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IELTS Listening Sample Questions # Risk

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Answer the following questions in NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS

1. Which word means that you have a strong and unreasonable fear of something?
2. What word is used to refer to the chances of something bad happening?
3. What are the odds of being knocked off your bicycle and killed during a one-mile journey ?
4. Which phase has been used to refer to the fact that there is a very little chance of something happening?
5. What phrase is used to refer to the things in which we react emotionally?
6. What is the event that causes a huge amount of damage and suffering called?
7. What word is used to refer to something that lasts for a long time?
8. What is  a person with a parachute who leaps from tall buildings or cliffs called?

ANSWERS

1. phobia
2. risk
3. 1 in 14 million
4. small probability
5. gut reaction
6. catastrophic
7. chronic
8. base jumper

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IELTS Listening Sample Questions # Future Furniture

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Sample Questions about Future Furniture

Answer the following questions in NO MORE THAN FOUR WORDS

1. Which word describes the situation when you can use things together?
2. What phrase has been used to refer to something that has the newest ideas and features?
3. Which word is used by Neil to talk about something that is out-dated?
4. What word refers to the technology that will be part of the furniture?
5. In which technology do the mobile phones work using radio waves to send and receive data?
6. What do modern phone batteries contain?
7. Which word is used to refer to the things that a phone can do?
8. What term is used to refer to a battery that cannot be taken out and replaced?
9. What is a unit that cannot be opened called?

ANSWERS

1. compatible
2. state of the art
3. dinosaur
4. built in
5. wireless technology
6. lithium
7. functionality
8. user-replaceable
9. sealed unit

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Answer the following questions in NO MORE THAN FOUR WORDS.

1. What does it mean when something is on rage?
2. Which phrase is used to describe the fact that you are joining other people in doing something that has become popular?
3. What’s the name for someone who loves beards?
4. Which word describes the situation when you get a advantage because of certain condition or circumstance?
5. Lucinda Hawksley is the grand daughter of which famous writer?
6. What is the word that describes something that is eye-catching and different?
7. What is the women’s struggle to achieve the same right as men called?
8. What is the short for women liberation?
9. What is the male main harmone called?
10. Name the kind of skin cancer?
11. What is the phrase used when you want to join something or be part of something right away?
12. What are the campaigns that invite men to get hairy for good causes?

ANSWER

1. very fashionable
2. get on a bandwagon
3. pogonophile
4. competitive advantage
5. Charles Dickens
6. flamboyant
7. feminism
8. women lib
9. testosterone
10. Melanoma
11. get go
12. Movember, Decembeard

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FUTURE CITIES

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Answer the following question in NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS

1. Name the computer game about city building?
2. What is the percentage of world’s population that will be living in cities in 2050?
3. Which term is used for an imaginary place where everything is perfect?
4. Which term is used to refer to the way a city spread into an underdeveloped land around it?
5. Which word is used to describe poor communities where houses are built of cheap materials?
6. What is used to refer to the basic facilities a town or city needs?
7. Which organization are John Rossant founder and chairman of?
8. Which term is used to refer to something that is present everywhere?
9. Which term is used to refer to something that can significantly affect the way things are?
10. What percent of world’s population lives in cities in the present?

ANSWERS

1. SimCity
2. 70%
3. Utopia
4. Urban Sprawl
5. Shanty towns
6. Infrastructure
7. New Cities Foundation
8. Ubiquitous
9. Game changer
10. 54%

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