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LISTENING TEST 1
I. BLANK FILLING EXERCISE
Listening and fill in each blank with the word you hear.
A balloon on the tail
Today is New Year’s Day. In the (1) morning, Kerry, a little mouse and her
mother are going to grandmother’s. She is very (2) happy because she is (3) wearing
nice clothes. “Good morning, Kerry”, a little rabbit sees them, “you look (4) pretty
today”. “Thank you”. “But, look at your beautiful (5) tail” says rabbit, “It is (6)
touching the ground”. “Oh my god” says Kerry and she (7) carries her long tail with
hands. Then there comes a dog with a big balloon. “Why do you carry your tail,
Kerry?” asks the dog. “Because it touches the ground, It will be (8) dirty”. “Oh don’t
(9) worry I can help you”. Then the dog ties a big (10) balloon on Kerry’s tail. “That’s
OK” says the dog “your tail won’t touch the ground again”.
II. TRUE – FALSE EXERCISE
Listen and state whether the following statements are true or false.
Who is Broken a Window?
F 1. Billy and Bobby were cousins.
T 2. Their mother is going to cook lunch.
T 3. The boy played for half an hour.
F 4. Bobby broke a glass case in Mrs Allen’s house.
T 5. Bobby was the boy who didn’t cause the damage.

Tape script: Billy and Bobby were small boys. They were brothers, and they often
fight with each other. Last Saturday their mother said to them, “I’m going to cook our
lunch now. Go out and play in the garden ... and be good”.
“Yes, Mummy”, the two boys answered and they went out. They played for half
an hour, and then Billy ran into the kitchen. “Mummy”, he said, “ Bobby’s broken a
window in Mrs Allen’s house”. Mrs Allen was one of their neighbors.
“He’s a bad boy”, his mother said, “How did he break it?”
“I threw a stone at him”, Billy answered, “and he quickly moved down”.

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LISTENING TEST 2
I. BLANK FILLING EXERCISE
Listening and fill in each blank with the word you hear.
A Nice Young Man
An old (1) lady opens her window and looks out of it. The sun shines brightly.
There is a young man in the (2) garden in front of her house. The old lady looks at
him and says, “He is (3) cutting grass for me!”
She goes out into the garden and says to the (4) young man, “Why are you cutting
grass for me young man?”
The young man says, “Today’s my (5) holiday. You’re old and live (6) alone. I
want to do something for you”.
“It’s so (7) kind of you, my boy”, says the old lady. “Come into my house and
have a cup of tea.”
“OK” answers the young man, “but I must (8) finish the work first”.
When the old lady goes out into the garden an hour later, the young man is not
there. The garden looks (9) clean and (10) tidy.
“What a nice young man!” says the old lady.
II. TRUE – FALSE EXERCISE
Listen and state whether the following statements are true or false.

Is it Time for Supper?

F 1. I had dinner with my friend, George last week.

T 2. George is very fat because he likes good food and eats a lot of it.
F 3. We sat in the canteen.
F 4. We had a small meal.
T 5. We were in this place for more than 3 hours.

Tape script: Last week I went out to have lunch with my friend, George. George is
very fat. He likes good food and eats a lot of it. We sat at a big table in the restaurant.
After a big meal we have some cakes and drank a few cups of coffee. “We must go
now, George” I said. “We have been here for more than three hours. It’s four thirty”.
“What do you mean?” asked George in surprise, “We can’t leave now. It’s
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LISTENING TEST 3
I. BLANK FILLING EXERCISE
Listening and fill in each blank with the word you hear.
Honest
One afternoon, I went to a (1) shop to buy some ink. There was only one shop
assistant in it. He was (2) reading a book. “I want to buy a (3) bottle of ink”, I said.
There was no (4) answer. He was still going on reading his book. Then I asked again.
He (5) stood up and gave me a bottle of ink. When I was out of the shop, I found
the (6) change he gave me was too much. So I went back to the shop. The man pulled
a (7) long face when he saw me gain.
“Now, what do you want to buy?” he said (8) angrily. “Nothing’, I said, “you gave
me too much change just now. I (9) want to give you back the money”. “Ah, ah, thank
you”, the man said with a (10) red face.
II. TRUE – FALSE EXERCISE
Listen and state whether the following statements are true or false.
Boys or Girls?
T 1. Many boys and girls in western countries have long hair.
F 2. It is easy to tell whether they’re boys or girls.
F 3. An old man went for a walk in a campus.
T 4. A child with long hair was standing on the other side of the river.
T 5. The person sitting next to the old man on the chair was the child’s father.

Tape script: A lot of boys and girls in Western countries are wearing the same kind of
clothes, and many of them have long hair, so it is often difficult to tell whether they
are boys or girls.
One day an old man went for a walk in a park. When he was tired, he sat on a
chair near the river. A child was standing on the other side of the river. “Oh!” The old
man said to the person next to him on the chair. “Do you see that child with long hair?
Is it a boy or a girl?”
“A girl”, said the person, “she is my daughter”
“Oh, I am sorry. I didn’t know that you were her mother”.
“I am not her mother”, said the person, “I am her father”.

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LISTENING TEST 4
I. BLANK FILLING EXERCISE
Listening and fill in each blank with the word you hear.
Late for work
I got (1) home at six in the evening. “Are you tired, Ted?” my (2) wife asked.
“No”, I answered. “but I’m (3) hungry. Dinner will be (4) ready in half an hour” she
said. “Did you (5) catch your train this morning?” she asked again. “No, I didn’t. I ran
all the (6) way to the station and got there at four minutes past nine”. “Which (7) train
did you catch?” she asked. “The nine fifteen”. “What time did you (8) get to the
office?” “At ten o’clock”. “At ten o’clock?” my wife (9) shouted, “Wasn’t the boss
(10) angry?” “No, he wasn’t at the office”. I said, “He got there at ten thirty. He didn’t
catch the train, either”.
II. TRUE – FALSE EXERCISE
Listen and state whether the following statements are true or false.
Doing as Mum Told

F 1. Tom was seventeen years old.

T 2. He didn’t like to get up early.
T 3. Tom’s mother bought him an alarm clock so that he wouldn’t be late for school.
F 4. Tom got up when he heard the clock ring at six every morning.
T 5. One day, Tom didn’t get up at six thirty because the clock didn’t work.

Tape script: Tom was 7 years old, and he was going to school soon. He was a good
boy, but he didn’t like to get up early. He slept until nine or ten o’clock in the morning
His mother didn’t want Tom to be late for school. So she bought him an alarm clock.
She said to Tom, “You must get up when you hear the clock rings”. After that, Tom
got up when he heard the clock rings at six thirty every morning
One day, the clock didn’t work. Tom didn’t get up at six thirty. It was time for
breakfast. Mother went to wake up him. Tom said to his mother, “I woke up very
early”. “Then why didn’t you get up?” Mother was angry. “You told me that I must
get up when I heard the clock ring. So I’m still waiting for the bell”.

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LISTENING TEST 5
I. BLANK FILLING EXERCISE
Listen and fill in each blank with the word you hear.
Too Late
Peter works in a (1) food factory. He helps the shopkeeper. He puts food on the
(2) shelves every day. Then people come into the shop and buy the food. Today there
aren’t any bags of (3) rice on the shelf.
“Peter”, says the (4) shopkeeper, “we need some bags of rice, (5) bring some rice to
the shelf. Hurry up.”
Peter runs to get some bags of rice. They’re in (6) another room and they are on
the (7) top of the shelf. The shelf is high up. Peter is tall, but he can’t reach the bags.
He brings two boxes and puts one on the top of the other. Then he stands on them.
Now he reaches the bags on the shelf.
The shopkeeper is coming. He is calling Peter.
“Peter! Hurry up! What are you (8) doing? Where are the bags of rice?” he says. He
(9) opens the door. He can’t see Peter on the boxes.
“Don’t open the door!” Peter says.
Then Peter falls down!
Now Peter is on the (10) floor. There is some rice on his head.
II. TRUE – FALSE EXERCISE
Listen and state whether the following statements are true or false.
Showing the Way
F 1. Mr. Black was looking for a big hotel.
T 2. He told the told woman that he wanted to go to the Sun Hotel.
T 3. The old woman got in Mr. Black’s car and went with him to show him the way.
T 4. Mr. Black’s car stopped in front of the old woman’s house.
T 5. From her house, she showed Mr. Black the way to the Sun Hotel.
Tape script: One evening Mr Black was driving in the country and looking for a small
hotel. When he saw an old woman, “I want to go to the Sun Hotel. Do you know it?”
“Yes”, the old woman answered, “I will show you the way”. She got in Mr
Black’s car, and they drove about twelve miles. When they came to a small house, the
old woman said, “Stop here”. Mr Black stopped and looked at the house. “But this
isn’t a hotel”, he said to the old woman.
“No”, the old woman answered, “This is my house. And I’ll show you the way
to the hotel. After I get off, you turn around and go back nine miles. Then you’ll see
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LISTENING TEST 6
I. BLANK FILLING EXERCISE
Listen and fill in each blank with the word you hear.
Crying for Music
Mr Peter Smith likes (1) singing very much, but he is very (2) bad at it. Last
week he went to (3) dinner at Mary’s house. Mary was his best (4) friend, and there
were some other friends there too.
They had a good dinner, and then Mary went to Mr. Smith and said, “You can sing,
Peter. Please sing us (5) something”.
Mr. Smith was very (6) happy, and began to sing an old (7) song about the
mountains of Germany. The other friends (8) listened to it for a few minutes and then
one of them began to cry. She was a small woman.
One of the other friends went up to her, put his (9) hand on her back and said,
“Please don’t cry. Are you a German?”
“No”, she answered, “I’m not a German, and I’ve never been to (10) Germany.
I’m a singer, and I love music!”
II. TRUE – FALSE EXERCISE
Listen and state whether the following statements are true or false.
What Did I Do at School Today?
T 1. Polly went to school when she was six years old.
F 2. On the first day, when other children left the classroom, Polly stayed behind.
T 3. She wanted to ask her teacher, Miss Yates, a question.
T 4. She asked Miss Yates what she had learned that day.
F 5. Polly was going to tell her mother about what she did at school.
Tape script: Polly went to school when she was six years old. She liked her first day
very much. Her teacher, Miss Yates was very nice and other children in her class were
nice, too. But at the end of the second day, when other children left the classroom,
Polly stayed behind and waited
Miss Yates had some work to do and did not see Polly at first, but then she
looked up and saw her. “Why didn’t you go home with the others, Polly?” she asked
kindly, “Did you want to ask me a question?” - “Yes, Miss Yates”, Polly said.
“What is it?” Miss Yates asked.
“What did you do at school today?” Polly said.
Miss Yates laughed. “What did you do at school today?” she said, “Why did
you ask me that, Polly”.
“Because I’m going to go home now”, Polly answered, “and my mother’s going
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LISTENING TEST 7

I. BLANK FILLING EXERCISE

Listen and fill in each blank with the word you hear.

Exact
Mr. Smith liked to be exact. One day when he was walking in the (1) street, a
man came over and asked him. “(2) Excuse me, but where’s the (3) nearest post
office?”
“The nearest post office? You have to (4) cross a bridge and then (5) turn right”.
“And is the bridge (6) long?” asked the man.
“Yes. Thirty metres”.
The man (7) thanked him and went towards the bridge. Suddenly he heard (8)
someone running after him. “Stop”, Mr. Smith was shouting, “I’m sorry. I just (9)
remembered the bridge is forty metres long. If you go thirty metres and then turn
right, as I told you to do, you’ll (10) fall into the river”.

II. TRUE – FALSE EXERCISE

Listen and state whether the following statements are true or false.

Fishing
F 1. Ted worked in a small factory in a big town
F 2. He liked eating fish
T 3. He was very good at fishing.
T 4. There were very few to fish in the small river behind his factory because of
the dirty water.
T 5. One summer he went to the seaside to fish.
Tape script: Ted worked in a factory in a big town. He liked fishing very much, and
was very good at it. When he was free, he went down to the small river behind the
factory to fish. But there were very few there, because the water dirty. Then one
summer he went to the seaside during the holidays and stayed at a small, cheap hotel.
“It will be quite different from fishing in our river”, he thought. On the first day he
caught a lot of fish and was very happy. On the second day he sat on the seaside
fishing all day but caught nothing.

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LISTENING TEST 8

I. BLANK FILLING EXERCISE

Listen and fill in each blank with the word you hear

Trying to be Good
Helen has a (1) bad eyesight, so she usually wears (2) glasses. But when she (3)
goes out with his boyfriend Jim, she doesn’t (4) wear her glasses. When she comes
back home she wears her glasses again. One day her (5) mother asked her, “But
Helen, why don’t you wear your glasses when you are with Jim? He takes you to (6)
many beautiful (7) places in his (8) car, but you don’t see anything”.
“Yes, mother”, says Helen, “but I look (9) nice to Jim when I am not (10)
wearing my glasses and he looks nice to me, too”.

II. TRUE – FALSE EXERCISE

Listen and state whether the following statements are true or false

Litter and Letter

T 1. Olive’s mother told him to send a letter.
F 2. Olive put the letter in his schoolbag.
T 3. He saw a basket with the following words on it, “Put litter in the basket”.
T 4. He thought the word LITTER was incorrectly spelt.
F 5. He couldn’t get the letter back after putting it in the litter basket.

Tape script: The story is about a school boy called Olive. One day his mother told him
to post a letter. Olive put the letter in his pocket and walked down the street in a hurry.
He didn’t see a letter - box on either side of the street, instead he saw a basket with
some words on it, “Put Litter in the Basket”. Olive took a look at the words, thought
them over and said, “They are poor in spelling. They can’t even spell the word ‘letter’
correctly”. Olive put the letter in the basket. Then he ran home and told his mother
about it. “Oh, my boy”, said the mother, “You’ve put the letter in a litter basket. You
must get it back”. With the words “I’m sorry”, Olive ran all the way to the litter
basket. Luckily he found the letter and put it into the letter- box at last. He said to
himself, “I must study hard from now on”.

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LISTENING TEST 9

I. BLANK FILLING EXERCISE

Listen and fill each blank with the word you hear.
Happy Time
Alice is a (1) little girl of eight. She has a (2) brother named Tim. He is two years
(3) younger than she. Last summer, Alice’s mother (4) took them to her father’s farm.
There they had a very (5) good time, Alice and her brother got to (6) know some
ducks. These ducks lived in a little green (7) house near the road. They were very
lovely. Every morning the ducks walked down the road to a (8) pool. Then they went
into the water. Alice and Tim sat on the (9) bank and saw them swimming. At that
(10) moment, both the ducks and the children were very happy.

II. TRUE – FALSE EXERCISE

Listen and state whether the following statements are true or false.
A Clever Dog

T 1. George is a single man.

T 2. Last Monday Goerge jumped into his car but his dog jumped into another car.
T 3. He thought his dog was foolish.
F 4. The fact was that the dog was in the wrong car.
F 5. George wasn’t mistaken.

Tape script: George is a young man. He does not have a wife, but he has a very small
car and a very big dog. He likes playing tennis. Last Monday he played tennis for an
hour, and then ran out and jumped into a car. His dog came after him, but it didn’t
jump into the same car, it jumped into the next car.
“Come here, foolish dog!” George shouted at it, but the dog stayed in the other car.
George put his key in the lock of the car, but the key did not turn. Then he
looked carefully at he car again. It wasn’t his! He was in the wrong car! And the dog
was in the right one! “He’s sitting and laughing at me!” George said angrily to
himself. But then he smiled and got into his car with the dog.

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LISTENING TEST 10
I. BLANK FILLING EXERCISE
Listen and fill each blank with the word you hear.
Once a Year
Tom finished (1) secondary school when he was (2) eighteen years old. He
wanted to work at a (3) bank in town. He went to the bank and asked for a (4) job
there. A man took him into a small (5) room and gave him (6) questions on a piece of
paper. Tom wrote the answers on the paper in a (7) hurry. The man looked for a few
(8) minutes, then he said, “Was your birthday on the 12th of (9) December, Tom?”
“Yes, sir”, Tom said.
“What (10) year?” the man asked.
“Oh, once a year, sir, Tom said.
II. TRUE – FALSE EXERCISE
Listen and state whether the following statements are true or false.
Dirty Heart

F 1. Tom was working in a town near his home.

F 2. He could write a letter to his wife.
T 3. He had to find a letter writer.
T 4. He came to the letter-writer’s house late at night.
F 5. The letter-writer was pleased to help him.
Tape script: Tom was working in a town far from his home. One day he wanted to
send a letter to his wife. Tom could neither read nor write, and he had to work all day,
so he could only look for someone to write the letter for him late at night. At last Tom
found the house of the letter - writer.
The letter- writer was already in bed. “It’s very late”, he said, “What do you want?”
“I want to write a letter to my wife”, said Tom.
The letter-writer was not pleased. He thought for a few seconds and then said to Tom,
“My handwriting is strange, so I have to go to your home and read your letter to your
wife. It will cost you a lot of money”.
Tom went away quickly.

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