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IELTS Listening: Multiple Choice Questions

By ieltsetc on March 5, 2019 0

IELTS Listening Wildlife in city gardens

28-Day Planner: Day 24 [MCQs]

Listening Part 4 usually has gapfill questions, but sometimes there are Multiple Choice Questions, as in the example below.

Watch the YouTube video and/or listen to the podcast for explanations.

 

 

Wildlife in city gardens

31. What led the group to choose their topic?

A They were concerned about the decline of one species

B They were interested in the effects of city growth.

C They wanted to investigate a recent phenomenon.

32.The exact proportion of land devoted to private gardens was confirmed by

A consulting some official documents.

B taking large-scale photos

C discussions with town surveyors

33 The group asked garden owners to

A take part in formal interviews

B keep a record of animals they saw.

C get in contact when they saw a rare species.

34 The group made their observations in gardens

A which had a large number of animal species

B which they considered to be representative

C which had stable populations of rare animals

35 The group did extensive reading on

A wildlife problems in rural areas

B urban animal populations

C current gardening practices

36. The speaker focuses on three animal species because

A a lot of data has been obtained about them

B the group were most interested in them

C they best indicated general trends.

IELTS Listening Part 4 Wildlife in city gardens

Answers

Answers and Explanations

31. What led the group to choose their topic?

A They were concerned about the decline of one species

B They were interested in the effects of city growth.

C They wanted to investigate a recent phenomenon.

First of all, how did we choose our topic? Well there are four of us in the group and one day while we were discussing a possible focus, two of the group mentioned that they had seen yet more sparrowhawks – one of Britain’s most interesting birds of prey – in their own city centre gardens and wondered why they were turning up in these gardens in great numbers. We were all very engaged by the idea of why wild animals would choose to inhabit a city garden. Why is it so popular with wildlife when the countryside itself is becoming less so?

32. The exact proportion of land devoted to private gardens was confirmed by

A consulting some official documents.

B taking large-scale photos

C discussions with town surveyors

The first thing we did was to establish what proportion of the urban land is taken up by private gardens. We estimated that it was about one fifth, and this was endorsed by looking at large-scale usage maps in the town land survey office – 24% to be precise.

33 The group asked garden owners to

A take part in formal interviews

B keep a record of animals they saw.

C get in contact when they saw a rare species.

Our own informal discussions with neighbours and friends led us to believe that many garden owners had interesting experiences to relate regarding wild animal sightings so we decided to survey garden owners from different areas of the city. Just over 100 of them completed a survey once every two weeks for 12 months – ticking off species they had seen from a pro forma list – and adding the names of any rarer ones.

34 The group made their observations in gardens

A which had a large number of animal species

B which they considered to be representative

C which had stable populations of rare animals

Meanwhile we were doing our own observations in selected gardens throughout the city. We deliberately chose smaller ones because they were by far the most typical in the city. The whole point of the project was to look at the norm not the exception.

35 The group did extensive reading on

A wildlife problems in rural areas

B urban animal populations

C current gardening practices

Alongside this primary research on urban gardens, we were studying a lot of books about the decline of wild animals in the countryside and thinking of possible causes for this.

36. The speaker focuses on three animal species because

A a lot of data has been obtained about them

B the group were most interested in them

C they best indicated general trends.

So what did we find? Well, so much that I just won’t have time to tell you about here. If you’re interested in reading our more comprehensive findings, we’ve produced detailed graphic representations on the college website and of course any of the group would be happy to talk to you about them. Just email us.

What we’ve decided to present today is information about just 3 species – because we feel these gave a good indication of the processes at work in rural and urban settings as a whole.

37 – frogs

The first species to generate a lot of interesting information was frogs.

And there was a clear pattern here – they proliferate where there is suitable water.

Garden ponds are on the increase, rural ponds are disappearing, leading to massive migration to the towns.

38 – predators

Hedgehogs are also finding it easier to live in urban areas.

This time because their predators are not finding it quite so attractive to leave their rural environment, so hedgehogs have a better survival rate in cities.

39 – count

We had lots of sightings, so all in all we had no difficulties with our efforts to count their numbers precisely.

40 – seeds

Our final species is the finest of bird singers, the song thrush.

On the decline in the countryside, they are experiencing a resurgence in urban gardens, because these days gardeners are buying lots of different plants which means there’s an extensive range of seeds around, which is what they feed on.

Another factor is the provision of nesting places – which is actually better in gardens than the countryside.

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Get more listening practice here.

How to listen for signals and signposts (especially in Section 3).

Why you need to learn Modals of Deduction for the Listening Test.

How to keep your place in Listening Part 4.

How to do Multiple Choice Questions in Listening Part 4.

How to identify the distractors in Listening Part 3.

How to deal with a difficult Listening Part 4.

How to do a Gapfill Summary in Listening Part 4.

How to choose from a list in Listening Part 2.

How to complete a table in Listening Part 2.

How to label a map in Listening Part 2.

How to recognise distractors in Listening Part 4.

Multiple Choice and Tables in Part 4.

Listening to an expert interview (and an Australian accent) in Part 3.

How to review IELTS vocab topics through Listening Part 4.

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