’
‘The noisiest instrument, then. Oh dear!’ his grandmother said and laughed.
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Reading and

Examples

Harry could play the ...............g..u...i.t.a..r..................... quite well.

Harry also wanted

p i a n o a n d vi o lin le s s o n s
......... .. .. .. .. ... .. .. .... . .. .. . . ... . .. .. .. .. .. ...............

Questions

1 Mr Kite was a ................... at Harry’s school.

2 The music competition that Mr Kite spoke about was on

..................., in a theatre.

3 The winner could have ................... on their favourite instrument.

4 The song that Harry decided to sing was one that he heard on
................... .
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5 Harry was worried on the stage, but he didn’t ................... any of

the words.

6 The name of Harry’s song was, ‘.................’.

7 Harry won the competition and decided to learn to play the

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Read the diary and write the missing words. Write one

Reading and
word on each line.

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Saturday
When I woke up and ..............l.o..o..k..e..d.................. out of the window this morning
........................................ was really deep! After breakfast,
I .................................... on the jacket I wear for skiing and ran outside. The two ki
already ................................... a snowman! I helped them with that.
We ......................................... great fun sledging down the hill together, too. Then the
started ......................................... disappear. But our snow- man was still there when I w
Example

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2

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Look at the three pictures. Write about this story. Write

20 or more words.
Writing
Reading and

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Robert’s pet
Kind of pet ?
Who gave it ?
When / get ?
Favourite food ?
What / like doing ?

Holly’s pet
Kind of pet a puppy
Who gave it her grandfather
When / get in June
Favourite food biscuits
What / like doing teaching it to sit down
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Robert’s pet
Kind of pet a rabbit
Who gave it his aunt
When / get last month
Favourite food grass
What / like doing playing with a plastic ball

Holly’s pet
Kind of pet ?
Who gave it ?
When / get ?
Favourite food ?
What / like doing ?

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A2 FLYERS SPEAKING Picture story

Alex
Dad

Mum
5

key
The lost
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