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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 11-15
Choose the correct letter, A, B, or C.

Write your answers in boxes 11-15 on your answer sheet.

11. Before becoming part of the library service, Mossbank House was first intended as

12. What will happen after the Old Mill Lane branch services move?

13. Why has the library created an upstairs food hall?

14. To make the new food hall work efficiently, users should

15. What use will still be made of the former ground-floor café area?

(A) is incorrect. A later plan to turn it into a theatre never happened.

(B) is correct. Mossbank House was meant to be a private hospital.

(C) is incorrect. It became council offices after the family sold it to the council, not what it originally used to be.

Associated Text:
It was originally paid for by a local industrialist, James Tilbury, and meant to be a private hospital, but he ran out of money before it opened.

(A) is incorrect. The change concerns the branch and a new wing, not all main-site buildings.

(B) is correct. The Old Mill Lane site will be sold to developers who plan to build new homes there.

(C) is incorrect. The additional library wing will be built alongside Mossbank House, not on Old Mill Lane.

Associated Text:
The Old Mill Lane site will then be sold to developers, who plan to build new homes on it.

(A) is correct. The speaker says the current cafe has only one serving point, so users wait a long time to be served.

(B) is incorrect. Opening hours are not given as the reason.

(C) is incorrect. The food is popular, not criticised.

Associated Text:
The trouble is that there's only one serving point, so most users have to wait quite a long time to be served.

(A) is correct. Users are asked to decide before arriving which type of food they want, so they can go straight to the right section.

(B) is incorrect. The payment system is unchanged.

(C) is incorrect. Users may still bring packed lunches.

Associated Text:
one thing we ask you to do, to help the food hall run smoothly, is to decide before you arrive which type of food you want to eat that day, so you can go straight to the right serving section.

(A) is incorrect. Food will not still be served there.

(B) is incorrect. Library users will still be able to use the space.

(C) is correct. Users can take food from the new food hall down to the old cafe area.

Associated Text:
library users can take food from the new food hall down to eat there, or eat a packed lunch they've brought from home.

Questions 16-18
What comment does the speaker make about each of the following sections in the new food hall?
  1. two-week schedule published
  2. no meat or fish
  3. readers influence the choices
  4. prepared on demand

Write the correct letter A-D next to questions 16-18.

16. Soup of the World

17. Patisserie Corner

18. Speedy Salad Bar

The correct answer is A because Soup of the World announces its soup choices two weeks ahead.

Associated Text:
The soups will be planned for a fortnight at a time, so readers will know in advance what is going to be available across the next two weeks.

The correct answer is C because Patisserie Corner will let readers help shape the cakes and pastries offered.

Associated Text:
We will ask library users to make suggestions, so perhaps sometimes there'll be cakes from Italy, Mexico and Vietnam

The correct answer is B because the Speedy Salad Bar is specifically for readers who avoid meat and fish.

Associated Text:
The Speedy Salad Bar will cater particularly for the many readers who do not eat meat or fish. They can be sure that all the food sold there is suitable for them.

Questions 19-20
Choose two letters A-E.

Write your answers in boxes 19-20 on your answer sheet.

Which TWO activities are being added to the evening-class programme rather than simply continued?
  1. painting for adults
  2. camera lessons
  3. creating spoken recordings
  4. piano lessons at library
  5. sound-editing practice

19

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(A) is incorrect. Painting and photography already exist and will continue.

(B) is incorrect. Painting and photography already exist and will continue.

(C) is correct. The library is going to start classes where residents can create their own spoken recordings.

(D) is correct. A grand piano now allows some residents to take piano lessons at the library for the first time.

(E) is incorrect. Pupils are already taught sound editing software.

Associated Text:
we're going to start podcast making classes in there too. Residents will be able to join in just for fun, or work up to publishing their own series.

(A) is incorrect. Painting and photography already exist and will continue.

(B) is incorrect. Painting and photography already exist and will continue.

(C) is correct. The library is going to start classes where residents can create their own spoken recordings.

(D) is correct. A grand piano now allows some residents to take piano lessons at the library for the first time.

(E) is incorrect. Pupils are already taught sound editing software.

Associated Text:
a former resident has donated a magnificent grand piano to the library, so a few residents will be able to learn piano here at the library

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