Cambridge IELTS 14 · Listening · Test 4 · Part 4
The Hunt For Sunken Settlements And Ancient Shipwrecks — IELTS Listening Answers
All 10 answers for The Hunt For Sunken Settlements And Ancient Shipwrecks, Cambridge IELTS 14 Listening Test 4 Part 4, with the transcript evidence and an explanation for each.
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The Hunt For Sunken Settlements And Ancient Shipwrecks 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.
“seven half-tonne stones standing in a semicircle around a spring, that might have been used for ceremonial purposes.”
The stones stood 'in a semicircle around a spring', so 'spring' names the water feature.
“Research on the buildings, tools and the human remains has revealed how the bustling village once functioned”
Research on 'the buildings, tools and the human remains' revealed how the village worked.
“Autonomous underwater vehicles, or AUVs, are used in the oil industry, for instance, to create maps of the seabed before rigs and pipelines are installed.”
In the oil industry, AUVs 'create maps of the seabed', so 'maps' fills the gap.
“Until relatively recently they were very expensive, and so heavy that they had to be launched from a large vessel with a winch.”
Early AUVs were expensive and 'so heavy' they needed a winch on a large vessel.
“The site is the final resting place of an ancient Roman ship, which sank in the sixth century AD while ferrying prefabricated marble elements for the construction of an early church”
The wreck was carrying 'prefabricated marble elements' for an early church, so 'marble' fits.
“For short distances, AUVs can share data using light, while acoustic waves are used to communicate over long distances.”
For short distances AUVs 'share data using light', while sound covers long distances.
“with a nearby AUV that carries superior cameras, and arrange for that AUV to make a closer inspection of the object.”
A nearby AUV 'carries superior cameras', so it can inspect the object more closely.
“When it sank, it was carrying medical goods, in wooden or tin receptacles.”
When it sank the ship 'was carrying medical goods', so 'medical' describes the cargo.
“Its cargo gives us insight into the treatments available all those years ago, including tablets that are thought to have been dissolved to form a cleansing liquid for the eyes.”
Some tablets were dissolved into 'a cleansing liquid for the eyes', so 'eyes' fills the gap.
“Some were used for transporting cargoes of olive oil, and others held wine.”
Some containers held olive oil and 'others held wine', so 'wine' is the second cargo.
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It is Part 4 of Cambridge IELTS 14 Listening Test 4, and it covers Questions 31–40.
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The part is tested with Note Completion. Each type is explained on this page, alongside the answers.
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