Cambridge IELTS 21 · Listening · Test 4 · Part 4
Music Therapy for Surgical Patients — IELTS Listening Answers
All 10 answers for Music Therapy for Surgical Patients, Cambridge IELTS 21 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 Note Completion (Q31–40). Each section below gives the strategy for that question type, the answers, and the sentence that proves them.
Questions 31–40: Note Completion
Strategy: Predict the word class from the note, find the paraphrase of the note's keyword in the transcript, then copy the answer exactly within the word limit.
“They may also be negatively affected by having their routine disturbed, you know, like if they can't do the things they normally do, or have to devote a lot of time to appointments such as physiotherapy, to aid their recovery”
One negative effect: patients' 'routine' is disturbed when they cannot do normal things and spend time on appointments.
“They identified nearly a hundred trials involving a total of seven thousand patients who were played recorded music as part of their post-operative care”
Evidence base: 'nearly a hundred trials involving a total of seven thousand patients', so 'trials' follows 'a hundred'.
“However, a common factor was that the chosen music had a calming quality”
Common factor: 'the chosen music had a calming quality', so the adjective 'calming' describes it.
“More often though, the mode of delivery was by what are known as music pillows”
Delivery method: often 'by what are known as music pillows', so the plural 'pillows' completes the term.
“When asked to report their experience of listening to music, surgical patients said that either they had no feelings of anxiety at any point, or those feelings were only slight”
Patients reported 'no feelings of anxiety at any point, or those feelings were only slight', so 'anxiety' fits.
“And in every case, those who were given music to listen to didn't need as much medication to ease their pain as those patients who weren't played music”
Music listeners 'didn't need as much medication to ease their pain', so 'medication' is the reduced item.
“And it even worked when patients were played music under general anaesthetic, although the positive effects were greater when patients were awake”
The effect was stronger 'when patients were awake' than under general anaesthetic, so 'awake' fits.
“A lot of people listen to music in daily life as a way to relax and forget their problems, but the researchers came to the conclusion that it worked on patients by distraction”
Mechanism: researchers 'came to the conclusion that it worked on patients by distraction', not relaxation.
“They say patients should be able to choose what they'd like to listen to, and if they prefer, recordings taken from nature can be just as good as music”
Alternative: 'recordings taken from nature can be just as good as music' if patients prefer them.
“Clearly, there's more to learn about this area, and the team now plan to focus their next research on the most appropriate volume to play the music at”
Future research will focus on 'the most appropriate volume to play the music at', so 'volume'.
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Where does the Music Therapy for Surgical Patients listening section come from?
It is Part 4 of Cambridge IELTS 21 Listening Test 4, and it covers Questions 31–40.
What question types appear in Music Therapy for Surgical Patients?
The part is tested with Note Completion. Each type is explained on this page, alongside the answers.
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