Test Answers: Listening/Reading/Speaking (Thurs 29/10/09)

Today we took a listening, reading & speaking test. The tests were from Cambridge Practice Tests for IELTS 1 by Jakeman and McDowell.

Here are the Answers:
Listening Test #1
Section 1
1A 2C 3D 4D 5C 6Prescott (must be correct spelling with a capital 'P')
7) 41 8) Foundation (must have campital 'F') 9) 752239 10) 65 pounds

Section 2
11-13 E,F,H [in any order]
14 $250 million
15 roads/road system
16 too late
17 school children/boys
18 3
19 boats/pleasure craft/boats and pleasure craft
20 pilot
21 (musical) instruments

Section 3
22A 23B 24C 25A 26talk/give a talk 27) write up work 28) can choose 29) open book 30) closed reserve 31) vocational (subjects)/(preparing for) work/employment

Section 4
32B 33C 34 history and economics 35) (meeting) deadlines (for essays) 36 attendance
37B 38C 39B 40D 41A
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READING ANSWERS
1 preserve 2 unaware 3 chance 4 friction 5 rotating 6 percussion 7 Eskimos 8 despite

9F (...the red phosphorus was non-toxic)
10D (...three years later it was copied)
11E (...since white phosphorus is a deadly poison..)
12 C (The first matches resembling those used today...)
13G (...a brewery had the novel idea of advertising...)
14 A (...a sealed glass tube..)
15C (...borrowed the formula from a military rocket-maker...)
16 yes 17 yes 18 not given 19 no 20no 21 not given 22 yes 23 b 24 c 25 a

26-28 A, D, E [in any order]

29 timber and stone
30 Modernism
31 International style
32 badly designed buildings/multi-storey housing/mass-produced, low-cost high-rises
33 preservation
34 High-Tech
35 co-existence of styles/different styles together/styles mixed

36G, 37F 38H 39C 40D

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The scores for the Reading & Listening will be posted by 6pm tonight.