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IELTSListeningGyakorlás12

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This listening practice simulates the second section of the IELTS Listening test. Listen to the audio and answer questions 11-20.
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Questions 11-14
Choose the correct letter, A, B, or C.

Write your answers in boxes 11-14 on your answer sheet.

11. Which event does Marlowe treat as the real beginning of the company?

12. What kind of work dominated Marlowe's earliest output?

13. What is Caroline's point about the Bloomsbury premises?

14. Which activity remains part of the trainees' weekly programme?

(A) is incorrect. The recording does not support this option: Edward's museum role ending.

(B) is correct. Marlowe counts the year its first title appeared under the Marlowe imprint as its founding year.

(C) is incorrect. The recording does not support this option: adding another imprint.

Associated Text:
we count 1950 as our founding year, that's when our first title went out under the Marlowe imprint

(A) is correct. The firm produced academic textbooks almost entirely during its first four years.

(B) is incorrect. Children's books were added much later.

(C) is incorrect. Poetry was Edward Marlowe's ambition, not the early main output.

Associated Text:
for our first four years we did academic textbooks almost entirely

(A) is incorrect. The firm has been in the building for decades.

(B) is correct. Colin says Marlowe has no plans to move from its central location.

(C) is incorrect. A move out of central London is explicitly ruled out.

Associated Text:
we have no plans to move.

(A) is incorrect. This year they mostly work with junior editors.

(B) is incorrect. Bookshop visits have been dropped.

(C) is correct. Trainees will have a Monday presentation from a department head.

Associated Text:
Each Monday morning you'll have a short presentation from the head of one of our departments, we'll start this morning with the editorial team

Questions 15-20

Label the plan below.

Choose Write the correct letter A-J for each answer.
B D C G A F I E N
15 Coffee bar
16 Document archive
17 Staff canteen
18 Training room
19 HR office
20 Editors' boardroom

The correct answer is I because the coffee bar is at the very end of the east corridor from reception, with windows onto Russell Street and the leafy square.

Associated Text:
From reception, if you follow the corridor east all the way to the end, you come to the coffee bar. It has windows on two sides, one looks out onto Russell Street and the other onto the leafy square at the eastern edge of the site

The correct answer is B because the document archive is directly opposite reception across the courtyard and is the largest room on the far side.

Associated Text:
The boardroom is in the back row, immediately next to the document archive on its eastern side, and it has lovely views out over the leafy square.

The correct answer is E because the staff canteen is right next to reception on the south side of the plan, immediately east of reception.

Associated Text:
Right next to where we're standing, on the south side of the plan and immediately east of reception, is the staff canteen.

The correct answer is A because the training room is midway along the west corridor after passing the courtyard.

Associated Text:
If you come back to reception and head the other way, along the corridor on your left towards the west, you pass the courtyard and reach the training room midway along that west corridor.

The correct answer is G because the HR office is at the front on the south side, the second door west of reception after the storage room.

Associated Text:
Back along the south corridor at the front of the building, head west from reception, go past the door currently used for storage, and HR is the second door you come to, with windows looking directly out onto Russell Street.

The correct answer is C because the editors' boardroom is in the back row beside the document archive on its eastern side, with views over the leafy square.

Associated Text:
Over on the eastern side again, take the east corridor from reception and continue past the courtyard until you reach the back of the building. The boardroom is in the back row, immediately next to the document archive on its eastern side, and it has lovely views out over the leafy square.

Note: After the instruction audio, you will have 20 seconds to look at questions before listening to the talk.
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