IELTS Listening Sample Questions # Lifts

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Answer the following questions in NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS.

  1. What are lifts called by Americans?
  2. Which country has the most lifts?
  3. What word has been used to refer to raise something?
  4. Who invented the first lift?
  5. For what cause were lifts used in the middle ages?
  6. Which word is used to describe the state of feeling strange or uneasy?
  7. How do lifts mark the 13th floor?
  8. What is the word used to define something that is done when people get stuck in a lift?
  9. What is the synonym of thinner?
  10. Which word can be used instead of improve?
  11. What word refers to the non-stop, pre-recorded and usually boring music?

ANSWER

  1. elevators
  2. Italy
  3. elevate
  4. Archimedes
  5. military purpose
  6. awkwardness
  7. 12 A
  8. elevator pitch
  9. slimmer
  10. enhance
  11. Muzak

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