IELTS Listening Practice Tests With Audios
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IELTS Listening Practice Tests Part 1: Questions 1-10
Complete the notes below. Write ONE WORD AND/OR A NUMBER.
HIRING A PUBLIC ROOM
• The main hall seats 200
Room and cost
• The (1) room seats 100
• Cost includes use of tables and chairs and also (4)
• Additional charge for use of the kitchen: £25
Before the event
• Will need a (5) licence
• Need to contact caretaker (Mr Evans) in advance to arrange (6)
During the event
• The building is no smoking
• The band should use the (7) door at the back
• Don’t touch the system that controls the volume
• For microphones, contact the caretaker
After the event
• Need to know the (8) for the cleaning cupboard
• The (9) must be washed and rubbish placed in black bags
• All (10) must be taken down
• Chairs and tables must be piled up
IELTS Listening Practice Tests Part 2: Questions 11-14
Complete the notes below. Write ONE WORD for each answer.
Fiddy Working Heritage Farm
Advice about visiting the farm
Visitors should
• Take care not to harm any (11)
• Not touch any (12)
• Wear (13)
• Not bring (14) into the farm, with certain exceptions
Questions 15-20
Label the map below. Write the correct letter A-I, next to questions 15-20.

15. Scarecrow
16. Maze
17. Café
18. Black Barn
19. Covered picnic area
20. Fiddy house
IELTS Listening Practice Tests Part 3: Questions 21-30
Choose the correct letter A, B or C.
Study on Gender in Physics
21. The students in Akira Miyake’s study were all majoring in
22. The aim of Miyake’s study was to investigate
23. The female physics students were wrong to believe that
24. Miyake’s team asked the students to write about
25. What was the aim of the writing exercise done by the subjects?
26. What surprised the researchers about the study?
27. Greg and Lisa think Miyake’s results could have been affected by
28. Greg and Lisa decide that in their own project, they will compare the effects of
29. The main finding of Smolinsky’s research was that class teamwork activities
30. What will Lisa and Greg do next?
IELTS Listening Practice Tests Part 4: Questions 31-40
Complete the notes below. Write ONE WORD ONLY.
Ocean Biodiversity
Biodiversity hotspots
• areas containing many different species
• important for locating targets for (31)
• at first only identified on land
Boris Worm, 2005
• identified hotspots for large ocean predators, e.g. sharks
• found that ocean hotspots:
– were not always rich in (32)
– had higher temperatures at the (33)
– had sufficient (34) in the water
Lisa Ballance, 2007
• looked for hotspots for marine (35)
• found these were all located where ocean currents meet
Census of Marine Life
• found new ocean species living:
– under the (36)
– near volcanoes on the ocean floor
Global Marine Species Assessment
• want to list endangered ocean species, considering:
– population size
– geographical distribution
– rate of (37)
• Aim: to assess 20,000 species and make a distribution (38) for each one
Recommendations to retain ocean biodiversity
• increase the number of ocean reserves
• establish (39) corridors (e.g. for turtles)
• reduce fishing quotas
• catch fish only for the purpose of (40)
1. CHARLTON
2. £115
3. CASH
4. PARKING
5. MUSIC
6. ENTRY
7. STAGE
8. CODE
9. FLOORS
10. DECORATIONS
11. ANIMALS
12. TOOLS
13. SHOES
14. DOGS
15. F
16. G
17. D
18. H
19. C
20. A
21. C
22. B
23. B
24. C
25. A
26. B
27. C
28. A
29. B
30. A
31. CONSERVATION
32. FOODS
33. SURFACE
34. OXYGEN
35. MAMMALS
36. ICE
37. DECLINE
38. MAP
39. MIGRATION
40. CONSUMPTION