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IELTS Listening Sample Questions Dieting
The audio given below has been taken from BBC 6 minutes English. You can download it, from the given link –
http://goo.gl/aNzsZj

Answer the following questions in NO MORE THAN FOUR WORDS.

1. What would someone eat if they were on a low-carb diet?
2. Which food group is considered to release lot of energy?
3. What kind of food is salad?
4. Which liquid can be part of detox diet?

ANSWER

1. less pasta
2. carbohydrate
3. roughage
4. water

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Moon Landing

The audio given below has been taken from BBC 6 minutes English. You can download it, from the given link –
http://goo.gl/1ofKus

Answer the following questions in NO MORE THAN FOUR WORDS

1. In which month did the first man landed on moon?
2. Which year did the first man landed on moon?
3. What is the man landing on moon called?
4. How many people in total have walked on moon?
5. Which word is used to describe something that is very important?
6. What genre of books talk about future in science especially one which involves space travel?
7. Who is the person who gets a training to travel in space?
8. Name an astronaut.
9. Which word is used when you want to tell that you saw some crime happening.
10. How many countries watched the moment when man landed on moon?

ANSWER

1. 12
2. July
3. 1969
4. Lunar landing
5. pivotal
6. science fiction
7. Astronaut
8. Neil Armstrong
9. witness
10. 49

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Tanning

The audio given below has been taken from BBC 6 minutes English. You can download it, from the given link –
http://goo.gl/x2a2p5

Answer the following questions in NO MORE THAN FOUR WORDS.

1. What is the practice of making one’s skin brown called?
2. Name the machine which produces same light as sunlight.
3. Which designer made it fashionable to have tanned skin?
4. What are the hats which provide a lot of shade called?
5. Which term is used to refer to someone who really likes sun bathing?
6. Name the body cream which dyes your skin brown?
7. What are the ways people create false tans?
8. Which phrase is used to refer to something that is fashionable?
9. What is the chair on which one lies down to take a sunbathe called?
10. Which word refers to the practice of greasing a meat while cooking it?

ANSWER

1. tanning
2. Sunbed
3. Coco Chanel
4. wide brimmed hats
5. sun worshipper
6. Fake tan
7. makeup,foundation, fake tan
8. in vogue
9. sun lounger
10. bastes

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Barbie’s 50th Anniversary

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

http://goo.gl/1FbC9M

Answer the following questions in NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS

1. Which toy is been called as the cultural icon?
2. Which year did Barbie first sent out to sale?
3. What is the sale of Barbie in present time?
4. How is Richard Dixon associated with Barbie?
5. How much countries is Barbie sold in?
6. Which term is used to refer to a product made by a company and sold all over the world?
7. What would be the measurements of Barbie if she was a real person?
8. What are the two synonyms of average?
9. Which word is used to define a idea that is fixed and often people are not ready to change?
10. Which word describes the idea of a person or thing that a person hold?
11. Which word is used to explain “to show”?
12. Which word is used in negative sense to talk about someone who is very thin?
13. Which expression is often used to tell that someone is very cautious about what the person is thinking about?

ANSWER

1. Barbie
2. 1959
3. 3 per second
4. Senior Vice President
5. 150
6. global brand
7. 36-18-38
8. typical or usual
9. stereotype
10. Image
11. portray
12. skinny
13. politically correct

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