Cycling Holiday in Austria listening practice test 2023 with answers | IELTS Listening Practice Test

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Section one you will hear a telephone conversation between a woman and a man who works for a holiday company about a holiday she would like to go on first you have some time to look at questions 1 to six pause the recording for 30 seconds you will see that there is an example

That has been done for you on this occasion only the conversation relating to this will be played first holidays for you Shan speaking can I help you oh hi I’ve been looking at your website um I’m interested in a cycling holiday in Austria in in April

Ah we have two trips in April one lasts 14 days and the other 10 days I think the 10day trip is better so let’s see I’ve got a calendar here what are the dates the length of the trip that the woman chooses is 10 days so 10 has been

Written in the space now we shall begin you should answer the questions as you listen because you will not hear the recording a second time listen carefully and answer questions one to six holidays for you Sean speaking can I help you oh hi I’ve been looking at your

Website um I’m interested in a cycling holiday in Austria in April ah we have two trips in April one lasts 14 days and the other 10 days H I think the 10day trip is better so let’s see I’ve got a calendar here what are the dates well

That trip is in the middle of the month it starts on the 17th of April and it finishes on the 27th that suits me I can’t leave work before the 10th of April H uh let me see if there are any spaces is it just for

Yourself myself and my sister so two of us uh um yes we have spaces is it a big group uh at the moment there are 12 people booked on this trip and with you two that will be 14 the maximum number is 16 so it’s almost fully booked we can’t go

Over that because it’s hard to keep a larger group together I need to check that I’m fit enough for this but the distances look okay the website says we’ll ride approximately 45 km a day is that right that’s correct and I’ve got the exact distance is here it really

Depends on which part of the trip some days are only 35 km and some are more but you’ll never have to cycle more than 50 km in one day oh okay I can manage that and we stay in hotels yes they all have restaurants and the rooms have

Onsuite facilities and do they have pools it’s how I relax after a long day there is a swimming pool in a few of the hotels but none of them has a gym I don’t think we’ll need a gym after all that cycling I better find out how much

The holiday costs before I get too excited including flights it’s uh £ 1,177 for one person oh we’ll book our own flights on the internet Ah that’s just £103 then and we can book insurance for you if you want H and which meals are included in that priz well uh breakfast

Of course and the hotels will provide you with a packed lunch each day we do stop during the afternoon in a village somewhere for a rest so any snacks you buy then are extra then dinner will be in the hotel every evening and that’s included in the price of the

Holiday before you hear the rest of the conversation you have some time to look at questions 7 to 10 pause the recording for 30 seconds now listen and answer questions 7 to 10 and you provide the Bicycles of course what else a lock and a bell come

With a bike as well as lights although you shouldn’t need to cycle in the dark there’s a small bag or paer on the front of the bike where you can put the things you want to take with you during the day like water or fruit but we won’t allow

You to cycle unless you bring a helmet we don’t provide these locally because like walking boots on a walking holiday it’s really important it fits properly okay if there’s any special gear you need for your holiday we recommend a particular website and you can get a discount by quoting your booking

Reference great what is it it’s www.b valentine.com that’s all one word and I’ll spell it for you www.b a l a n t y N.C good I’ve got that down I’ve been looking at your website while we’ve been talking I see we cycle along the river Danube yes it’s one of Europe’s most

Well-known areas for cycling it looks fascinating lots of beautiful countryside and things to see I should warn you that we do reserve the right to make some alterations to the route if the weather is bad some of the tracks sometimes get very muddy okay well hope

Hope it won’t rain too much I know we stop in towns and Villages but do we get a chance to look around because I’m really interested in history oh yes you get opportunities to explore is there something in particular you want to see there’s a theater in a town called Grine

A friend of mine went there last year and said it was amazing let’s see um ah yes there’s a guide who’ll take you around the building we don’t have any other tours of arranged but you can visit several castles and museums on the holiday well thank you for all that

Information I’d like to book that then right well I’ll just um that is the end of section one you now have half a minute to check your answers section two you will hear someone talking on the radio about food and restaurants in the local area first you have some time to look at

Questions 11 to 14 pause the recording for 30 seconds now listen and answer questions 11 to 14 and now we have our know your town section where we look at what’s on offer in our area today John Monroe is going to tell us about local food and eating

Out John well most of us buy our food in supermarkets these days but we’re very lucky having a wonderful Market here it was originally on the piece of land in front of the cathedral but at the beginning of the 20th century it was moved to a site by the

River when the new shopping center was built in the 1960s it found a home beneath the multistory car park where it still is but there are plans to move it back to its previous home by the river the market is now open 6 days a week on Tuesday to Saturday you can buy

Fresh fruit and vegetables meat and cheese from the area as well as a whole range of imported produce but if you come on a Sunday you’ll find a different Market where crafts people sell what they have made things like bags cards clothes during the week there are a few

Stores selling more everyday utensils like sauce Spin and cleaning products alongside the fruit and vegetables as well as one new stall selling antique furniture which is proving to be very popular people often ask what our local dishes as we’re by the Sea they expect it to be some kind of fish recipe our

Fish is good of course but there isn’t one particular dish that stands out what we do have is an apple cake that isn’t really made anywhere else there’s a new Cafe in the High Street Barton which bakes them fresh every morning and serves them with delicious homemade ice cream in a choice of

Flavors now the harbor is obviously the place to buy fresh fish every morning there’s a stall where local fishermen sell a selection of the day’s catch before the rest goes to London or abroad they’ve been doing that for as long as anyone can remember of course but the harbor itself looks very

Different from a few years ago most of the restaurants used to be at the far end but that part was redeveloped and the restaurants had to relocate to the other end many of them are simply the old ones in new premises but a couple of new ones have opened

Recently so there’s a good range now both in the harbor and the town itself I’m now going to give you my top six places to eat in different parts of the town before you hear the rest of the talk you have some time to look at questions 15 to

20 pause the recording for for 30 seconds now listen and answer questions 15 to 20 so number one for me is mer veils which is in one of the busiest parts of the Town leading down to the harbor it’s in a side street so it doesn’t look out

Over the water but it’s very close so you can take a walk after your meal and find one of the cafes with live music at meriles you can enjoy delicious fresh fish and seafood the friendly staff offer very attentive service and a really enjoyable evening The Lobster Pot is on the main

Road going down to the harbor so it also misses out on the sea view but the food makes up for that it serves a huge range of fish and seafood as well as vegetarian and meat dishes so there’s something for everyone prices are from mid-range to fairly expensive so it’s really only for

A special occasion Elliots is in the city center and is a very upmarket restaurant in the evening but during the day it serves lunch and coffee it’s on the 20th floor above some offices and it’s a great place to sit for a while as you can see most of the

City spread out from there it does get very busy though and you may have to wait to be served not far from the city center is the cabin which is on the Canal bank you can’t park your car there it’s a 15minute walk from the nearest car park

But it’s very peaceful a good place to relax away from the traffic it’s not cheap but it’s an ideal place for a long lunch the Olive Tree is a family run restaurant in the city center offering beautifully prepared Greek dishes it’s well known locally and very popular service can be slow when it’s

Busy as all the food is freshly made there’s plenty of room and on Friday and Saturday nights the wooden floors ReSound with live music and dancing which is certainly worth going for the last place I want to recommend men has only just opened in a converted School building the old school restaurant has

Been very cleverly renovated the use of mirrors plants and the colors on the walls makes you feel as though you’re in a large garden instead of the city center there are only a few dishes on the menu but they change every day so Tanya I

Really that is the end of SE ction two you now have half a minute to check your answers section three you will hear three students on a media studies course talking about a film they are planning to make first you have some time to look at questions 21 to

26 pause the recording for 30 seconds now listen carefully and answer questions 21 to 26 hi Mike hi Razer this is Helen hello we’re really pleased you’ve agreed to join us on this film project yes your experience is going to be so useful well I hope so it’s the technical side I know

Best lighting sound and stuff but you think the script is okay yes I think it’s great um have you decided where you’re going to shoot well there’s the Watermill scene at the end and we’ve thought about some locations in town we can use there behind the shopping mall and on a couple

Of residential streets and in an empty shop on campus it means we don’t have to worry about getting permission from a shop owner so do you think we should go to all the locations with you it would be a good idea we need to talk about the

Levels of background noise so we know they’re all going to be reasonable places to film but the sounds of traffic will make it more natural I think resin means things like airplanes trains and so on that would mean we have to stop filming exactly and also I I’ll make

Notes for myself about what lighting I’m going to need I think uh the university department has a good range of equipment but I’ll need to make a list for each location for my own reference anyway once we’ve had a look around you can do the road Works check what do you mean

You need to find out about building work or Road works because you could start filming one day and come back in the morning to find one of the roads has been dug up the local Council have to be informed about things like that so you

Can find out from them okay then I think we need to work from the script and put together a list of all the scenes and decide which ones we’re going to film when we need to prepare the shooting schedule day by day you’re right then when you know how long filming is going

To last you can tell everyone when they’re needed okay so as soon as we can we’ll audition and then when we contact people to offer them parts we can send the exact dates and make really sure they’re free because often the actors are all enthusiastic but then when you try to

Pin them down about whether they’re really free at that time you find they’ve got exams or something or they’re off to a festival just before and you have to rush about looking for Replacements then we need people who can take over the main parts if one of our

Stars Falls ill or something yes I agree so offer the main parts to the people we really want and then look at other volunteers who were okay yes we can select the underst studies once the main roles have been confirmed so once we’ve got that sorted

And we’ve held all the rehearsals of the main scenes we’ll be ready to start filming yes that sounds good anything else uh oh well just housekeeping really we don’t actually need costumes because actors will wear their own clothes my family has agreed to lend us some pieces

Of furniture which we need so we’ll go and fetch those the weekend before we start we’ll provide food and drink during shooting so I’m going to borrow some cool boxes and uh I’ve got a little van most of the location are within walking distance of the halls of

Residents anyway the only one further away is the Watermill ah yes can you tell me about that um okay uh hang on a minute I’ll get my notes there’s a plan in them before you hear the rest of the conversation you have some time to look at questions 27 to

30 pause the recording for 30 seconds now listen and answer questions 27 to 30 here’s the mill you see uh basically you have a vertical water wheel which was used to power the grinding Stones M it sounds really interesting will we fill inside yes that’s where the final scene between

The girl and the man takes place our plan is to fix One camera outside by the window next to the door to film through the window and then have another hand held camera inside the mill that means we can get two views of the same scene

We were going to do something using a mirror but we decided that would be too complicated yes by doing it that way way all we’ll need is lights on the inside next to the wall behind the wheel which can shine across to the opposite wall will that give enough light I think so

Because the scene is in the evening it shouldn’t be too bright the actors will be carrying torches too and we’ll have an old screen made of wood just inside the door because it’s a new door and it’ll look wrong the lights won’t shine directly on it so it’ll be fine so you

Won’t actually show the door open no there’s a huge box on the floor against the wall farthest from the wheel we’ll see the girl approaching the mill on her bike then we see through the window and the man is inside looking at it then the

Next shot is the girl in the room with him opening the box so it’ll be a mysterious ending yeah well I think it’s going to be a great project good thanks that is the end of section three you now have half a minute to check your answers section

Four you will hear part of a lecture about exotic pests given as the introduction to a course on ecology and environment first you have some time to look at questions 31 to 40 pause the recording for 1 minute now listen carefully and answer questions 31 to 40 good

Afternoon I want this afternoon as an introduction to our ecology module to offer examples of exotic pests non-native animals or plants which are or may be causing problems which might prove a fruitful topic for seminar papers later in the term people and products are are crisscrossing the world as never before

And on these new Global highways plants and animals are traveling too exotic plants and animals are turning up in Antarctica and on the most remote Islands on Earth for example the Australian redback spider it’s made its way to countries fairly near home such as New Zealand and Japan as some of you

May know well it’s also been found on Tristan Duna which is a remote island thousands of miles from anywhere way out in the middle of the Atlantic now another famous animal Invader in the other direction so to speak from England to Australia in the southern hemisphere is the rabbit this was in

1830 and it might seem less of a threat but it became an extraordinarily destructive pest the fact that abits increased so rapidly is perhaps more understandable when we remind ourselves that they had originally been introduced to England from Continental Europe 8 centuries earlier this was because they were

Regarded as a luxury food source and in spite of having warm fur they probably originated on the hot dry Plains of Spain which of course explains why they thrive in the climate of Australia a much less cuddly example of a pest introduced to Australia this time from America is fire ants these are

Increasing and spreading very fast their huge nests can now be found in gardens in the city of Brisbane and they are costing the Australian government a great deal of money in control measures these were an accidental introduction rather than a deliberate one brought to Australia probably in Horticultural Imports or in mud on

Secondhand Machinery as a biologist and conservationist I have become increasingly concerned about these matters exotic invasions are irreversible and deserve to be taken more seriously even when they aren’t particularly damaging for example something that is not necessarily a major disaster compared to other ecological experiments in 1975 an Australian species of earthworm

Was deliberately introduced to the northern hemisphere in Scotland because they were bigger than the natives the aim was that they would be more effective than native species but in fact they don’t do more for the soil condition than the smaller locals which they displace although they don’t do a lot of

Harm as far as we know up to now this will probably prove to have been a mistake a much more serious case also in Scotland as well as other countries along with the latest victim Iceland is the New Zealand flatworm this is a most unwelcome newcomer in these regions of Northwest

Europe basically this flatworm came into these countries by accident it’s now been realized that it was actually carried in the plant pots containing exotic ornamental shrubs and so on and and as it eats local earthworms and doesn’t benefit the local ecology in any way it is a real

Pest next there’s a further instance this time in the water and it’s come from Japan it’s a delicious but very fast spreading seaweed and is one of many exotic species large and small in the Seas covering the Rocks around Australia unfortunately it is replacing IND seaweeds and permanently altering the

Ecosystem however to look at the situation from a business point of view it is now being harvested and exported dried back to Japan its original home where it’s particularly popular so sometimes we may find accidental benefits from apparently harmful arrivals well you could say that world

Ecology is now going the same way as popular pop culture Global Music and Fashions food and drinks are taking over from local ones in every land and in ecosystems we find vigorous exotic Invaders overwhelming native species and natural habitats but can we find any examples of Invaders which appear to be a problem

And then find that in fact they may not be such a big issue after all we might take as an example a native of Australia the budgerigar the most common pet parrot in the world of course because there have been many escapes over the years it is now to be found flying about

In feral flocks where the climate suits it so these flocks of budger gars have been getting very numerous in the southeast of the United States particularly in residential areas people have been getting quite worried about this but it has been observed that the size of of the flocks has diminished somewhat

Recently the fact that they are smaller is thought to be due to the fact that new competitors for their habitat have arrived from other places that’s the last example for now what I’d like you to consider is this is the planet Earth moving towards a one world

Ecosystem how far would it be a holy bad development that that is the end of section four you now have half a minute to check your answers that