ielts listening practice test 2016 with answers

test two section one you will hear a new student Stefan talking to an assistant anna at the student union about his membership you now have 30 seconds to read questions 1 to 6 hi can I help you um yeah I hope so um this is the first time I've been down to the Union I'm a new international student and I just wondered what to do oh right well normally we ask international students to fill out this form and we put your details on the wall by reception then other students can contact you it's a way for everybody to get to know each other it can be a bit lonely otherwise oh hey sue what's your name I'm Anna by the way it's Stefan Unga okay well just write that there next to name and then fill in the rest all right um what does it mean degree program Oh just if you are an undergraduate or postgraduate or maybe you're just here for a short course I'm a postgraduate do I need to say what in and not really it's too much detail but you should put your department so people who have the same interests or problems as you can get in touch so I am studying marine construction so for Department do I put down the science faculty then just your actual department that must be engineering no oh I see yes then if you list what you like doing in your free time not that we ever get anyone we're studying and maybe you can meet up with someone socially also join a club or something well I like lots of things shall I just list them my advice is to just put one or two like football and films or whatever otherwise you'll get so many invitations you won't get any time to work okay I think I'll just list computer games as that's my big interest huh I haven't played football for ages I may start to play once I get settled now let's see next thing is languages yes we find many of the international students get a bit tired of speaking English all the time sometimes they'd like to speak to someone in their own language it's up to you that is a good idea I presume I don't need to put English down no no I put Italian and French hmm I can only speak German my mother tongue okay well that's fine just put that Oh what does accommodation mean is that my address we're trying to find similarities between people and some people live in Hall some are in flats some are in bed sits so it helps if you say I'm in Hall though I'd like to be in a flat but that won't happen to the end of the first term puts where you are now you can always change it later then finally just put your phone number I haven't really got one I haven't sorted out a mobile yet well it's going to be difficult for people to contact you then isn't it why don't you put the union one and we'll take messages for you okay it's Oh - 9 5 o 6 5 9 double O 3 have you got that oh yes ok then you now have 30 seconds to read questions 7 to 10 oh I had a couple more questions about the services you've got here it says there's a photocopier here yes you need to get a card from the shop and then it's available to all students in the mornings the Union uses it after 1 p.m. ok I see also the Union organizes loads of events are they always held here in the Union Building it looks big enough if you're interested in something you should check the poster or our website in fact we normally use the round theatre opposite the conference centre for most events because the sound system is better right I'll do that also I want you to hire a van can I do that for you no you need to present a case really they're not just available for hire to anyone the president said we have to limit who is allowed to hire them the person you need to see is the transport secretary she's on the second floor ok thanks the other thing is are all the discounts we get with our union card listed on the back of the card I thought there might be more no that's this I'm afraid mainly books clothes and music though we are currently negotiating to get one on newspapers so that should be valid from next term ok thanks a lot for your help test two section two you will hear a library assistant talking about the library she works in you now have 30 seconds to read questions 11 to 15 hi can I help you yes I wanted to join the library okay first of all let me show you around the library and explain a few things for you okay now we're here at the main entrance you can see the reception which is where you bring back and take out books and also we can order books and answer your questions there mm-hmm next to the reception where you can see those old desks is where we keep the magazines because you can sit down and read there they're divided into sections for sciences geography arts etc then at the back of the library you can see the section for old books and next to that is where the books proper start that used to be the science section but now on those shelves you'll find the art section and we had a big reorganization in the summer which I think has made it clearer the numbering is standard so you should be able to find what you want quite easily however if you can't find something it probably means it's been borrowed okay then in the corner next to the reference section is where we thought it was quietest and away from the phones and printers and things so we've put the study desks there they all have computer access if you need it for your laptop no we do ask that you don't just read magazines there though okay then there's the reference section where you can look up the files then as we come back to the main entrance is the next section where we used to have the languages it caught very busy and noisy so when we moved everything around we decided to put the law books here also because it's a smaller section it fits quite well here okay then we're back at the main entrance over there by reception there's a door that goes to the extension and we have further sections such as languages and study desks through there so you could have a look round when we've finished then just between reception and the door here is where we decided to put the computers but the computer magazines are in the magazine section as we found too many went missing here okay is that everything you now have 30 seconds to read questions 16 to 20 that's great thanks can you just tell me a bit about borrowing and the rules and whatever of course over the last two months we've been introducing a new system for this and you can now take books out for six weeks that's generally enough for most people we usually get books back within 30 days of course you may decide to renew the period you used to have to come in to get the books temped because we don't like doing it over the phone as there's no record of it but now you can do all that via email if you do forget to renew then we do make a charge I'm afraid that helps our costs of course but we do insist on it the good news is that there is only one charge I know some libraries charge one pound for one week and then it goes up with each week it's late we ask for one pound fifty as we think that's high enough to stop people being overdue the other thing you may want to know is what you do about books that are not on the shelves we do have a system for reserving them all you have to do is fill in a yellow form behind those blue ones on the desk and give it to someone at reception we'll let you know when it comes in also sometimes you'll need a journal article that we don't have but can get from other libraries so we offer an ordering service if you need it now if you'd like to fill in this for me test two section three you will hear two students Ram ill and Kirsten discussing presenting a paper at an architecture conference you now have 30 seconds to read questions 21 to 28 hi Kirsten have you heard about that architecture conference in Oxford at the end of the year yeah I saw the leaflet on the noticeboard as it's my final year I ought to try giving a paper but I've got no idea how to go about it I think you should go for it I did one last year it's quite straightforward first of all you need to see what the conference themes are you know what topics they are covering you can do that by looking it up on the website you need to submit a paper that falls into one of the categories they give you oh that may give me some ideas then while you're doing that you should also have a look at the information on how to submit your paper the rules if you like such as the length it's important you follow those I see and then I suppose the next stage is to start writing it up I'd like to use it as an opportunity to propose some future work but I understand it must be based on current work still there's plenty to choose from it makes sense to do something that I'm more familiar with yes and the other thing is when you've written it up then go back and look at your data carefully and make certain that you've presented it in a format that is standard for your subject remember people have to absorb information very quickly while they're listening don't make it too complicated okay well I reckon that'll take me about a month to get that sorted then the next thing I have to do I guess before I send it off to the conference organiser is give the whole thing to the events officer so that he can look through it and see if it all makes sense and is okay yeah remember to warn him that it's enroute so he can fit it into his schedule oh then you're done really all you have to do after that is to go through it and sort out any changes you need to make then finally you can submit it you can do that online you could then I just wait to hear I suppose how long does that take mmm it depends but usually about six weeks when you hear if your paper has been accepted then at that stage it's worth giving them a list of any technical things you need when you actually give the talk a screen or video players or that sort of thing okay but that's a long way off and I know that is my paper is accepted then a dad stage I have to give them a short text about myself and my academic background so that they can put it in the brochure famous at last yeah you now have 15 seconds to read questions 29 to 30 right well I've got to get a couple of things sorted if I'm going to get this paper completed have you got enough data possibly I'd like to reinforce some of it though so I thought I'd send out some more questionnaires I was looking at that thesis that Angela wrote last year and she said you need a sample of over a hundred to be sure of your results I think some of these years post graduates are doing some of the same stuff as you want buildings why don't you talk to them no I'll end up getting confused it would be more useful for me to actually go out to that site by the rail bridge to see how they're building the new factory home I managed to get hold of professor Barnett at London University and he said I should go out and take pictures I'm pretty busy but I'll have to make time anyway what about you what are you test two section four you will hear part of a lecture on the current and future use of mobile phones you now have 30 seconds to read questions 31 to 35 okay now today we're looking at changes in communication and specifically changes that have just happened or are likely to happen in the next few years key to this is the mobile phone which is increasingly being seen as an all-purpose system rather than just a phone if you only use your phone for texting and making calls now you will be amazed at how you'll be using it in the future the technology has been developed for a range of other uses for example phones could be used so that if you are meeting someone and they get lost you could send them a map of your location to help them this will save all those complicated explanations over the phone and our poor friends or colleagues trying to drive and find out where they are at the same time and if you get bored waiting or if you're traveling for example you will soon be able to see TV news on your phone as it is actually being broadcast this means that you won't have to miss any of your favorites if you are away for a few days most people have got used to texting now and young people send pictures to each other but what is exciting is the possibility of putting music with them before you send them and it's not all frivolous phones are going to become even more critical in business and education some recent developments have a highly practical usage so for example as lecturers we will be able to send everybody a text to let them know if lectures have been cancelled and the new phones could have a further use in education as well as business as they will enable us to go to any destination such as when we are doing a field trip for instance and from there to send data directly to a computer that we can access it when we get home this means we will no longer be limited by what the phone can store you now have 30 seconds to read questions 36 to 40 and it's interesting to look at the different ways that men and women use phones now as that does affect how the technology will develop some research has been done on how people use phones and some of the results are surprising one of the increasing usages of mobile phones is to get all sorts of data such as phone numbers the weather train times etc and while there's been an attempt to set up connections with things that women might be interested in accessing it is overwhelmingly men who do this but what about the traditional use of a phone to speak to people I suppose we would predict that it is mainly women who use phones as a method of contact for friends and family but in fact the genders exploit this facility equally I've spoken about the increased business usages that phones will offer and I suppose we would associate this usage with men the survey picked up though that women are often working from home or catching up with work in the evenings so they use phones in this way as much as men do most of us are aware we can store photos on our phones it's an ideal method of capturing a moment wherever you are women tend to be the group that keep photos on their phones but it seems that men use their phones to actually take pictures much more than women do and of course all this knowledge affects the marketing that the companies will do in order to sell

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Published: Fri Aug 05 2016