IELTS Listening Practice | Test 82 | Mobile phone Version | Special Edition

Timely Answers and Explanations, Obvious Questions, Clear Voice, Easy Seeking, Mobile Phone Orientation.

Answers:
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[00:00] Introduction
[00:46] Part 1, Questions 1–10
[02:11] 1 28th
[02:32] 2 550
[02:50] 3 Chervil
[03:19] 4 garage
[03:31] 5 garden
[03:51] 6 parking
[05:22] 7 wood
[05:47] 8 bridge
[05:57] 9 monument
[06:19] 10 March
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[07:12] Part 2, Questions 11–20
[08:25] 11 C (but a significant number of people complained about the increasing number of heavy vehicles using our local roads to avoid traffic elsewhere)
[08:55] 12 A (we're going to add a bit on the side to make it wider)
[09:30] 13 B (the highways department have told us that it would be dangerous to have a pedestrian crossing)
[09:50] 14 B (we've now got signs up requesting them not to leave their engines running at that time)
[11:34] 15 C (we're suggesting a new car park on the opposite side of the community hall right next to it)
[11:41] 16 F (we also have a new location for the cricket pitch... to the east of the recreation ground beyond the trees we plan to move it away from its current location... new area beyond the line of trees)
[12:04] 17 A (we've got plans for a children's playground which will be accessible by a footpath from the community hall and will be alongside the river)
[12:19] 18 I (the skateboard ramp is very popular... in the southeast corner near the road)
[12:33] 19 E (the pavilion is very well used... it will stay where it is now to the left of the line of trees and near to the river)
[12:49] 20 H (new notice board for local information and that will be directly on people's right as they go from the road into the recreation ground)
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[13:37] Part 3, Questions 21–30
** 21&22 IN EITHER ORDER: B, C
[15:07] 21 C (I mean doesn't the impact of reduced emissions on air pollution...)
[15:19] 22 B (and also helped to cut the number of cars on the road significantly)
** 23&24 IN EITHER ORDER: B, C
[15:54] 23 B (like a fully functional app so people can make payments and book bikes easily)
[16:36] 24 C (what does matter though is having a big publicity campaign... definitely)
[17:54] 25 C (it's strange that there was such a demand for bike sharing because you'd have thought most people would have used their own bikes)
[18:12] 26 F (there's no underground but there are trams and a good bus network...)
[18:39] 27 D (it isn't expanding quickly enough... basically not enough 's been spent on increasing the number of cycle lanes... hopefully that'll change)
[18:56] 28 E (they built a huge network of cycle lanes... an example of good planning... absolutely)
[19:15] 29 B (it was more than 10 times the price of most other schemes... more than it costs to take a taxi crazy)
[19:34] 30 A (I can't quite work out why it hasn't been an instant success like some of the others... it's a shame really...)
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[20:26] Part 4, Questions 31–40
[22:25] 31 spice(s)
[22:45] 32 colony / settlement
[23:17] 33 fat
[23:52] 34 head
[24:31] 35 movement
[24:59] 36 balance / balancing
[25:23] 37 brain
[25:45] 38 smell
[27:01] 39 rats
[27:49] 40 forest
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[28:33] Answers
[29:40] The end
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* Correct answers to band score:
39-40: 9.0
37-38: 8.5
35-36: 8.0
32-34: 7.5
30-31: 7.0
26-29: 6.5
23-25: 6.0
18-22: 5.5
16-17: 5.0
13-15: 4.5
11-12: 4.0
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