IELTS Academic Listening — Crash Course Test 8

GOAT Guru English
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🎧 Section 1. Listen once and answer Questions 1–10. You will hear the recording only one time in the real exam — for practice, you may replay it.

Questions 1–10

Complete the notes below. Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER for each answer.
Hilary Lodge Retirement Home
Example: The name of the manager is Cathy
Activities programme involving volunteers
Monday evenings: computer training
  • Training needed in how to produce 1
Tuesday afternoons: singing
  • The home has a 2 and someone to play it
Thursday mornings: growing 3
  • The home doesn't have many 4 for gardening
Once a month: meeting for volunteers and staff
Interview
  • Go in on 5, any time
  • Interview with assistant called 6
  • Address of home: 73 7 Road
'Open house' days
  • Agreed to help on 8
  • Will show visitors where to 9
Possibility of talking to a 10 reporter

🎧 Section 2. Listen and answer Questions 11–20.

Questions 11–15

Label the plan below. Write the correct letter, A–H, next to Questions 11–15.
Plan of Learning Resource Centre (Ground Floor)
11 Newspapers
12 Computers
13 Photocopier
14 Café
15 Sports books

Questions 16–20

Complete the table below. Write ONE WORD ONLY for each answer.
New staff responsibilities
NameNew responsibility
Jenny ReedBuying 16 for the Centre
Phil PenshurstHelp with writing 17 for courses
Tom SalisburyInformation on topics related to the 18
Saeed AktarFinding a 19
Shilpa DesaiHelp with 20

🎧 Section 3. Listen and answer Questions 21–30.

Questions 21–27

What helped Stewart with each of the following stages in making his training film for museum employees? Choose SEVEN answers from the box, A–I, next to Questions 21–27.
Helpful factors
A. advice from friends
B. information on a website
C. being allowed extra time
D. meeting a professional film maker
E. good weather conditions
F. getting a better computer
G. support of a manager
H. help from a family member
I. work on a previous assignment
21 finding a location
22 deciding on equipment
23 writing the script
24 casting
25 filming
26 editing
27 designing the DVD cover

Questions 28–30

Complete the notes below. Write ONE WORD ONLY for each answer.
Stewart's work placement: benefits to the Central Museum Association
  • his understanding of the Association's 28
  • the reduction in expense
  • increased co-operation between 29
  • continuous 30 which led to a better product
  • ideas for distribution of the film

🎧 Section 4. Listen and answer Questions 31–40.

Questions 31–40

Complete the notes below. Write ONE WORD ONLY for each answer.
New Caledonian crows and the use of tools Examples of animals using tools
  • some chimpanzees use stones to break nuts
  • Betty (New Caledonian crow) made a 31 out of wire to move a bucket of food
  • Barney (New Caledonian crow) used sticks to find food
New Zealand and Oxford experiment
  • three stages: crows needed to move a 32 in order to reach a short stick; then use the short stick to reach a long stick; then use the long stick to reach food
Oxford research
  • crows used sticks to investigate whether there was any 33 from an object
  • research was inspired by seeing crows using tools on a piece of cloth to investigate a spider design
  • Barney used a stick to investigate a snake made of 34
  • Pierre used a stick to investigate a 35
  • Corbeau used a stick to investigate a metal toad
  • the crows only used sticks for the first contact
Conclusions of above research
  • ability to plan provides interesting evidence of the birds' cognition
  • unclear whether this is evidence of the birds' 36
Exeter and Oxford research in New Caledonia
  • scientists have attached very small cameras to birds' 37
  • food in the form of beetle larvae provides plenty of 38 for the birds
  • larvae's specific 39 composition can be identified in birds that feed on them
  • scientists will analyse what the birds include in their 40
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