Cambridge IELTS 12 · Listening · Test 4 · Part 4
Noise in Cities — IELTS Listening Answers
All 10 answers for Noise in Cities, Cambridge IELTS 12 Listening Test 4 Part 4, with the transcript evidence and an explanation for each.
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Noise in Cities answer key at a glance
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.
“So they ignore important issues such as the noise someone might hear from the open windows or gardens of their neighbours”
Planners overlook noise from 'the open windows or gardens of their neighbours', so gardens names a neglected source.
“they’ve been useful in providing information and raising awareness that noise matters, we need to deal with it and so it’s a political matter.”
Campaigners show noise 'matters, we need to deal with it and so it's a political matter', so political describes the issue.
“if schoolchildren don’t have a quiet place to study, their work will suffer.”
Without 'a quiet place to study, their work will suffer', so work is what children lose; study is also accepted.
“Some types of sounds that most people would probably think of as nice and relaxing might well score quite highly in decibel levels – think of the sound made by a fountain in a town square, for example.”
Even pleasant sounds can be loud: 'think of the sound made by a fountain in a town square', so fountain is the example.
“Instead, many researchers are using social science techniques, studying people’s emotional response to sound by using questionnaires and so on.”
Researchers now use 'social science techniques', studying emotional responses through questionnaires, so social is the adjective.
“a city needs to have a sense of activity, so it needs to be lively, with sounds like the clack of high heels on a pavement or the hiss of a coffee machine, but these mustn’t be too intrusive, because at the same time we need to be able to relax.”
A city needs 'a sense of activity, so it needs to be lively', so lively is the adjective required.
“One of the major problems in achieving this will be getting architects and town planners to use the research. Apart from studying the basics of acoustics, these people receive very little training in this area.”
Architects and planners 'receive very little training in this area', so training is what they lack.
“We need to develop a complex understanding of many factors. What is the relationship between sound and culture?”
One question asks about 'the relationship between sound and culture', so culture is the noun paired with sound.
“Can we learn anything from physics about the nature of sound itself?”
Physics can teach us about 'the nature of sound itself', so nature is the noun needed before 'of sound'.
“architects and town planners already use virtual reality – but these programs are silent.”
Virtual reality programs exist but 'these programs are silent', so silent describes their missing sound.
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Frequently asked questions
Where does the Noise in Cities listening section come from?
It is Part 4 of Cambridge IELTS 12 Listening Test 4, and it covers Questions 31–40.
What question types appear in Noise in Cities?
The part is tested with Note Completion. Each type is explained on this page, alongside the answers.
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