ielts listening practice test 2016 with answers Real Test

test one section one you will hear a new student tom talking to a student representative called rachel about university clubs you now have 30 seconds to read questions 1 to 4 hi welcome to freshers week I'm Rachel can I help you oh hi yes um I was hoping to find out about some clubs I could join well all the club stands are here in this hall what were you interested in um not sure I wanted to do something where I could meet people well take this leaflet with details of all the clubs and see what you think it'll probably depend on what day you're free like on Mondays there's the film Club then on Tuesdays you've got the climbing Club that's really good I'm in that then on Wednesdays you've got chess if you want something a bit more intellectual but you should look through carefully because all the clubs run extra activities as well as their normal meetings oh yes I see so it looks like the film Club has discussions after the films I'd quite like to go to those then climbing goodness it says here that the university has its own climbing wall that's impressive and they go on weekend trips and cool and it says the Chess Club normally just does games with whoever turns up but it also runs competitions sometimes but I bet you've got to be pretty good to do that yes I think so and how many people are in the cops are they all really full well obviously they're all different so for example the film club has just increased its membership from 85 to 125 but I think they're hoping to extend it to 150 the climbing club's quite small 40 people and the Chess Club is fairly healthy at 55 right okay so who do I see if I want to join these clubs well if you go round the stands and speak to the people there for the film club that's the events organiser um for climbing your need the club secretary and the Chess Club is organized by one of the maths tutors okay yep I think I'll start with the climbing club it sounds good oh well as I said I'm in that so I might be able to help you a bit you now have 30 seconds to read questions five to ten okay it says in the leaflet that they get together twice a month is that right yes oh you must join it's really good fun we go away quite a bit some North Wales and every year we have a special excursion usually to France which is where we're going this year in the spring the weather's too unpredictable in the autumn wow that sounds good but it must cost a lot yeah but we try and save up for it through subscriptions so rather than having a huge sum to pay in the month we go we collect those weekly so it spreads it out good idea I think I'll definitely join there are quite good benefits you get from joining I mean you need that don't you and the University clubs normally try and do deals with local businesses so it's really worth joining like in the climbing club they've got a special arrangement with one of the shops in town so if you show your card you can get money off equipment don't think the discount extends to clothes though that's really worth it then I'll go over and talk to them now okay hope you do join oh and another thing I meant to say if you do become a member you automatically receive a magazine once a year it's quite useful and interesting because it goes out to all the national climbing clubs and the other thing is if you come to every session then you can get a complimentary ticket to the big exhibition that's held in Cardiff every year so I hope to see you yeah well thanks a lot for your help test one section two you will hear an accommodation officer telling students about different halls of residence you now have 30 seconds to read questions 11 to 15 a good afternoon and welcome to Staunton University I'm here to tell you about the various halls of residence we have available should you choose to come here we aim to offer accommodation in halls to all first-year students and you'll find there's a good variety to choose from first of all there's Brown Hall which as you'll see is not the most modern of buildings but it is very popular with some students it's got a good sense of community some nice refurbished kitchens and unlike the other halls it has recently had a gym built in its basement another option is Blake residence which is built like a large house and so everybody cooks and eats together it has its own sectioned off bit of private garden and is even more peaceful because this is an all-girls residence although of course boys are allowed to visit the hall and I understand frequently take part in cooking dinner the largest hall we have is Queens building and this has been upgraded recently the original parking area has been built on so that the whole now has a large common room and each bedroom now has its own shower room which many students regard as a real bonus a further option is the Parkway flats which won an award for design in its day and this building now has a preservation order on it this is meant that only a limited amount could be done to upgrade it and the surrounding area is important so parking is not permitted around the flat however the flats do have many extra facilities such as a special computer room a small library and a self-service restaurant the cost of breakfast lunch and dinner is covered in the fees for this whole so it does look it more expensive the last residence we can offer you is temple rise which again is slightly more expensive than other holes as the rooms are larger this has got very lovely views across to the coast and this more than compensates for the fact that bathrooms here are shared between six students however the hall has domestic staff who clean the rooms once a week so this is perhaps an attractive option for the messier amongst you you now have 30 seconds to read questions 16 to 20 now if I can just show on this wall map here where they all are you might like to go and have a look round if you come into the main university entrance at the first Junction you'll find that Brown Hall is on the corner opposite the theatre so you're nice and near the station here though I think it can get a bit noisy with traffic the same applies to Blake residence which is directly facing the junction to the university entrance these holes are often used by medical students and suchlike as they're out all day so don't notice the noise anyway if you then walk along campus Road towards the main circle you'll see the library on the corner and Queen's building is just past that as you head north you will find that it is quieter here and you may get fewer visitors by the way the circle is quite a feature of the campus as its set into the hills and has a brand-new sport center in the middle it's worth going to look around it now the Parkway flats are on the opposite corner to the library facing the circle as you head towards the main buildings the main buildings are only about a five-minute walk from here and places in these halls go quickly so my advice is to reserve your place as soon as possible then temple rise is inside the circle next to the Sports Centre but further from the main university buildings now if you'd like to go off and physically test 1 section 3 you will hear two students Jenna and Marco discussing a Business Studies project they have to do you now have 15 seconds to read questions 21 to 24 come on Marco we've got to get on and sort out this project for professor Buckley hang on I want to make sure we've got all the information now where are we well today we need to sort out exactly what we're going to do and how we're going to divide the work up okay how long have we got by the way um the end of term is April 6 and he said to hand it in on week 8 so that's March 25th at the latest because the beginning of that week is the 21st so not long right have you got the notes there yes he wants us to do a fairly small scale study like the last one on whether or not businesses were offering more benefits to staff and we've now got to look at the rise in older workers it should be fairly straightforward yeah as long as we keep it small who's mocking it I don't know sometimes he gets the PhD students to market for him Oh actually it just says here a senior lecturer I suppose it's too much for professor Buckley to do them all yeah anyway how are we going to go about this well we have to decide how big we want it to be and yeah but I think we must sort out a timetable for the project otherwise nothing will get done okay do you want to do that all right I'll do it as soon as we finish here you now have 15 seconds to read questions 25 to 27 okay what do we have to do now for the project what's the best way to go about it um well professor Carter suggested we set up a focus group to get some in-depth interviews but I think that'll take a lot of time yeah I agree if we did a focus group we'd have to spend time deciding who to include in it and it's not necessary to do one anyway Oh fine and if you agree I think we should get in touch with the businesses on the list professor Carter gave us and asked them if they're prepared to participate sounds good and then we can go there give them questionnaires and collect them later exactly okay then do we need to book one of those study rooms in the library so we can work together to input the data and perhaps not as I guess just one of us could just sort it out actually yes that would be easier a lot of what we're doing is qualitative so it'll be writing up rather than statistics no software for that I'm afraid and I think it would look better if we had actual shots of some of the stuff because we're citing appearance as a factor in employability aren't we yeah okay I'll factor that all in when I stored everything out tonight you now have 30 seconds to read questions 28 to 30 I'm glad we decided to work together I think it's going to work out well yes well given that we had to work in pairs on this project I think we were right to choose each other we complement each other academically as we're each good at what the other isn't in fact we should have tried working together before yes now how shall we split the work I'll do the analysis shall I oh okay it's just that it might be faster because I'm used to doing it although your English is better than mine I need more practice at reading really okay I'll do the presentation then if that's okay with you yeah sure I don't mind speaking in public but I hate preparing all the notes for them if thing is the tutor said one person should do the whole presentation and he said he expects me to do it because I haven't done one yet no that's fine now let's see test one section four you will hear a Media Studies tutor giving a lecture about news sources you now have 30 seconds to read questions 31 to 35 okay and now many of you will have heard about the predicted death of newspapers as people increasingly access the TV and the internet for their nose today I want to look at the USA which has very advanced news sources to see if this is actually true in the USA the main news sources without doubt are TV the Internet and the press that is traditional newspapers and although they are each surviving and growing they are also changing obviously TV news has been around for a while and the early evening bulletins when people get in from work are very popular I suppose we traditionally think of the morning newspaper arriving on our doorstep with the Daily News interestingly this is not borne out by the statistics which show that readership in the US is much higher when people have time to relax when they're not working especially on Sundays the Internet is also a popular weekend activity but shows no variation with weekday access so people are using the different sources in different ways interestingly local radio has been hit less by the grip of quite strong local newspapers than by the Internet which is seen to offer a better regional service but just because the Internet is seen as the new force in news media does not mean it is dominant the television has of course been global for a while but now technological changes which have fueled the rise of online news have also allowed newspapers to print and distribute editions across the world in fact internet news which is seen as the big competitor for traditional markets does not offer that much variety often the sources are the online versions of the newspapers whereas television in order to offer something different has had to come up with a much more mixed bag of reporting from hard news to light reports on celebrity events another issue is reliability the internet is virtually unregulated so anything can be reported there whether true or not journalists or newspapers have fought a long hard battle to fight intervention and to retain the freedom of the press television however is seen as critical to political power and has become subject to harsh controls about what it can or cannot say you now have 30 seconds to read questions 36 to 40 now one very critical factor in keeping newspapers alive and well in the USA has been their approach to advertising obviously newspapers are heavily dependent on advertising revenue and they have become more and more imaginative in what they offer in order to make sure that advertisers use them and not other news sources this is meant that contrary to popular belief newspapers now have a significantly higher profit margin than the rest of American industry so how have they managed to raise advertising revenue in this way well it may have put a lot of effort into developing and maintaining a very strong association with the retail trade and they've come up with a winner a critical tool in their sales plan has been suggesting that the adverts they run can have vouchers this has been enormous ly effective because they have found that not only do more people buy the paper to get the discounts but also that this inevitably means much higher sales for the clients who advertised as well as doing this the newspapers have also introduced aggressive sales campaigns over the last few years this has resulted in a significant and continuing rise in the number of advertisers prepared to pay the extra for full-page ads so what I would like to move on

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Published: Wed Aug 03 2016