IELTS Listening Practice Test 2023 with Answers [Real Exam - 316 ]

first part you will hear a telephone conversation between the accommodation officer of a university and a student first you have some time to look at questions 1 to 3 good morning accommodation office of the National University Rosemary speak how can I help you hello, I am going to make a short course at the University this summer and I would like to book accommodation. Please have you seen the online booking form on our website? Oh no, sorry, I didn't

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ize, don't worry, I can complete it now if you like it, I can email it to you so you can check it and submit it online.

It will be OK? Oh yes, thank you. Well, first of all, what's your last name, Blake, that's b l a k e, okay and your name, Daniel, is that d a n i e l, yes, that's right, thank you and Have you studied with us before? Yes, I have done great. Then you will have an identification document with a number. Do you have it on hand? Yes, here we are. The number is 4106 23. Thank you. I'm putting masculine for the correct gender. I take an email address please make sure it is d. Blake internet.com or lower case okay so it's dlake internet.com that's correct and do you have a phone number they can contact you if there's a problem?

Yes, it's 0779 435 5 354 4 53354 not 435 354 Okay, I got it before you. listen to the rest of the conversation you have some time to read questions 4 to 10 so you said you are going to study with us in the summer what course are you doing? I signed up to do art history and what start date do I have? You selected July 1st, not the last one, August 4th, that's it and what type of accommodation you would like to book. Is this accommodation with half board, bed and breakfast or self-catering accommodation? Please okay and did you want a single room? room or shared room oh I hadn't thought about that, is there

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Yes, the shared room is much cheaper, but I can't guarantee who you would share with at this stage. Age. I see, no, no. I don't want to share, let's say single. I can see the prices here in perspective. It is not too expensive. Well, you'll see that you can also pay more for a private bathroom if you want. Oh yeah, that seems like a good idea, so I put it in. private you can always change it before submitting the form if you have questions yes, okay, let's do it and finally, Daniel, will you need a place to park?

Oh yes please, I need to put the type of vehicle here, whether it's a bicycle or a motorcycle. or a car, you know, yeah, it's for a car, okay, that's it. I will email this to you now and you can check it and send it with your deposit. Thank you. Do you want to pay £50 or 100 as an initial deposit? Oh, 100, please. Thank you, you will be asked for a credit card payment when you submit the form. okay, is there anything else I can help you with? the

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now move on to the second part second part you will hear an introductory talk about a Field and Forest program first you have some time to review questions 11 to 17 good morning and welcome to the Morland Field and Forest program I would like to give you Some information about the program and the short courses we run for people on forest awareness.

We are actually a volunteer-run program and were created 15 years ago to educate people of all ages and backgrounds about the wonders of our forests and therefore nature. and for the last 5 years we have been taking groups of young people and their teenagers on educational trips on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays from schools mainly in the area, but some coming from much further afield at first, some young people are not very impressed. by the environment because we discourage them from using any electronic devices, especially smartphones, so that they can interact more with the environment, this disconcerts them a little, but almost without exception, at the end of the 3 days that they are here, the young people do not want to .

In fact, two of the workers here came with groups of students 5 years ago and when they left school they came directly to work for us, the program is completely self-sustaining due in part to sales from the plant nursery and also donations, but the Most of our income now comes from educational and awareness courses. This is a basic map of our Center. We are here at the entrance and you can see the cabins running along the east side of the road. As you head north the first Beach Lodge cabin is for students, it is quite large and can accommodate 10 students in bunk beds, then the next four cabins are for families and the later Chestnut Lodge cabin is for teachers and can sleep up to four adults on the The west side of the PA road, directly opposite the family cabins, are the educational facilities, they are quite up to date with the la

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news from Wizardry and next door, the cafeteria that is shared with visitors to the center, right next door from the cafeteria, it is a family area with swings for children we do not allow outdoor cooking here because of the trees, the plant nurseries, that area that you can see that runs along the entire northern part of the map before

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to the rest of the talk , you have some time to look at questions 18 to 20 if you go here between the family area and the daycare, the path leads to the forest itself.

We are on a hill here and quite high up and as there is spectacular scenery around here we have stunning views of the countryside you can see the river stretching for miles across rolling countryside. Fortunately, the entire forest is protected by law, so no one can cut down any trees. The landscape here has not changed for hundreds of years. Some of the trees have been growing here for quite some time. The goal of the plan and the volunteers is to keep it that way. We advise people to stick to the paths because it is very easy to get lost.

As you walk through the forest you will see workers removing wood and dead trees. I would ask everyone. not removing anything like seeds or flowers from the forest so that we can try to preserve it for future generations. That's the end of the second part. Now you have half a minute to check your

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. Now move on to the third part. The third part you will hear from two students. talking about a research project you have to do together first, you have some time to review questions 21 to 24. Hello Mark Kirsty. Hello, we have to organize this research project.

I really like the idea of ​​doing it in allotment gardens vs the brilliant idea of ​​yours from university, oh no, I actually walk past there every day and see people working on small plots of land growing their own food and I thought it would be interesting to know more about this, great, so we better decide who's doing it. In terms of gathering some background data, I thought we should do two things, read a little background and then go interview some of the people involved. I suppose we could start by investigating why the allotment gardens are there, whose idea it was. when they were established, etc., looking at the historical records, I already found out that it was a national program in the 1920s, so our local program would have been part of that.

I guess we could look at the local records to see why this particular site was chosen, okay I'll do that, then I guess it was Wasteland or something, there's some pretty interesting geology and soils around here, actually, oh I don't think that we need to get into all that, oh, okay, but what you could do is figure out what the terms are. and the conditions are for the gardeners, they pay rent, they have a contract, etc. Well, well, I guess you can ask them that we don't need to look into it ourselves. Yes, you are right, but I read a report in the newspaper that said the site.

It was under threat of development, you know, someone wants to build housing there, really now, that's interesting. You could see if anyone has applied to the local council planning office for permission. Exactly, okay, cool, so I guess we have to ask some people if it's okay first. We go there and start talking to people. Yes, the land belongs to the city council and someone from there manages it. I will call them. Great, he should be able to give you a site plan too. Yes, and perhaps some indication of who. Among gardeners, it might be better to ask who has been there the longest or whatever.

Yeah, okay, it might be nice to have an introduction instead of just approaching them out of the blue. I actually agree, so I thought I should check out any other ones. Research has been done on the topic. Yes, that's true. We don't want to do things that have already been done before you hear the rest of the conversation. You have some time to review questions 25 to 30. Do you have any ideas about what we should focus on? In our research, well, I think it's a choice between a survey about use, how many people use the land, how often they go, how productive it is, you know, or something more attitudinal, like what motivates people to do it. , what do they get out of it, what difference does it make in their lives yes, I like it, let's go with it, but what about the problems?

You know, disputes between the gers. Difficulties they have with management. Things like that. Well, I don't think we can make our goal there might not be any. problems yes, you are right, let's focus on attitudes, then okay, I think the next stage is to do some preliminary work, find out if we can get permission, see if anyone wants to talk to us or if there is some specific issue we can focus on . Shouldn't we consult our tutor before doing all that to get the go-ahead for the topic? Initially, she specifically said not to do that and to come to her once we had a final proposal with the details laid out, okay, let's do it then.

I think that's going to be the hardest part: writing the proposal, not figuring out what level of detail to go into. You know, we could interview a lot of people and try to find their general views or just pick a few and do in-depth interviews with lots of questions. I think you're right, but I think once we get started we'll see what will work best with this particular context. Well, actually there is a problem we could look into. Yes, there is a particularly invasive species of wild plant growing around here on campus. The gardener said it is very difficult to get rid of and makes it difficult to grow other things.

I'm sure allotment gardeners must have a problem with it. It's called a climbing buttercup. Well, what does it look like? Well, there are two types of butter, actually bulbous. cup, which is not a problem, and the creeping buttercup, which is to differentiate them, you have to look at the flowers, they are identical with yellow petals, but the creeping buttercup does not have little leaves that point downwards, just below the flow, it they call while the bulbous Buttercup does well and then has polygonal shaped leaves instead of triangular shaped leaves, so if the leaf is divided into five sections instead of three, then it is the creeping Buttercup.

Both plants have a long stem that grows from a bulb. which is underground, but only the creeping buttercup sends out new stems from the base that trail along the ground and are called stolons. It's these things that make plants such an interesting problem. This is the end of the third part. Now you have half a minute. To check her answers, now go to part four, part four, you will hear part of a talk about the migration of the first humans. First, you'll have some time to discuss questions 31 through 40. Well, in today's lecture we're going to explore early human migration.

Africa to colonize the world Throughout history there have been waves of humans migrating as people have moved from one locality to another, sometimes quickly over very short distances and sometimes slowly over large expanses of land. earth in search of a new, different or better life. There is general agreement that the first movement of people of real importance anywhere on our planet originated in East Africa approximately 100,000 years ago. This first group of modern humans crossed the Red Sea, which was then a dry bed, and then crossed Arabia. and in what is now the Middle East, but these early Pioneers soon became extinct, just as today, the Earth was subject to temperature changes about 70,000 years ago, the planet became warmer and another group of modern humans migrated away from their homeland of Africa following basically the same route and then moving towards South Asia about 50,000 years ago modern humans had colonized China and about 45,000 years ago they had reached Europe these first humans settled in the wide open spaces of Siberia about 40,000 years ago and about 20,000 years ago modern humans arrived in Japan, which was connected to the main land mass.

At that time there was no land connection between Australia and Southeast Asia, so the first Australians who arrived around 50,000 years ago must have made the journey across the sea in simple boats to settle in Australia. modern humanscocontinent they moved from Asia to North America, where they arrived via what is now the direct course through Alaska. This migration occurred between 15 and 13,000 years ago. There is also some evidence to suggest that modern humans encountered ice across the North Atlantic, but this theory has been discounted by some. Since then, the American continent has been the destination of waves of human settlement before we look at more modern

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ples of movements. humans such as the Anglo-Saxon migrations to Great Britain in the 5th century and the migration of the Turks during the Middle Ages and the migration of the Irish to America in the mid-19th century.

I would like to see a migration within the African continent itself, which personally interests me a lot. If we look at the map of Africa, we can see. some patterns that are common to other waves of human movement throughout history The roots here show what is probably the most significant migration in Africa itself: that of the Bantu who spread from a small region in West Africa near today.The border of Nigeria and Cameroon right here on the map will occupy approximately 30% of the continent in the year 1,000 AD. A trigger for this movement may have been the result of the cultivation of yams, a starchy tuber that Bantu farmers began cultivating.

As part of their basic diet, this cultivation began around 2750 BC. C., which resulted in the expansion of the population. The Banto people then spread to neighboring territories which at the time were sparsely populated as the rainforest land could not support farmers and their families. For more than a few years they continued to fill in trees and create new clearings in the forest to grow yams; the number of banto increased between 2,500 and 400 BC. C., people were constantly on the move, migrating south to present-day Congo in the center. Africa and reached Zimbabwe and present-day South Africa around 100 AD, it was contact with Sudan in North Africa that introduced the Banu to iron production, in which they excelled once they exchanged knowledge on how to work with iron from Sudan.

The quality of his work rivaled that produced. The Mediterranean people of that time now had better tools for felling trees, clearing forests and working fields, and there is another benefit that iron gave them and it was a military advantage over their neighbors. I would argue that migration has transformed the world of Early Times and we all reap the benefits of different people coming into contact. That's the end of part four. Now you have half a minute to check your answers. That is the end of the

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