IELTS 5.

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ANSWER KEYS READING

Unit 4: Food and drink

1. a comparison between
2. a prediction about
3. a description of
4. a reference to
5. an example of

Exercise 2:

1. a suggestion
2. a reason for
3. a description
4. details of

Exercise 3:

Exercise 4:

1. C 3. C 5. B

2. A 4. B 6. C

Exercise 5:
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Exercise 6:

Exercise 7:

1. diesel power

2 12 per cent/ 12%

3 size and efficiency

4&5 trees/ buildings (in either order)

6 computer modelling

Exercise 8:

1. in a community/ in the community 5. reference books

2. a specific time 6. a special room/ a separate room

3. taxes 7. special interests

4. children and adult

Exercise 9:

1. divided 3. archaeologists

2. criminals 4. excavating
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Exercise 10:

1. F 2. C 3. A 4. B 5. D

Listening transcript:

Announcer: You will hear two students, John and Denise, talking about a future trip to a Museum of
Transport.

John: Hi, Denise. Are you looking forward to our field trip to the Museum of Transport tomorrow?

Denise: Yes, absolutely. I haven’t been there for ages.

John: Well, I think they’ve added some new buildings in the last few years, and they’ve increased the
number of exhibitions. Like, there’s a new section on space travel.

Denise: Great. That’ll be interesting, I expect. Now, what activity did our tutor say we had to complete
when we arrived at the Information Centre at the museum?

John: Well, we’ve already got our timetables for the whole visit, so we don’t need to pick those up.

Denise: Oh, I remember – we’re supposed to introduce ourselves to someone from the museum – the
person who’s going to show us around the museum later on and talk to us about some of the exhibits.

John: You’re right. That’s it. OK, well, we’d better do that first. Oh, and I saw on the website that
they’ve got a great room full of maps, too. I’d like to see that if we have time.

Denise: OK, so what other activities do we have to complete?

John: Well, we have to visit the Space Travel building, right?

Denise: Yes, I’m looking forward to seeing some of the engine designs. I saw a great documentary on TV
recently about how engine design has really progressed over the last 30 years and it really got me
interested.

John: Hm, OK, that sounds cool. Anyway, I think that what we have to do is pick up a worksheet from
the tour guide and answer a lot of questions about the different engines and the space missions they were
used for.

Denise: Yes, so there’ll be quite a bit of information we need to look for in that building. We’ll have to
allow ourselves enough time to read it all.

John: OK, maybe we should do that first, then.

Denise: And then there’s the Trains and Travel room.

John: Yes, what do we need to do there?

Denise: Well, I think that on a Tuesday – that’s the day we’re going – some people who used to work as
engineers for the railway line come and spend a few hours at the museum talking to people. So I think the
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idea is that we prepare a list of questions for them and talk to them and find out about their lives and the
job they used to do.

John: That’s great. Do you think we'll be allowed to film them? The engineers, I mean? I could record
them on my phone and we could listen to it later – maybe even play it back to the class!

Denise: That's a good idea, but I don't know if we can do that. I'll email the museum later and try to find
out.

John: Would you? That’d be great, Denise, thanks. I’m sure we’ll hear some pretty interesting stories
about ‘the old days’ from them.

Denise: Yes, and how things have changed. Now, what about the Central Hall. What’s the activity there?

John: Let me see. I made some notes when the tutor was talking to us about it. OK, here it is. There’s a
large screen somewhere in the hall that the museum’s got to show a short documentary about the way the
city started off in the 19th century – how it was built by the first people who came to live here.

Denise: OK, great. Let’s make sure we watch that when there’s not too many people around – I want to
make sure I can hear it properly.

John: Alright. And there’s another location that the tutor said was part of the tour. The ‘Going Second
Class’ room.

Denise: What can we see in that room?

John: Well, I had a look on the website. It’s part of an exhibition about travelling by ship – when people
went on really long voyages and they were at sea for weeks, sometimes even months.

Denise: So I suppose that ‘Going Second Class’ is about the people who bought the cheaper tickets?

John: That’s right. If you were rich, you could have a nice room all to yourself on the ship. But for many
passengers, they all slept in the same space full of lots of beds.

Denise: And lots of noise!

John: So, in the ‘Going Second Class’ room, I think they’ve made it look exactly like the area where
those people had to sleep – and there’s a lot of headphones in there, and you can use them to listen to
people talking about their memories of travelling like this.

Denise: I guess we should take some notes, then. We might be able to use them for our assignment next
week.

John: Good idea. OK, is there anything else …?

Exercise 11:

1. E: a, D: b, c

2. E: b, D: a
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3. E: b, D: a

Exercise 12:

1 C (take building design and planning, for example. It’s obviously not going to be taken off the
curriculum any time soon)

2 B (we’ll probably only need 80 percent of the doctors that we have today)

3 B (while we’ll still need programmers, there won’t be anything like the number of opportunities that
there are today)

4 C (Neither art nor fashion design are going to disappear for many years to come.)

5 A (Soon enough, there’ll be enough creative writing courses available online that nobody will be
willing to attend university for it anymore.)

Listening transcript:
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Exercise 13:

1 B (people who work in jobs where they need to have lots of new ideas)

2 C (had fewer problems with depression or generally just feeling down)

3 C (The main difference between homes and offices is that homes often contain personal objects such as
plants)

4 A (light from the sun or daylight, helped people to get more and better rest at night than those who were
working in an office without windows)

5 B (Soft lighting has been found to encourage people to come up with more solutions …)

Listening transcript:
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Exercise 14:

16F 17A 18C 19D 20E

Before we have some refreshments, I’d like to draw your attention to some of the video commentaries on
the winning exhibit which have been left by members of the public, and which are very moving … and
some very funny. I particularly liked seeing the recording of the reaction of several people when they
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talked about an early wooden-framed TV from their childhood. They remembered their first TV, which
they thought still fitted in with today’s trends.

They remembered how they would sometimes all go round to someone’s house to watch TV as a special
treat. But they thought the modern TV screen with the remote was much easier to watch.

As for the collection of old radios, it has to be seen. They are really huge old wooden-framed radios in
perfect working order and in perfect condition. Some teenagers’ reactions to the radios were very funny;
they couldn’t believe how big they were. And the older visitors, all of whom used to have one, said they
liked them. But they also thought they were too big to fit into living rooms these days.

A few more items worth looking at from the display are old kitchen items. Young people thought the
cooker from the 1950s looked funny alongside the latest microwaves.

Nearly all interviewees who were aged 65 and over used microwave ovens, which they thought were
much handier. Seeing old typewriters on display next to slim laptops made them look weird and
cumbersome. All those who were 65 and over preferred the laptops, which they thought were thrilling.
The other electronic items on display were a collection of old and fairly recent cameras. They also
thought the older cameras were ‘well made, and better than the newer ones’.

I’d like to thank you all for coming and please give a round of applause for all the entrants to the
competition.

Exercise 15:

37. C 38. A 39. B 40. A

Lecturer:
Stratford-upon-Avon welcomes in visitors from all over the world. The town is a particularly popular
destination for tourists from the USA as well as for tourists from all around Europe. The town’s William
Shakespeare heritage is what most people come for as many buildings that would have been familiar to
the poet and playwright have been perfectly preserved from the sixteenth century to the present.

Many visitors like to take in a performance of a Shakespeare play while they are in Stratford and luckily
for them, the town is home to the Royal Shakespeare Company. The company has three venues in
Stratford: The Royal Shakespeare Theatre and the Swan Theatre, both of which share a building on
Waterside; and The Other Place which is a short walk away on Southern Lane. In Shakespeare’s day, the
public would have been able to see his plays at The Globe which was found a considerable distance away
on the banks of the River Thames in London. In Shakespeare’s time Stratford would have been lacking in
theaters or other places for entertainment as it was only a small market town.

The most popular place for tourists in Stratford is Henley Street located in the heart of the old town and
home to the house Shakespeare was born in. The house remains little changed from Shakespeare’s time
and is a fascinating glimpse into England’s past and the early life of the country’s most famous
playwright. Visiting this house will see you following in the footsteps of not only Shakespeare, but other
well-known writers such as Charles Dickens, John Keats, and Thomas Hardy.
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Another extremely popular tourist destination is the house which belonged to the family of Anne
Hathaway. A short way from the town, this is the cottage in which Shakespeare’s wife grew up and
where he almost certainly spent time courting Hathaway before they were married when Shakespeare was
only eighteen years old. Many say it is the most romantic cottage in England. The house remained in the
possession of relatives of Hathaway until the late nineteenth century when it became a museum.

Just a short walk from where he was born is the final resting place of William Shakespeare. When he died
he in 1616 he was buried in the Holy Trinity Church. It is a place of pilgrimage for most fans of
Shakespeare, but if visiting it must be remembered that it still functions as a place of worship and so
visitors must be respectful. The grave of William Shakespeare is in the church although some people have
suggested that it should be moved far away to Westminster Abbey, where many of England’s most
notable people are buried.