Answers, Audio & Listening Practice Test 3 for IELTS Academic and General Training Cam 15

Part 1: Questions 1–10

Complete the notes below. Write ONE WORD AND/OR A NUMBER for each answer.

Employment Agency: Possible Jobs

First Job

  • Administrative assistant in a company that produces (North London)

Responsibilities

  • data entry
  • go to and take notes
  • general admin
  • management of

Requirements

  • good computer skills including spreadsheets
  • good interpersonal skills
  • attention to

Experience

  • need a minimum of of experience teleconferencing

Second Job

Warehouse assistant in South London

Responsibilities

  • stock management
  • managing

Requirements

  • ability to work with numbers
  • good computer skills
  • very organised and
  • good communication skills
  • used to working in a
  • able to cope with items that are

Need experience of

  • driving in London
  • warehouse work
  • service

Part 2: Questions 11–20

Questions 11–16: Choose the correct letter, A, B or C.

Street Play Scheme

11
When did the Street Play Scheme first take place?
12
How often is Beechwood Road closed to traffic now?
13
Who is responsible for closing the road?
14
Residents who want to use their cars
15
Alice says that Street Play Schemes are most needed in
16
What has been the reaction of residents who are not parents?
Questions 17 and 18: Choose TWO letters, A-E.
17 & 18
Which TWO benefits for children does Alice think are the most important?
Questions 19 and 20: Choose TWO letters, A-E.
19 & 20
Which TWO results of the King Street experiment surprised Alice?

Part 3: Question 21-30

Questions 21–26: Complete the notes below. Write ONE WORD ONLY for each answer.

What Hazel should analyse about items in newspapers:

  • what the item is on
  • the of the item, including the headline
  • any accompanying the item
  • the of the item e.g. what’s made prominent
  • the writer’s main
  • the the writer may make about the reader
Questions 27-30: What does Hazel decide to do about each of the following types of articles? Write the correct letter, A, B or C, next to Questions 27-30
A. She will definitely look for a suitable article.
B. She may look for a suitable article.
C. She definitely won’t look for an article.

Types of articles

27 national news item
28 editorial
29 human interest
30 arts

Part 4: Questions 31-40

Complete the notes below. Write ONE WORD ONLY for each answer.

Early history of keeping clean

Prehistoric times:

  • water was used to wash off

Ancient Babylon

  • soap-like material found in cylinders

The Ancient Greece:

  • people cleaned themselves with sand and other substances
  • used a strigil – scraper made of
  • washed clothes in streams

Ancient Germany and Gaul:

  • used soap to colour their

Ancient Rome:

  • animal fat, ashes and clay mixed through action of rain, used for washing clothes
  • from about 312 BC, water carried to Roman by aqueducts

Europe in Middle Ages:

  • decline in bathing contributed to occurrence of
  • began to be added to soap

Europe from 17th century:

  • 1600s: cleanliness and bathing started becoming usual
  • 1791: Leblanc invented a way of making soda ash from
  • early 1800s: Chevreul turned soapmaking into a
  • from 1800s, there was no longer a on soap