Geography — listening answers
The Cambridge IELTS 8 Test 1 Listening Section 4 answer key: the ten-gap note completion from the geography lecture, with accepted variants.
Questions 31-40 · 10 marks · 1 question block
Questions 31-40
A ten-gap lecture split into headed sub-sections; use the headings to re-enter if you lose your place. Question 33 accepts singular or plural on either side of the slash, which signals that the marker is after the concept rather than the exact inflection. Everywhere else, get the number right.
| Question | Answer | Also accepted |
|---|---|---|
| 31 | surface | — |
| 32 | environment | — |
| 33 | impacts/effects | impact/effects / impacts/effect / impact/effect |
| 34 | urban | — |
| 35 | problems | — |
| 36 | images | — |
| 37 | patterns | — |
| 38 | distortion | distortions |
| 39 | traffic | — |
| 40 | weather | — |
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 blocks 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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