Cambridge IELTS 6 · Listening · Test 2 · Part 4
History of Moving Pictures — IELTS Listening Answers
All 10 answers for History of Moving Pictures, Cambridge IELTS 6 Listening Test 2 Part 4, with the transcript evidence and an explanation for each.
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History of Moving Pictures 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 (Q31–37). Each section below gives the strategy for that question type, the answers, and the sentence that proves them.
Questions 31–37: 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.
“To settle the bet, a photographer was asked to photograph a horse galloping and the bet was settled because you could see that all the hooves were off the ground in some of the photos”
A: the bet was settled because 'all the hooves were off the ground in some of the photos', proving a galloping horse lifts every foot.
“Now this young fellow was clever because the first thing he did was study other systems - primitive as they were - of moving pictures and then put all the existing technologies together to make the first entire motion picture system”
B: he 'studied other systems ... and then put all the existing technologies together to make the first entire motion picture system'.
“The camera weighed over 200 kilograms and only one person at a time could see the film”
C: the camera 'weighed over 200 kilograms and only one person at a time could see the film', so it was heavy and limited.
“Well now, news of the new system in America travelled fast and a number of rival European systems started to appear once people had heard about it”
A: news of the American system 'travelled fast and a number of rival European systems started to appear once people had heard about it'.
“Then in 1895, three systems were all developed, more or less at the same time and independently of each other. I guess the most famous of these was by the Lumière Brothers from France, and they called their system the cinematographe”
A: in 1895 three systems appeared 'more or less at the same time and independently of each other', the Lumière one being most famous.
“A continuing problem at the time was that the films had a tendency to break when they were being played - a problem which was caused by the tension between the two wheels, or 'reels' as they are called, which hold the film”
C: films 'had a tendency to break when they were being played', caused by 'the tension between the two wheels, or reels'.
“They developed the 'Lantham Loop', which was the simple addition of a third reel between the two main reels, and this took all the tension away with the result that the film stopped snapping”
A: the Lantham Loop added 'a third reel between the two main reels', which 'took all the tension away', stopping the film snapping.
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Frequently asked questions
Where does the History of Moving Pictures listening section come from?
It is Part 4 of Cambridge IELTS 6 Listening Test 2, and it covers Questions 31–40.
What question types appear in History of Moving Pictures?
The part is tested with One Choice. Each type is explained on this page, alongside the answers.
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