Cambridge IELTS 1 · Listening · Test 3 · Part 4
Space Management in Supermarkets — IELTS Listening Answers
All 10 answers for Space Management in Supermarkets, Cambridge IELTS 1 Listening Test 3 Part 4, with the transcript evidence and an explanation for each.
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Space Management in Supermarkets answer key at a glance
Questions 33–42. Tap an answer to see the evidence.
What this part tests
This part is tested with Table Completion (Q33–37). Each section below gives the strategy for that question type, the answers, and the sentence that proves them.
Questions 33–37: Table Completion
Strategy: Work row by row. The row label tells you where to look; the column heading tells you what kind of word you need.
“There is, for example, the simple and direct questionnaire which provides information from customers about their views on displays and products and then helps retailers make decisions about what to put where”
Questionnaires gather customers' views on 'displays and products', so displays is the first item needed.
“Another method to help managers understand just how shoppers go around their stores are the hidden television cameras that film us as we shop and monitor our physical movement around the supermarket aisles: where do we start, what do we buy last, what attracts us, etc”
Stores use 'hidden television cameras that film us as we shop', so hidden TV cameras.
“More sophisticated techniques now include video surveillance and such devices as the eye movement recorder. This is a device which shoppers volunteer to wear taped into a headband, and which traces their eye movements as they walk round the shop recording the most eye-catching areas of shelves and aisles”
The device is 'the eye movement recorder', worn in a headband to trace where shoppers look.
“Now, an example of this is Spaceman which is a computer program that helps the retailer to decide which particular product sells best in which part of the store”
The program is called 'Spaceman', a proper noun that shows which product sells best where.
“Spaceman then suggests the most profitable combination of an article and its position in the store”
Spaceman suggests 'the most profitable combination of an article and its position in the store'.
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It is Part 4 of Cambridge IELTS 1 Listening Test 3, and it covers Questions 33–42.
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The part is tested with Table Completion. Each type is explained on this page, alongside the answers.
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