IELTS Academic Listening — Crash Course Test 10

GOAT Guru English
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🎧 Section 1. This recording contains all four sections of the test in one continuous audio file — use the player to skip ahead once you finish this section. Questions 1–10.

Questions 1–10

Complete the notes below. Write ONE WORD AND/OR A NUMBER for each answer.
Copying photos to digital format
Name of company: Picturerep
Requirements
  • Maximum size of photos is 30 cm, minimum size 4 cm.
  • Photos must not be in a 1 or an album.
Cost
  • The cost for 360 photos is £2 (including one disk).
  • Before the complete order is sent, 3 is required.
Services included in the price
  • Photos can be placed in a folder, e.g. with the name 4.
  • The 5 and contrast can be improved if necessary.
  • Photos which are very fragile will be scanned by 6.
Special restore service (costs extra)
  • It may be possible to remove an object from a photo, or change the 7.
  • A photo which is not correctly in 8 cannot be fixed.
Other information
  • Orders are completed within 9.
  • Send the photos in a box (not 10).

🎧 Section 2. Continue in the same recording — skip ahead to this section using the player. Questions 11–20.

Questions 11–15

Choose the correct letter, A, B or C. School changes.
11 Dartfield House school used to be
12 What is planned with regard to the lower school?
13 The catering has been changed because of
14 Parents are asked to
15 What does the speaker say about the existing canteen?

Questions 16–18

What comment does the speaker make about each of the following serving points in the Food Hall? Choose THREE answers from the box, A–D, next to Questions 16–18.
Comments — Food available at serving points in Food Hall
A. pupils help to plan menus
B. only vegetarian food
C. different food every week
D. daily change in menu
16 World Adventures
17 Street Life
18 Speedy Italian

Questions 19–20

Choose TWO letters, A–E. Which TWO optional after-school lessons are new?
Select exactly two options.

🎧 Section 3. Continue in the same recording — skip ahead to this section using the player. Questions 21–30.

Questions 21–24

Choose the correct letter, A, B or C. Assignment on sleep and dreams.
21 Luke read that one reason why we often forget dreams is that
22 What do Luke and Susie agree about dreams predicting the future?
23 Susie says that a study on pre-school children having a short nap in the day
24 In their last assignment, both students had problems with

Questions 25–30

Complete the flow chart below. Write ONE WORD ONLY for each answer.
Assignment plan
  • Decide on research question: Is there a relationship between hours of sleep and number of dreams?
  • ↓ Decide on sample: Twelve students from the 25 department
  • ↓ Decide on methodology: Self-reporting
  • ↓ Decide on procedure: Answers on 26
  • ↓ Check ethical guidelines for working with 27
  • Ensure that risk is assessed and 28 is kept to a minimum
  • ↓ Analyse the results: Calculate the correlation and make a 29
  • ↓ 30 the research

🎧 Section 4. Continue in the same recording — skip ahead to this section using the player. Questions 31–40.

Questions 31–40

Complete the notes below. Write ONE WORD ONLY for each answer.
Health benefits of dance Recent findings
  • All forms of dance produce various hormones associated with feelings of happiness.
  • Dancing with others has a more positive impact than dancing alone.
  • An experiment on university students suggested that dance increases 31.
  • For those with mental illness, dance could be used as a form of 32.
Benefits of dance for older people
  • accessible for people with low levels of 33
  • reduces the risk of heart disease
  • better 34 reduces the risk of accidents
  • improves 35 function by making it work faster
  • improves participants' general well-being
  • gives people more 36 to take exercise
  • can lessen the feeling of 37, very common in older people
Benefits of Zumba
  • A study at The University of Wisconsin showed that doing Zumba for 40 minutes uses up as many 38 as other quite intense forms of exercise.
  • The American Journal of Health Behavior study showed that:
  •   – women suffering from 39 benefited from doing Zumba.
  •   – Zumba became a 40 for the participants.
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