Listening · Part 2
Sentence completion. One person talking for about three minutes. Complete eight sentences with a word or short phrase.
Read the sentences first and think about what kind of word is missing: a number, a place, a thing? You write the words you hear, in the same order as the sentences.
Words for the exam topics
Learn the vocabulary you need to talk and write about the topics that come up most often.
About C1 Advanced Listening Part 2
- Task: Sentence completion – one speaker talks for about 3 minutes; you complete 8 sentences with a word or short phrase from the recording. You hear it twice.
- What it tests: understanding specific information and stated opinions.
How to do it
- Read the sentences first and predict the kind of word that is missing.
- Write the exact words you hear – you don't need to change them.
- Check that your answer fits the sentence grammatically and is spelt correctly.
Example
Sentence: The researchers were surprised that the birds used ____ to find their way home.
You hear: “We’d assumed they navigated by the sun, like many species. What astonished us was that, on cloudy days, they relied on smell, following scents carried by the wind.”
Answer: smell. “The sun” is what they assumed; what “astonished” them – the surprise in the sentence – was smell. The sentence uses different words from the recording (surprised / astonished).
Frequent questions
What is C1 Advanced Listening Part 2?
Sentence completion: one speaker talks for about 3 minutes; you complete 8 sentences with a word or short phrase from the recording. You hear it twice.
Do you hear the recordings twice?
Yes. In the exam every recording is played twice, and on Levoop you can also listen twice before you check your answers.
Is this C1 Advanced practice free?
Yes. You can start straight away without an account, and a free Levoop account opens every exercise and saves your progress. Only the AI feedback on your Writing and Speaking is paid, and you can try both for free.
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