Free IELTS Listening Practice Test

We have prepared a full IELTS Listening practice test (same as the real exam) with an audio player, answers and audio transcript that you can take for free to test your listening skills.

Use the following steps to complete your IELTS Listening test:

1. Grab a pencil and paper
2. Start the audio player (tracks play automatically)
3. Complete the test within 40 minutes (30 minutes for listening and 10 minutes for transferring your answers to your answer sheet)
4. Check your answers and find out your listening score (see the listening test answers and listening score at the end of the page)

• Section 1
• Section 2
• Section 3
• Section 4

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IELTS Listening Practice Test

Section 1

Complete the table below.

Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER for each answer.

City Bank Customer Service Log

Customer's Term Deposit details:

Current Term Deposit interest rates:

4 Term Deposits

Minimum deposit: $20,000

Complete the table below.

Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER for each answer.

Section 2

Choose the correct letter, A, B or C.

11 The September Celebration day is held

A five times a year to honour the city

B on the park’s important birthday

C to remember the history of the park

12 The park was first built in

13 The park still uses

A a children’s play area

B a petting zoo

C two of the early rides

14 The Hurricane roller-coaster is

A tall and made of wood

B designed for smaller children

C very fast and exciting

15 The rides with a height limit are coded

Complete the notes below.

Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS for each answer.

• Italian, Chinese, etc. at the Food Court
• hamburgers, sandwiches, etc. at 16

• Starts at noon
• On the 17
• Run by final year high school students

• At the amphitheatre
• Theme: 18
• Starts at 7:00

Safety and Security:

• Ten 19 centres in the park
• Children ask any staff member for help
• Ask security team at the 20

Section 3

Complete the flowchart below.

Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS for each answer.

Project topic: design a water treatment system

Step 1: go over 21

Step 2: think about research 22

• search online databases using good search terms
• consider the kind of research, e.g. 23 from other projects

Step 3: develop an 24

Complete the summary below.

Write NO MORE THAN ONE WORD for each answer.

You need to design a grey-water treatment system to reduce the pressure on the water 25 in a Cameroon village. Grey-water is wastewater from household 26 . The system needs to treat this water to remove bacteria, and recycle it to use for purposes such as watering plants, flushing toilets and doing 27 .

Complete the notes below.

Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS for each answer.

General internet searches:

Avoid websites where 28 try to sell their products.

Use key words when searching the catalogue
e.g. grey-water treatment systems / 29 use

Check examples from the 30 last year.

Section 4

Complete the summary below.

Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS for each answer.

Origins of the Caveman Diet

There are many popular fad diets nowadays. They all promise good health if you stick to the 31 . The Caveman diet is a popular example. This diet includes foods such as lean meat and fish that our forebears ate before we developed 32 . We need to find out what our ancestors did eat, so researchers are studying some existing hunter-gatherer tribes. These tribes typically like to eat meat but they can’t always get it, even though they are skilled with their weapons, e.g. 33 and . So, instead, they eat foods that their wives gather. They get only about a 34 of their energy from meat.

Choose the correct letter, A, B or C.

35 Research evidence suggests that

A the tribesmen’s traditional diet is unhealthy

B our bodies can digest only certain foods

C we can adapt to a range of diets.

36 Thai people have difficulty digesting milk because

A they have too much lactase in their bodies

B in the past they didn’t farm cows

C their saliva lacks certain enzymes.

Complete the notes below.

Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS for each answer.

Variation in global diets:

• Inuit – most calories from 37 foods, e.g. seal meat
• Jains – vegetarian, but milk is permitted
• Others – fish, insects

Implications for the caveman diet:

• Cavemen did not all eat the same diet
• Diets come from complicated cultural 38

Problems with Caveman diet:

• Costs a lot of money for lean meat and 39
• Too much red meat may be unhealthy
• Reliance on meat is bad for the 40

Listening Answer Key

SECTION 1

1. Marshall
2. 180 days
3. 3.85 (%)
4. Monthly Interest / monthly interest
5. maximum
6. income bracket
7. 120,000 / 120000
8. no fees
9. quarterly
10. (by) phone

SECTION 2

1. C
2. B
3. B
4. A
5. C
6. food stands
7. Main Street / St. / main street / st.
8. Hollywood
9. first-aid / first aid / First Aid
10. guard stations

SECTION 3

1. task instructions
2. strategies
3. case studies
4. action plan
5. supply
6. drains
7. laundry
8. manufacturers
9. residential
10. competition

SECTION 4

1. plan
2. agriculture
3. bows, arrows [in either order]
4. third / 3rd
5. C
6. B
7. high fat / high-fat
8. (dietary) practices
9. nut oils
10. environment

IELTS Listening Score

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