IELTS Beat Listening Practice Test 6

Hilary Lodge Retirement Home

Activities programme involving volunteers

Monday evenings: computer training

• Training needed in how to products 1. Fill in the blank 1 of 10

Tuesday afternoons: singing

• The home has a 2. Fill in the blank 2 of 10 and someone to play it

Thursday mornings: growing 3. Fill in the blank 3 of 10

• The home doesn’t have many 4. Fill in the blank 4 of 10 for gardening

Once a month: meeting for volunteers and staff

Interview

• Go in on 5. Fill in the blank 5 of 10 , any time
• Interview with assistant called 6. Fill in the blank 6 of 10
• Address of home: 73 7. Fill in the blank 7 of 10 Road

Open house’ days

• Agreed to help on 8. Fill in the blank 8 of 10
• Will show visitors where to 9. Fill in the blank 9 of 10

Possibility of talking to a 10. Fill in the blank 10 of 10 reporter

New staff responsibilities

Stewart’s work placement: benefits to the Central Museum Association

• his understanding of the Association’s 28. Fill in the blank 1 of 3
• the reduction in expense
• increased co-operation between 29. Fill in the blank 2 of 3
• continuous 30. Fill in the blank 3 of 3 which led to a better product
• ideas for distribution of the film

New Caledonian crows and the use of tools

Examples of animals using tools

• some chimpanzees use stones to break nuts
• Betty (New Caledonian crow) made a 31. Fill in the blank 1 of 10 out of wire to move a bucket of food
• Barney (New Caledonian crow) used sticks to find food

New Zealand and Oxford experiment

• three stages: crows needed to move a 32. Fill in the blank 2 of 10 in order to reach a short stick; then use the short stick to reach a long stick; then use the long stick to reach food

Oxford research

• crows used sticks to investigate whether there was any 33. Fill in the blank 3 of 10 from an object
• research was inspired by seeing crows using tools on a piece of cloth to investigate a spider design
• Barney used a stick to investigate a snake made of 34. Fill in the blank 4 of 10
• Pierre used a stick to investigate a 35. Fill in the blank 5 of 10
• Corbeau used a stick to investigate a metal toad
• the crows only used sticks for the first contract

Conclusions of above research

• ability to plan provides interesting evidence of the bird’s cognition
• unclear whether this is evidence of the birds’ 36. Fill in the blank 6 of 10

Exeter and Oxford research in New Caledonia

• scientists have attached very small cameras to birds’ 37. Fill in the blank 7 of 10
• food in the form of beetle larvae provides plenty of 38. Fill in the blank 8 of 10 for the birds
• larvae’s specific 39. Fill in the blank 9 of 10 composition can be identified in birds that feed on them
• scientists will analyse what the birds include in their 40. Fill in the blank 10 of 10