College English Test – Band 4

Part II Listening Comprehension

Section A:

Directions: In this section, you will hear three news reports. At the end of each news report, you will hear two or three questions. Both the news report and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D). Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.

News report 1

A message in a bottle sent out to sea by a New Hampshire man more than five decades ago was found 1,500 miles away.

And it has been returned to his daughter.

A long-lost message was discovered by Clint Buffington of Utah while he was vacationing.

Buffington says he found a soda bottle half-buried in the sand that looked like it had been there since the beginning of time.

The note inside the bottle said, 'Return to 419 Ocean Street, and receive a reward of $150 from Richard and Tina Pierce, owners of a beachcomber motel'.