IELTS Listening Actual Test 2024 with Answers | 17.04.2024

This is the IELTS

listening

comprehension

test

. You will listen to several different recordings and have to answer questions about what you hear. There will be time for you to read the instructions and questions and you will have the opportunity to check your work on all recordings. It will be played only once The

test

consists of four parts At the end of the test you will be given 10 minutes to transfer your

answers

to the answer sheet Now move on to the first part You are about to listen to a telephone conversation between a man and a woman about a rental property first you have some time to look at questions 1 to 7 now listen carefully and answer questions 1 to 7 Central realy Jo speaks how can I help you?

Yes, hi Jill, I have a problem, a complaint. I'd like to register, who should I speak to, will you want to speak to Tracy, the residential manager, for a moment and I'll get back to you. Thank you. Hi, I'm Tracy. I understand that her rent will increase. Yes, that's why I'm calling. I was told my rent would not increase for the duration of my six month contract I signed just 4 months ago. What is happening is that my landlord is allowed to do this. I see that yes, okay, that seems strange. Look, can I pick up some of yours? details and I will register a formal complaint to the owner on your behalf yes sure that will be good firstly name and address contact details yes Jane mcweeney that's MCS we n y three marer Street that's m a g h e r Street wind3 5 and the phone there yes you can contact me at 34756 extension 3176 I usually get home at 6:00 in the afternoon so you can call me at that time but not after 9:00 oh sorry, 8:30 because that is the time I leave for work Okay, so I should note that the problem is that your landlord wants to raise your rent and when you first moved in, yes, well, the lease started on August 1st and, oh, wait, I'm sorry, that's the date.

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ly moved in on February 1st before I heard the rest. of the conversation, you have some time to look at questions 8 to 10. Now listen carefully and answer questions 8 to 10. Okay, now if necessary, you will have to send a letter to the tency rental board, but as I said first, let's approach your landlord on your behalf and see if we can resolve the issue before it gets to that situation. I would be very surprised if you were to send the letter. 95% of these types of problems are resolved early. Okay, now if you have any problems. need to talk, feel free to come and talk to the general manager in the meantime.

If you could wait until we receive a response from your landlord, then we can plan our next step. Is there anything else I can do? Well, you could write a letter to rtb listing all the events that happened from your point of view, but like I say, wait, don't send it unless you have to. Well, that's all for now, thanks for your call. I'm sure we can work this out. Thank you very much for your help. I hope we can solve it too. Goodbye for now. Yes, goodbye, that's the end of part one. You now have 1 minute to check your

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to the first part and the second part.

You will hear a woman who works in a theater talking to two new members of staff on her first day at work. First you have some time to look at questions 11 to 16. Now listen carefully and answer questions 11 to 16. Hello, good to see you. m Jodie and I will look after you both for the first month you are working here at the amam theatre. Now I'll tell you something about the theater and then I'll take you to meet two members of the staff. It is an old building and has in fact been modernized several times, as you can see we are carrying out a major renovation at the moment, the interior has just been repainted and we are about to start on the exterior of the building which will be a great job.

We went over budget so we had to postpone installing an elevator. I hope they were happy going up and down stairs when the theater was built. People were generally thinner and shorter than now and the seats were close together. We have replaced them with larger seats with more legroom, this means less seats in total, but we have taken the opportunity to install seats that can be easily moved to create different performance spaces. We have also dedicated some warehouses to other purposes, such as using them for meetings. We strive to involve audiences in theater. One way is to organize backstage tours so people can tour the building and learn how the theater works.

These events are proving very popular. What we're finding is that people want to eat lunch. or a cup of coffee while you are here so we are looking at the possibility of opening a cafe in due course we have a bookstore which specializes in books on drama and which attracts many customers then there are two large rooms which will be decorated next month and They will be available for rental for conferences and private events such as parties. We are also considering renting costumes for amateur drama clubs. I want to tell you about our workshops. We have recently started a workshop program that anyone can eventually join, we intend to run acting courses but we are waiting until we have the right people as coaches which is proving more difficult than we expected, there is a huge demand to learn about the technical aspect of putting on a production. and our lighting workshop has already started with great success.

We are going to start a sound workshop next month. Several people have asked about makeup workshops and that is something we are considering for the future. A surprise success is the puppet making workshop. It turns out that we have someone working here who does it as a hobby and offered to teach a workshop. It was so popular that we now teach it every month. Before you listen to the rest of the talk, you have some time to review questions 17 to 20 now listen and answer questions 17 to 20 now a word about the design of the building the auditorium stage and the dressing rooms for the actors are all Below ground level here on the ground floor we have most of the rooms that the public does not see, most of them are internal, so they have windows in the ceiling to illuminate them.

Standing here in the lobby, you're probably wondering why the box office isn't here where the public would expect to find it. Well, you may have noticed it upon entering. although it is part of this building, it is next door with a separate entrance from the street for the theater director's office, you cross the hall and through the double doors you turn right and it is the room at the end of the hall with the door on the left. The lighting box is where the computerized stage lighting is operated and is at the back of the building, when you go through the double doors turn left, turn right at the water cooler and right again at the end, It's the second room along that hallway, the lighting box. it has a window to the auditorium which of course is below us, the artistic director's office is through the double doors, turn right and it is the first room you come to on the right hand side and finally, for the moment, the room I will take you to next. the relaxation room, so if you want to come with me, that's the end of part two, now you have 30 seconds to check your answers to part two, part three, you will hear three students, Ben Jane and Tom, talking about their architecture and design studies course first you have some time to look at questions 21 to 25 now listen to the first part of the conversation and answer questions 21 to 25 so Tom, did you manage to finish all the reading?

Yes, Ben, I did, what about you, Jane? Also, although it took a lot longer than I thought, yes, some of those dissertations are very long, right? I'm not looking forward to having to write mine, well that won't be until next year, so let's compare thoughts about our reading, let's get started. With the architecture of the 20th century, I thought it was quite impressive, there were quite a few details, yes, all very relevant. I enjoyed the images, diagrams and photographs. They were quite strange, not what you would expect to find in a dissertation, but they were very helpful, albeit at times.

I couldn't really follow the arguments, yes, a little confusing, although the modern construction was very serious and thorough, wasn't it? It was

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ly quite dense. I didn't find it particularly easy to read, although the index was excellent. so I used that to guide me. I still think it was a bit high level. I certainly wouldn't have wanted to try to deal with that in the first year. No, that doesn't hurt. Of course, what about steel, glass and concrete, right? most interesting title in the world of course, again the index was helpful, although I think we could do with more photos, they weren't really enough to support what I was saying in places, yes, but what I was saying was easy to keep going, don't you?

It takes you step by step It was hard to believe that it had been translated It seemed very natural It was actually better written than the next The space we created but we are supposed to think about architectural ideas and not literary critics. I like that. I didn't really think it covered the whole situation, it didn't put the housing issue in the context of the time, you are referring to how in the 50's economic austerity limited available finances while a growing population needed housing quickly exactly again, believe. you're asking too much of these dissertations maybe you're right, well anyway I liked the change and tradition, very focused yes, although I thought it was strangely varied in some ways when you went to the index to track down something you couldn't. you will necessarily find what you are looking for.

I know what you mean, but I have to say that I would be very proud if I had written any of these truths and you will do it next year. Now you have time to review questions 26 to 30. Now listen. the rest of the conversation and answer questions 26 to 30 it doesn't matter next year, it's this year that's the problem. I will never finish this task. Yes, come on, let's make a plan for you, please. I'm just not sure where. To go from here you could look at the city plans and study the layout of the housing developments.

I think you need a closer approach. The focus on tiny houses won't necessarily tell you what you want to know. It would be better if you concentrated on large private houses. study the drawings of those, okay, although I don't know how much useful detail I will be able to get from the types of plans that are easily available in that period, it is true that they may be limited, but what could you do in the next stage. is go to the web there are a lot of useful things there more detailed plans you mean well I was thinking more about illustrations that kind of thing look up window designs I'm sure you'll find some good ones I agree and not just online see what you find Right there for your next step, check out both campus libraries.

I think you will be able to get books that will give you more information and you need to know more about the typical furniture of the period. This is all very useful, thanks guys. I'm starting to think I should be able to do something for Dr. Forbes after all, at least I can see that I'll be in a position to tell him the section titles, well, it would be better to express a little more of that. together the general plan of him and give him that to look at H, yes, but I'll still have to keep reading, right?

Yes, once Dr. Forbes has approved what you have done at that point, you will be able to go see Dr. Gray, he is very approachable and I'm sure he would be happy to give you more references and then you could go on from there, that would be very useful. Thanks again, let me get you another coffee. This is the end of the third part. have 30 seconds to check your answers to part three based on Rob's website, part four you will hear a lecturer in an Environmental Studies course discuss how birds are affected by environmental change first you will have some time to look at the questions 31 to 40 and now listen carefully and answer questions 31 to 40 Well, we have been looking at how man-made changes to our environment can affect wildlife.

Now I will discuss a particular example, let's look at Mercury. Mercury is one of the approximately 120 elements that make up all matter and has the symbol HG. It is a shiny silver substance. You may have seen it in old thermometers but now it is not used much for household purposes because it is highly toxic but the problem is that the amount of mercury in the environment increases the main reason for this is the power plants used To produce electricity, the main source of energy that most of them use is still coal and when it is burned it releases mercury into the atmosphere, part of this is deposited in lakes and rivers and if ingested by a fish it is not excreted, it remains into the body of the fish and enters the food chain, so it has been known for some time that birds that eat fish can be affected, but what was not known until recently is that those that eat insects can also be affected.will be affected, so a woman named CLA Varian Ramos is researching how this affects birds and rather than looking at how many birds actually die from mercury poisoning, she is looking for more subtle side effects and these may have to do with the behavior. of birds or with the effect of mercury on the way her brain works, for example, if this leads to problems with memory, and she is particularly focusing on the effects of mercury on Bird's song, now the process Song learning occurs at a particular stage of the bird's development and what you may not know is that a young bird appears to acquire this skill by

listening

to the songs produced by its father rather than any other bird and Varian Ramos has already discovered in his research that if young male birds are exposed to Mercury, if they eat food contaminated with Mercury, then the songs they produce are not as complex as those produced by other birds, so low-level exposure to Mercury is likely to have an impact in males in a natural situation because it may mean that they are less attractive to females and may therefore affect their chances of reproduction.

Now it is worth thinking about the way in which she is carrying out this investigation. About the fact that she is using a combination of studies using birds kept in laboratories and studies conducted outdoors in the wild, laboratory studies have the advantage that you do not obtain all the variables that you would obtain in a natural environment, so which the experimenter has a much higher level of control and that means they can be more confident in their results in some ways and of course they don't have to worry about going out and finding birds to watch, so what are the implications here for the humans?

Many birds are migratory and may be transporting mercury away from contaminated sites, for example, it has been discovered that ducks that had been feeding at a contaminated site were subsequently shot by hunters more than a kilometer away and presumably eaten, but these birds probably had high levels of mercury. enough to justify concern about human consumption, furthermore, returning to song learning by birds, we saw that this can be affected by mercury contamination. We also know that in humans mercury causes delays in mental development in the acquisition of language and, in fact, this process is very similar in the brain regions it involves and even in the genes involved, but mercury pollution also has other important implications for humans.

It is now known that a fetus can be affected if the food eaten by its mother contains high levels of mercury and these effects. can be quite substantial in the end it all comes down to whether you place more value on human economic well-being or environmental well-being. It's true that there are new regulations for mercury emissions from power plants, but billions of dollars will be needed to implement and increase them. costs for everyone, some argue that it is too much to pay to protect wildlife, but as we have seen, the problems go beyond that and I think it is an issue we need to consider very carefully.

This is the end of part four. Now you have a minute to check. your answers to the fourth part, which is the end of the listening comprehension test in test I Els, you will now have 10 minutes to transfer your answers to the answer sheet e for