Cambridge IELTS 8 · Listening · Test 4 · Part 4
Australian Aboriginal Rock Paintings — IELTS Listening Answers
All 10 answers for Australian Aboriginal Rock Paintings, Cambridge IELTS 8 Listening Test 4 Part 4, with the transcript evidence and an explanation for each.
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Questions 31–40. Tap an answer to see the evidence.
What this part tests
This part is tested with Matching (Q31–36). Each section below gives the strategy for that question type, the answers, and the sentence that proves them.
Questions 31–36: Matching
Strategy: Track the options while you listen and match by meaning, not by hearing the exact word. One option may be used more than once.
Options for Questions 31–36
- ADynamic
- BYam
- CModern
“However, they didn't go as far as the Modern style, which is known as 'x-ray' because it actually makes a feature of the internal skeleton as well as the organs of animals and humans”
C: the 'x-ray' label belongs to the Modern style, which makes a feature of the internal skeleton and organs.
“The Yam style of painting got its name from the fact that it featured much curvier figures that actually resemble the vegetable called a yam, which is similar to a sweet potato”
B: the Yam style took its name from the yam vegetable because of its 'curvier figures'.
“The Modern paintings are interesting because they include paintings at the time of the first contact with European settlers. Aborigines managed to convey the idea of the settlers' clothing by simply painting the Europeans without any hands, indicating the habit of standing with their hands in their pockets”
C: only Modern paintings record first contact, showing settlers with their hands in their pockets.
“Size is another characteristic. The more recent images tend to be life size or even larger, but the Dynamic figures are painted in miniature”
A: miniature figures are the hallmark of Dynamic art, unlike the later life-size images.
“In fact, fish didn't start to appear in paintings until the Yam period along with shells and other marine images”
B: fish, shells and other marine images did not appear in paintings 'until the Yam period'.
“The paintings of the Yam tradition also suggest that, during this time, the Aborigines moved away from animals as their main food source and began including vegetables in their diet, as these feature prominently”
B: the Yam tradition marks the shift from animals to vegetables in the diet, and these 'feature prominently'.
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It is Part 4 of Cambridge IELTS 8 Listening Test 4, and it covers Questions 31–40.
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