Cambridge IELTS 7 · Listening · Test 3 · Part 4
Hotels and the Tourist Industry — IELTS Listening Answers
All 10 answers for Hotels and the Tourist Industry, Cambridge IELTS 7 Listening Test 3 Part 4, with the transcript evidence and an explanation for each.
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Hotels and the Tourist Industry 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 (Q31–34). Each section below gives the strategy for that question type, the answers, and the sentence that proves them.
Questions 31–34: 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.
“You wake up in the middle of the night in a strange hotel miles away from home, disoriented most probably from jet lag, when even the most expensive surroundings can seem empty and dispiriting”
B: the opening image is a traveller waking 'in the middle of the night in a strange hotel', disoriented by jet lag.
“The research suggests that even the most opulent, luxurious hotels seem to have underestimated the most basic needs of their customers - be they travelling for work or pleasure: the need to feel at home in surroundings which are both familiar and inviting”
B: even opulent hotels 'underestimated the most basic needs', especially feeling 'at home in surroundings which are both familiar and inviting'.
“The company's research covered a whole range of different hotel types, both independent hotels and those which are part of large chains”
A: the research covered 'a whole range of different hotel types', including independent hotels and large chains.
“And the research concluded that what was outside the hotel building simply didn't matter”
C: the conclusion was that 'what was outside the hotel building simply didn't matter'.
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Frequently asked questions
Where does the Hotels and the Tourist Industry listening section come from?
It is Part 4 of Cambridge IELTS 7 Listening Test 3, and it covers Questions 31–40.
What question types appear in Hotels and the Tourist Industry?
The part is tested with One Choice. Each type is explained on this page, alongside the answers.
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