IELTS Listening Practice Test 156
4 parts · 40 questions · about 32 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 conversation between a host and an engineer about protective clothing for extreme environments.
Questions 1–10
Complete the notes below.
Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER for each answer.
Protective Clothing Requirements
Movement in weightlessness
- Locomotion depends principally on the while the lower limbs remain largely inactive.
- On uneven ground, the lower body must permit walking and the ability to .
- The current design lacks lower-torso bearings and hiking-style .
Life-support and maintenance
- Carbon dioxide is eliminated by heating it inside a cumbersome .
- Additional suit mass becomes consequential when equipment is worn on the Moon or .
- Unlike existing equipment, future versions must permit components to be repaired or replaced .
Pressure and atmosphere
- At sea-level pressure, a garment would inflate and become too for joint articulation.
- During an extravehicular activity, internal pressure falls to roughly PSID.
- Oxygen is enriched to 100% to avert decompression sickness, commonly termed the .
- Raising oxygen concentration simultaneously elevates the risk of .
Part 2: Questions 11–20
You will hear a language programme offering feedback on listeners’ writing about the Olympic Games.
Questions 11–15
Complete the table below.
Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS for each answer.
Grammatical Revisions
| Area of feedback | Recommended revision |
|---|---|
Justification for omitting an article | The presence of a |
Preferred grammatical structure | Replace the passive construction with the |
Reason for using a plural noun | The programme features numerous athletic |
Additional adjustment to syntax | Besides removing a pronoun, alter the |
Predicted result in revised sentence | Numerous achievements are likely to be |
Questions 16–20
Complete the sentences below.
Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer.
Part 3: Questions 21–30
You will hear a researcher discussing influenza in pigs with a radio presenter.
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 podcast interview with a public-health researcher about common human coronaviruses.
Questions 31–35
Complete the notes below.
Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS for each answer.
Common Human Coronaviruses: Background Notes
Classification
- Principal genetic clusters: alpha, beta, gamma and
Clinical effects
- Serious illness is most common in babies and
- The alpha type NL63 is linked with among young patients
- Adult community infections attributable to these viruses: up to
Animal hosts
- Documented animal hosts for MERS-CoV: bats and
Questions 36–40
Complete the summary using the list of words, A–I, below.
The investigation began in 2014 because that was the Drop or choose answer surveillance year for which records existed. Data were analysed up to late 2021 in order to document changing Drop or choose answer during the pandemic. In temperate climates, infections typically peak between December and Drop or choose answer. In the southern hemisphere's temperate zones, the peak tends to coincide with Drop or choose answer months. Finally, the alternation of dominant strains may reflect a population's Drop or choose answer from season to season.
- A time indoors
- B waning immunity
- C strain prevalence
- D second
- E airway drying
- F March
- G virus stability
- H seasonality
- I cooler
About this listening test
| Part | Recording | Questions | Question types |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Protective Garment Performance | 1–10 | Note completion |
| 2 | Revising Olympic Accounts | 11–20 | Table completion, Sentence completion |
| 3 | Controlling Influenza in Pigs | 21–30 | Multiple choice, Multiple choice (choose more than one) |
| 4 | Seasonal Patterns of Coronaviruses | 31–40 | Note completion, Summary completion (word list) |
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: Suit Up for Mars (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: Language of the Olympic Games, Part 2. VOA Learning English (learningenglish.voanews.com), public domain
- Part 3: Shortening Duration of Swine Exhibitions to Reduce Transmission of Influenza A Virus (CDC, Emerging Infectious Diseases podcast). Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Emerging Infectious Diseases podcast (work of the US federal government, public domain)
- Part 4: Seasonality of Common Human Coronaviruses in the United States, 2014-2021 (CDC, Emerging Infectious Diseases podcast). Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Emerging Infectious Diseases podcast (work of the US federal government, public domain)