IELTS Listening Practice Test 94

4 parts · 40 questions · about 30 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 engineer talking about his professional history and duties.

Questions 1–10

Complete the table below.

Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer.

Professional History

Career aspect	Information
Initial assignment	Joined the team
Subsequent promotion	Appointed as
Later post	Served as
Internal designation	Referred to as
Supervisory structure	units were established beneath him
Additional duty	Managed for equipment
Academic qualification	Obtained a degree
Early career specialism	Worked in for approximately five years
Role after changing industry	Involved in
Final technical contribution	Produced components for

Part 2: Questions 11–20

You will hear part of an educational talk offering advice on how to compose better emails.

Questions 11–15

Complete the sentences below.

Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS for each answer.

An effective subject line establishes the reader's about what the message contains.

Merely labelling a subject heading 'important' fails to supply sufficient .

The greeting that is chosen varies with how the relationship between the two parties is.

The main body of the message needs to be as well as brief.

Where the recipient is a stranger, the sender should themselves early in the message.

Questions 16–20

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

What does the speaker say about each of the following?

A It has become more significant in an online age.
B It demonstrates a complete, finished message.
C It conveys the sender's employer and job title.
D It is generated anew by the writer for each message.
E It is composed automatically by software.
F It results in a higher rate of response.
G It varies with the closeness of the relationship.
H It is dispensable when writing to a friend.

The closing of an emailDrop or choose answer

An automatic signatureDrop or choose answer

The model emailDrop or choose answer

Acting on the recommendationsDrop or choose answer

Effective email writing todayDrop or choose answer

Part 4: Questions 31–40

You will hear a talk about the practical uses of geodesy.

Questions 31–35

Complete the flowchart below.

Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS for each answer.

Building a Digital Map

Begin by extracting from a national survey map.

Overlay supplied by an emergency-management agency.

Include obtained from an engineering agency's maps.

Incorporate from a demographic map.

Align every dataset using a single .

Questions 36–40

Complete the notes below.

Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer.

Maritime and Administrative Uses

Maritime benefits

Hull-to-seabed distance can be established to within .
Additional freight makes the vessel sit lower but still allows it to navigate the without grounding.
The extra load yields a commercial advantage for companies.

Administrative roles

One office handles the framework's creation and its .
Separate offices manage tide gauges as well as tied to the framework.

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About this listening test

Part	Recording	Questions	Question types
1	Career Path in Engineering	1–10	Table completion
2	Writing Effective Everyday Emails	11–20	Sentence completion, Matching features
3	Monitoring Coastal Conditions	21–30	Multiple choice, Multiple choice (choose more than one)
4	Precision Positioning Applications	31–40	Flow-chart completion, 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: NASA Safety Culture (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: How to Write a Good Email. VOA Learning English (learningenglish.voanews.com), public domain
Part 3: Physical Oceanographic Real-Time System (NOAA Diving Deeper podcast). NOAA National Ocean Service, Diving Deeper podcast (work of the US federal government, public domain)
Part 4: What is geodesy? (NOAA Diving Deeper podcast). NOAA National Ocean Service, Diving Deeper podcast (work of the US federal government, public domain)

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