IELTS Advantage Practice Listening Test D: Savanna Resort and Spa

IELTS Advantage Practice Listening Test D
Section 1 - Questions 1-10
Questions 1-5
Complete the form below
Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER for each answer.
Savanna Resort and spa
Name of company 1. …………………...
First name 2. …………………………………….
Surname 3. ……………………………..
Number of nights 4. …………….
Number of guests 5. …………..
Questions 6-10
Label the plan below.
Choose 5 answers from the box and write the correct letters A-H next to questions 6-10.
Note: This is not a real IELTS test. This practice test is to give you an opportunity to practise
implementing the strategies from the course. It does not reflect the scores, timing or level of
difficulty of a real IELTS test.
Questions 11-15
Complete the sentences below.
Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer.
11. ……………… billion young people are about to become adults.
12. The best part of my job at UNICEF is that I get the opportunity to communicate with
………………from all over the world.
13. As well as having lots of aspirations the young people also have ……………...
14. The young people are worried they will have to deal with a number of ……………...
15. One of the main worries of young people is that their ……………… will be
insufficient.
Questions 16 -20
Choose the correct letter A, B or C.
16. The number of young people out of school is

A. less than the number of people in Brazil.
B. about the same as the number of people in Brazil.
C. more than the number of people in Brazil.
17. In the world, the number of jobs created in one month is

A. More than 10 million.
B. much less than 10 million.
C. exactly 10 million.
18. Most young people

A. want to have the skills they need to build a better future.
B. want to live in rural villages.
C. don’t want to live in cities.
19. The majority of adolescents

A. Have many friends on social media but few real friends.
B. Are violently killed.
C. Are not worried about violence.
20. Six hundred and fifty million young women

A. want to marry young and have children at an early age.
B. are worried about physical or sexual abuse.
C. were less than 18 when they were married.
Questions 21-25
Answer the questions below.
Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER for each answer.
21. What transmits underwater better than it does through the air?
22. What do the mammals who live under the water in the Arctic have to do regularly?
23. What human activity is causing a decrease in seasonal sea ice?
24. What is the name given to the season that increases as a direct result of the
decrease in seasonal sea ice?
25. What are hydrophones?
Questions 26-30
Complete the table below.
Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER for each answer.
Noise caused by Type of noise Result
26. ______ breaking. Sounds like hissing or Higher levels of noise caused by
Air background 27. ______ air..
Water Movement to the Sound of whales Competition for food between

Arctic by 28. ______ Arctic and subarctic animals and
species. the possible introduction of
29.……..….
Land Human activities Sounds of 30. _______ Human noise causes the stress
levels of the Arctic mammals to
increase.
Questions 31-35
Which of the following planets and moons are referred to in the statements below?
A. Mars
B. Titan
C. Europa
D. Enceladus
Write the correct letter A, B, C or D next to questions 31-55.
You may choose any letter more than once.
31. Has evidence to suggest there was a lot of water there millions of years ago.
32. Had colours which surprised the scientists.
33. Is thought to have evolved life forms.
34. Is known to have a sea under its outer layer of ice.
35. Was observed by Hubble a couple of years ago to surprisingly display plumes of
water in its southern hemisphere.
Questions 36 - 40
Complete the summary below.
Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer.
3 moons and a planet that could have alien life
Saturn’s 36. ………. Titan is another possible host to life forms. Bigger than the planet
Mercury, Titan has a rich 37. ………. made up of nitrogen with smaller amounts of
38. ………… . Liquid in the form of 39. ………. has been found on the surface of one of
the lakes as large as the Earth’s Black Sea. However, the lake is not 40. ………. , it is
methane. If a life form was adapted to use methane rather than water, it could survive on
Titan.
Answers
1. ABC Logistics
2. Helen
3. S-K-I-N-N-E-R
4. 2 (nights)
5. 60
6. E
7. F
8. B
9. A
10. C
11. One point eight
12. young people
13. fears
14. (urgent) crises
15. education
16. B
17. B
18. A
19. A
20. C
21. sound
22. surface to breathe
23. greenhouse gas emissions
24. open water season
25. underwater microphones
26. bubbles
27. static
28. subarctic
29. diseases or parasites
30. people
31. A
32. A
33. D
34. C
35. C
36. moon
37. atmosphere
38. methane and ethane
39. lakes
40. liquid water
Transcript
Section 1
(Source: IELTS Advantage)
Host: Hi there. You work for ABC Logistics, right?
HR manager: Yep, ABC Logistics (Q1).
Host: Great. Welcome to the Savanna Resort and spa. When did you get here?
HR Manager: We only arrived about 20 minutes ago. Everyone else is getting settled into
their rooms but I wanted to get down here first to make sure everything is organised and
help out with anything that needs arranging.
Host: Well everything is perfectly in order so you don’t need to worry about a thing. Are you
the owner of the company?
HR Manager: No, you should see him around later though. I’m the HR manager. I actually
organised this trip for the company.
Host: Brilliant. Well you definitely made the right decision coming here. You are all
guaranteed to have a great time. I’m Jim/Jill by the way. What’s your name?
HR Manager: Nice to meet you Jim/Jill. My name’s Helen (Q2) Skinner.
Host: Would you mind spelling your second name for me please, Helen?
HR Manager: Not at all, it’s S-K-I-N-N-E-R (Q3). Have you worked here long yourself?
Host: Going on two years now. It’s a little bit isolated but the location is absolutely beautiful
so it’s got its ups and downs, you know?
HR Manager: Sure, I can imagine. It’s certainly beautiful here alright. The rest of the group
were all very impressed once the view became clear from the bus.
Host: And you’re staying 2 nights (Q4) if I remember correctly.
HR Manager: Yes, that’s exactly right. 3 days and 2 nights. I already wish we were staying
for longer but that was the absolute longest we could manage without causing too many
disruptions to the business. We do something like this every year during the Autumn before
the resorts get too busy so I really can’t complain.
Host: Yes, Autumn is definitely a good time. It’s just starting to pick up again in the last week
or so. How many members are there in your group?
HR Manager: There were meant to be 65 of us but something came up at work which meant
that only 60 (Q5) of us got to come in the end.
Host: Oh gosh! That’s so disappointing for the ones that had to stay behind.
HR Manager: Can’t you imagine? Especially because they’ll have to wait until next year
before they have another chance to do something like this. We actually had a lottery to
decide who would stay behind so it was all fair but that doesn’t really make it any less
disappointing for them.
Host: Okay so let me show you around first and then at least you’ll be able to give the rest of
your group in the right direction once they get here.
HR Manager: Yes, that would be ideal. Thanks.
Host: So this is the front entrance you see here and it’s on the south side of the
building so it leads straight down to the beach. This is the porch (Q6) which is lovely in
the mornings so if you like to get up early you’ll be able to sit down here with a cup of coffee
while it’s still nice and quiet. That door there goes directly into the dining room but I’ll show
you that later so just follow me in through this door here into the hall. Right down at the end
there you can see the back entrance but that’s used mostly by staff so you probably won’t
need it. This door brings us into the living room where you can relax and chat or the TV there
has cable as well if any of you feel like using that. Usually guests are more interested in the
scenery outside than the TV but each to their own as they say. Through here you can see
the toilets there and then we have an office all kitted out in case something comes up that
you might need to take care of while you’re here. At the far end of the office is the storage
(Q7). It’s not specifically for anything so you can just throw anything in there that you want to
get out of the way….If I can just get you to back up into the living room we can take a
look at this room at the north side of the building and this is the games room (Q8). You
can play pool here and there are a bunch of board games on the shelf there as well.
Hopefully the weather will stay good though and you won’t have much need for them. That
door over there is another entrance and this one here goes back into the corridor that
we saw earlier. Just follow me straight across here and into the bar (Q9). The bar is
fully stocked so you and all your colleagues can help yourself but we do lock up here at 11
pm every night so that the staff can go to bed. The rest of the centre will stay open though so
there’s no pressure on any of the guests to retire at that time as well. From the bar we can
go directly into the dining room and the kitchen, which is through that door there
(Q10). Only staff are allowed in there but you can order anything from the menu from 6 am
until 9 pm every day. That’s all facilities we have here so I’ll leave you at it for now. I hope
you enjoy your stay and just call the reception if you need anything else. Thanks.
Section 2
(Source: Ted Talks Henrietta Fore. How we can help young people build a better future.)
Today, there are 1.8 billion young people between the ages of 10 and 24 in the world. It is
the largest cohort in human history. Meeting their needs will be a big challenge. But it's also
a big opportunity.
They hold our shared future in their hands. Every day, we read about young people lending
their ideas and passions to fighting for change, social change, political change, change in
their communities.Imagine what they'll create: breakthroughs, inventions. Maybe new
medicines, new modes of transportation, new ways to communicate, sustainable economies
and maybe even a world at peace.But this opportunity, this youth dividend, is not a given.
One point eight billion young women and young men are standing at the door of
adulthood (Q11). Are they ready? Right now, too few of them are. My favorite part of my
job at UNICEF is a chance to talk to, meet with and hear from young people all around
the world (Q12). And they tell me about their hopes and dreams. And they have amazing
hopes and dreams for what they'll accomplish in their lives. But what they're also telling
me is that they have fears (Q13).
They feel that they're facing a series of urgent crises (Q14). A crisis of demographics, a
crisis of education, a crisis of employment, a crisis of violence and a crisis for girls. If you
look at these crises, you realize that they're urgent and they need to be addressed now.
Because they tell us that they're worried.They're worried that they might not get the
education that they need (Q15). And you know what? They're right.
Two hundred million adolescents are out of school worldwide, about the population of
Brazil. (Q16) And those that are in school feel that they may not be getting the right skills.
Globally, six in 10 children and young people do not meet the minimum proficiency level for
reading and mathematics. No country can be successful if nearly half of its population of
young people are unable to read or write. And what about the lucky few who are in
secondary school? Many of them are dropping out because they're worried that they're not
getting skills that they can use to make a livelihood. And sometimes, their parents can no
longer afford the fees. It's a tragedy.
And young people are also telling me that they're worried about employment, that they won't
be able to find a job. And again, they're right. Every month, 10 million young people reach
working age. It's a staggering number. Some will go on for further education, but many will
enter the workforce. And our world is not creating 10 million new jobs each month
(Q17). The competition is fierce for the jobs that are available. So, imagine being a young
person today, needing a job, seeking a livelihood, ready to build a future, and opportunities
are hard to find.
Young people are also telling me that they're worried that they're not getting the skills that
they need.And again, they're right. We are finding ourselves at a time in the world when the
world is changing so fast for work. We're in the fourth industrial revolution. Young people do
not want to be on the farms and in rural communities. They want to go to the cities. They
want to learn future skills for future work. They want to learn digital technology and green
technologies. They want to have a chance to learn modern agriculture. They want to learn
business and entrepreneurship, so that they can create a business of their own. They want
to be nurses and radiologists and pharmacists and doctors. And they want to have all of
the skills that they'll need for the future (Q18). They also want to learn the trades, like
construction and electricians. These are all the professions that a country needs, as well as
the professions that have not been invented yet.
And young people are also telling me that they're worried about violence. At home, online, in
school, in their communities. And again, they're right. A young person can have hundreds
of friends on social media, but when they need to find a friendly face, someone who
can be there as their friend, to talk to, they do not find one(Q19). They face bullying,
harassment and more. And hundreds of millions are facing exploitation and abuse, and
violence. Every seven minutes, an adolescent boy or girl somewhere in the world is killed by
an act of violence.
And girls are telling me that they're especially worried about their futures. And sadly, they're
right, too.Girls face prejudice and discrimination. They face early childhood marriage and
they face life-threatening early pregnancy. Imagine a population of the United States. Now
double it. That's the number of women who were married before their 18th birthday. Six
hundred and fifty million (Q20). And many were mothers while they were still children
themselves. One out of every three women will face physical abuse or sexual abuse in her
lifetime. So, no wonder girls are worried about their futures.
These urgent crises may not be a reality in your life or in your neighborhood. And perhaps
you've had opportunities for a good education and for marketable skills, and for getting a job.
And maybe you've never faced violence, or prejudice, or discrimination. But there are tens of
millions of young people who are not so lucky. And they are sounding the alarm for their
futures
Section 3
(Source: Tedtalks Kate Stafford how human noise affects ocean habitats)
To me, the Arctic really embodies this disconnect between what we see on the surface and
what's going on underwater. You can look out across the ice -- all white and blue and cold --
and see nothing. But if you could hear underwater, the sounds you would hear would at first
amaze and then delight you. And while your eyes are seeing nothing for kilometers but ice,
your ears are telling you that out there are bowhead and beluga whales, walrus and bearded
seals. The ice, too, makes sounds. It screeches and cracks and pops and groans, as it
collides and rubs when temperature or currents or winds change. And under 100 percent
sea ice in the dead of winter, bowhead whales are singing.
And you would never expect that, because we humans, we tend to be very visual animals.
For most of us, but not all, our sense of sight is how we navigate our world. For marine
mammals that live underwater, where chemical cues and light transmit poorly, sound is the
sense by which they see. And sound transmits very well underwater, much better than
it does in air (Q21), so signals can be heard over great distances.
In the Arctic, this is especially important, because not only do Arctic marine mammals have
to hear each other, but they also have to listen for cues in the environment that might
indicate heavy ice ahead or open water. Remember, although they spend most of their lives
underwater, they are mammals, and so they have to surface to breathe (Q22). So they
might listen for thin ice or no ice, or listen for echoes off nearby ice.
Arctic marine mammals live in a rich and varied underwater soundscape. In the spring, it can
be a cacophony of sound.
(Marine mammal sounds)
But when the ice is frozen solid, and there are no big temperature shifts or current changes,
the underwater Arctic has some of the lowest ambient noise levels of the world's oceans. But
this is changing. This is primarily due to a decrease in seasonal sea ice, which is a
direct result of human greenhouse gas emissions (Q23). We are, in effect, with climate
change, conducting a completely uncontrolled experiment with our planet.
Over the past 30 years, areas of the Arctic have seen decreases in seasonal sea ice from
anywhere from six weeks to four months. This decrease in sea ice is sometimes referred
to as an increase in the open water season (Q24). That is the time of year when the Arctic
is navigable to vessels. And not only is the extent of ice changing, but the age and the width
of ice is, too.
Now, you may well have heard that a decrease in seasonal sea ice is causing a loss of
habitat for animals that rely on sea ice, such as ice seals, or walrus, or polar bears.
Decreasing sea ice is also causing increased erosion along coastal villages, and changing
prey availability for marine birds and mammals.
Climate change and decreases in sea ice are also altering the underwater soundscape of
the Arctic. What do I mean by soundscape? Those of us who eavesdrop on the oceans for a
living use instruments called hydrophones, which are underwater microphones (Q25),
and we record ambient noise --the noise all around us. And the soundscape describes the
different contributors to this noise field.What we are hearing on our hydrophones are the
very real sounds of climate change. We are hearing these changes from three fronts: from
the air, from the water and from land.
First: air. Wind on water creates waves. These waves make bubbles; the bubbles break,
and when they do, they make noise (Q26). And this noise is like a hiss or a static in
the background. (Q27) In the Arctic, when it's ice-covered, most of the noise from wind
doesn't make it into the water column, because the ice acts as a buffer between the
atmosphere and the water. This is one of the reasons that the Arctic can have very low
ambient noise levels. But with decreases in seasonal sea ice, not only is the Arctic now open
to this wave noise, but the number of storms and the intensity of storms in the Arctic has
been increasing. All of this is raising noise levels in a previously quiet ocean.
Second: water. With less seasonal sea ice, subarctic species are moving north, and taking
advantage of the new habitat that is created by more open water. Now, Arctic whales, like
this bowhead, they have no dorsal fin, because they have evolved to live and swim in
ice-covered waters, and having something sticking off of your back is not very conducive to
migrating through ice, and may, in fact, be excluding animals from the ice. But now,
everywhere we've listened, we're hearing the sounds of fin whales and humpback whales
and killer whales, further and further north, and later and later in the season. We are
hearing, in essence, an invasion of the Arctic by subarctic species (Q28). And we don't
know what this means. Will there be competition for food between Arctic and subarctic
animals? Might these subarctic species introduce diseases or parasites into the
Arctic? (Q29) And what are the new sounds that they are producing doing to the
soundscape underwater?
And third: land. And by land ... I mean people (Q30). More open water means increased
human use of the Arctic. Just this past summer, a massive cruise ship made its way through
the Northwest Passage --the once-mythical route between Europe and the Pacific.
Decreases in sea ice have allowed humans to occupy the Arctic more often. It has allowed
increases in oil and gas exploration and extraction, the potential for commercial shipping, as
well as increased tourism. And we now know that ship noise increases levels of stress
hormones in whales and can disrupt feeding behavior. Air guns, which produce loud,
low-frequency "whoomps" every 10 to 20 seconds, changed the swimming and vocal
behavior of whales. And all of these sound sources are decreasing the acoustic space over
which Arctic marine mammals can communicate.
Section 4
(Source: Tedtalks James Green 3 moons and a planet that could have alien life)
So when we look out into the solar system, where are the possibilities? We're concentrating
our attention on four locations. The planet Mars and then three moons of the outer planets:
Titan, Europa and small Enceladus.
So what about Mars? Let's go through the evidence. Well, Mars we thought was initially
moon-like: full of craters, arid and a dead world.
And so about 15 years ago, we started a series of missions to go to Mars and see if water
existed on Mars in its past that changed its geology. We ought to be able to notice that. And
indeed we started to be surprised right away. Our higher resolution images show deltas and
river valleys and gulleys that were there in the past. And in fact, Curiosity -- which has been
roving on the surface now for about three years -- has really shown us that it's sitting in an
ancient river bed, where water flowed rapidly.And not for a little while, perhaps
hundreds of millions of years (Q31). And if everything was there, including organics,
perhaps life had started.
Curiosity has also drilled in that red soil and brought up other material. And we were really
excited when we saw that. Because it wasn't red Mars, it was gray material (Q32), it's
gray Mars. We brought it into the rover, we tasted it, and guess what? We tasted organics --
carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, phosphorus, sulfur -- they were all there.
So Mars in its past, with a lot of water, perhaps plenty of time, could have had life, could
have had that spark, could have grown. And is that life still there? We don't know that.
But a few years ago we started to look at a number of craters. During the summer, dark lines
would appear down the sides of these craters. The more we looked, the more craters we
saw, the more of these features. We now know more than a dozen of them.
A few months ago the fairy tale came true. We announced to the world that we know what
these streaks are. It's liquid water. These craters are weeping during the summer. Liquid
water is flowing down these craters. So what are we going to do now -- now that we see the
water? Well, it tells us that Mars has all the ingredients necessary for life. In its past it had
perhaps two-thirds of its northern hemisphere -- there was an ocean. It has weeping water
right now. Liquid water on its surface. It has organics. It has all the right conditions.
So what are we going to do next? We're going to launch a series of missions to begin that
search for life on Mars. And now it's more appealing than ever before.
As we move out into the solar system, here's the tiny moon Enceladus. This is not in what
we call the traditional habitable zone, this area around the sun. This is much further out. This
object should be ice over a silicate core.
But what did we find? Cassini was there since 2006, and after a couple years looked back
after it flew by Enceladus and surprised us all. Enceladus is blasting sheets of water out into
the solar system and sloshing back down onto the moon. What a fabulous environment.
Cassini just a few months ago also flew through the plume, and it measured silicate
particles. Where does the silica come from? It must come from the ocean floor. The tidal
energy is generated by Saturn, pulling and squeezing this moon --is melting that ice, creating
an ocean. But it's also doing that to the core.
Now, the only thing that we can think of that does that here on Earth as an analogy ... are
hydrothermal vents. Hydrothermal vents deep in our ocean were discovered in 1977.
Oceanographers were completely surprised. And now there are thousands of these below
the ocean.
What do we find? The oceanographers, when they go and look at these hydrothermal vents,
they're teeming with life, regardless of whether the water is acidic or alkaline -- doesn't
matter. So hydrothermal vents are a fabulous abode for life here on Earth.
So what about Enceladus? Well, we believe because it has water and has had it for a
significant period of time, and we believe it has hydrothermal vents with perhaps the right
organic material, it is a place where life could exist. And not just microbial -- maybe
more complex because it's had time to evolve (Q33).
Another moon, very similar, is Europa. Galileo visited Jupiter's system in 1996 and made
fabulous observations of Europa. Europa, we also know, has an under-the-ice crust
ocean (Q34). Galileo mission told us that, but we never saw any plumes. But we didn't look
for them.
Hubble, just a couple years ago, observing Europa, saw plumes of water spraying
from the cracks in the southern hemisphere(Q35), just exactly like Enceladus.
These moons, which are not in what we call a traditional habitable zone, that are out in the
solar system, have liquid water. And if there are organics there, there may be life.
This is a fabulous set of discoveries because these moons have been in this environment
like that for billions of years. Life started here on Earth, we believe, after about the first 500
million, and look where we are. These moons are fabulous moons.
Another moon that we're looking at is Titan. Titan is a huge moon of Saturn (Q36). It
perhaps is much larger than the planet Mercury. It has an extensive atmosphere (Q37). It's
so extensive -- and it's mostly nitrogen with a little methane and ethane (Q38) -- that you
have to peer through it with radar.
And on the surface, Cassini has found liquid. We see lakes ... actually almost the size of
our Black Sea in some places (Q39). And this area is not liquid water; it's methane
(Q40). If there's any place in the solar system where life is not like us, where the substitute of
water is another solvent -- and it could be methane -- it could be Titan..

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Section 1 - Questions 1-10

Savanna Resort and spa

Name of company 1. …………………...

First name 2. …………………………………….

Number of nights 4. …………….

Number of guests 5. …………..

Complete the sentences below.

Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer.

11. ……………… billion young people are about to become adults.

Choose the correct letter A, B or C.

16. The number of young people out of school is

17. In the world, the number of jobs created in one month is

18. Most young people

19. The majority of adolescents

20. Six hundred and fifty million young women

Answer the questions below.

Complete the table below.

Noise caused by Type of noise Result

Water Movement to the Sound of whales Competition for food between

Write the correct letter A, B, C or D next to questions 31-55.

You may choose any letter more than once.

32. Had colours which surprised the scientists.

33. Is thought to have evolved life forms.

34. Is known to have a sea under its outer layer of ice.

Complete the summary below.

Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer.

3 moons and a planet that could have alien life

Host: Hi there. You work for ABC Logistics, right?

HR manager: Yep, ABC Logistics (Q1).

HR Manager: Nice to meet you Jim/Jill. My name’s Helen (Q2) Skinner.

Host: And you’re staying 2 nights (Q4) if I remember correctly.

HR Manager: Yes, that would be ideal. Thanks.

(Marine mammal sounds)

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