IELTS Academic Listening practice test 6

Listen and answer questions 1 to 10.

1. • Reserve created in {{1}} after a local campaign

2. • Campaign began when plans were made for an oil {{2}} on the marshes

3. • Meeting point: car park beside the {{3}}

4. • Length of walk: {{4}} kilometres

5. • Visitors must wear waterproof {{5}}

6. • The guide shows visitors how to find {{6}} in the mud

7. • Includes original {{7}} made by campaigners

8. • Closed every {{8}}

9. • Cost per adult: £{{9}}

10. • Contact person: Jean {{10}}

Listen and answer questions 11 to 20.

11. According to Fiona, the main result of last year's renovation of the Arts Barn is that it

A) attracts a younger audience

B) can stay open throughout the winter

C) has room for larger touring companies

12. What is special about the premiere of the play Low Tide?

A) It will be performed outdoors

B) Its script is based on conversations with local residents

C) All of its actors are amateurs

13. From this season, the film club will

A) move its screenings to Sunday afternoons

B) end each screening with a discussion

C) let members vote on which films are shown

14. What is Fiona's main concern about the book festival?

A) whether enough tickets will be sold

B) whether the visiting authors will arrive on time

C) whether the marquee will have enough seating

15. Which TWO things will new volunteers do during their first month?

A) operate the lighting desk

B) work in the box office

C) serve in the café

D) lead tours of the building

E) help run the sound system

16. Which TWO things will new volunteers do during their first month?

A) operate the lighting desk

B) work in the box office

C) serve in the café

D) lead tours of the building

E) help run the sound system

17. Which TWO benefits do volunteers receive?

A) free tickets for every performance

B) a discount in the café

C) free parking

D) invitations to dress rehearsals

E) a written reference after six months

18. Which TWO benefits do volunteers receive?

A) free tickets for every performance

B) a discount in the café

C) free parking

D) invitations to dress rehearsals

E) a written reference after six months

19. Which TWO things does Fiona ask the volunteers to do before the end of the month?

A) choose their shifts on the online rota

B) complete a first-aid course

C) send in a photo for their name badge

D) read the fire safety guide

E) arrange a meeting with her

20. Which TWO things does Fiona ask the volunteers to do before the end of the month?

A) choose their shifts on the online rota

B) complete a first-aid course

C) send in a photo for their name badge

D) read the fire safety guide

E) arrange a meeting with her

Listen and answer questions 21 to 30.

21. Why did Megan and Tariq choose winter protection of container plants for their project?

A) The college grounds manager asked for ways to reduce plant losses

B) Customers at a local garden centre wanted more advice

C) Tariq had lost one of his own plants the previous winter

22. What surprised Megan about the temperature records?

A) The soil in the pots became colder than the air around them

B) The temperature in the greenhouse hardly changed overnight

C) The coldest night came later in the winter than forecast

23. According to Tariq, the most common mistake people make with plants they bring indoors is

A) moving them inside too late in the autumn

B) giving them as much water as in summer

C) putting them too close to a source of heat

24. What does Dr Ferris say the students should change in their report?

A) They should include more photographs of the plants

B) They should explain more clearly how they scored the damage

C) They should make the background section shorter

25. What do the students decide to do with the oleanders?

A) keep them in the trial for a second winter

B) give them to the college plant sale

C) cut them back hard before the spring

26. What will the students focus on in their presentation?

A) the cost of each protection method

B) which species survived the winter

C) when to move plants under cover

27. Wrapping pots in bubble wrap

A) It worked better than they expected

B) It would take too long for a large collection

C) It only made a difference on the coldest nights

D) It caused a different problem

E) Its effect was difficult to measure

F) It was the cheapest option

28. Covering plants with horticultural fleece

A) It worked better than they expected

B) It would take too long for a large collection

C) It only made a difference on the coldest nights

D) It caused a different problem

E) Its effect was difficult to measure

F) It was the cheapest option

29. Moving plants into an unheated greenhouse

A) It worked better than they expected

B) It would take too long for a large collection

C) It only made a difference on the coldest nights

D) It caused a different problem

E) Its effect was difficult to measure

F) It was the cheapest option

30. Grouping pots together against a south-facing wall

A) It worked better than they expected

B) It would take too long for a large collection

C) It only made a difference on the coldest nights

D) It caused a different problem

E) Its effect was difficult to measure

F) It was the cheapest option

Listen and answer questions 31 to 40.

31. The lecturer says that the course as a whole will focus mainly on

A) the institutions that keep a writer's work in circulation

B) the ways later groups have put a writer's work to their own uses

C) how critics' views of a writer's politics have changed over time

32. What does the lecturer say about the reputation of the poet Edwin Harrow?

A) A political movement adopted him soon after his death

B) Critics re-evaluated him after a new biography appeared

C) It came to depend on a few frequently quoted lines

33. Schools; set texts decide which writers a whole {{33}} reads; poems chosen for national exams

34. Publishers; cheap editions and new {{34}} keep a book available; a 1950s novel kept in print for students

35. Literary prizes; public interest usually lasts only a few {{35}}; a sudden rise in sales of an older poet

36. Film and television; viewers may remember the adaptation's {{36}} instead of the original one; a well-known nineteenth-century novel

37. The internet; short lines are shared without their {{37}}; a single line printed on posters

38. • Political movements often adopt writers whose work expresses grief over lost {{38}}

39. • Critics disagree about how far a writer's own {{39}} should affect judgements of the work

40. • Compare first reviews with the way the work was later quoted in political {{40}}