Cambridge IELTS 8 · Listening · Test 3 · Part 4
Success in Business System — IELTS Listening Answers
All 10 answers for Success in Business System, Cambridge IELTS 8 Listening Test 3 Part 4, with the transcript evidence and an explanation for each.
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Success in Business System answer key at a glance
Questions 31–40. Tap an answer to see the evidence.
What this part tests
This part is tested with One Choice (Q31–34). Each section below gives the strategy for that question type, the answers, and the sentence that proves them.
Questions 31–34: 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 less glamorous activity than pure innovation, but it actually happens more often, as a matter of fact”
B: the process is 'less glamorous than pure innovation' yet 'actually happens more often'.
“A host of studies confirm this, covering a wide range of business settings: branch banks, retail stores, real estate agencies, factories, call centres . . . to name but a few”
B: a host of studies 'confirm this', covering 'a wide range of business settings' rather than one industry.
“Now, this approach can be used if you want to gain a rough understanding of a particular system, or understand smaller, isolated problems”
B: the approach suits only 'a rough understanding' or 'smaller, isolated problems', so its use is limited.
“Some may be difficult to describe – learned on the job and well known by workers perhaps, but impossible to describe in a way that's helpful”
A: such knowledge is 'difficult to describe' because it is 'learned on the job' rather than written down.
Learn the question types in this part
Frequently asked questions
Where does the Success in Business System listening section come from?
It is Part 4 of Cambridge IELTS 8 Listening Test 3, and it covers Questions 31–40.
What question types appear in Success in Business System?
The part is tested with One Choice. Each type is explained on this page, alongside the answers.
Are these reading answers reliable?
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