IELTS Listening Practice Test 2024 with Answers [Real Exam - 432 ]

Listen to the conversation between the man and the woman and answer the questions first. You have some time to look at questions 1 to 4. Now we will begin. You must answer the questions while

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because you will not listen to the recording a second time. Listen carefully. and answer questions 1 to 4 good morning University Language Center how can I help you I am interested in taking a language course I took Mandarin last year and now I would like to take Japanese, can you give me information about what courses are available? in your center and when that kind of thing starts yes, certainly well, we actually offer a number of courses in Japanese at different levels.

Are you looking for full time or part time? Oh, I couldn't manage full time since I work every day. but evenings would be fine and are certainly preferable to weekends. Well, we don't offer courses on weekends anyway, but let me go over your options. We have a 12 week intensive course, 3 hours, three nights a week, that's our intensive course or an 8 month course two. nights a week I think the intensive course would be better for me, since I am going to Japan in 6 months. Are you a beginner, not a complete beginner? No, we offer courses at three levels: beginners, lower intermediate and upper intermediate.

I don't always run them all, it depends a lot on demand. I'd probably be at the lower intermediate level, since I did some Japanese in school, but that was a long time ago. Well, the next level two course starts on Monday, September 12 there. there are still some places in that, otherwise you would have to wait until January or March no, I would prefer the next course the woman asks the man for some details about himself look at questions 5 to 10 now listen to that conversation and fill out the correct form, Can I get some details from you so I can send you information?

What's your name? Last name first haggy Richard h a g a r t and no ha g e r t and oh okay and your address Richard well maybe you could email it to me What is your email address? I'm Ricky. 45 uh that's a r i c k word y45 on hotmail.com and I just need some other information for our stats. This helps us offer the best possible courses and profile our students. Well, what is your date of birth? I was born on February 29, 1980 1980 so you're a Lepia baby, that's unusual, yes it is, and just one or two more questions for our market research, if you don't mind, no, okay, which ones Are your main reasons for studying business travel in Japan or general interest in my company? send me to Japan for 2 years, okay, I will leave business and do you have any specific needs?

Will there be an emphasis on written language, for

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ple? Will you need to know how to write business letters for that sort of thing? No, but I will. I need to be able to communicate with people on a daily basis. Well, I'll stop talking. Yes, because I already know something about the writing system at an elementary level and I don't anticipate having to read too much to you. You said you had studied some Japanese. Where did you study for 3 years at school? Then I left it, so I kind of forgot about it. You know what languages ​​are like if you don't have the opportunity to use them.

Yes, but me. I'm sure it will all come back to you once you start again. Once we receive your registration form, we will contact you. That's the end of section one. You now have half a minute to check your

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. Now move on to section two. Section two. you will hear a man talking on the radio about dogs helping people with their work first watch questions 11 and 12 while

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to the first part of the talk answer questions 11 and 12 welcome to this week's edition of countrywide and today We are Taking a look at different breeds of working dogs and here to report on working dogs, Kevin Thornhill, thanks Joanne, well yes, working dogs are the topic of today's show.

Dogs have earned a reputation over the centuries for being extremely loyal. And here's a little story that illustrates just how loyal they are on the outskirts of the rural Australian town of Gunda. One type in Australia is a statue built to commemorate a dog, a dog who was sitting waiting for his owner to return to the place where he had left him. The story that was immortalized in a song tells that the poor dog died waiting for his master 5 miles from Gandy, which is where they built the Statue. Now that's what I call loyalty now look at questions 13 to 20 as the talk continues complete the table For questions 13 to 20, because of their loyalty and also their ability to learn practical skills, dogs can be trained to perform a series of very valuable works.

Perhaps the best-known working dog is the Border, a colly sheepdog. Working sheepdogs. In unison with their masters they must be intelligent and obedient with a natural ability with their sheep. Some farmers say their dogs are so smart that they not only hear sheep, but can count them. Another well-loved working dog is the trained working guide dog. With blind guide dogs, Labradors generally need to be confident enough to guide their owner through traffic and crowds, but they also need to be gentle in nature. It costs a lot of money to train a dog for this valuable work, but guide dog associations in the United Kingdom, the United States and Australia receive no government assistance, so all the money comes from donations.

Another common working dog breed is the German Shepherd. German Shepherds make excellent guard dogs and are also very suitable as search and rescue dogs working in disaster zones after earthquakes and avalanches. These dogs must be tough and furious to cope with the arduous conditions of their work and so that they can be sent anywhere in the world to assist in disaster relief operations. Effective dogs and their trainers are now listed in an international database when you arrive at At an airport here you may be greeted in the baggage hall by a detection dog wearing a small red coat with the words quarantine.

These dogs are trained to sniff out fresh fruit as well as meat and even live animals hidden in people's bags to be effective. a well-detected dog must carry out an enormous food collection; In other words, you must

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ly love your food at Sydney Airport, where there are 10 detection dogs working full time, they arrest about 80 people a month trying to bring illegal goods into the country and, according to their trainers, they are rarely wrong. Another famous working dog is the Husky. Huskies, which originally came from Siberia, have been used for decades as a means of transportation in the snow, especially in Antarctica, where they have played an important role.

Huskies adapt well to harsh conditions. and they like to work as a team, but all huskies have left Antarctica now because the international treaty prohibits their use in the territory since they are not native animals. Many people were sad to see the dogs leave Antarctica, as they had been vital to the early expeditions. and they earned their place in history alongside the Explorers. That's the end of section two. Now you have half a minute to check your

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. Now move on to section three. Section three. In this section you will hear a discussion about a writing system for the blind known as Braille look first at questions 21 to 23 now listen to the first part of the discussion and complete the notes for questions 21 to 23 and we are very happy to welcome you To our special interest group today, Dr.

Linda Grar, who is from the Linda City Institute for the Blind, is going to talk to us about the writing system for the blind known as Braille Linda, welcome, thank you. We would like to keep this session fairly informal and I know that Linda won't mind if members of the group want to ask questions as we go along. Well, let's start with an obvious one: what a bra is and where it gets its name from. As you said, Braille is a writing system used by and for people who cannot see. It gets its name from the man who invented it, the Frenchman Louie Braille, who lived at the beginning of the 19th century, he was Lou Braille, he was actually blind.

Well, he wasn't born blind, but he lost his sight at the age of three as a result of an accident at his father's house. Workshop uh Louis Braille then went to Paris to the National Institute for Blind Children and there he invented his writing system at the age of only 15 in 1824 while he was at the Institute, but he was not the first person to invent a tactile reading system for blind right? Another Frenchman had already come up with the idea of ​​printing raised letters that protrude from the paper, but this was very cumbersome and inefficient. What did Louis Braille base his system on in the first one?

No, not

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ly when he went to Paris for the first time and he heard about a military writing system that used 12 points. This was a system invented by an enterprising French army officer and was known as night writing. It was not for the blind but for battle. Night communications. It must have been fun look at questions 24 to 30 listen carefully and answer questions 24 to 30 anyway bra took this system as a starting point, but instead of using the 12 points that he wrote the night, he used the number of points a half and developed six points. system uh can you give us a little more information on how it works?

It is a tactile reading system that uses an arrangement of raised dots called a cell holder, the dot positions numbered 1 2 3 down left and four 5 6 down left. True, the letters of the alphabet are formed using different combinations of these points. Yes, the writing system is also based on the alphabet and each word is written well individually. It's not that simple, I'm afraid that for

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ple the first 10 letters of the alphabet are formed using the dots 1, 2, 4 and five, but Braille also has its own short forms for common words, for example B for the word but and H to have.

There are many other contractions like this, so you can spell most words letter by letter, but. You use short forms for common words, yes, although I think that makes it sound a little easier than it really is and it was accepted immediately. I mean, did it catch on right away? Well, yes and no, um, it was immediately accepted and used by fellow braille students. in school, but the system was not officially adopted until 1854, 2 years after the death of braille, so official acceptance was slow. I guess it works for all languages ​​that use the Roman alphabet. Yes, it does with adaptations of course, can it be handwritten or?

Do you need a machine to produce good Braille? You can write it by hand on paper with a device called a whiteboard and pencil, but the trick is that you have to write it backwards, from right to left, so that when you turn the sheet over the points face up and it can be read like English from left to right. Oh, I see, but these days you'd probably use a Braille typewriter, which is much easier, and tell us, Linda, is Braille used in other ways than just reading text? Yes, in fact, in addition to the Braille literary code as it is known, which of course includes English and French, there are other codes, for example, in 1965 they created a form of Braille for mathematics.

I can't imagine trying to do math in Braille. Yes, that sounds difficult. I agree. and there is also a version for scientific notation. Oh, and yes, I almost forgot. There is now also a version for musical notation. Thank you. Linda was very interesting. Does anyone have any last questions? Yes, approximately how long does it take to learn to read B? do it and that's the end of section three. You now have half a minute to check the answers. Now move on to section four. Section four. You will hear a talk about memory in babies and young children.

You will first have some time to look at the questions. at 35 now listen carefully and answer questions 31 to 35 today we will see some experiments that have been carried out on memory in babies and young children our memory it is true that it works very differently depending on whether we are very old or very young or somewhere halfway point, but when exactly do we start remembering things and how much can we remember? One of the first questions we might ask is whether babies have any type of episodic memory. Can they remember particular events? Obviously we can't ask.

So how can we know? An experiment that has been used has produced some interesting results. It's pretty simple and involves a baby in her crib, a colorful mobile, and a piece of string. It works like this if you suspend the mobile over the cradle and connect it. the baby's foot with the string the mobile will move every time the baby kicks now you can give the baby time to learn what is happening and enjoy the activity then take the mobile away for a while and reintroduce it at some point in 1 14 days later, if you look at this table of results in the top two rows, you can see that what is observed shows that two-month-old babies can remember the trick for up to 2days and three month old babies up to fifteen days and although mobile trained babies will respond only if you use the family mobile, if you train them with a variety of colors and designs they will happily respond to each one in turn.

Now, looking at the third row of the table, you will see that when learning to talk, babies as young as 21 months demonstrate the ability to remember events that happened several weeks earlier, and by the time they are two years old, some children's memories go back further. 6 months, although your recall will be random with little distinction between key and trivial events. Few, if any, of these memories will survive in later life, so we can conclude from this that even very young babies are capable of grasping and remembering a concept. Look at questions 36 to 40. Now answer questions 36 to 40.

So how is it possible? Young babies can suddenly remember for a considerably longer period of time. Well, one theory explains all this and this relates to the next question we could ask: memory develops with language. Very young children with limited vocabularies are not good at organizing their thoughts. They may be able to store memories if they have the ability to retrieve them. An EXP expert has suggested an analogy to books on a library shelf with babies. He says it's as if the first books were hard to find because they were acquired before the cataloging system was developed, but even older children forget them much more quickly than adults.

In another experiment, several 6-year-olds, 9-year-olds, and adults were shown a primed incident; In other words, everyone observed what they thought was a natural sequence of events. The incident was like this. A lecture they were listening to was suddenly interrupted by something being accidentally knocked over, in this case it was a slide projector to add a third stage and make recall more challenging. This accident was followed by a discussion on a memory

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the next day, with the adult and the 9-year-old scoring. an average of 70% and the six-year-olds did only slightly worse on a re

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5 months later the pattern was very different the adults' memory recall had not changed but the 9-year-olds had fallen below 60% and the 6-year-old children could remember just over 40% in similar experiments with numbers and digits.

It's the end of section four. Now you have half a minute to check your answers. It is the end of the listening comprehension test. the actual test will have 10 minutes to transfer your answers to the listening answer sheet is for