Cambridge IELTS 7 · Listening · Test 2 · Part 3
The Role of the Antarctic Centre and the Antarctic Treaty — IELTS Listening Answers
All 9 answers for The Role of the Antarctic Centre and the Antarctic Treaty, Cambridge IELTS 7 Listening Test 2 Part 3, with the transcript evidence and an explanation for each.
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The Role of the Antarctic Centre and the Antarctic Treaty answer key at a glance
Questions 21–30. Tap an answer to see the evidence.
What this part tests
This part is tested with One Choice (Q21–26). Each section below gives the strategy for that question type, the answers, and the sentence that proves them.
Questions 21–26: 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.
“Well actually New Zealand is the second closest country to Antarctica and Christchurch is often used on Antarctic expeditions”
B: New Zealand is 'the second closest country to Antarctica', and Christchurch is 'often used on Antarctic expeditions'.
“the centre contains a clothing warehouse where expeditions are supplied with suitable clothing for the extreme conditions”
A: the centre has a 'clothing warehouse where expeditions are supplied with suitable clothing' for extreme conditions.
“the visitors' centre aims to recreate the atmosphere of Antarctica. There's a mock camp site where you can see inside an Antarctic tent and imagine yourself sleeping there”
C: a 'mock camp site' lets visitors see inside an Antarctic tent and recreate the atmosphere.
“each time I'm struck by the awesome beauty of the place. It's magnificent”
B: she is struck each time by 'the awesome beauty of the place', which she calls magnificent.
“Antarctica is a land mass shaped like a dome, with the result that the winds blow down the slopes at speeds of up to 150 km an hour and that's what makes it so cold”
A: the dome-shaped land mass makes 'the winds blow down the slopes at speeds of up to 150 km an hour'.
“. . . because fossils and rocks have been discovered in Antarctica which are the same as those found in places such as Africa and Australia”
B: identical 'fossils and rocks' found in Africa and Australia suggest the continents were once joined.
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It is Part 3 of Cambridge IELTS 7 Listening Test 2, and it covers Questions 21–30.
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The part is tested with One Choice. Each type is explained on this page, alongside the answers.
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