Cambridge IELTS 17 Academic Listening Test 4 (Questions 21-22) (Free Online Test & Answers)

Part 1: Listen and answer questions 1-2

JEANNE: Hi Thomas, how are you enjoying the course so far?

THOMAS: Yeah, I think it’s good.

JEANNE: Remind me – why did you decide to study sports science? Didn’t you want to be a professional athlete when you were at school?

THOMAS: Yeah – that was my goal, and all my classmates assumed I would achieve it; they thought I was brilliant.

JEANNE: That must have been a nice feeling.

THOMAS: Mm, I thought I could win anything. There was no one who could run faster than me.

JEANNE: Exactly – so what happened? Did your mum and dad want you to be more ‘academic’?

THOMAS: Not at all. Perhaps they should have pushed me harder, though.

Questions 1-2

Choose TWO letters, A-E.

1 2 Which TWO points do Thomas and Jeanne make about Thomas’s sporting activities at school?

AHe should have felt more positive about them.

BThe training was too challenging for him.

CHe could have worked harder at them.

DHis parents were disappointed in him.

EHis fellow students admired him.

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