IELTS Listening Practice Test 28
4 parts · 40 questions · about 31 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 craft teacher and her student about a class that uses old objects.
Questions 1–6
Complete the form below.
Write ONE WORD AND/OR A NUMBER for each answer.
Craft class
What Anna brought: a with a hole in it, a plastic and a broken
Sue: sometimes trash is
For next week, bring a clean box
Next week's craft: gluing pretty onto things
Questions 7–10
Choose the correct letter, A, B or C.
Part 2: Questions 11–20
You will hear a science report about a space telescope discovering a bright ring of light around a nearby galaxy.
Questions 11–14
Answer the questions below.
Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER for each answer.
Questions 15–20
Complete the notes below.
Write ONE WORD AND/OR A NUMBER for each answer.
The Euclid telescope
- Launched in on a mission of years
- Aim: to study dark matter and dark
- The first sign of the ring came during
- The more distant galaxy is about billion light years away
- That galaxy does not have a
Part 3: Questions 21–30
You will hear part of a podcast about research on the International Space Station.
Questions 21–25
Complete the sentences below.
Write ONE WORD AND/OR A NUMBER for each answer.
Questions 26–30
Choose FIVE answers from the box and write the correct letter, A–G, next to Questions 26–30.
- A helps payload developers understand NASA requirements
- B selects a principal investigator
- C provides a grant for research
- D makes sure the schedule gets to launch on time
- E translates science requirements into on-orbit performance
- F plans requirements for the Payloads Operations Center
- G figures out how to get an experiment to the station
Part 4: Questions 31–40
You will hear a science report about a new discovery concerning the first brown dwarf ever identified.
Questions 31–35
Complete the table below.
Write ONE WORD AND/OR A NUMBER for each answer.
Brown dwarf facts
| Detail | Information |
|---|---|
Year first brown dwarf discovered | |
Location of telescope used for new observations | northern |
Mass of one of the brown dwarfs | times the mass of Jupiter |
Time for the two objects to orbit each other | days |
Type of system linking the two brown dwarfs | system |
Questions 36–40
Complete the summary using the list of words, A–I, below.
Later findings
After the discovery, the two objects were given new Drop or choose answer. They are believed to orbit a Drop or choose answer. Jerry Xuan said Gliese 229B had long been considered the Drop or choose answer for a brown dwarf. He admitted that scientists had been Drop or choose answer about the object's nature. The research was published in the journal Drop or choose answer.
- A names
- B red dwarf
- C poster child
- D wrong
- E Nature
- F Jupiter
- G binary
- H separations
- I surprise
About this listening test
| Part | Recording | Questions | Question types |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Trash to treasure | 1–10 | Form completion, Multiple choice |
| 2 | A ring of light in space | 11–20 | Short-answer questions, Note completion |
| 3 | Research on the space station | 21–30 | Sentence completion, Matching features |
| 4 | The first brown dwarf | 31–40 | Table 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: Let's Learn English, Lesson 22: Trash to Treasure, Part 2. VOA Learning English (learningenglish.voanews.com), public domain
- Part 2: European Telescope Discovers ‘Einstein Ring’ in Nearby Galaxy. VOA Learning English (learningenglish.voanews.com), public domain
- Part 3: Sampling Science in a Lab Aloft (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 4: Scientists: Brown Dwarf Identified 30 Years Ago Is Two Objects. VOA Learning English (learningenglish.voanews.com), public domain