IELTS LISTENING – New staff at theatre S2T2

IELTS READING New Staff at Theater listening practice test has 10 questions belongs to the Knowledge & Entertainment subject.

Hi. Great to see you! I’m Jody, and I’ll be looking after both of you for the first month you’re working here at the Amersham Theatre. I’ll tell you something about the theatre now, then take you to meet two of the other staff.

It’s an old building, and it’s been modernised several times. In fact, as you can see, we’re carrying out a major refurbishment at the moment.

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The interior has just been repainted, and we’re about to start on the exterior of the building – that’ll be a big job. The work’s running over budget, so we’ve had to postpone installing an elevator. I hope you’re happy running up and down stairs! When the theatre was built, people were generally slimmer and shorter

than now, and the seats were very close together. We’ve replaced them with _Q11 larger seats, with more legroom. This means fewer seats in total, but we’ve taken the opportunity to install seats that can easily be moved, to create different acting spaces. We’ve also turned a few storerooms over to _Q12 other purposes, like using them for meetings.

We try hard to involve members of the public in the theatre. One way is by organising _Q13 backstage tours, so people can be shown round the building and learn how a theatre operates. These are proving very popular. What we’re finding is that people want to have lunch or a cup of coffee while they’re here, so we’re looking into the possibility of opening a cafe in due course. We have a _Q14 bookshop, which specialises in books about drama, and that attracts plenty of customers. Then there are two large rooms that will be decorated next month, and they’ll be available for hire, for conferences and private functions, such as parties. We’re also considering hiring out costumes to amateur drama clubs.

Now I want to tell you about our workshops. We recently started a programme of workshops that anyone can join. Eventually, we intend to run courses in acting, but we’re waiting until we’ve got the right people in place as trainers. That’s proving more difficult than we’d expected! There’s a big demand to learn about the technical side of putting on a production, and our _Q15 lighting workshop has already started, with great success. We’re going to start one on sound next month. A number of people have enquired about workshops on make-up, and that’s something we’re considering for the future. A surprise success is the workshop on _Q16 making puppets – we happen to have someone working here who does it as a hobby, and she offered to run a workshop. It was so popular we’re now running them every month!

Now, a word about the layout of the building. The auditorium, stage, and dressing rooms for the actors are all below ground level. Here on the ground floor, we have most of the rooms that the public doesn’t see. The majority are internal, so they have windows in the roof to light

Standing here in the foyer, you’re probably wondering why the _Q17 box office isn’t here, where the public would expect to find it. Well, you might have noticed it on your way in – although it’s part of this building, it’s next door, with a separate entrance from the road.

For the _Q18 theatre manager’s office, you go across the foyer and through the double doors, turn right, and it’s the room at the end of the corridor, with the door on the left.

The _Q19 lighting box is where the computerised stage lighting is operated, and it’s at the back of the building When you’re through the double doors, turn left, turn right at the water cooler, and right again at the end. It’s the second room along that corridor. The lighting box has a window into the auditorium, which of course is below us.

The _Q20 artistic director’s office is through the double doors, turn right, and it’s the first room you come to on the right-hand side. And finally, for the moment, the room where I’ll take you next – the relaxation room. So if you’d like to come with me …

 

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IELTS LISTENING – Ocean Biodiversity S1T4

IELTS LISTENING Ocean Biodiversity listening practice test has 10 questions belongs to the Science / Environment subject.

I’ve been looking at ocean biodiversity, that’s the diversity of species that live in the world’s oceans. About 20 years ago biologist developed the idea of what they called ‘biodiversity hotspots’.

These are the areas which have the greatest mixture of species, so one example is Madagascar. These hotspots are significant because they allowed us to locate key areas for focusing efforts at _Q31 conservation. Biologists can identify hotspots on land, fairly easily, but until recent, very knew if hotspots existed there.

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Then a Canadian biologist called Boris Worm did some research in 2005 on data on ocean species that he got from the fishing industry. Worm located five hotspots for large ocean predators like sharks, and looked at what they had in common. The main thing he’d expected to find was that they had very high concentration of _Q32 food, but to his surprise that was only true for four of the hotspots- the remaining hotspot was quite badly off in that regard. But what he did find was that in all cases, the water at the _Q33 surface of the ocean had relatively high temperatures, even when it was cool at greater depth, so this seemed to be a factor in supporting a diverse range of these large predators. However, this wasn’t enough on its own, because he also found that the water needed to have enough _Q34 oxygen in it- so these two factors seemed necessary to support the high metabolic rate of these large fish.

A couple of years later, in 2007, researcher called Lisa Ballance, who was working interested in was marine _Q35 mammals, things like seats. And she found three places in the oceans which were hotspots, and what these had in common was that these hotspots were all located at boundaries between ocean currents, an this seems to be the sort of place that has lots of plankton that some of these species feed on.

So now people who wanted to protect the species that are endangered need to get as much information as possible. For example, there’s an international project called the Census of Marine Life. They’ve been surveying oceans all over the world, including the Arctic. One thing they found there which stunned other researchers was that there were large numbers of species which live below the _Q36 ice – sometimes under a layer up to 20 meters thick. Some of these species had never seen before. They’ve even found species of octopus living in these conditions. And other scientists working on the same project, but researching very different habitats on the ocean floor, have found a large number of species congregating around volcanoes, attracted to them by the warmth and nutrients there.

However, biologists still don’t know how serious the threat to their survival is for each individual species. So a body called the Global Marine Species Assessment is now creating a list of endangered species on land, so they consider things like the size of the population- how many members of one species there are in a particular place- and then they look at their distribution in geographical terms, although this is quite difficult when you’re looking at fish, because they’ve so mobile, and then thirdly they calculate the rate at which the _Q37 decline of the species is happening.

So far only 1500 species have been assessed, but they want to increases this figure to 20,000. For each one, they assess they use the data they collect on that species to produce a _Q38 map showing its distribution. Ultimately they will be able to use these to figure out not only where most species are located but also where they are most threatened.

So finally, what can be done to retain the diversity of species in the world’s oceans? Firstly. we need to set up more reserves in our oceans, places where marine species are protected. We have some, but not enough. In additional, to preserve species such as leatherback turtles, which live out in the high seas but have their nesting sites on the American coast, we need to create corridors for _Q39 migration, so they can get from one area to another safely. As well as this action, needs to be taken to lower the level of fishing quotas to prevent overfishing of endangered species. And finally, there’s the problem of ‘by-catch’.This refers to the catching of unwanted fish by fishing boats used equipment which was more selective so that only the fishing wanted for _Q40 consumption were caught this problem could be overcome.

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IELTS LISTENING – UNIVERSITY LIFE S6T3

IELTS Listening UNIVERSITY LIFE listening practice test has 9 questions belongs to the Education / University Life subject.

Martina: Oh hi George. How’s it going?

George: Hi Martina. It’s going Well. How about you? How’s university life?

Martina: Well, it’s great. Apart from studying, of course.

George: Yeah, me too. What are you studying? I seem to remember that you were going to do art. That was your best subject, wasn’t it?

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Martina: No. No, really. I just liked the teacher. He was French and had an amazing accent. My favorite subject was _Q22 history, but I couldn’t see what career that would give me.

George: All right, So what did you choose?

Martina: Well, I found it really difficult to decide. I was really good at science, but I must admit, I never really enjoyed studying it. So in the end, I decided to opt for _Q21 English, which was my second favorite subject and I thought it would be more useful to me than studying anything else. So that’s what I’m doing. And how are you finding university?

George: Well, it’s a bit of a challenge, I suppose.

Martina: Are finding it difficult?

George: Well, some of it. I’m doing mechanical engineering, which is really interesting, but it covers quite a lot of areas like materials, science, machine design, physics, and, of course, mechanics. And they’re all fine. But it’s _Q23 maths that I’m struggling with. It’s a lot harder than it was at school.

Martina: I can believe it although it sounds very difficult to me, then I never was very good at mechanical things. I suppose it must involve some practical work.

George: Well, not at the moment. Currently, it’s nearly all _Q24 theory, so it’s a bit heavy going.

Martina: I guess you need to start with that so that you can get a grasp of the concepts to learn a few facts before you start putting it into practice. It must be a lot different to the course the time taking.

George: Yes, but in a few weeks will be having a lot more practical experience. In fact, I’ve got a great assignment this term working on _Q25 jet engines, which means I’ll be going on a few field trips to nearby airports.

Martina: Oh, that’s great. It sounds like you’re going to be very busy.

George: Yes, I’m not sure how I’m going to cope with the work. We have a lot of lectures on That’s fine. The lecturers a very knowledgeable on. I learn a lot from them. But we also have a lot of _Q26 seminars, and I find with so many people expressing their views, it can get quite frustrating. It would be better if we didn’t have so many of those.

Martina: Yes, it’s the same for me. And how are the students at your place?

George: Well, I haven’t really met anyone yet. They all seem a bit quiet.

Martina: Perhaps they’re working hard. They don’t appear to be very studious here, but they are _Q27 very friendly. I must say, I’ve been doing a lot of sitting around and chatting over the last week or so.

George: Well, that’s good. The only person I’ve spoken to really is my tutor. _Q28 He’s very approachable and seems to understand how difficult it can be starting university.

Martina: It’s good to have someone you can talk to and he may help you meet other students.

George: Actually, that doesn’t bother me. I’m bound to get to know some people sooner or later. It’s more a question of finding out what I need to do, where to go, and so on. I hope he can help me with that.

Martina: Oh, I would have thought so. Well, we certainly have a lot of work ahead of us. It seems like a long time, doesn’t it? Studying for three years.

George: Yes, it does, but I’m sure it’ll go quickly. You know, I’m really dreading the first assessment.

Martina: Yes, for the course I’m doing. _Q29 We have to hand our 1st one at the end of next month.

George: Really? So have you got the topic yet?

Martina: No, but we’ll get it soon. I’m not sure how much we have to write yet not too much I hope.

George: I know what you mean and it’s hard to study, especially where I am now.

Martina: Oh, were you living?

George: I’m living in a hall of residence. I thought that would be a good idea, as there’d be a lot of people around, but I’m finding it a bit noisy. I can see that I’m going to have problems when I really need to get down to some work.

Martina: So I guess you need to be somewhere on your own then.

George: Yes. Well, I do like to have some people around me, so _Q30 I’d prefer to live with a family somewhere in a house not too far from the university.

Martina: Well, good luck with that.

George: Yes. Thanks. Good luck to you as well. Oh, I have to dash now. I’ve another lecture in 10 minutes. Bye for now. Bye.

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