ENSpeak the language you have been studying.
DESprich die Sprache, die du gelernt hast.
ESHabla el idioma que has estudiado.
ARتكلم اللغة التي درستها.
HIजो भाषा पढ़ी है, उसे बोलो।
URوہ زبان بولو جو سیکھی ہے۔
ZH说出你学过的那门语言。
PTFale o idioma que você estudou.
FRParle la langue que tu as étudiée.
JA勉強してきた言語を話そう。
ENSpeak the language you have been studying.
DESprich die Sprache, die du gelernt hast.
ESHabla el idioma que has estudiado.
ARتكلم اللغة التي درستها.
HIजो भाषा पढ़ी है, उसे बोलो।
URوہ زبان بولو جو سیکھی ہے۔
ZH说出你学过的那门语言。
PTFale o idioma que você estudou.
FRParle la langue que tu as étudiée.
JA勉強してきた言語を話そう。

IELTS Listening Practice Test 184

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.

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Part 1: Questions 1–10

You will hear an interview about a disease affecting migrants in Europe.

Questions 1–6

Complete the table below.

Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER for each answer.

Relapsing Fever: Transmission and Risk

FeatureDetail

Fever pattern

Remission lasting before recurrence

Spread among migrants

Occurs in overcrowded

Housing in Europe

very crowded buildings

Disease category

Classified as a condition linked to

Transmission requirement

Contact with the carrier’s

General public risk

or nonexistent

Questions 7–10

Answer the questions below.

Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER for each answer.

What kind of reports does the Stockholm agency generate for current health concerns?
How many doses of the drug are needed to treat the illness?
How many building occupants contracted the disease without recent travel to Africa?
What initial procedure do refugees undergo before entering the United States?

Part 2: Questions 11–20

You will hear a podcast report about a wildlife disease surveillance programme.

Questions 11–15

Complete the sentences below.

Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER for each answer.

After the virus was introduced, it produced extensive among birds that remain in the area.
People are described as the end point of the cycle rather than a source of infection: they are hosts.
Bats may be capable of acting as hosts, increasing the amount of virus in the environment.
The 2011 outbreak in Germany led researchers to question the virus's .
During 2014 surveillance, roughly female mosquitoes were collected across Germany.

Questions 16–20

Choose FIVE answers from the box and write the correct letter, A–H, next to Questions 16–20.

What the investigation showed
  • A It provided a probable pathway for the strain's arrival.
  • B It suggested that the strain might be undergoing adaptation.
  • C It confirmed that the virus had not caused extensive bird mortality.
  • D It linked the strain to variants from another continent.
  • E It enabled a novel strain to be characterised.
  • F It revealed that a section of the viral protein had been altered.
  • G It offered an alternative explanation for the strain's introduction.
  • H It indicated that the strain had already affected other animals.
Complete genome sequencingDrop or choose answer
Synonymous mutationsDrop or choose answer
Cleavage siteDrop or choose answer
Bird population impactDrop or choose answer
Phylogenetic analysisDrop or choose answer

Part 3: Questions 21–30

You will hear a podcast interview about the spread and study of a tick-borne virus.

Questions 21–26

Choose the correct letter, A, B or C.

How does Helen say most infections occur?
What does Helen identify as the cause of the French village outbreak?
What does Helen say about the tick species that transmit the virus?
What does Helen say about people who recover from severe illness?
What does Helen say about preventing or treating the infection?
What does Helen say about the geographical range of the virus?

Questions 27–28

Choose TWO letters, A–E.

Which TWO conditions does Helen say are necessary for tick populations?

Questions 29–30

Choose TWO letters, A–E.

Which TWO statements about virus variants does Helen make?

Part 4: Questions 31–40

You will hear a researcher talking about a project that investigated an unfamiliar virus in horses.

Questions 31–35

Complete the summary below.

Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER for each answer.

Project background

The team wanted to establish whether related viruses could produce Hendra-like illness in horses while escaping . Because nucleocapsid proteins are unusually , the researchers looked for cross-reactivity; where no reference test existed, they used a statistical method instead. Viral discovery was difficult because clinical samples contained at most 1% , and fragile RNA required storage at .

Questions 36–40

Choose the correct letter, A, B or C.

What was the main early source of support that allowed the team to develop and try out the new assays?
Which specimens did the team ultimately use to apply the methods they had developed?
When were the official agencies given the complete interpretation of the discovery?
How did the team make the manuscript available while formal review was still underway?
What was noteworthy about the additional contemporary case?
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About this listening test

PartRecordingQuestionsQuestion types
1Assessing Migrant Health Risks1–10Table completion, Short-answer questions
2Wildlife Disease Surveillance11–20Sentence completion, Matching features
3Investigating a Tick-Borne Virus21–30Multiple choice, Multiple choice (choose more than one)
4Investigating a New Horse Virus31–40Summary completion, Multiple choice

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