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IELTS Listening Sample Question # Keeping Quiet

Keeping Quiet

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

Answer the following questions in NO MORE THAN FOUR WORDS

  1. What according to the speaker comes to us as we gain more knowledge and experience in life?
  2. Who said “Life is like an onion: you peel it off one layer at a time and
    sometimes you weep.”
  3. What is the ability of a person to do things and without offending and upsetting people?
  4. What according to Vanessa is the key to success in work and romance?
  5. Which phrase is used to tell someone to keep quiet?
  6. What is the synonym of wise man?

Keeping Quiet
ANSWER

  1. wisdom
  2. Carl Sandburg –
  3. diplomacy
  4. Silence
  5. to keep schtum
  6. sage

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IELTS Listening Sample Questions # Hills And Mountains

Hills And Mountains

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

Answer the following questions in NO MORE THAN FOUR WORDS

  1. Which place has the world’s highest hill?
  2. What is Great Britain’s official mapping agency called?
  3. What is the Welsh word for mountain?
  4. What is the official height for a mountain?
  5. How high was the Wales mountain than the official mountain?
  6. Who was the actor in “The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill, But Came Down a Mountain”?
  7. Which phrase is used to refer to “piles of soil”?
  8. What is the person with the official job of drawing maps called?

hills and mountains
ANSWER

  1. Oklohama
  2. Ordnance Survey
  3. Mynydd
  4. two thousand feet
  5. six inches
  6. Hugh Grant
  7. mounds of earth
  8. cartographer

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IELTS Listening Sample Question # Dancing Into Old

Dancing Into Old

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


Answer the following questions in NO MORE THAN FOUR WORDS.

  1. What does it mean to be more accepting and tolerant about growing age?
  2. Which classic ballet did John Lowe picked to give his performance in Ely?
  3. How old was John Lowe during his performance?
  4. In which dance type do the dancer marks the rhythm by dancing shoes on floor?
  5. Which phrase is used to describe an event that started because of an action in the past and is still in continuity?
  6. Which phrase is used to describe “allowing oneself to become less healthy or attractive?”
  7. According to John, what is a sure shot way to remain fit irrespective of age?
  8. Which word does John uses explain why British men don’t take ballet dancing?

Dancing Into Old
ANSWER

  1. To grow old gracefully
  2. The Stone Flower
  3. Almost 80
  4. Tap
  5. Ever since
  6. To let themselves go
  7. Ballet dancing
  8. Effeminate

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IELTS Sample Listening Question # Nuclear Script

Nuclear Script

The audio given below has been taken from BBC 6 minutes English. You can download it, from the given link –
http://goo.gl/3dhV4A

Answer the following questions in NO MORE THAN FOUR WORDS.

  1. Which is the place where the records of Britain history are kept?
  2. When were British National Archives started?
  3. In which year did British people felt that there are chances for a nuclear attack?
  4. With which company did the British company collaborate during cold war to write a script?
  5. What is a document that used to be secret, but now is made public called?
  6. Which word is used to talk about the number of people killed or injured during war?
  7. Using which jargon does the speaker tells that the people were told to remain in the same frequency of radio?
  8. For which period of time did the BBC and the government decided entry to be made in the secret script?
  9. What is the synonym of destroyed?

Nuclear Script
ANSWER

  1. National Archives
  2. 820 years ago
  3. 1970
  4. BBC
  5. declassified
  6. causalities
  7. stay tuned
  8. 1972 to 1975
  9. obliterated

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