Cambridge IELTS 5 · Listening · Test 1 · Part 4
North American Womens Attitude to Money and Saving — IELTS Listening Answers
All 10 answers for North American Womens Attitude to Money and Saving, Cambridge IELTS 5 Listening Test 1 Part 4, with the transcript evidence and an explanation for each.
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North American Womens Attitude to Money and Saving answer key at a glance
Questions 31–40. Tap an answer to see the evidence.
What this part tests
This part is tested with Sentence Completion (Q31–35). Each section below gives the strategy for that question type, the answers, and the sentence that proves them.
Questions 31–35: Sentence Completion
Strategy: Find the stem's keyword in the transcript, then complete the sentence with the exact words the grammar requires, within the word limit.
“A man is supposed to understand politics, economics and finance and is therefore unwilling to accept essential instruction”
A man is assumed to 'understand politics, economics and finance and is therefore unwilling to accept essential instruction'.
“A woman, having fewer pretensions, is far more willing to learn”
A woman, 'having fewer pretensions, is far more willing to learn', so the verb needed is learn.
“Research studies of women in North America have found that women are far more likely to save for their children's education and they are also more likely to save up in order to buy a house one day”
Women are 'far more likely to save for their children's education' than for other goals.
“The same studies have found that men, on the other hand, tend to save for a car, which by the way takes a surprisingly large amount of the household budget in North America”
Men, by contrast, 'tend to save for a car', which takes a large share of the household budget.
“Since women are likely to be the ones left without a partner in old age, they may therefore have to pay for nursing care, because they don't have a spouse to look after them”
Women left without a partner 'may therefore have to pay for nursing care, because they don't have a spouse to look after them'.
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It is Part 4 of Cambridge IELTS 5 Listening Test 1, and it covers Questions 31–40.
What question types appear in North American Womens Attitude to Money and Saving?
The part is tested with Sentence Completion. Each type is explained on this page, alongside the answers.
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