IELTS LISTENING PRACTICE TEST 89

IELTS Listening Practice Tests With Audios

IELTS Listening Practice Tests Part 1: Questions 1-10

Complete the notes below. Write NO MORE THAN ONE WORD OR A NUMBER for each answer.

FAMILY EXCURSIONS

Cruise on a lake

• Travel on an old steamship

• Can take photos of the (1)   that surround the lake

Farm visit

• Children can help feed the sheep

• Visit can include a 40 minute ride on a (2) 

• Visitors can walk in the farm’s (3)   by the lake

• (4)   is available at extra cost

Cycling trips

• Cyclists explore the back road

• A (5)  is provided

• Only suitable for cyclists who have some (6) 

o Bikes can be hired from (7)  (near the cruise ship terminal)

• Cyclists need:

o A repair kit

o Food and drink

o A (8)  (can be hired)

• There are no (9)  or accommodation in the area

Cost

• Total cost for whole family of cruise and farm visit: (10) $ 

IELTS Listening Practice Tests Part 2: Questions 11-14

Choose the correct letter A, B or C.

Talk to new kitchen assistants

11. According to the manager what do most people like about the job of kitchen assistant?



12. The manager is concerned about some of the new staff’s



13. The manager says that the day is likely to be busy for kitchen staff because



14. Only kitchen staff who are 18 or older are allowed to use



Questions 15 and 16

Choose TWO letter A-E.

According to the manager which TWO things can make the job of kitchen assistant stressful?

Questions 17-20

What is the responsibility of each of the following restaurant staff?

Choose FOUR answers from below.

Responsibilities

A. training courses

B. food stocks

C. first aid

D. breakages

E. staff discounts

F. timetables

Restaurant staff

17. Joy Parkins  

18. David Field  

19. Dexter Wills 

20. Mike Smith  

IELTS Listening Practice Tests Part 3: Questions 21-23

Choose the correct letter A, B or C.

Paper on Public Libraries

21. What will be the main topic of Trudie and Stewart’s paper?



22. They agree that one disadvantage of free digitalized books is that



23. Stewart expects that in the future libraries will



Questions 24-30

Complete the notes below. Write ONE WORD ONLY for each answer.

Study of local library: possible questions

• Whether it has a (24)  of its own

• Its policy regarding noise of various kinds

• How it’s affected by laws regarding all aspects of (25) 

• How the design needs to take the (26)  of customers into account

• What (27)  is required in case of accidents

• Why a famous person’s (28)  is located in the library

• Whether it has a (29)  of local organisations

• How it’s different from a library in a (30) 

IELTS Listening Practice Tests Part 4: Questions 31-40

Complete the notes below. Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS for each answer.

Four business rules

• Many business values can result in (31)  

• Senior managers need to understand and deal with the potential (32)   that may result

Collaboration

• During a training course the speaker was in a team that had to build a (33)  

• Other teams experienced (34)  from trying to collaborate

• The speaker’s team won because they reduced collaboration

• Sales of a (35) were poor because of collaboration

Industriousness

• Hard work may be a bad use of various company (36) 

• The word lazy in the context refers to people who avoid doing tasks that are (37) 

Creativity

• An advertising campaign for a (38)   was memorable but failed to boost sales

• Creativity should be used as a response to a particular (39) 

Excellence

• According to one study on average pioneers had a (40)  that was far higher than that of followers.

1. MOUNTAINS

2. HORSE

3. GARDENS

4. LUNCH

5. MAP

6. EXPERIENCE

7. RATCHESONS

8. HELMET

9. SHOPS

10. 267

11. A

12. A

13. C

14. C

15. A

16. E

17. F

18. C

19. D

20. B

21. B

22. C

23. C

24. BUDGET

25. EMPLOYMENT

26. SAFETY

27. INSURANCE

28. DIARY

29. DATABASE

30. MUSEUM

31. DAMAGE

32. SIDE EFFECTS

33. BRIDGE

34. CONFUSION

35. SMARTPHONE

36. RESOURCES

37. UNNECESSARY

38. CHOCOLATE BAR

39. PROBLEM

40. MARKET SHARE

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