IELTS 9 Test 1 keys for LISTENING

SECTION 1

01. answer(ing) (the) phone

02. Hillsdunne Road

03. library

04. 4.45

05. national holidays

06. after 11 (o'clock)

07. clear voice

08. think quickly

09. 22 October

10. Manuja

SECTION 2

11. branch - Well, most of you probably know Sports World - the branch of a Danish sports goods company that opened a few years ago.

12. west - It's going to be in the shoping center to the west of Bradcaster.

13. clothing - The first three floors have a huge range of sports clothing

14. 10 - If they haven't got exactly what you want in stock they promise to get it for you in ten days.

15. running - They cover all majoer sports, including football, tennis and swimming, but they particulerly focus on running.

16. bags - As well as that, a whole section of the third floor is devoted to sports bags.

17. A - he will be staying around until about midday

18. A - the first person to get all the questions correct gets a year's free membership of the Bradcaster Gym.

19 & 20 (IN EITHER ORDER)

      A - This wwould mornally cost 30 pound but is available at half price for this month only.

      E - There are only a limited number of places avalable for this, so to make a booking phone 560341.

SECTION 3

21. B - I did quite a good job because my overall style was quite professional.

22. C - They didn't worry about their presentation style or keeping eye contact with their audience.

23. B - I didn't feel any real sense of satisfaction.

24. A - I am not so pleased with my actual performance right now in the tutorials

25. C - Also, they are very familiar with each other, so because they don't know each other's habits, they can let each other into the discussion.

26. B - But recently, I've been trying to speak up more and I just jump in.

27. A - At first I couldn't understand what the lecturers ware talking about, so I had to turn to the books and journals.

28. B - My reading speed is quite low, though I'm much better at dealing with vocablary than I used to be.

29. C - I wanted to concentrate on my own field, but we didn't read anything about engineering.

30. B - I would have flet much better working on reading from my own field.

SECTION 4

31. tide/tides - Unfortunately, this type of event is a frequant occurrence in some of the locations that you'll be travelling to, where sometimes the tide goes out suddenly, confusing the animals.

32. hearing/ear/ears - Since merine animals rely heavily on their hearing to navigate, this type of infestation has the potential to be very harmful.

33. IN EITHER ORDER, BOTH REQUIRED FOR ONE MARK

      plants

      animals/fish/fishes

 - Many toxins, as I'm sure you're aware, originate from plants, or animals

34. feeding - examination of the animals' stomach content reveal that most had not been feeding as they stranded.

35. noise/noises - Noises such as those caused by military exercises are of particular and have been pinpointed as the cause of some strandings of late.

36. healthy - For one, all the stranded animals were healthy.

37. group

38. social - This is a particularly interesting theory since the whales that to be most social - the toothed whales - are the group that strand the most frequently.

39. leader - Examination of the dead animals reveal that apart from the leader, all the others had been healthy at the time of their death.

40. network/networks - I recommend John Connor's Marine Mammals Ashore as an excellent starting point if you're interested in finding out more about these networks.

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