IELTS Listening Practice Test 31 with Answers

In the IELTS Listening Test, you will encounter a series of questions based on a short audio recording on a particular topic. To attempt the Listening test, you have to practice discerning the important information being relayed in the audio format and using it to answer the test questions. By practicing with sample questions, you can ensure a good score on this Module of the IELTS.

Here is a sample Listening test to get you started.

The audio in the IELTS listening practice test has 4 parts of varying English accents ranging from British to Australian. If you’re not used to them, it is good to take this test and familiarize yourself with the different tones and intonations. This will lend you a hand in the actual test.

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Section 1

Questions 1-10

Q. 1-6

PRIME RECRUITMENT

Employee record

Q. 7-10

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Section 2

Questions 11-20

Q. 11 and 12

Which TWO sources of funding helped build the facility?

A. the central government

B. local government

C. a multinational company

D. a national company

E. city residents

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12

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Questions 13 and 14

Which TWO pre-existing features of the site are now part of the new facilities?

A football stadium

B playing fields

C passenger hall

D control tower

E aircraft hangars

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14

Questions 15-20

15 hotel

16 transport hub

17 cinema

18 fitness centre

19 shops

20 restaurant

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Section 3

Questions 21-30

Q. 21-25

21 What is Chloe concerned about?

A her knowledge of maths

B her ability to write essays

C her lack of business experience

22 Which of the following does Ivan feel he has improved?

A his computer skills

B his presentation skills

C his time management

23 What does Chloe especially like about the course?

A She won’t have to do a final examination.

B She can spend time working in a business.

C She can study a foreign language.

24 Ivan is pleased that the university is going to have _______

A more lecture rooms.

B a larger library.

C more courses.

25 What does Ivan advise Chloe to do?

A contact his tutor

B read about some other universities

C visit the university

Q. 26-30

What does Chloe decide about the following subjects?

A She will study it.

B She won’t study it.

C She might study it.

Section 4

Questions 31-40

Q. 31-35

History of weather forecasting

Early methods

• Almanacs connected the weather with the positions of different 31 _______ at particular times.

The invention of weather instruments

• A hydrometer showed Levels of 32 _______ (Nicholas Cusa 1450)

• Temperature variations – first measured by a thermometer containing 33 _______ (Galileo Galilei 1595)

• A barometer indicated air pressure (Evangelista Torricelli 1645)

Transmitting weather information

• The use of the 34 _______ allowed information to be passed around the world.

• Daily 35 _______ were produced by the French from 1863.

Q. 36-40

Producing a weather forecast

36 Weather observation stations are found mostly at _______ around the country.

37 Satellite images use the colour orange to show _______

38 The satellites give so much detail that meteorologists can distinguish a particular _______

39 Information about the upper atmosphere is sent from instruments attached to a _______

40 Radar is particularly useful for following the movement of _______

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