Field Trip Proposal — listening answers
Answers for the Cambridge IELTS 8 Test 1 Listening Section 3 discussion, covering the multiple-choice, pick-three and sentence-completion blocks.
Questions 21-30 · 10 marks · 3 question blocks
Questions 21-24
A two-speaker academic discussion, so the answer is usually the point the pair agree on rather than the first one proposed. When one speaker raises an option and the other qualifies it, the qualification is the answer.
| Question | Answer | Also accepted |
|---|---|---|
| 21 | A | — |
| 22 | C | — |
| 23 | A | — |
| 24 | B | — |
Questions 25-27
One block worth three marks, and the order you write the letters in does not matter. Seven options get discussed but only three are confirmed, so track the rejections as actively as the acceptances.
| Question | Answer | Also accepted |
|---|---|---|
| 25-27 | B, C, F | — |
Questions 28-30
Three short gaps to close the section. Question 28 is a figure written with a comma, so write it as a numeral. The other two are single plural nouns: no articles, no adjectives.
| Question | Answer | Also accepted |
|---|---|---|
| 28 | 12,000 | — |
| 29 | horses | — |
| 30 | caves | — |
What your score on this section actually tells you
One section is 10 of the 40 marks in the paper, so it is a sample, not a band score. What it is good for is diagnosis: look at which of the question types above you lost marks in and whether the same type has hurt you before.
If your errors cluster in one question type, that is a technique problem and it is fixable in a week. If they are spread evenly, it is usually speed — you are running out of time and guessing the last few, which shows up as scattered wrong answers rather than a bad block.
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