IELTS Listening · Practice test
Coppermill: IELTS Listening practice test
A bulky waste collection, a recycling centre, a materials audit and a lecture on recycling metals.
- 4 parts
- 40 questions
- About 35 minutes
Part 1 · Questions 1–10
Arranging a collection
You will hear a conversation between a man and a council adviser about a waste collection.
Questions 1–7
Complete the form below.
Write ONE WORD AND/OR A NUMBER for each answer.
Bulky Waste Collection
Questions 8–10
Complete the notes below.
Write ONE WORD AND/OR A NUMBER for each answer.
On the day
Part 2 · Questions 11–20
A recycling centre
You will hear the manager of a recycling centre explaining how it works to a visiting group.
Questions 11–15
Choose the correct letter, A, B or C.
- 11Why is a fifth of the material not recycled?
- AIt is contaminated with food.
- BIt is made of several materials combined.
- CThere is no market for it.
- 12Why do vans need a permit?
- Ato keep out waste from businesses
- Bto limit the number of visits
- Cbecause of their size on the site
- 13Staff cannot help visitors lift things because
- Athey are not insured to do so.
- Bthere are too few of them.
- Cit would slow the site down.
- 14What happens to items that still work?
- AThey are sold in a shop on the site.
- BThey are given to a charity.
- CThey are repaired and returned.
- 15What does the manager say slows the site down most?
- Avisitors arriving with unsorted waste
- Bqueues at the barrier
- Ccontainers being changed
Questions 16–20
Label the plan below. Write the correct letter, A–H, next to questions 16–20.
- 16Garden waste
- 17Electrical items
- 18Reuse shop
- 19Oil and paint point
- 20Weighbridge
Part 3 · Questions 21–30
A materials audit
You will hear two students, Priti and Callum, discussing a waste audit they are carrying out on campus.
Questions 21–25
Choose the correct letter, A, B or C.
- 21What is wrong with weighing the bins at the end of the day?
- ASome bins are emptied during the day.
- BThe scales are not accurate enough.
- CNot all buildings have bins.
- 22What does Priti propose instead?
- Acollecting the bags at one central point
- Basking the cleaners to record the weights
- Cweighing the bins twice a day
- 23How will they know which building waste came from?
- Aby the colour of the bags
- Bby the time of collection
- Cby asking the cleaning staff
- 24What proportion of the bags will they sort?
- Aone in five
- Bone in ten
- Call of them
- 25Why does Callum insist on measuring by weight?
- AVolume would exaggerate the amount of plastic.
- BWeight is quicker to record.
- CThe university reports weight.
Question 26
Answer the question below.
Write ONE WORD ONLY.
- 26What does Callum expect to be the largest category of waste by weight?
Questions 27–30
What do the students decide about each of the following? Choose the correct letter, A–F, next to questions 27–30.
Decisions
- ADo it thoroughly and use only a little of it.
- BLeave it out of the study altogether.
- CInclude it and explain the difference.
- DThe choice is theirs and it carries no marks.
- EAsk the cleaning supervisor to do it.
- FRepeat it in the second term.
- 27photographing the sorted waste
- 28a questionnaire on recycling habits
- 29the university's own published figures
- 30presenting to the sustainability committee
Part 4 · Questions 31–40
Recycling metals
You will hear part of a lecture about the recycling of metals.
Questions 31–40
Complete the notes below.
Write ONE WORD AND/OR A NUMBER for each answer.
Recycling metals
Why metals are different
The numbers
Four difficulties
Advice to designers