Cambridge IELTS 9 · Listening · Test 4 · Part 4
Garden Wildlife in the City — IELTS Listening Answers
All 10 answers for Garden Wildlife in the City, Cambridge IELTS 9 Listening Test 4 Part 4, with the transcript evidence and an explanation for each.
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Garden Wildlife in the City answer key at a glance
Questions 31–40. Tap an answer to see the evidence.
What this part tests
This part is tested with One Choice (Q31–36). Each section below gives the strategy for that question type, the answers, and the sentence that proves them.
Questions 31–36: One Choice
Strategy: Read the question stem and predict the answer before looking at the options. Wrong options often repeat words from the audio while the correct one paraphrases them.
“two of the group mentioned that they had seen yet more sparrow-hawks — 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”
C: the surprise was sparrow-hawks appearing in 'their own city centre gardens' in great numbers — an urban sighting, not a rural one.
“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”
A: the group estimated 'about one fifth', then the usage maps gave '24% to be precise' — close to their guess.
“Just over 100 of them completed a survey once every two weeks for twelve months - ticking off species they had seen from a pro forma list - and adding the names of any rarer ones”
B: 'just over 100' gardeners completed the survey 'once every two weeks for twelve months', the method described.
“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”
B: smaller gardens were 'by far the most typical in the city'; the project aimed at 'the norm not the exception'.
“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”
A: alongside the garden survey they were 'studying a lot of books about the decline of wild animals in the countryside'.
“What we've decided to present today is information about just three species - because we felt these gave a good indication of the processes at work in rural and urban settings as a whole”
C: only three species are presented because they 'gave a good indication of the processes at work' in rural and urban settings.
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It is Part 4 of Cambridge IELTS 9 Listening Test 4, and it covers Questions 31–40.
What question types appear in Garden Wildlife in the City?
The part is tested with One Choice. Each type is explained on this page, alongside the answers.
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