Solution for: CBT GT Listening Test 11: Short Stay Accommodation
Answer Table
1.Sylvia
2.England
3.26th of July|26th July|July 26th|26 July|July 26
4.Two|2
5.holiday|on holiday
6.apartment
7.secure
8.the motorway|motorway|the M1|M1|motorway access
9.Palm Beach
10.1500|1,500
11.B
12.A
13.A
14.C
15.Tramping
16.Walking|Walks
17.Organizer|organiser
18.Variable
19.Mystery
20.Chairman
21.ED 995|ED995
22.Document
23.socio-economic structures|socioeconomic structures|Socia-economic Structures
24.Impact
25.Written review
26.Seminar
27.Tower
28.2008
29.Brown
30.Knowledge Policy
31.Attacks
32.illness|disease
33.Active
34.Defence|immune system|defence system|defense|defense system
35.Blood
36.infected cows
37.experiment
38.F
39.A
40.C
Exam Review
Section 1 - Short Stay Accommodation (Questions 1-10)
Questions 1-10
Complete the form below.
Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER for each answer.
Questions 1-10
Complete the form below.
Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER for each answer.
| Example Family Name: | Answer Mackinlay |
| First Name: | 1 .................... |
| Country of Origin: | 2 .................... |
| Date of Arrival: | 3 .................... |
| Number of Tenants: | 4 .................... |
| Length of Stay: | 2 weeks |
| Purpose of Visit: | 5 .................... |
| Type of Accommodation: | 6 .................... |
| Number of Bedrooms: | one or two |
| Car Parking: | off-street and 7 .................... |
| General Area: | near the beach |
| Other Requirements: | near 8 .................... |
| Name of Town: | 9 .................... |
| Client's Email: | [email protected] |
| Price Range: | up to $10 .................... a week |
1
Short Answer
1. First Name: ______
Answer: Sylvia
Explanation: The client confirms her first name and spells it S-Y-L-V-I-A. The question asks for her first name, so Mackinlay, her family name in the example, is not the answer.
2
Short Answer
2. Country of Origin: ______
Answer: England
Explanation: When the agent asks which country she lives in, Sylvia says it is England. This supplies the country needed in the form.
3
Short Answer
3. Date of Arrival: ______
Answer: 26th of July|26th July|July 26th|26 July|July 26
Explanation: Sylvia first says July 26th and then repeats the 26th of July after the agent mishears it as the 25th. Use the corrected arrival date, 26 July, rather than the public-holiday date mentioned by the agent.
4
Short Answer
4. Number of Tenants: ______
Answer: Two|2
Explanation: Sylvia says that only her sister and she will be staying. Her sister plus Sylvia makes two tenants; two and 2 are both accepted.
5
Short Answer
5. Purpose of Visit: ______
Answer: holiday|on holiday
Explanation: The agent asks whether the visit is for business, and Sylvia replies that it is just a holiday. Their purpose is therefore a holiday, not work.
6
Short Answer
6. Type of Accommodation: ______
Answer: apartment
Explanation: The agent offers a house, a duplex or an apartment. After asking what a duplex is, Sylvia decides that an apartment will suit them.
7
Short Answer
7. Car Parking: off-street and ______
Answer: secure
Explanation: Sylvia says the hire car must not be parked on the street and must be secure. Off-street is already printed, so the missing requirement is secure.
8
Short Answer
8. Other Requirements: near ______
Answer: the motorway|motorway|the M1|M1|motorway access
Explanation: They want reasonable access to the motorway so they can drive to Brisbane to visit friends. Shops, the casino, fun parks and a swimming pool are suggestions they do not need. The agent later identifies this motorway as the M1.
9
Short Answer
9. Name of Town: ______
Answer: Palm Beach
Explanation: Mermaid Waters initially appeals to Sylvia, but the agent says the M1 is closest to Palm Beach and prices are more reasonable there. Sylvia then confirms Palm Beach as the final choice.
10
Short Answer
10. Price Range: up to $______ a week
Answer: 1500|1,500
Explanation: Sylvia first suggests $1,200 per week. The agent asks whether she can increase that to $1,500, and she agrees that this will be their top limit. Record the final agreed maximum, 1500.
Section 2 - Active Outdoor Club (Questions 11-20)
Questions 11-14
Choose the correct letter, A, B or C.
Questions 15-20
Complete the table below.
Write NO MORE THAN ONE WORD AND/OR A NUMBER for each answer.
Questions 11-14
Choose the correct letter, A, B or C.
Questions 15-20
Complete the table below.
Write NO MORE THAN ONE WORD AND/OR A NUMBER for each answer.
| Activity | Day(s) | Duration | Contact Person |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 .................... | Tuesday & Saturday | about 3-5 hours | coordinator |
| 16 .................... | Thursday & Sunday | up to 3 hours | 17 .................... |
| Wanderers | Sunday | 18 .................... | leader |
| 19 .................... Weekends | Saturday & Sunday | all weekend | 20 .................... |
11
IELTS A/B/C Choice Style
Question 11. 11. Refreshments will be served
Answer: B
Explanation: The speaker says there will be tea and coffee in the lobby afterwards. The table at the back of the hall is for pamphlets, and the front counter is for purchases, so the correct place for refreshments is B, in the lobby.
12
IELTS A/B/C Choice Style
Question 12. 12. Nick Noble advertised
Answer: A
Explanation: Nick considered a newspaper advertisement and a billboard, but decided on the radio to reach the most people. The question asks which method he used, so A is correct.
13
IELTS A/B/C Choice Style
Question 13. 13. The original number of founding members was about
Answer: A
Explanation: The club began with a dozen or so friends and enthusiasts. A dozen means twelve, so A is correct. Two hundred refers to membership twenty years ago, not the founding group.
14
IELTS A/B/C Choice Style
Question 14. 14. The club provides activities primarily for reasonably fit
Answer: C
Explanation: The club caters for both genders and all levels of maturity, provided members have the health and fitness to participate. The examples range from a five-year-old to a seventy-five-year-old, so C, males and females of any age, best matches the talk.
15
Short Answer
15. Activity on Tuesday & Saturday, about 3-5 hours; contact: coordinator: ______
Answer: Tramping
Explanation: The speaker introduces tramping and says it is arranged for Tuesdays and Saturdays throughout the year. Its usual duration is three to five hours, matching this row of the table.
16
Short Answer
16. Activity on Thursday & Sunday, up to 3 hours: ______
Answer: Walking|Walks
Explanation: Walking takes place every Thursday and Sunday and the walks last no more than three hours. Both walking and walks identify the activity in this row.
17
Short Answer
17. Contact person for walking: ______
Answer: Organizer|organiser
Explanation: For walking, members must get in touch with the walking organiser to confirm participation. Coordinator refers to tramping and leader to the Wanderers. British organiser and American organizer are accepted.
18
Short Answer
18. Wanderers: Sunday; duration: ______
Answer: Variable
Explanation: The speaker explicitly says the length of the Wanderers activities is variable, although they are always home before dark. There is no fixed number of hours for this row.
19
Short Answer
19. ______ Weekends: Saturday & Sunday; duration: all weekend
Answer: Mystery
Explanation: The weekends away are called Mystery Weekends. Weekends is already printed in the table, so only the one word Mystery is needed.
20
Short Answer
20. Contact person for Mystery Weekends: ______
Answer: Chairman
Explanation: For more information about Mystery Weekends, listeners are told to call the chairman of the committee. His phone number is in the newsletter; the job title required in the table is chairman.
Section 3 - Globalisation and Educational Change (Questions 21-30)
Questions 21-26
Complete the notes below.
Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS for each answer.
Questions 27-30
Complete the table below.
Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER for each answer.
Questions 21-26
Complete the notes below.
Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS for each answer.
“Globalisation and Educational Change”
GEC 692New Code: 21 ....................- Aims - Analysis of educational problems arising from globalisation
- Chance to research and 22 .................... progress of educational change
- Investigate influence of culture and 23 .................... on education
- Argue advantages and disadvantages of reorganisation of public education in own country with regard to globalisation
- Consider the 24 .................... of globalisation on diversity of national curricula across richer and poorer countries
- Assignment #1 = power point presentation (ungraded) + 25 .................... (30%)
- Assignment #2 = take part in 26 .................... (20%) + essay (50%)
Questions 27-30
Complete the table below.
Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER for each answer.
| Author | Title | Date |
|---|---|---|
| 27 .................... | Comparative Education | 2007 |
| Elliot | Educational Issues of the New Millennium | 28 .................... |
| 29 .................... | Education and Globalisation | 2009 |
| York | Globalisation and 30 .................... | 2010 |
21
Short Answer
21. Globalisation and Educational Change - New Code: ______
Answer: ED 995|ED995
Explanation: GEC 692 is the existing course code. The adviser says all the codes will change next semester and that this paper will become ED 995. The question asks for the new code.
22
Short Answer
22. Chance to research and ______ progress of educational change
Answer: Document
Explanation: The adviser says the course offers the opportunity not just to explore but also to document the advancement of new educational developments. The verb document completes the note after research and.
23
Short Answer
23. Investigate influence of culture and ______ on education
Answer: socio-economic structures|socioeconomic structures|Socia-economic Structures
Explanation: The adviser refers to cultural values and socio-economic structures as influences on education. Culture is already in the note, leaving socio-economic structures. Your supplied key spells this Socia-economic Structures; the standard spelling is socio-economic structures. Both the supplied spelling and the corrected spelling are retained as accepted variants.
24
Short Answer
24. Consider the ______ of globalisation on diversity of national curricula across richer and poorer countries
Answer: Impact
Explanation: The next objective is to explore the impact of internationalisation on curriculum diversity in developing and developed countries. Impact is the noun that completes the note about the effect of globalisation.
25
Short Answer
25. Assignment #1 = power point presentation (ungraded) + ______ (30%)
Answer: Written review
Explanation: The presentation is formative and is not graded. Its feedback helps students finalise the written review of five academic articles, which is the assessed work for the first assignment, worth 30%.
26
Short Answer
26. Assignment #2 = take part in ______ (20%) + essay (50%)
Answer: Seminar
Explanation: The adviser says twenty marks are for participation in a seminar and fifty marks are for a 5,000-word essay. Seminar therefore fills the 20% component.
27
Short Answer
27. Author of Comparative Education (2007): ______
Answer: Tower
Explanation: The adviser recommends starting with Comparative Education and spells the author's name T-O-W-E-R. Tower belongs in the Author column; 2007 is already given as the date.
28
Short Answer
28. Date of Elliot's Educational Issues of the New Millennium: ______
Answer: 2008
Explanation: The adviser specifies the 2008 edition, not the original 1998 edition, because the later version has extensive revisions and new material. The date to enter is therefore 2008.
29
Short Answer
29. Author of Education and Globalisation (2009): ______
Answer: Brown
Explanation: The adviser names Brown's Education and Globalisation, published in 2009. Other books by Brown are mentioned, but this is the recommended title in the table.
30
Short Answer
30. York: Globalisation and ______ (2010)
Answer: Knowledge Policy
Explanation: The adviser recommends Globalisation and Knowledge Policy by York, published in 2010. Globalisation and is already printed, so the missing two-word part of the title is Knowledge Policy.
Section 4 - Immunity and Immunisation (Questions 31-40)
Questions 31-37
Complete the summary below.
Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS for each answer.
Questions 38-40
Complete the diagram below.
Choose your answers from the box below and write the letters A-F next to questions 38-40.
Questions 31-37
Complete the summary below.
Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS for each answer.
Every day the human body is fighting off 31 .................... by destructive pathogens. A person in good health has natural protection in the form of an immune system which works best against familiar micro-organisms which may have been encountered during a previous 32 .................... or passed on by the mother before or after birth.
Vaccination is a way to cause 33 .................... immunisation by introducing a small amount of pathogen into the body - just enough for the body's 34 .................... to react by making antibodies. Passive immunisation can be used as a way of treating someone who is already sick. Proteins from animal 35 .................... are introduced into the patient to give him the necessary antibodies to fight the disease.
Dr. Edward Jenner observed that people who had suffered and recovered from a serious disease called smallpox did not get it again. He also noted that victims of a milder disease, cowpox, which they caught from 36 ...................., were immune to smallpox. He carried out a successful 37 .................... by deliberately giving a child cowpox in order to make him immune to smallpox.
Questions 38-40
Complete the diagram below.
Choose your answers from the box below and write the letters A-F next to questions 38-40.
| Letter | Option |
|---|---|
| A | antibody |
| B | agglutination |
| C | antigen |
| D | germs |
| E | plasma |
| F | B-lymphocyte |
31
Short Answer
31. Every day the human body is fighting off ______ by destructive pathogens.
Answer: Attacks
Explanation: The lecturer says the body has to ward off attacks by harmful bacteria and viruses every day. Fighting off paraphrases ward off, leaving the plural noun attacks as the answer.
32
Short Answer
32. Familiar micro-organisms may have been encountered during a previous ______.
Answer: illness|disease
Explanation: The recording explains that natural active immunity can follow suffering and recovering from an illness. This explains previous contact with the micro-organism; illness or disease completes the summary.
33
Short Answer
33. Vaccination is a way to cause ______ immunisation.
Answer: Active
Explanation: The lecturer calls vaccination a form of active immunisation used as a preventative measure. The patient's own body responds by making antibodies, so active is the missing word.
34
Short Answer
34. Enough for the body's ______ to react by making antibodies.
Answer: Defence|immune system|defence system|defense|defense system
Explanation: The recording says the body's defence system recognises the threat and responds by forming antibodies. Defence and immune system are the supplied accepted answers; defence system and the American spelling defense are also included.
35
Short Answer
35. Proteins from animal ______ are introduced into the patient.
Answer: Blood
Explanation: In the explanation of passive immunisation, the proteins are usually taken from the blood of animals. The source material required after animal is therefore blood.
36
Short Answer
36. Cowpox was caught from ______.
Answer: infected cows
Explanation: The lecturer says people who were in contact with infected cows became ill with cowpox symptoms. The summary asks where the people caught cowpox, so infected cows supplies the two-word answer.
37
Short Answer
37. Jenner carried out a successful ______ by deliberately giving a child cowpox.
Answer: experiment
Explanation: The recording describes Jenner conducting an experiment in which he gave a child material from a cowpox pustule and later tested the child's immunity. The noun completing carried out a successful is experiment.
38
IELTS Box Matching A-H
38. Label the large structure at the upper left of the diagram.
- A antibody
- B agglutination
- C antigen
- D germs
- E plasma
- F B-lymphocyte
Answer: F
Explanation: The recording states that antibodies are made by white blood cells called B-lymphocytes. In the diagram, the large cell at the upper left produces the Y-shaped structures, so the matching label is F, B-lymphocyte.
39
IELTS Box Matching A-H
39. Label the group of Y-shaped structures at the upper right of the diagram.
- A antibody
- B agglutination
- C antigen
- D germs
- E plasma
- F B-lymphocyte
Answer: A
Explanation: The lecturer describes antibodies as Y-shaped. These are the structures produced by the B-lymphocyte at the top of the diagram, so choose A, antibody.
40
IELTS Box Matching A-H
40. Label the small dark structures at the lower left of the diagram.
- A antibody
- B agglutination
- C antigen
- D germs
- E plasma
- F B-lymphocyte
Answer: C
Explanation: The lower-left shapes bind to matching antibodies in the antigen-antibody reaction shown at the lower right. They are antigens, so the correct letter is C. Agglutination is the later clumping of pairs, rather than the label for these individual shapes.
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