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IELTS Listening Sample Question # Staycation

Staycation

The audio given below has been taken from BBC 6 minutes English. You can download it, from the given link – http://goo.gl/hJp1qL


Answer the following questions in NO MORE THAN FOUR WORDS.

  1. Which word is used as a combination of staying and vacation?
  2. Which country is at the top location for British people to go on vacation?
  3. Which word is used to refer to something that makes you feel more free and be able to do what you like?
  4. Which phrase best describes combination of things that don’t make sense together?
  5. How does the speaker express the situation when you can relax and not worry about anything?

Complete the following sentences in NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS.

    1. To ___________ means, to cancel out the effect of something.
    2. Looking forward to something means _______________
    3. The term used to refer to something that is done over and over again is ____________

Staycation
ANSWER

  1. Staycation
  2. Turkey
  3. Liberating
  4. Contradiction in terms
  5. peace of mind
  1. negate
  2. anticipation
  3. Groundhog day

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IELTS Listening Sample Question # Astronaut

Could You Be An Astronaut ?

The audio given below has been taken from BBC 6 minutes English. You can download it, from the given link –
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02pc9tn/episodes/downloads

Answer the following questions in NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS.

  1. What was the dream job of Rob, as a child?
  2. What does “being in space” means?
  3. How many people have reached space, till now?
  4. How many people have joined NASA’s 2017 Astronaut class?
  5. What is the fear of being in small space called?
  6. What does it mean to “get on someone’s nerve”?
  7. Situation, when gravity does not exerts any force is called?
  8. Where do Astronauts practice their spacewalk?
  9. Name the film is which the astronaut is left behind in Mars.

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ANSWERS

  1. Be an astronaut
  2. Being in orbit
  3. Less than 600
  4. More than 18300
  5. Claustrophobia
  6. To annoy
  7. Zero gravity
  8. Swimming pool
  9. The martian

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IELTS Sample Listening Questions # Boredom

BOREDOM

Given below is a audio from BBC 6 minutes English .
Listen to the audio and answer questions 1-11.
Write the answers in the answer sheet.

Questions 1-11

Complete the sentences below in no more than three words.

  1. (1)__________ is a reaction given by someone when they are bored.
  2. While yawning, one open (2)__________, takes some (3)_____  and slowly out.
  3. (4)_____________ is the word when one is unable to sit and gets bored easily.
  4. The longest dramatic play was held in (5)____________, US, in (6)_________.
  5. The feeling we need to deal with in a better way,according to the speaker is (7)______
  6. To stave off means to keep an (8) _________
  7. Stuck in a rut means (9)____________.
  8. The good thing about boredom is that it spurs people on to (10)______________

ANSWER

  1. Yawn
  2. the mouth wide
  3. air in
  4. Restless
  5. New jersey
  6. 1210
  7. boredom
  8. unpleasant feeling away
  9. become too fixed
  10. change something

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IELTS Listening Sample Questions # Anger

Given below is an audio from BBC 6 minutes English. Listen to the audio and answer the following questions.

  1. In a BBC survey, what made British people most angry?
    1. Someone jumping the queue
    2. Delayed in public transport
    3. Being kept in hold by call centre
  2. What was the thing that made Jennifer angry?
    1. Delayed public transport
    2. The passengers who push and pull
    3. Late comers
  3. What makes Rob angry?
    1. Rude shopkeepers
    2. Rude people
    3. The passengers who push and pull
  4. Using which example was it stated that earlier people used to get angry at only big issues?
    1. Hunger
    2. Thirst
    3. Rudeness
  5. According to the research, talked about in the audio, what is the reason for our increased anger?
    1. Internet
    2. Technology
    3. Modern life
  6. What is the word used for the feeling that we get when we are stopped from doing what we want to do?
    1. Anger
    2. Frustration
    3. Sadness
  7. What is meant by ‘red mist’?
    1. A feeling of anger that stops us from understanding things.
    2. A feeling of anger that makes us do things.
    3. A feeling of anger that causes health issues.
  8. The best way to reduce anger, according to Jennifer are ?
    1. give some more time for activities.
    2. do less things
    3. Both A and B

ANSWER

  1. C
  2. B
  3. B
  4. A
  5. C
  6. B
  7. A
  8. C

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