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CELPIP Practice Listening: Listening for Information ID: #61999 Medium A Career in the Food Industry
Instructions ›
  • You will hear a conversation followed by 6 questions.
  • Listen to each question. You will hear the question only once.
  • Choose the best answer to each question.
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Correct Answer: The interviewee is a chef.

Why this is correct: The interviewer addresses the guest as a busy chef.

Why the other options are wrong:

  • The interviewee is a sports star.: The interview addresses a chef rather than a sports star.
  • The interviewee is a politician.: The stated professional role is a chef rather than a politician.
  • The interviewee is a designer.: The guest describes cuisine rather than design as the work.

Correct Answer: The interviewee never went to culinary school.

Why this is correct: The guest says that culinary school was never attended.

Why the other options are wrong:

  • The interviewee never went to a church.: The guest says culinary school was never attended, without making that claim about church.
  • The interviewee never went to a restaurant.: The guest’s statement is about culinary school rather than restaurants.
  • The interviewee never went to a food joint.: The statement concerns education rather than visiting a food outlet.

Correct Answer: The interviewee's clientele influences the interviewee's cuisine.

Why this is correct: The guest identifies the clientele as the influence on the cuisine.

Why the other options are wrong:

  • The interviewee's mother influences the interviewee's cuisine.: The guest names clientele rather than the mother as the influence.
  • No one influences the interviewee's cuisine.: Saying there is no influence contradicts the named influence of clientele.
  • The interviewee's wife influences the interviewee's cuisine.: The guest names clientele rather than the wife as the influence.

Correct Answer: American food with a worldly influence.

Why this is correct: The guest calls the cuisine American food with a worldly influence.

Why the other options are wrong:

  • Simple cuisine and health food influence.: The guest calls it American food with worldly influence, rather than simple health food.
  • American food with an Italian influence.: The description is worldly influence rather than specifically Italian influence.
  • Italian with an American influence.: The source describes an American base rather than an Italian base.

Correct Answer: Food production manager.

Why this is correct: The chef describes being a young food production manager when meeting the future spouse.

Why the other options are wrong:

  • Beverage production manager.: The stated position concerns food production rather than beverage production.
  • Intern.: The chef describes a management position rather than being an intern.
  • University student.: The chef was running hotel divisions rather than being a university student.

Correct Answer: An own recipe from start to finish.

Why this is correct: The guest enjoys developing a personal recipe from beginning to end.

Why the other options are wrong:

  • Explore how to make modern dishes healthier.: The enjoyment described is creating a personal recipe, rather than making existing modern dishes healthier.
  • Improve a traditional dish.: The guest likes creating from start to finish rather than modifying an existing traditional dish.
  • A fusion recipe of the east.: The stated interest is a personal recipe rather than a specifically eastern fusion recipe.

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