Cambridge IELTS 1 · Listening · Test 1 · Part 1
Reporting a Stolen Briefcase — IELTS Listening Answers
All 10 answers for Reporting a Stolen Briefcase, Cambridge IELTS 1 Listening Test 1 Part 1, with the transcript evidence and an explanation for each.
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Reporting a Stolen Briefcase answer key at a glance
Questions 1–10. Tap an answer to see the evidence.
What this part tests
This part is tested with One Choice (Q1–5). Each section below gives the strategy for that question type, the answers, and the sentence that proves them.
Questions 1–5: 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.
“it's a soft leather one, you know, not a heavy box-type like a man's. and how does it close?W: It's got buckles at the front two of them They're gold-plated ones”
A: the briefcase is 'a soft leather one... not a heavy box-type', matching the soft-leather description.
“W: Only the brand name.P: And where's that? W: It's on the back at the bottom in the left-hand corner. It's Sagi. Oh and there's a scratch it's quite bad but small directly above the brand name”
C: the brand name is 'on the back at the bottom in the left-hand corner', with a bad scratch just above it.
“Well all my papers from college. It's so frustrating but, thank goodness for computers, I haven't lost them completely!P: Yes, you're lucky.W: I had my wallet in my pocket so I didn't lose that but there were also my pens which I got for my birthday and a novel I was planning to read on the train”
D: the lost contents were 'all my papers from college', the only items she could not replace.
“I was standing on the platform it was right next to me I'd just put it down on the floor but I could almost feel it beside me”
D: the case was 'standing on the platform... right next to me' when it disappeared, so it was close by.
“it must have been about 5.20 no a bit later. I'd say 5.30 because it was just getting crowded and the train normally comes at about twenty-five to six”
C: she corrects 5.20 to '5.30', noting the growing crowd and the train's usual arrival at twenty-five to six.
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It is Part 1 of Cambridge IELTS 1 Listening Test 1, and it covers Questions 1–10.
What question types appear in Reporting a Stolen Briefcase?
The part is tested with One Choice. Each type is explained on this page, alongside the answers.
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