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38 Listening questions, 38 Reading questions, two Writing tasks and eight Speaking tasks. Includes original synthetic audio, timed responses and microphone recording.
How this differs from the real test: shorter Reading texts, illustrated discussion instead of video, and self-review for Writing and Speaking. Raw objective marks are not a CELPIP level prediction.
Start free CELPIP mockA For much of the twentieth century, overnight trains were a normal way to cross Europe. Passengers boarded in the evening, slept in a bunk and woke up in another country. From the 1990s, however, cheap flights and faster daytime trains drew customers away, and many operators closed their sleeper services. By the end of 2016, Germany's national railway had stopped running its own night trains altogether.
B Austria's state railway took a different view. In December 2016 it took over several of the abandoned German routes and relaunched them under a new brand, Nightjet. Within a few years its night trains were carrying well over a million passengers a year, and new routes were added to cities such as Brussels, Amsterdam and Paris.
C Part of the explanation is environmental. Many travellers now want to avoid flying because of its carbon emissions, and a night train lets them cover a long distance without losing a working day. Supporters also point out that a train journey begins and ends in the city centre, while airports are often far outside town.
D Running night trains is still difficult, though. Sleeping cars are expensive to build, and each carriage holds far fewer passengers than a daytime train. Operators must also pay track charges in every country they pass through, which can make tickets more expensive than a budget flight. Some new companies have therefore struggled to stay in business.
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