IELTS MASTER - Book 12 Listening Test 1

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Part 1: Questions 1-10

Complete the notes below.

Write NO MORE THAN ONE WORD OR A NUMBER for each answer.

FAMILY EXCURSIONS
Cruise on a lake
  • Travel on an old steamship
  • Can take photos of the (1) that surround the lake
Farm visit
  • Children can help feed the sheep
  • Visit can include a 40 minute ride on a (2)
  • Visitors can walk in the farm’s (3) by the lake
  • (4) is available at extra cost
Cycling trips
  • Cyclists explore the back road
  • A (5) is provided
  • Only suitable for cyclists who have some (6)
  • Bikes can be hired from (7) (near the cruise ship terminal)
  • Cyclists need:
    • A repair kit
    • Food and drink
    • A (8) (can be hired)
  • There are no (9) or accommodation in the area
Cost
  • Total cost for whole family of cruise and farm visit: (10) $

Part 2: Questions 11-14

Choose the correct letter A, B or C.

11. According to the manager what do most people like about the job of kitchen assistant?
12. The manager is concerned about some of the new staff’s
13. The manager says that the day is likely to be busy for kitchen staff because
14. Only kitchen staff who are 18 or older are allowed to use

Questions 15 and 16

Choose TWO letters A-E.

15-16. According to the manager which TWO things can make the job of kitchen assistant stressful?

Questions 17-20

What is the responsibility of each of the following restaurant staff?

Choose FOUR answers from the list below and select the correct letter, A-F, for questions 17-20.

Responsibilities
A. training courses
B. food stocks
C. first aid
D. breakages
E. staff discounts
F. timetables
17. Joy Parkins
18. David Field
19. Dexter Wills
20. Mike Smith

Part 3: Questions 21-23

Choose the correct letter A, B or C.

21. What will be the main topic of Trudie and Stewart’s paper?
22. They agree that one disadvantage of free digitalized books is that
23. Stewart expects that in the future libraries will

Questions 24-30

Complete the notes below.

Write ONE WORD ONLY for each answer.

Study of local library: possible questions
  • Whether it has a (24) of its own
  • Its policy regarding noise of various kinds
  • How it’s affected by laws regarding all aspects of (25)
  • How the design needs to take the (26) of customers into account
  • What (27) is required in case of accidents
  • Why a famous person’s (28) is located in the library
  • Whether it has a (29) of local organisations
  • How it’s different from a library in a (30)

Part 4: Questions 31-40

Complete the notes below.

Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS for each answer.

Four business rules
  • Many business values can result in (31)
  • Senior managers need to understand and deal with the potential (32) that may result
Collaboration
  • During a training course the speaker was in a team that had to build a (33)
  • Other teams experienced (34) from trying to collaborate
  • The speaker’s team won because they reduced collaboration
  • Sales of a (35) were poor because of collaboration
Industriousness
  • Hard work may be a bad use of various company (36)
  • The word lazy in the context refers to people who avoid doing tasks that are (37)
Creativity
  • An advertising campaign for a (38) was memorable but failed to boost sales
  • Creativity should be used as a response to a particular (39)
Excellence
  • According to one study on average pioneers had a (40) that was far higher than that of followers.
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