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 for each answer.
Employment agency: Possible jobs
First job
Administrative assistant in a company that produces (1) (North London)
Responsibilities
• Data entry
• Go to (2) and take notes
• General admin
• Management of (3)
Requirements
• Good computer skills including spreadsheets
• Good interpersonal skills
• Attention to (4)
Experience
• Need a minimum of (5) of experience of teleconferencing
Second job
Warehouse assistant in South London
Responsibilities
• Stock management
• Managing (6)
Requirements
• Ability to work with numbers
• Good computer skills
• Very organized and (7)
• Good communication skills
• Used to working in a (8)
• Able to cope with items that are (9)
Need experience of
• Driving in London
• Warehouse work
• (10) service
IELTS Listening Practice Tests Part 2: Questions 11-16
Choose the correct letter A, B or C.
Street Play Scheme
11. When did the Street Play Scheme first take place?
12. How often is Beechwood Road closed to traffic now?
13. Who is responsible for closing the road?
14. Residents who want to use their cars
15. Alice says that Street Play Schemes are most needed in
16. What has been the reaction of residents who are not parents?
Questions 17 and 18
Choose TWO letters A-E.
Which TWO benefits for children does Alice think are the most important?
Questions 19 and 20
Choose TWO letters A-E.
Which TWO results of the King Street experiment surprised Alice?
IELTS Listening Practice Tests Part 3: Questions 21-26
Complete the notes below. Write ONE WORD ONLY for each answer.
What Hazel should analyse about items in newspapers:
• What (21) the item is on
• The (22) of the item, including the headline
• Any (23) accompanying the item
• The (24) of the item e.g. what’s made prominent
• The writer’s main (25)
• The (26) the writer may make about the reader
Questions 27-30
What does Hazel decide to do about each of the following types of articles? Write the correct letter A, B or C for questions 27-30.
A she will definitely look for a suitable article
B she may look for a suitable article
C she definitely won’t look for an article
Types of articles
27. national news item
28. editorial
29. human interest
30. arts
IELTS Listening Practice Tests Part 4: Questions 31-40
Complete the notes below. Write ONE WORD ONLY for each answer.
Early history of keeping clean
Prehistoric times:
• Water was used to wash off (31)
Ancient Babylon:
• Soap like material found in (32) cylinders
Ancient Greece:
• People cleaned themselves with sand and other substances
• Used a strigil – scraper made of (33)
• Washed clothes in streams
Ancient Germany and Gaul:
• Used soap to colour their (34)
Ancient Rome:
• Animal fat, ashes and clay mixed through action of rain, used for washing clothes
• From about 312 BC, water carried to Roman (35) by aqueducts
Europe in Middle Ages:
• Decline in bathing contributed to occurrence of (36)
• (37) began to be added to soap
Europe from 17th century:
• 1600s: cleanliness and bathing started becoming usual
• 1791: Leblanc invented a way of making soda ash from (38)
• Early 1800s: Chevreul turned soapmaking into a (39)
• From 1800s, there was no longer a (40) on soap
1. FURNITURE
2. MEETINGS
3. DIARY
4. DETAIL(S)
5. 1/ ONE YEAR
6. DELIVERIES
7. TIDY
8. TEAM
9. HEAVY
10. CUSTOMER
11. B
12. A
13. C
14. B
15. C
16. B
17. B, D
18. B, D
19. A, E
20. A, E
21. PAGE
22. SIZE
23. GRAPHIC(S)
24. STRUCTURE
25. PURPOSE
26. ASSUMPTION(S)
27. A
28. C
29. C
30. B
31. MUD
32. CLAY
33. METAL
34. HAIR
35. BATH(S)
36. DISEASE(S)
37. PERFUME
38. SALT
39. SCIENCE
40. TAX