IELTS Listening Practice Test 108
4 parts · 40 questions · about 33 minutes of audio. Below are all the questions. Take the test in your free dashboard to play the recordings, answer as you listen, and get your band score with the transcript of every answer.
Part 1: Questions 1–10
You will hear a podcast interview with a control-room operator about his work.
Questions 1–4
Answer the questions below.
Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer.
Questions 5–10
Complete the form below.
Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS for each answer.
Control-Room Operator Profile
Core Responsibilities
- Maintain contact with the station and flight vehicles
- Relay equipment: in geosynchronous communication
Other duties
- Oversee the control-room and infrastructure
Power Incident
- Emergency supply included batteries and -fuelled generators
- Station module: no for roughly thirty minutes
- Simulation disruption: simulator building lacked
Part 2: Questions 11–20
You will hear a radio report about the annual word-of-the-year selections made by dictionary publishers.
Questions 11–15
What does the speaker say about each item? Choose the correct letter, A–H, next to Questions 11–15.
- A It helped identify a possible asteroid threat.
- B It may generate text resembling human writing but containing errors.
- C It was used to create a female news presenter.
- D It recorded a surge in lookups concerning truth and imitation.
- E It was named by a British publisher as the year’s representative term.
- F It selected a term denoting inaccurate output in AI contexts.
- G It applies the technology to generate new car designs.
- H It facilitated the release of a musical work.
Questions 16–20
Complete the sentences below.
Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER for each answer.
Part 3: Questions 21–30
You will hear a radio discussion between a host and a climate specialist about preparing communities for environmental change.
Questions 21–26
Choose the correct letter, A, B or C.
Questions 27–28
Choose TWO letters, A–E.
Questions 29–30
Choose TWO letters, A–E.
Part 4: Questions 31–40
You will hear a talk about a platform used for testing materials in a demanding environment.
Questions 31–40
Complete the notes below.
Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER for each answer.
Material Testing Notes
Program Objectives
- Assess the exhibited by materials and devices
Early Exposure Missions
- Exposure periods lasting between one and full years
Directional Effects
- The of a surface significantly alters its environmental exposure
- Ram-facing surfaces are exposed to elevated
- All surfaces are subjected to charged particles along with
Monitoring and Equipment
- Sensors monitor temperature, , as well as sunlight levels
- Sample carriers feature two sides linked via a
Deployment and Installation
- Trays are transferred outside via the Kibo module's
- Carriers are positioned using the station's
Location Description
- The facility is situated near the framework on the station
About this listening test
| Part | Recording | Questions | Question types |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Managing Control-Room Communications | 1–10 | Short-answer questions, Form completion |
| 2 | Choosing Annual Words | 11–20 | Matching features, Sentence completion |
| 3 | Preparing for Environmental Change | 21–30 | Multiple choice, Multiple choice (choose more than one) |
| 4 | Material Testing in Extreme Conditions | 31–40 | Note completion |
How to use it
- Open the test in your dashboard. Each part has its own track with the spoken instructions and the time to read the questions, as in the real exam.
- For exam practice, play each part once at 1× speed. To train your ear, slow it down or replay sections.
- Select words in a question to highlight the keywords you are listening for.
- After submitting, use “Show in transcript” to see exactly where each answer was said.
Audio sources
The recordings are real, copyright-free audio. The questions are written by Sprechify, and the spoken instructions use a synthetic voice.
- Part 1: Can You Hear Me Now? (NASA Houston We Have a Podcast). NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston We Have a Podcast (NASA audio is generally not subject to copyright in the US)
- Part 2: AI, Hallucinate, Authentic or Rizz for Word of the Year. VOA Learning English (learningenglish.voanews.com), public domain
- Part 3: Preparing for Climate-Related Impacts (NOAA Diving Deeper podcast). NOAA National Ocean Service, Diving Deeper podcast (work of the US federal government, public domain)
- Part 4: ISS Results: Materials Science (NASA Houston We Have a Podcast). NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston We Have a Podcast (NASA audio is generally not subject to copyright in the US)