تحلیل لیسنینگ آیلتس آکادمیک و جنرال کمبریج 14 - تست 3: بررسی سوالات، نکات کلیدی و استراتژی‌های پاسخ‌دهی

مقدمه

بخش لیسنینگ، اولین و یکی از مهم‌ترین چالش‌ها در آزمون آیلتس است که نیازمند تمرکز بالا و درک شنیداری دقیق می‌باشد. در این مقاله، به تحلیل جامع تست ۳ لیسنینگ از کتاب آیلتس کمبریج ۱۴ (Cambridge IELTS 14) می‌پردازیم. هدف ما شکستن ساختار سوالات، شناسایی تله‌های رایج و ارائه استراتژی‌های کاربردی برای کمک به شما در مدیریت زمان و افزایش دقت پاسخ‌دهی است. این تست شامل چهار بخش با موضوعات و فرمت‌های متنوع سوال است. داوطلبان باید با انواع سوالات مانند Multiple Choice، Form Completion، Matching و Map Labelling آشنا باشند. با ما همراه باشید تا با بررسی جزء به جزء این تست، با اطمینان بیشتری به سراغ آزمون اصلی بروید.

برای دیدن بقیه‌ی تحلیل‌ها به لینک زیر بروید:

Table of Contents

• Part 1: Questions 1-10 Analysis & Audio Script
• Part 2: Questions 11-20 Analysis & Audio Script
• Part 3: Questions 21-30 Analysis & Audio Script
• Part 4: Questions 31-40 Analysis & Audio Script

PART 1 Questions 1-10 + Audio Script

📝 Question 1: "The 1 ..... room for talks"

🔹 Correct Answer: Tesla

📍 Location in Audio Script: "So for talks and presentations we have the Tesla room."

🔹 Analysis of the Answer: The answer "Tesla" is directly stated in the audio script as the name of the room used for talks and presentations. There is no paraphrasing or synonym use required.

⚠️ Potential Traps: The spelling of "Tesla" might be a potential trap, but the audio includes a clear spelling: "T-E-S-L-A."

⭐ Key Learning Point: Pay attention to proper nouns and spellings, especially when they are clearly articulated or spelled out.

📝 Question 2: "(projector and) 2 ..... available"

🔹 Correct Answer: microphone

📍 Location in Audio Script: ANGELA: "it’s fully equipped with a projector and so on." MAN: "How about a microphone?" ANGELA: "Yes, that’ll be all set up ready for you..."

🔹 Analysis of the Answer: Although the word 'microphone' isn't directly said by Angela in the same sentence with 'projector', the man asks about it immediately after, and Angela confirms its availability as equipment in the room. The question implies an item that would be alongside a projector.

⚠️ Potential Traps: Candidates might be confused by the phrase "and so on" after "projector." The word microphone is confirmed in the following turn by the man's question and Angela's affirmation.

⭐ Key Learning Point: Listen carefully for implications and related items that are confirmed through dialogue, even if not directly named by the initial speaker in the same breath as other items.

📝 Question 3: "area for coffee and an 3 ....."

🔹 Correct Answer: exhibition

📍 Location in Audio Script: "And we’ll also need some sort of open area where people can sit and have a cup of coffee, and we’d like to have an exhibition of our products and services there as well..."

🔹 Analysis of the Answer: The word "exhibition" is directly stated as the type of area they want for their products and services, along with an area for coffee.

⚠️ Potential Traps: The audio script has a few details in this section. Students need to focus on the words related to the required open area's second purpose.

⭐ Key Learning Point: Be precise in identifying the exact item or purpose of a space described in the audio, especially when multiple uses are listed.

📝 Question 4: "free 4 ..... throughout"

🔹 Correct Answer: wifi

📍 Location in Audio Script: "Oh yes, that’s free and available throughout the hotel." (referring to wifi)

🔹 Analysis of the Answer: The question asks for a free service available throughout the hotel. Angela confirms "wifi" (from MAN: "And I presume there’s wifi?") is free and available throughout.

⚠️ Potential Traps: Other hotel amenities are mentioned but the answer must relate to something that is free and available throughout the hotel.

⭐ Key Learning Point: Listen for information that matches the exact context and conditions of the question (e.g., "free" and "throughout").

📝 Question 5: "a standard buffet lunch costs 5 .....$ per head"

🔹 Correct Answer: 45

📍 Location in Audio Script: "Well, I can send you a copy of the standard menu. That’s $45 per person."

🔹 Analysis of the Answer: The answer "$45" is directly given as the cost of the standard buffet lunch.

⚠️ Potential Traps: There is a mention of a 'special' at a higher price ("$25 more") that could confuse students if they don't focus on the "standard" option.

⭐ Key Learning Point: Focus on the details associated with the specific item in the question, like "standard buffet," and differentiate it from other options mentioned.

📝 Question 6: "Rooms will cost 6 ......$ including breakfast."

🔹 Correct Answer: 135

📍 Location in Audio Script: "...we can offer you rooms at $135. Normally a standard room’s $180."

🔹 Analysis of the Answer: The discounted room rate for conference attendees, $135, is mentioned as the cost of a room. Breakfast inclusion is confirmed shortly after for this rate.

⚠️ Potential Traps: The normal room price of $180 could be a distractor. The question asks for the cost for conference attendees.

⭐ Key Learning Point: Be careful to note discounts or specific conditions attached to a price for a particular group or situation.

📝 Question 7: "The hotel also has a spa and rooftop 7 ......"

🔹 Correct Answer: pool

📍 Location in Audio Script: "...we’ve got a spa where you can get massages and facials and so on, and there’s a pool up on the roof for the use of guests."

🔹 Analysis of the Answer: The audio directly states the hotel has a spa and a pool on the roof.

⚠️ Potential Traps: Other spa treatments (massages, facials) are mentioned but the question asks for a specific additional facility located on the rooftop.

⭐ Key Learning Point: Focus on matching the facilities mentioned in the question to the corresponding facilities and their locations named in the audio.

📝 Question 8: "There’s a free shuttle service to the 8 ....."

🔹 Correct Answer: airport

📍 Location in Audio Script: "Yes, it’s about 12 kilometres from the airport, but there’s a complimentary shuttle bus for guests."

🔹 Analysis of the Answer: The shuttle service ("complimentary shuttle bus") is mentioned alongside the distance from the airport.

⚠️ Potential Traps: The audio mentions the railway station ("ten minutes’ walk from the central railway station"), but that is not the place that the free shuttle specifically serves according to this statement.

⭐ Key Learning Point: Pay attention to the details of the services offered, and to which specific location they are associated.

📝 Question 9: "Wilby Street (quite near the 9 .....)"

🔹 Correct Answer: sea

📍 Location in Audio Script: "Well, it’s downtown on Wilby Street...and it’s not very far from the sea."

🔹 Analysis of the Answer: The proximity of the hotel (on Wilby Street) to the sea is directly mentioned ("not very far from the sea").

⚠️ Potential Traps: Other details about the location (downtown, Wilby Street) may distract from this specific proximity detail.

⭐ Key Learning Point: Note the positional words like 'near' and 'not very far from' and what landmark they refer to.

📝 Question 10: "near to restaurants and many 10 ......"

🔹 Correct Answer: clubs

📍 Location in Audio Script: "Then if they want to make a night of it, they can go on to one of the clubs in the area – there are a great many to choose from."

🔹 Analysis of the Answer: After mentioning restaurants (implied by "places to eat"), the audio script directly mentions clubs as another nearby option for entertainment.

⚠️ Potential Traps: Other places to eat are mentioned generally, but the question asks about nearby entertainment venues *after* restaurants, and "clubs" fits this.

⭐ Key Learning Point: Recognize the difference between food places and other types of entertainment venues when a list of nearby amenities is given.

ANGELA: Hello, Flanders conference hotel.

MAN: Oh, hi. I wanted to ask about conference facilities at the hotel. Have I come through to the right person?

ANGELA: You have. I’m the customer services manager. My name’s Angela. So how can I help you?

MAN: Well, I’m calling from Barrett and Stansons, we’re a medical company based in Perth.

ANGELA: Oh yes.

MAN: And we’re organising a conference for our clients to be held in Sydney. It’ll be held over two days and we’re expecting about fifty or sixty people.

ANGELA: When were you thinking of having it?

MAN: Some time early next year, like the end of January? It’d have to be a weekend.

ANGELA: Let me see … our conference facilities are already booked for the weekend beginning January 28th. We could do the first weekend in February?

MAN: How about January 21st?

ANGELA: I’m afraid that’s booked too.

MAN: Well, let’s go for the February date then.

ANGELA: So that’s the weekend beginning the 4th.

MAN: OK. Now can you tell me a bit about what conference facilities you have?

ANGELA: Sure. So for talks and presentations we have the Tesla room. 📍Q1

MAN: Sorry?

ANGELA: Tesla – that’s spelled T-E-S-L-A. it holds up to a hundred people, and it’s fully equipped with a projector and so on.

MAN: How about a microphone? 📍Q2

ANGELA: Yes, that’ll be all set up ready for you, and there’ll be one that members of the audience can use too, for questions, if necessary.

MAN: Fine. And we’ll also need some sort of open area where people can sit and have a cup of coffee, and we’d like to have an exhibition 📍Q3 of our products and services there as well, so that’ll need to be quite a big space.

ANGELA: That’s fine, there’s a central atrium with all those facilities, and you can come before the conference starts if you want to set everything up.

MAN: Great. And I presume there’s wifi? 📍Q4

ANGELA: Oh yes, that’s free and available throughout the hotel.

MAN: OK.

ANGELA: Would you also like us to provide a buffet lunch? We can do a two-course meal with a number of different options.

MAN: What sort of price are we looking at for that?

ANGELA: Well, I can send you a copy of the standard menu. That’s $45 📍Q5 per person. Or you can have the special for $25 more.

MAN: I think the standard should be OK, but yes, send me the menu.

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MAN: Now we’re also going to need accommodation on the Saturday night for some of the participants … I’m not sure how many, but probably about 25. So what do you change for a room?

ANGELA: Well, for conference attendees we have a 25% reduction, so we can offer you rooms at $135. 📍Q6 Normally a standard room’s $180.

MAN: And does that include breakfast?

ANGELA: Sure. And of course, guests can also make use of all the other facilities at the hotel. So we’ve got a spa where you can get massages and facials and so on, and there’s a pool 📍Q7 up on the roof for the use of guests.

MAN: Great. Now what about transport links? The hotel’s downtown, isn’t it?

ANGELA: Yes, it’s about 12 kilometres from the airport 📍Q8, but there’s a complimentary shuttle bus for guests. And it’s only about ten minutes’ walk from the central railway station.

MAN: OK. Now, I don’t know Sydney very well, can you just give me an idea of the location of the hotel?

ANGELA: Well, it’s downtown on Wilby Street, that’s quite a small street, and it’s not very far from the sea. 📍Q9 And of course if the conference attendees want to go out on the Saturday evening there’s a huge choice of places to eat. Then if they want to make a night of it, they can go on to one of the clubs 📍Q10 in the area – there are a great many to choose from.

MAN: OK. So if we go ahead with this, can you give me some information about how much …

PART 2 Questions 11-20 + Audio Script

📝 Question 11 & 12: "Which TWO activities that volunteers do are mentioned?"

🔹 Correct Answers: A decorating, E childcare

📍 Location in Audio Script: "...they may be able to give them tips on cooking, or recommend how to plan their budget or how to shop sensibly on their income. They might even do some painting or wallpapering, perhaps alongside any members of the family who are able to do it. Or even do some babysitting so that parents can go out for a while."

🔹 Analysis of the Answer: The audio script gives "painting or wallpapering" as an example of decorating (A) and "babysitting" which is a synonym for childcare (E).

⚠️ Potential Traps: Other activities are mentioned (cooking tips, budget planning, shopping advice), but decorating and childcare are the ones that match the options for what volunteers *do* physically in the home.

⭐ Key Learning Point: Recognize paraphrasing and synonyms for keywords in the question (e.g., "babysitting" for "childcare," "painting or wallpapering" for "decorating").

📝 Question 13 & 14: "Which TWO ways that volunteers can benefit from volunteering are mentioned?"

🔹 Correct Answers: B having a sense of purpose, E boosting their employment prospects

📍 Location in Audio Script: "...volunteering may be a valuable element of their CV when they’re applying for jobs... Significantly, most volunteers feel that what they’re doing gives them a purpose in their lives."

🔹 Analysis of the Answer: The audio uses "valuable element of their CV when they’re applying for jobs" which is paraphrasing for "boosting their employment prospects" (E) and "gives them a purpose in their lives" which is a direct match for "having a sense of purpose" (B).

⚠️ Potential Traps: Other benefits like using skills or coping with ill health are implied as part of what volunteers do, but these two are directly stated as benefits *for the volunteers themselves*.

⭐ Key Learning Point: Listen for direct statements about benefits for the volunteers and clear connections to the options given, including paraphrased meanings.

📝 Question 15: "Habib"

🔹 Correct Answer: F (remember past times)

📍 Location in Audio Script: "The songs take the listeners back to their youth, and for a little while they can forget the difficulties that they face now."

🔹 Analysis of the Answer: The songs "take the listeners back to their youth," which is similar to remembering past times (F).

⚠️ Potential Traps: Other options might seem plausible if the student is not carefully connecting the effect of the songs (taking listeners back to youth) with the available answers.

⭐ Key Learning Point: Be mindful of cause and effect relationships explained in the audio; the songs cause listeners to remember past times.

📝 Question 16: "Consuela"

🔹 Correct Answer: A (overcome physical difficulties)

📍 Location in Audio Script: "She helps a couple of people with similar difficulties [walking], who had almost stopped walking altogether. By using herself as an example, Consuela encourages them to walk more and more."

🔹 Analysis of the Answer: Consuela encourages people to walk more when they have difficulties walking ("had almost stopped walking altogether"), which means that she helps them to overcome physical difficulties (A).

⚠️ Potential Traps: The speaker uses "difficulties" in two places; students need to listen closely for the specific type of difficulty Consuela is helping with (walking).

⭐ Key Learning Point: Focus on the specifics of the situation and type of help offered to match the answer options; here, it's about physical difficulty with walking.

📝 Question 17: "Minh"

🔹 Correct Answer: E (escape isolation)

📍 Location in Audio Script: "But together they go out to the cinema, or to see friends the young man hadn’t been able to visit for a long time." (after stating he lives alone and "hardly ever saw anyone")

🔹 Analysis of the Answer: The young man "hardly ever saw anyone" and "hadn’t been able to visit" friends, indicating isolation. Minh helping him "go out" means Minh helped him escape isolation (E).

⚠️ Potential Traps: Other issues related to the young man (living alone) could confuse students, but the main impact of Minh's help was enabling social interaction and outings, thus ending his isolation.

⭐ Key Learning Point: Focus on the main purpose or result of the help given in each scenario.

📝 Question 18: "Tanya"

🔹 Correct Answer: G (start a new hobby)

📍 Location in Audio Script: "...the woman decided to try it herself [making soft toys]. And now she really enjoys it, and spends hours making toys."

🔹 Analysis of the Answer: Tanya showed her skills (making soft toys) to the elderly woman who then decided to try making toys herself and "now she really enjoys it." This means Tanya helped her start a new hobby (G).

⚠️ Potential Traps: The audio mentions toy-making and Tanya being a dressmaker. However, the hobby (toy-making) was adopted by the elderly woman, not Tanya herself in this instance.

⭐ Key Learning Point: Understand who the action (starting a hobby) is being done by or for in each scenario.

📝 Question 19: "Alexei"

🔹 Correct Answer: D (solve problems independently)

📍 Location in Audio Script: "By calmly talking over possible solutions with family members, he’s helping them to realise that they aren’t helpless, and that they can do something themselves to improve their situation."

🔹 Analysis of the Answer: Alexei helps the family realise that they are capable of helping themselves ("can do something themselves"), meaning they can solve their problems independently (D).

⚠️ Potential Traps: While there are many other issues in the family's situation, Alexei is focused on empowering them to find their own solutions.

⭐ Key Learning Point: Understand the nuances of the help being offered and what it leads to or empowers others to do.

📝 Question 20: "Juba"

🔹 Correct Answer: C (improve their communication skills)

📍 Location in Audio Script: "...and now the girl is far better at expressing herself, and at understanding other people."

🔹 Analysis of the Answer: The audio states the girl is better at "expressing herself, and at understanding other people" after help from Juba, which are examples of improved communication skills (C).

⚠️ Potential Traps: Other learning difficulties are mentioned for the teenage girl, but Juba’s work with her is specifically shown to improve her ability to communicate.

⭐ Key Learning Point: Be precise in understanding the specific change or improvement caused by the volunteer's action.

Good morning. My name’s Lucy Crittenden, and I’m the Director of Operations for an organisation that arranges volunteering in this part of the country. I’m hoping I can persuade one or two of you to become volunteers yourselves. Let me start by briefly explaining what we mean by volunteering.

Volunteers are teenagers and adults who choose to spend some time, unpaid, helping other people in some way. Most volunteers devote two or three hours to this every week, while a few do much more. The people they help may have physical or behavioural difficulties, for example.

Volunteers can do all sorts of things, depending on their own abilities and interests. If they’re supporting a family that’s struggling, for example, they may be able to give them tips on cooking, or recommend how to plan their budget or how to shop sensibly on their income. They might even do some painting or wallpapering 📍Q11, perhaps alongside any members of the family who are able to do it. Or even do some babysitting 📍Q12 so that parents can go out for a while.

The benefit from volunteering isn’t only for the people being helped. Volunteers also gain from it: they’re using their skills to cope with somebody’s mental or physical ill health, and volunteering may be a valuable element of their CV when they’re applying for jobs 📍Q13: employers usually look favourably on someone who’s given up time to help others. Significantly, most volunteers feel that what they’re doing gives them a purpose in their lives. 📍Q14 And in my opinion, they’re lucky in that respect, as many people don’t have that feeling.

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Now I’d like to tell you what some of our volunteers have said about what they do, to give you an idea of the range of ways in which they can help people.

Habib supports an elderly lady who’s beginning to show signs of dementia. Once a week they, along with other elderly people, go to the local community centre, where a group of people come in and sing. The songs take the listeners back to their youth, 📍Q15 and for a little while they can forget the difficulties that they face now.

Our volunteer Consuela is an amazing woman. She has difficulty walking herself, but she doesn’t let that stop her. She helps a couple of people with similar difficulties, who had almost stopped walking altogether. By using herself as an example, Consuela encourages them to walk more and more. 📍Q16

Minh visits a young man who lives alone and can’t leave his home on his own, so he hardly ever saw anyone. But together they go out to the cinema, or to see friends the young man hadn’t been able to visit for a long time. 📍Q17

Tanya visits an elderly woman once a week. When the woman found out that Tanya is a professional dressmaker, she got interested. Tanya showed her some soft toys she’d made, and the woman decided to try it herself. And now she really enjoys it, and spends hours making toys. 📍Q18 They’re not perhaps up to Tanya’s standard yet, but she gains a lot of pleasure from doing it.

Alexei is a volunteer with a family that faces a number of difficulties. By calmly talking over possible solutions with family members, he’s helping them to realise that they aren’t helpless, and that they can do something themselves to improve their situation. 📍Q19 This has been great for their self-esteem.

And the last volunteer I’ll mention, though there are plenty more, is Juba. She volunteers with a teenage girl with learning difficulties, who wasn’t very good at talking to other people. Juba’s worked very patiently with her, and now the girl is far better at expressing herself, and at understanding other people. 📍Q20

OK, I hope that’s given you an idea of what volunteering is all about. Now I’d like …

PART 3 Questions 21-30 + Audio Script

📝 Question 21: "It consists of around 21 ...... students."

🔹 Correct Answer: 50

📍 Location in Audio Script: "...there are about 50 of them altogether."

🔹 Analysis of the Answer: The audio directly states the number of students in the band as 50.

⚠️ Potential Traps: There was mention of a band of "more than 20" earlier in the conversation by Joe regarding his past experience, which could be confusing if not focused on the current school band size.

⭐ Key Learning Point: Pay attention to the relevant numbers mentioned in the correct context of the current subject being discussed.

📝 Question 22: "It is due to play in a 22 ...... band competition."

🔹 Correct Answer: regional

📍 Location in Audio Script: "...they’re in a regional one later in the term."

🔹 Analysis of the Answer: The band is participating in a competition that the speaker names as 'regional'.

⚠️ Potential Traps: The audio mentions "national band competitions" but clarifies they are *not* good enough for that level yet, and are instead in a regional one.

⭐ Key Learning Point: Listen for the specific word that directly answers the question, especially when alternatives or different levels are mentioned.

📝 Question 23: "It has been invited to play in the town’s 23 ......"

🔹 Correct Answer: carnival

📍 Location in Audio Script: "Well, now the town council’s organising a carnival in the summer, and the band has been asked to perform."

🔹 Analysis of the Answer: The audio mentions the band being invited to perform at a carnival being organized by the town council.

⚠️ Potential Traps: The audio also mentions a "parade" later (for Q26), which is a different event.

⭐ Key Learning Point: Distinguish between related events mentioned in the audio by noting the context and timing of each.

📝 Question 24: "They have listened to a talk by a 24 ......"

🔹 Correct Answer: drummer

📍 Location in Audio Script: "I played a recording I came across, of a drummer talking about how playing in a band had changed his life."

🔹 Analysis of the Answer: The audio states the students heard a recording of a drummer.

⚠️ Potential Traps: Students could mistakenly choose 'musician' since the speaker mentions a musician, but the specific role or instrument played is "drummer."

⭐ Key Learning Point: Be specific in identifying the profession or role mentioned in the audio, especially if a more general term might also apply.

📝 Question 25: "Joe will discuss a 25 ...... with the band."

🔹 Correct Answer: film

📍 Location in Audio Script: "I’m planning to show them that old film from the 1940s ‘Strike Up the Band’, and talk about it with the students."

🔹 Analysis of the Answer: Joe is planning to show and discuss a film with the band.

⚠️ Potential Traps: The audio mentions a "recording" of a speech earlier (Q24), which is different from a film.

⭐ Key Learning Point: Pay attention to the type of media mentioned (e.g., recording, film, book).

📝 Question 26: "Joe hopes the band will attend a 26 ...... next month."

🔹 Correct Answer: parade

📍 Location in Audio Script: "I’m hoping I can take some of the band to a parade that’s going to take place next month."

🔹 Analysis of the Answer: The speaker says he hopes to take the band to a parade next month.

⚠️ Potential Traps: The audio mentioned a "carnival" earlier (Q23). It's important to link "next month" with "parade."

⭐ Key Learning Point: Differentiate between events mentioned in the audio by noting their distinct names and associated timings or contexts.

📝 Question 27: "flautist"

🔹 Correct Answer: D (misses too many rehearsals)

📍 Location in Audio Script: "...but she’s hardly ever there."

🔹 Analysis of the Answer: The flautist's issue is that she's "hardly ever there" for rehearsals, which means that she misses too many rehearsals (D).

⚠️ Potential Traps: The audio mentions excuses for absences (helping mother, ill), which could be distracting if not carefully focused on the core problem of frequent absence.

⭐ Key Learning Point: Connect the issue described (frequent absence) to an available option that explains the core problem or behavior.

📝 Question 28: "trumpeter"

🔹 Correct Answer: B (keeps making unhelpful suggestions)

📍 Location in Audio Script: "She’s always saying what she thinks other people should do, which makes my job pretty difficult."

🔹 Analysis of the Answer: The trumpeter "always saying what she thinks other people should do" is described as making the job difficult, implying these are unhelpful suggestions (B).

⚠️ Potential Traps: The trumpeter is described as thinking "she's the best musician," which is related to her attitude but not the primary problematic action described.

⭐ Key Learning Point: Identify the action or behavior that causes problems or difficulties for others.

📝 Question 29: "trombonist"

🔹 Correct Answer: E (has a health problem)

📍 Location in Audio Script: "…he has breathing difficulties, and he doesn’t really have enough breath for the trombone."

🔹 Analysis of the Answer: The trombone player is facing "breathing difficulties," which constitutes a health problem (E) affecting his playing.

⚠️ Potential Traps: The trombonist's willingness to not give up could be a distraction from the underlying health issue.

⭐ Key Learning Point: Focus on the specific cause of the person's difficulty or limitation.

📝 Question 30: "percussionist"

🔹 Correct Answer: F (doesn’t mix with other students)

📍 Location in Audio Script: "...he never seems to interact with other people, and he always rushes off as soon as the rehearsal ends."

🔹 Analysis of the Answer: The percussionist's lack of interaction ("never seems to interact with other people") means he doesn’t mix with other students (F).

⚠️ Potential Traps: Other issues like his rushing off are consequences or related behaviors, but the main problem highlighted is his lack of social interaction within the group.

⭐ Key Learning Point: Understand the specific way their behavior impacts others in the band or their participation in the group dynamic.

LIZZIE: So how are you getting on with your teaching practice at the High School, Joe?

JOE: Well I’ve been put in charge of the school marching band, and it’s quite a responsibility. I’d like to talk it over with you.

LIZZIE: Go ahead. You’d better start by giving me a bit of background.

JOE: OK. Well the band has students in it from all years, so they’re aged 11 to 18, and there are about 50 📍Q21 of them altogether. It’s quite a popular activity within the school. I’ve never worked with a band of more than 20 before, and this is very different.

LIZZIE: I can imagine.

JOE: They aren’t really good enough to enter national band competitions, but they’re in a regional 📍Q22 one later in the term. Even if they don’t win, and I don’t expect them to, hopefully it’ll be an incentive for them to try and improve.

LIZZIE: Yes, hopefully.

JOE: Well, now the town council’s organising a carnival 📍Q23 in the summer, and the band has been asked to perform. If you ask me, they aren’t really up to it yet, and I need to get them functioning better as a band, and in a very short time.

LIZZIE: Have you been doing anything with them? Apart from practising the music, I mean.

JOE: I played a recording I came across, of a drummer 📍Q24 talking about how playing in a band had changed his life. I think it was an after-dinner speech. I thought it was pretty inspiring, because being in the band had stopped him from getting involved in crime. The students seemed to find it interesting, too.

LIZZIE: That’s good.

JOE: I’m planning to show them that old film 📍Q25 from the 1940s ‘Strike Up the Band’, and talk about it with the students. What do you think?

LIZZIE: Good idea. As it’s about a school band, it might make the students realise how much they can achieve if they work together.

JOE: That’s what I’ve got in mind. I’m hoping I can take some of the band to a parade 📍Q26 that’s going to take place next month. A couple of marching bands will be performing, and the atmosphere should be quite exciting. It depends on whether I can persuade the school to hire a coach or two to take us there.

LIZZIE: Mmm. They sound like good ideas to me.

JOE: Thanks.

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JOE: Can I tell you about a few people in the band who I’m finding it quite difficult to cope with? I’m sure you’ll have some ideas about what I can do.

LIZZIE: Go ahead.

JOE: There’s a flautist who says she loves playing in the band. We rehearse twice a week after school, but she’s hardly ever there. 📍Q27 Then she looks for me the next day and gives me a very plausible reason – she says she had to help her mother, or she’s been ill, but to be honest, I don’t believe her.

LIZZIE: Oh dear! Any more students with difficulties?

JOE: Plenty! There’s a trumpeter who thinks she’s the best musician in the band, though she certainly isn’t. She’s always saying what she thinks other people should do, which makes my job pretty difficult. 📍Q28

LIZZIE: She sounds a bit of a nightmare!

JOE: You can say that again. One of the trombonists has got an impressive sense of rhythm, and could be an excellent musician – except that he has breathing difficulties, and he doesn’t really have enough breath for the trombone. 📍Q29 He’d be much better of playing percussion, for instance, but he refuses to give up. So he ends up only playing half the notes.

LIZZIE: I suppose you have to admire his determination.

JOE: Maybe. One of the percussionists isn’t too bad, but he never seems to interact with other people, and he always rushes off as soon as the rehearsal ends. 📍Q30 I don’t know if there are family reasons, or what. But it isn’t good in a band, where people really need to feel they’re part of a group.

LIZZIE: Hmm.

JOE: There are others too, but at least that gives you an idea of what I’m up against. Do you have any thoughts about what I can do, Lizzie?

PART 4 Questions 31-40 + Audio Script

📝 Question 31: "studied piano and 31 ......"

🔹 Correct Answer: violin

📍 Location in Audio Script: "As a child, Lim originally learned to play the piano – like so many children – and also the violin."

🔹 Analysis of the Answer: The audio directly mentions Liza Lim learning to play the piano and violin.

⚠️ Potential Traps: No other instrument is mentioned in this context of her early learning.

⭐ Key Learning Point: Pay attention to the order that information is presented when listing items or activities.

📝 Question 32: "compositions show a great deal of 32 ....."

🔹 Correct Answer: energy

📍 Location in Audio Script: "Liza Lim’s compositions are vibrant and full of energy..."

🔹 Analysis of the Answer: The description of Liza Lim's compositions includes "vibrant and full of energy."

⚠️ Potential Traps: The use of "vibrant" as a descriptive word might distract, but "energy" is the noun that fits "full of."

⭐ Key Learning Point: Match the specific description or quality to the word in the question, noting parts of speech.

📝 Question 33: "her music is very expressive and also 33 ......"

🔹 Correct Answer: complex

📍 Location in Audio Script: "...so although it is complex, it has the power of connecting with audiences and performers alike."

🔹 Analysis of the Answer: The audio states that her music is very expressive but also complex.

⚠️ Potential Traps: Other descriptive words ("expressive," "power of connecting") are used, but they don't fit the structure of "and also..." which asks for another quality alongside expressive.

⭐ Key Learning Point: Follow the flow of information and how each part is connected to the topic when multiple characteristics are described.

📝 Question 34: "festival will include her 34 ..... called The Oresteia"

🔹 Correct Answer: opera

📍 Location in Audio Script: "In the festival we’re going to give a semi-staged performance of The Oresteia. This is an opera in seven parts..."

🔹 Analysis of the Answer: The audio script states The Oresteia is an opera.

⚠️ Potential Traps: The mention of "semi-staged performance" could be confusing if the listener isn't focused on the *type* of work it is.

⭐ Key Learning Point: Identify the type of musical performance or composition in each scenario.

📝 Question 35: "Lim described the sounds in The Oresteia as 35 ......"

🔹 Correct Answer: disturbing

📍 Location in Audio Script: "Lim wrote that because the stories in the tragedies are not easy to tell, the sounds she creates are also disturbing..."

🔹 Analysis of the Answer: Lim describes the sounds in the opera as disturbing.

⚠️ Potential Traps: The audio mentions various sound types (breathing, sobbing, laughing, whistling), but "disturbing" is how Lim *described* the overall nature of the sounds she creates for this work.

⭐ Key Learning Point: Listen carefully for the speaker's (or composer's) actual words used to describe their work or its elements.

📝 Question 36: "The Tower of Remoteness is performed by piano and 36 ......"

🔹 Correct Answer: clarinet

📍 Location in Audio Script: "The Tower of Remoteness is scored for piano and clarinet."

🔹 Analysis of the Answer: The audio script indicates The Tower of Remoteness is performed by piano and clarinet.

⚠️ Potential Traps: No other instruments are mentioned in the same context as "piano" for this specific piece.

⭐ Key Learning Point: Identify instruments that are paired together for a particular composition.

📝 Question 37: "celebrates Australia’s cultural 37 ......"

🔹 Correct Answer: diversity

📍 Location in Audio Script: "...it can be regarded as a celebration of the diversity of cultures that Australia can be proud of."

🔹 Analysis of the Answer: The audio describes the music as celebrating Australia’s cultural diversity.

⚠️ Potential Traps: The phrase "deeply connected to Australia" is a distractor, but "diversity" directly matches the characteristic of what is being celebrated in relation to culture.

⭐ Key Learning Point: Match the context of the word in the question (cultural X) to its related idea in the audio.

📝 Question 38: "studied 38 ...... before studying music"

🔹 Correct Answer: physics

📍 Location in Audio Script: "However, he went to university to study physics, before changing to composition."

🔹 Analysis of the Answer: The audio states that Carl Vine studied physics before studying music composition.

⚠️ Potential Traps: The speaker mentions that he played cornet and piano *before* university, but "physics" was what he studied *at university* before music.

⭐ Key Learning Point: Recognize words and concepts that are directly related to the question's timeframe or sequence (e.g., "before studying music" at university).

📝 Question 39: "became well known as composer of music for 39 ......"

🔹 Correct Answer: dance

📍 Location in Audio Script: "Before long he had become prominent in Australia as a composer for dance..."

🔹 Analysis of the Answer: Carl Vine became known as a composer of music for dance.

⚠️ Potential Traps: Other types of musical pieces he composed (symphonies, concertos) are mentioned, but the answer should match how he *became well-known* or "prominent" initially.

⭐ Key Learning Point: Focus on the specific reason or context behind the speaker becoming well known or achieving prominence.

📝 Question 40: "festival will include his music for the 1996 40 ......"

🔹 Correct Answer: Olympics

📍 Location in Audio Script: "In our third concert, Vine will be represented by his music for the flag hand-over ceremony of the Olympics held in 1996."

🔹 Analysis of the Answer: The audio mentions that the festival will include Carl Vine's music for the 1996 Olympics.

⚠️ Potential Traps: There is a reference to the "flag hand-over ceremony" that could distract the listener if they don't link it to the broader event, the Olympics.

⭐ Key Learning Point: Identify the specific event that is associated with the composer’s music when a year or ceremony is mentioned.

As you all know, the university is planning an arts festival for later this year, and here in the music department we’ve planned three concerts. These will be public performances, and the programme has just been finalised. The theme of the festival is links between the UK and Australia, and this is reflected in the music: each concert will feature both British and Australian composers. I’ll tell you briefly about the Australian music, as you probably won’t be familiar with that.

The first concert will include music by Liza Lim, who was born in Perth, Western Australia, in 1966. As a child, Lim originally learned to play the piano – like so many children – and also the violin. 📍Q31 But when she was 11 her teachers encouraged her to start composing. She found this was her real strength, and she studied and later taught composition, both in Australia and in other countries. As a composer, she has received commissions from numerous orchestras, other performers and festivals in several countries.

Liza Lim’s compositions are vibrant and full of energy 📍Q32, and she often explores Asian and Australian Aboriginal cultural sources, including the native instrument, the didgeridoo: this is featured in a work called The Compass. Her music is very expressive, so although it is complex 📍Q33, it has the power of connecting with audiences and performers alike.

In the festival we’re going to give a semi-staged performance of The Oresteia. This is an opera 📍Q34 in seven parts, based on the trilogy of ancient Greek tragedies by Aeschylus. Lim composed this when she was in her mid-20s, and she also wrote the text, along with Barrie Kosky. It’s performed by six singers, a dancer, and an orchestra that, as well as standard orchestral instruments, includes electric guitar, and a traditional Turkish stringed instrument. Lim wrote that because the stories in the tragedies are not easy to tell, the sounds she creates are also disturbing 📍Q35, and they include breathing, sobbing, laughing and whistling. The work lasts around 75 minutes, and the rest of the concert will consist of orchestral works by the British composers Ralph Vaughan Williams and Frederick Delius.

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Moving on now to our second concert, this will begin with instrumental music by British composers – Benjamin Britten and Judith Weir. After the interval we’ll go to Australia for a piece by Ross Edwards: The Tower of Remoteness. According to Edwards, the inspiration for this piece came from nature, when he was sitting alone in the dry bed of a creek, overshadowed by the leaves of palm trees, listening to the birds and insects. The Tower of Remoteness is scored for piano and clarinet. 📍Q36 Edwards says he realised years after writing the piece that he had subconsciously modelled its opening phrase on a bird call.

Ross Edwards was born in 1943 in Sydney, Australia, and studied at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and the universities of Adelaide and Sydney. He’s well known in Australia, and in fact he’s one of the country’s most performed composers. He’s written a wide range of music, from symphonies and concertos to some composed specifically for children. Edward’s music has been described as being ‘deeply connected to Australia’, and it can be regarded as a celebration of the diversity 📍Q37 of cultures that Australia can be proud of.

The last of the three Australian composers to be represented in our festival is Carl Vine. Born in 1954, Vine, like Liza Lim, comes from Perth, Western Australia. He took up the cornet at the age of five, switching to the piano five years later. However, he went to university to study physics 📍Q38, before changing to composition. After graduating he moved to Sydney and worked as a freelance pianist and composer. Before long he had become prominent in Australia as a composer for dance 📍Q39, and in fact has written 25 scores of that type.

In our third concert, Vine will be represented by his music for the flag hand-over ceremony of the Olympics 📍Q40 held in 1996. This seven-minute orchestral piece was of course heard by millions of people worldwide, and we’ll hear it alongside works written by British composers Edward Elgar and, more recently, Thomas Adès.