IELTS Cambridge 15 — Listening Test 3

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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 1 (North London)

Responsibilities

  • data entry
  • go to 2 and take notes
  • general admin
  • management of 3

Requirements

  • good computer skills including spreadsheets
  • good interpersonal skills
  • attention to 4

Experience

  • need a minimum of 5 of experience of teleconferencing

Second Job

Warehouse assistant in South London

Responsibilities

  • stock management
  • managing 6

Requirements

  • ability to work with numbers
  • good computer skills
  • very organised and 7
  • good communication skills
  • used to working in a 8
  • able to cope with items that are 9

Need experience of

  • driving in London
  • warehouse work
  • 10 service

Part 2

Questions 11-16

Choose the correct letter, A, B or C.

Street Play Scheme

11 When did the Street Play Scheme first take place?
A
B
C
12 How often is Beechwood Road closed to traffic now?
A
B
C
13 Who is responsible for closing the road?
A
B
C
14 Residents who want to use their cars
A
B
C
15 Alice says that Street Play Schemes are most needed in
A
B
C
16 What has been the reaction of residents who are not parents?
A
B
C

Questions 17 and 18

Choose TWO letters, A-E.

17 18 Which TWO benefits for children does Alice think are the most important? (choose 2)
A
B
C
D
E

Questions 19 and 20

Choose TWO letters, A-E.

19 20 Which TWO results of the King Street experiment surprised Alice? (choose 2)
A
B
C
D
E

Part 3

Questions 21-26

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

What Hazel should analyse about items in newspapers:

  • what 21 the item is on
  • the 22 of the item, including the headline
  • any 23 accompanying the item
  • the 24 of the item, e.g. what's made prominent
  • the writer's main 25
  • the 26 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 31

Ancient Babylon:

  • soap-like material found in 32 cylinders

Ancient Greece:

  • people cleaned themselves with sand and other substances
  • used a strigil — scraper made of 33
  • washed clothes in streams

Ancient Germany and Gaul:

  • used soap to colour their 34

Ancient Rome:

  • animal fat, ashes and clay mixed through action of rain, used for washing clothes
  • from about 312 BC, water carried to Roman 35 by aqueducts

Europe in Middle Ages:

  • decline in bathing contributed to occurrence of 36
  • 37 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 38
  • early 1800s: Chevreul turned soapmaking into a 39
  • from 1800s, there was no longer a 40 on soap