IELTS Listening Practice Test 2023 with Answers [Real Exam – 388 ]

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ANSWERS SHEET
SECTION 1
1. 28th
2. 550
3. Chervil
4. Garage
5. Garden
6. Parking
7. Wood
8. Bridge
9. Monument
10. March
SECTION 2
11. C
12. A
13. B
14. B
15. C
16. F
17. A
18. I
19. E
20. H
SECTION 3
21. B, C
22. B, C
23. B, C
24. B, C
25. C
26. F
27. D
28. E
29. B
30. A
SECTION 4
31. Spice(s)
32. Colony/ settlement
33. Fat
34. Head
35. Movement
36. Balance/ balancing
37. Brain
38. Smell
39. Rats
40. Forest
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This is the IELTS listening test you will hear a number of different recordings and you will have to answer questions on what you hear there will be time for you to read the instructions and questions and you will have a chance to check your work all the recordings will be played once

Only the test is in four parts at the end of the test you will be given 10 minutes to transfer your answers to the answer sheet now turn to part one part one you will hear a man phoning the owner of a holiday Cottage first you

Have some time to look at questions 1 to six now listen carefully and answer questions one 1 to six hello oh hello I was hoping to speak to Jack Fitzgerald about renting a cottage I’m his wife Shirley and we own the Cottages together so I’m sure I can

Help you great my name’s Tom some friends of ours rented Granary cottage from you last year and they thought it was great so my wife and I are hoping to come in May for a week what date did you have in mind the week beginning the 14th if possible I’ll just

Check I’m sorry Tom it’s already booked that week it’s fre the week beginning the 28th though for seven nights in fact that’s the only time you could have it in May oh well we could manage that I think we’d just need to change a couple of things how much would

It cost that’s the beginning of High season so it would be £550 for the week Ah that’s a bit more than we wanted to pay I’m afraid we’ve budgeted up to £500 for accommodation well we’ve just finished converting another building into a cottage which we’re calling cherille Cottage sorry what was that again

Cherville c h e r V for Victor i l oh that’s a herb isn’t it that’s right it grows fairly wild around here you could have that for the week you want for £480 okay so could you tell me something about it please of course the building

Was built as a garage it’s a little smaller than Granary Cottage so that must sleep two people as well that’s right there’s a double bedroom does it have a garden yes you get to it from the living room through French doors and we provide two deck chairs we hope to build

A patio in the near future but I wouldn’t like to guarantee it’ll be finished by May okay the front door opens onto the Old Farm yard and parking isn’t a problem there’s plenty of room at the front for that there are some trees and potted plants there

Before you hear the rest of the conversation you have some time to look at questions 7 to 10 now listen and answer questions 7 to 10 what about facilities in the cottage it has standard things like a cooker and fridge I presume in the kitchen area there’s a fridge freezer and we’ve just

Put in an electric cooker is there a washing machine yes there’s also a TV in the living room which plays DVDs too the bathroom is too small for a bar so there’s a shower instead I think a lot of people prefer that nowadays anyway it’s more environmentally friendly isn’t

It unless you spend half the day in it exactly what about heating it sometimes gets quite cool at that time of year there’s Central Heating and if you want to light a fire there’s a stove we can provide all the wood you need for it it

Smells so much nicer than coal and it makes the room very cozy we’ve got one in our own house that sounds very pleasant perhaps we should come in the winter to make the most of it yes we find we don’t want to go out when we’ve got the fire burning there

Are some attractive views from the cottage which I haven’t mentioned there’s a famous stone bridge it’s one of the oldest in the region and you can see it from the living room it isn’t far away the bedroom window looks in the opposite direction and has a lovely view

Of the hills and the monument at the top well that all sounds perfect I’d like to book it please would you want to deposit yes we ask for 30% to secure your booking so that’ll be uh £ 144 and when would you like the rest of

The money you’re coming in May so the last day of March please fine excellent could I just take your details so that I can that is the end of part one you now have half a minute to check your answers to part one part two you will hear a town councelor

Reporting on the local transport Network and a recreation facility first you have some time to look at questions 11 to 14 now listen carefully and answer questions 11 to 14 right next on the agenda we have traffic and highways councelor Thornton thank you well we now have the results

Of the survey carried out last month about traffic and road transport in the town people were generally satisfied with the state of the roads there were one or two complaints about potholes which will be addressed but a significant ific number of people complained about the increasing number

Of heavy Vehicles using our local roads to avoid traffic elsewhere we’d expected more complaints by commuters about the reduction in the train service but it doesn’t seem to have affected people too much the cycle path that runs alongside the river is very well used by both cyclists and pedestrians since the

Surface was improved last year but overtaking can be a problem so we’re going going to add a bit on the side to make it wider at some stage we’d like to extend the path so that it goes all the way through the town but that won’t be happening in the immediate

Future the plans to have a pedestrian Crossing next to the post office have unfortunately had to be put on hold for the time being we’ budgeted for this to be done this financial year but then there were rumors that the post office was going to move which would have meant

There wasn’t really a need for a Crossing now they’ve confirmed that they’re staying where they are but the highways Department have told us that it would be dangerous to have a pedestrian Crossing where we’d originally planned it as there’s a bend in the road there so that’ll need some more thought on

Station Road near the station and level crossing drivers can face quite long Waits if the level Crossing’s closed and we’ve now got signs up requesting them not to leave their engines running at that time the this means pedestrians waiting on the pavement to cross the railway line don’t have to breathe in car

Fumes we’ve had some problems with cyclists leaving their bikes chained to the railings outside the ticket office but the station has agreed to provide bike racks there before you hear the rest of the talk you have some time to look at questions 15 to 20 now listen and answer questions 15 to 20

So next on the agenda is proposals for improvements to the recreation ground councelor Thornton again well since we managed to extend the recreation ground we’ve spent some time talking to local people about how it could be made a more attractive and useful space if you have

A look at the map up on the screen you can see the river up in the North and the Community Hall near the entrance from the road at present cars can park between the Community Hall and that line of trees to the east but this is quite dangerous for pedestrians so we’re

Suggesting a new car park on the opposite side of the Community Hall right next to it we also have a new location for the cricket pitch as we’ve now purchased additional space to the east of the recreation ground beyond the trees we plan to move it away from its

Current location which is rather near the road into this new area beyond the line of trees this means there’s less danger of stray balls hitting cars or pedestrians we’ve got plans for a children’s playground which will be accessible by a footpath from the Community Hall and will be alongside the

River we’d originally thought of having it close to the road but we think this will be a more attractive location the skateboard ramp is very popular with both younger and older children we we had considered moving this up towards the river but in the end we decided to have it in the Southeast

Corner near the road The Pavilion is very well used at present by both football players and cricketers it will stay where it is now to the left of the line of trees and near to the river handy for both the football and Cricket pitches and finally we’ll be getting a

New notice board for local information and that will be directly on people’s right as they go from the road in into the recreation ground that is the end of part two you now have half a minute to check your answers to part two part three you will hear two urban

Planning students discussing bike sharing schemes in different cities first you have some time to look at questions 21 to 24 now listen carefully and answer questions 21 to 24 now that we’ve done all the research into bike sharing schemes cities around the world we need to think about how

We’re going to organize our report right I think we should start by talking about the benefits I mean it’s great that so many cities have introduced these schemes where anyone can pick up a bike from dozens of different locations and hire it for a few hours it makes riding

A bike very convenient for people yes but the costs can add up and that puts people on low incomes off in some places m I suppose so but if it means more people in general are cycling rather than driving then because they’re increasing the amount of physical

Activity they do it’s good for their health okay but isn’t that of less importance I mean doesn’t the impact of reduced Emissions on air pollution have a more significant effect on people’s Health certainly in some cities bike sharing has made a big contribution to that and also helped to cut the number

Of cars on the road significantly which is the main point exactly but I’d say it’s had less of an impact on noise pollution because there are still loads of buses and lorries around right shall we quickly discuss the recommendations we’re going to make in order to ensure bike sharing schemes are successful yes

Okay well while I think it’s nice to have really state-of-the-art bikes with things like GPS I wouldn’t say they’re absolutely necessary but but some technical things are really important like a fully functional app so people can make payments and book bikes easily places which haven’t invested in that

Have really struggled good point some people say there shouldn’t be competing companies offering separate bike sharing schemes but in some really big cities competition’s beneficial and anyway one company might not be able to manage the whole thing right deciding how much to invest is a big question cities which

Have opened loads of new bike Lanes at the same time as introducing bike sharing schemes have generally been more successful but there are examples of successful schemes where this hasn’t happened what does matter though is having a big publicity campaign definitely if people don’t know how to

Use the scheme or don’t understand its benefits they won’t use it people need a lot of persuasion to stop using their cars before you hear the rest of the discussion you have some time to look at questions 25 to 30 now listen and answer questions 25 to

30 shall we look at some examples now and say what we think is good or bad about them I suppose we should start with Amsterdam as this was one of the first cities to have a bite sharing scheme yes there was already a strong culture of cycling here in a way it’s

Strange that there was such a demand for bike sharing because you’d have thought most people would have used their own bikes and yet it’s one of the best used schemes Dublin’s an interesting example of a success story it must be because the public transport system’s quite limited not really there’s no

Underground but there are trams and a good bus Network I’d say price has a lot to do with it it’s one of the cheapest schemes in Europe to join but the buses are really slow anyway the weather certainly can’t be a factor no definitely not the London scheme’s been

Quite successful yes it’s been a really good thing for the city the bikes are popular and the whole system is wellmaintained but it isn’t expanding quickly enough basically not enough’s been spent on increasing the number of cycle Lanes hopefully that’ll change yes now what about outside Europe well bike

Sharing schemes have taken off in places like buenos Iris H they built a huge network of cycle Lanes to support the introduction of the scheme there didn’t they it attracted huge numbers of cyclists where previously there were hardly any an example of good planning absolutely New York is a good example of

How not to introduce a scheme when they launched it it was more than 10 times the price of most other schemes more than it costs to take a taxi crazy I think the organizers lacked vision and ambition there I think so too Sydney would be a good example to use I would

Have expected it to have grown pretty quickly here yes I can’t quite work out why it hasn’t been an instant success like some of the others it’s a shame really I know okay so now we’ve thought about all the that is the end of part three you

Now have half a minute to check your answers to part three part four you will hear part of an environmental science lecture about a large bird called the dodo which is now extinct first you have some time to look at questions 31 to 40 now listen carefully and answer questions 31 to

40 one of the most famous cases of Extinction is that of a bird known as the dodo in fact there’s even a saying in English As Dead As the dodo used to refer to something which no longer exists but for many centuries the dodo was alive and well although it could

Only be found in one place the island of morius in the Indian Ocean it was a very large bird about 1 M tall and over the centuries it had lost the ability to fly but it survived happily under the trees that covered the island then in the year

1507 the first Portuguese ships stopped at the island the sailors were carrying spices back to Europe and found the island a convenient stop place where they could stock up with food and water for the rest of the voyage but they didn’t settle on morius however in

1638 the Dutch arrived and set up a colony there these first human inhabitants of the island found the dodo birds a convenient source of meat although not everyone liked the taste it’s hard to get an accurate description of what the dodo actually looked like we do have some written

Records from Sailors and a few pictures but we don’t know how reliable these are the best known picture is a Dutch painting in which the bird appears to be extremely fat but this may not be accurate an Indian painting done at the same time shows a much thinner bird

Although attempts were made to preserve the bodies of some of the birds no complete specimen survives in the early 17th century four dried parts of a bird were known to exist of these three have disappeared so only one example of soft tissue from the dodo survives a dodo

Head bones have also been found but there’s only one complete skeleton in existence this single dodo skeleton has recently been the subject of scientific research which suggests that many of the earlier beliefs about dodos may have been incorrect for example early accounts of the birds mention how slow and clumsy it

Was but scientists now believe the bird’s strong knee joints Would Have Made It capable of movement which was not slow but actually quite fast in fact one 17th century sailor wrote that he found the birds hard to catch it’s true that the dodo’s small Wings wouldn’t have allowed it to leave

The ground but the scientists suggest that these were probably employed for balance while going over uneven ground another group of scientists carried out analysis of the dodo’s skull they found that the reports of the lack of intelligence of the dodo were not borne out by their research which suggested the bird’s

Brain was not small but average in size in fact in relation to its body size it was similar to that of the pigeon which is known to be a highly intelligent bird the researchers also found that the structure of the bird’s skull suggested that one sense which was particularly

Welldeveloped was that of smell so the dodo may also have been particularly good at locating ripe fruit and other food in the Island’s thick vegetation so it looks as if the dodo was better able to survive and defend itself than was originally believed yet less than 200 years after

Europeans first arrived on the island they had become extinct so what was the reason for this for a long time it was believed that the dodos were hunted to Extinction but scientists now believe the situation was more complicated than this another Factor may have been the

New species brought to the island by the sailors these included dogs which would have been a threat to the dodos and also monkeys which ate the fruit that was the main part of the dodo’s diet these were brought to the island deliberately but the ships also brought

Another type of creature rats which came to land from the ships and rapidly overran the island these upset the Ecology of the island not just the dodos but other species too however they were a particular danger to the dodos because they consumed their eggs and since each dodo only laid one

At a time this probably had a devastating effect on populations however we now think that probably the main cause of the bird’s Extinction was not the introduction of non-native species but the introduction of Agriculture this meant that the forest that had once covered all the island and

That had provided a perfect home for the dodo was cut down so that crops such as sugar could be grown so although the dodo had survived for thousands of years suddenly it was gone that is the end of part four you now have one minute to check your answers to part four

That is the end of the listening test in the IELTS test you would now have 10 minutes to transfer your answers to the answer Sheet Oh