Category: IELTS Listening

Cost Of Living

The audio given below has been taken from BBC 6 minutes English. You can download it, from the given link –
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Answer the following questions in NO MORE THAN FOUR WORDS.

1. Which expression is used to talk about the every day expenditure required for living?
2. Which expression refers to the fact that you manage your expenses so that you can fulfill your necessities?
3. What minimum amount should a person earn so that he/she can live a standard life in UK?
4. Which organization carried out the research to find out the money required to live a standard life?
5. Which expression is used when we say that we will think about something very carefully?
6. Was having internet regarded a luxury by the researchers?

ANSWER

1. cost of living
2. to budget
3. 13,400
4. Joseph Round-tree foundation
5. long and hard
6. Yes

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Cloud Types

The audio given below has been taken from BBC 6 minutes English. You can download it, from the given link –

Answer the following questions in NO MORE THAN FOUR WORDS

1. Which type of clouds indicate a good weather?
2. Gavin Pretor-Pinney has founded which company?
3. How many basic types of clouds are present?
4. What are the basic types of clouds called?
5. What are things or animals or plants having same characteristics called?
6. On what basis are cloud divided?
7. What is the person who studies the weather for living called?
8. Who named the first type of clouds?
9. Which kind of cloud signals bad weather?

ANSWER

1. cumulus
2. Cloud Appreciation Society
3. 10
4. genera
5. species
6. type, height, appearance
7. meteorlogist
8. Luke Howards\
9. nimbus

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Bee Keeping

The audio given below has been taken from BBC 6 minutes English. You can download it, from the given link –
http://goo.gl/0ciz1q

Answer the following questions in NO MORE THAN FOUR WORDS.

1. Which animal is said to be harmful to other animals or damage crops called?
2. What is the condition in which there is not enough land that provides natural conditions for species to thrive or survive called?
3. How many species of bees are present in UK?
4. By what percent has the honey bees fallen in the last two years in UK?
5. Which organization is encouraging people to buy plants that bee like?
6. Who is the Chief scientist of Natural England?
7. What are the creatures that carry pollen grains and help to fertilize plants called?
8. Bees are crucial pollinators for which commercial crop?
9. Where are bees kept to collect their honey?

ANSWER

1. pest
2. lack of habitat
3. 250 species
4. 10-15%
5. Natural England
6. Tom Tew
7. pollinators
8. oilseed rape
9. beehive

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