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LISTENING TEST 4

PART 1
Directions: This is the listening test for levels from 3 to 5 of the Vietnam’s 6-level
Language Proficiency Test. There are three parts to the test. You will hear each part once.
For each part of the test there will be time for you to look through the questions and time
for you to check your answers. Write your answers on the question paper. You will have
5 minutes at the end of the test to transfer your answers onto the answer sheet.

PART 1
There are eight questions in this part. For each question there are four options and a short
recording. For each question, choose the correct answer A, B, C or D. You now have 48
seconds to look through the questions and the options in each question.
1. How much petrol does the woman want?
A. 13 litres
B. 30 litres
C. 33 litres
D. 15 litres
2. Which table do they buy?
A. a round one with three legs
B. a round one with four legs
C. a square one with four legs
D. a square one with three legs
3. What time does the class start?
A. at two o’clock
B. at half past two
C. at three o’clock
D. at half past three
4. What does Mr. John look like?
A. with long hair
B. with a hooked nose
C. bald and with a moustache
D. with small ears
5. Where is he going to plant the tree?
A. behind the garage
B. by the front door
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C. in the middle of the garden

D. at the end of the garden
6. What is the man going to buy?
A. oranges
B. apples
C. grapes
D. bananas
7. Which is Gary’s room?
A. in the middle of a floor
B. on the top floor
C. on the left of a floor
D. on the first floor
8. Which is the best vehicle for the man?
A. a five-seat car
B. an old car
C. a small bus
D. a van

PART 2
Conversation 1. You will hear a part of an interview with a boy called Simon who is
helping to protect the environment.
1. Why does Simon enjoy taking his boat onto the River Stanton?
A. Many people go there.
B. He likes its water speed.
C. The river is closed to his house.
D. He likes sailing.

2. What does Simon notice about the river water?

A. It was getting lower and lower.
B. It was cleaner and cleaner.
C. It was having negative effect on him.
D. It was always blue.

3. How did Simon learn more about the river’s problem?

A. He looked on the Internet.
B. He asked his teachers.
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C. He asked other people.

D. He read in a book.

4. Why does Simon feel pleased?

A. He found solutions to pollution.
B. He found limestones in the river.
C. He found lots of fish in the river.
D. He found lots of plants in the river.

Conversation 2. You will hear a radio programme in which a woman called Sylvia
Short is interviewed about her job.
5. How many languages can Sylvia speak?
A. one.
B. two.
C. three.
D. four.

6. What was her job after being promoted?

A. an office assistant.
B. a manager’s assistant.
C. a post officer.
D. a tour guide.

7. What does her job NOT involve?

A. advertising in the press.
B. giving talks to people.
C. answering journalists’ phones.
D. printing guidebooks.

8. How does she think about her job?

A. It’s boring.
B. It’s not boring.
C. It’s tiring.
D. It’s difficult to do.

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Conversation 3. You will here a Director of Studies in an English Language center

and a students’ representative talking about their Self-Access center.
9. What study resources should be reorganized?
A. reading resources.
B. models.
C. CDs.
D. course books.

10. What materials may be introduced in the Self-Access?

A. class books.
B. workbooks.
C. reference books.
D. scientific books.

11. What will the speaker talk to teachers for?

A. an agreement on the timetable.
B. the center’s security.
C. the support form teachers.
D. compliment from teachers.

12. What may be done to reduce the resources misused?

A. putting in an alarm.
B. locking webs.
C. having email access limited.
D. closing the center.

PART 3

Talk/Lecture 1.You will hear a talk about British festivals.

1. The Clavie is
A. a whisky container
B. a wooden cross
C. a bonfire made of things people don’t need
D. a kind of whisky

2. In the Up HellyAa festival, theyburn

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A. a wooden man
B. a Viking boat
C. a line in the grass
D. some old boats

3. During a pancake race, you have to

A. eat as many pancakes as possible
B. run as fast as possible while tossing a pancake in a pan
C. run and jump over the ropes without dropping the pancake
D. run while eating pancake

4. Nowadays, the people who win the cheese rolling competition are usually
A. top athletes
B. people from the village
C. visitors from all over the world
D. people from other villages

5. The fastest snail in the Snail Racing is

A. cooked with garlic and butter
B. rescued from the barbecue
C. given a prize of extra lettuce
D. prized a cup

Talk/Lecture 2.You will hear a talk about how to prepare for exam.
6. You should plan your studying and take regular….
A. breaks
B. exercises
C. revisions
D. naps

7. It is better to write notes, so your mind is ……the information more.

A. processing
B. progress
C. organizing
D. remembering

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8. Mind maps seem to work in the same way the ……..works.

A. brain
B. train
C. plane
D. mind

9. The most important thing is

A. to remember the information
B. to understand the information
C. to organize the information
D. to put the information in a map

10. Which study method you choose all depends on your personal
A. preference
B. reference
C hobby
D. characteristic

Talk/Lecture 3.You will hear a talk about rain forest.

11. Rainforests can be found
A. only in South America
B. in many countries all over the world
C. in a small strip of land, mostly equatorial
D.in the whole world

12. How many varieties of trees may be found in just one hectare of rainforest
A. 480
B. 4800
C. 840
D. 84

13. Rainforests hold

A. more than half the world’s species
B. less than half the world’s species
C. approximately half the world’s species
D. 15% of the world’s species
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14. Rainforests are ‘the lungs of the planet’ because they

A. produce a large amount of oxygen and store a large amount of carbon dioxide
B. store a small amount of oxygen and produce a large amount of carbon dioxide
C. produce a small amount of oxygen and store a small amount of carbon dioxide
D. store a small amount of oxygen and carbon dioxide

15. The tall trees make a canopy of branches and leaves which
A. protect themselves smaller plants, and the forest animals
B. Stop them from rain
C. Prevent them from storm
D. Protect land

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LISTENING TEST 2

PART 1
Directions: This is the listening test for levels from 3 to 5 of the Vietnam’s 6-level
Language Proficiency Test. There are three parts to the test. You will hear each part
once. For each part of the test there will be time for you to look through the questions
and time for you to check your answers. Write your answers on the question paper. You
will have 5 minutes at the end of the test to transfer your answers onto the answer sheet.

PART 1
There are eight questions in this part. For each question there are four options and a
short recording. For each question, choose the correct answer A, B, C or D. You now
have 48 seconds to look through the questions and the options in each question.
1. What was the weather like on Emma’s holiday?
A. It’s hot.
B. It’s sunny.
C. It’s wet.
D. It’s windy.
2. How will Mary travel to Scotland?
A. by coach
B. by car
C. by train
D. by taxi
3. Where are the shoes?
A. under the window
B. under the table
C. on the chair
D. on the window
4. What was in the woman’s bag?
A. a pair of glasses and a purse
B. a purse and some keys
C. some keys and a pair of glasses
D. some purses and a key
5. Which film is the man talking about?
A. a woman walking on the bridge
B. a woman standing on the bridge
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C. a woman walking on the bridge

D. a man standing on the bridge
6. What should the woman do first?
A. put the washing powder in the machine
B. put water in the machine
C. switch the machine on
D. put the clothes in the machine
7. What is David going to do this weekend?
A. repair the car
B. go sailing
C. paint the flat
D. do the gardening
8. How did the man get to work today?
A. by car
B. by bicycle
C. by bus
D. by the underground

PART 2
Conversation 1. You will hear a student talking to a housing officer about living
with a homestay family.
1. How long did Yuichini intend to live with a homestay family?
A. Approx two months.
B. About sixteen weeks.
C. Three months and longer.
D. About twenty weeks.

2. Which course did she enroll?

A. Japanese course.
B. A course for the vegetarian.
C. Advanced English Studies.
D. A cooking course.

3. What does the student particularly like to eat?

A. Seafood.
B. A lot of meat.
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C. Vegetable.
D. Pork.

4. When does the officer give the student her homestay details?
A. After his lunch.
B. After he check on the computer.
C. In the afternoon.
D. Tomorrow.

Conversation 2. You will hear an interview with a representative of a wildlife park

called Paradise Wildlife Park.
5. How is the Park described?
A. It looks beautiful.
B. It is to raise money.
C. It is involved in Project Life Lion since 1994.
D. It opened in 1994.

6. What did they do to control environmental issues?

A. They started a new project called Life Lion.
B. The park monitors its environmental impact.
C. The park has created its own Environmental Management System.
D. The park use Environmental Management System of other organizations.

7. What is the purpose of adopting an animal that he mentioned?

A. It is the best way to mark an important occasion.
B. It is to mark a special occasion not only for yourself but also for a friend or loved
one.
C. The Park becomes more popular.
D. It is extremely good value for money.

8. What is true about Experience Days?

A. Most of children want to take part in Experience Days.
B. Everyone can take part in Experience Days.
C. The Experience Days are open all year.
D. The Experience Days are a gift for someone who is 12 or over.

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Conversation 3. You will hear an interview with Sophie Morrison, a translator.

9. At present, which subject is she specializing in as a translator?
A. Medicine.
B. Business.
C. Law.
D. Education.

10. Which, according to Sophie, are the most problematic things to translate?
A. Cultural references.
B. Informal expressions.
C. Scientific words.
D. Technical terms.

11. Where does Sophie get most of her work?

A. From contacts in an insurance company.
B. From contacts in private companies.
C. Through translation agencies.
D. Directly from official organizations.

12. Sophie believes that in the future

A. They need to be handled with gloves.
B. More languages will need to be translated.
C. Translators will have to be better trained.
D. The demand of high quality translation is necessary.

PART 3
Talk/Lecture 1.You will hear people talking about sports.
1. What did the first person do in the schools’ cup final?
A. He scored the winning goal
D. He provided the pass for the final goal
C. He blew the whistle at the end of the game
D. Hold the final cup

2. The second person was on a school expedition when he was

A. 8 years old boy
B. a teenager
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C. at university
D. at college

3. The second person felt a bit stupid after hiking through the forest because
A. the other groups had arrived before them
B. the other groups had known how to read the map
C. the other groups had gone by car instead of walking
D. he didn’t know how to read the map

4. When he was learning to swim, this person’s brother

A. shouted at the coach
B. started in the shallow end of the pool
C. had something attached to him
D. advise him not to learn it

5. Which sentence is not true about the walk for charity

A. he walked quite slowly
B. he walked a long way
C. he ran
D. he jumped

Talk/Lecture 2.You will hear people talking about their sport experience.
6. Which sentence is not true about the cross-country
A. the teacher made the students run in the rain
B. the teacher ran the whole way with the students
C. the teacher made some of the boys fall into the stream
D. the teacher made one boy cry

7. How old was the character when experiencing the cross-country

A. 12
B. 15
C. 17
D. 22

8. His school team lost all of its matches in Germany because

A. they were all sick from the journey there
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B. they didn’t speak German

C. the teams they played were older than them was quite young at the time
D. they were not good at playing abroad

9. Why was the final part of climbing the mountain more difficult?
A. there were lots of people in the way
B. the dog refused to continue
C. they had to walk over large stones
D. the weather was not good

10. What was surprising about what happened to the person’s cousin?
A. he wasn’t hurt
B. he fell a long way
C. his parachute didn’t open
D. he didn’t help his father

Talk/Lecture 3.You will hear a talk about recycling.

11. What would be the best title for this lecture?
A. Important Keys to Recycling Paper
B. Technological Advances Improve Recycling
C. Steps to Improving Recycling
D. Recycling

12. According to the article, paper materials that are difficult to recycle include:
A. copy paper
B. document shred
C. food wrappers
D. carbon paper

13. In some cases, recycling could be hazardous to the environment if special

precautions are not taken because:
A. industrial emissions are sometimes created in the process.
B. chemical waste is sometimes produced as a result.
C. a great deal of energy is expended to create new products.
D. There is no environmental safe methods

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14. According to the lecture, the demand for recyclable materials in the manufacturing
of new products is sometimes sluggish because
A. some governments are unwilling to support expensive recycling methods.
B. there is a lack of advanced technology to process the materials.
C. businesses do not invest enough money into research.
D. There is a lack of low-cost loans

15. Which is NOT one of the main keys to recycling as mentioned in the lecture?
A. government regulation of waste
B. better technology
C. more demand for recycled materials
D. removing ink from paper

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