Cambridge IELTS 4 · Listening · Test 2 · Part 2
The University Counselling Service — IELTS Listening Answers
All 10 answers for The University Counselling Service, Cambridge IELTS 4 Listening Test 2 Part 2, with the transcript evidence and an explanation for each.
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The University Counselling Service answer key at a glance
Questions 11–20. Tap an answer to see the evidence.
What this part tests
This part is tested with One Choice (Q11–20). Each section below gives the strategy for that question type, the answers, and the sentence that proves them.
Questions 11–20: 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.
“We can also chase up your tutor if you're not getting proper feedback on how you are getting on in your subject”
C — the service will 'chase up your tutor' when feedback on how a student is progressing is missing.
“You'll have to start adjusting to teaching and learning methods that may be unfamiliar to you, as well as the mounting pressure as the deadline for that first assignment creeps up on you”
B — students face 'teaching and learning methods that may be unfamiliar' plus pressure as the first assignment deadline approaches.
“And of course, you have to cope with all this without your usual social network - you know, the social contacts, family and friends you could normally rely on for help”
A — they must cope without 'the social contacts, family and friends' they normally rely on for help.
“Studying overseas can trigger a personal crisis - you may have left a lot of what you might call 'unfinished business' back in your own country, or you may have interrupted personal relationships or even sometimes have broken them off to come overseas, and so the student often feels lonely, unhappy,”
C — a 'personal crisis' with 'unfinished business' or broken relationships leaves students lonely and unable to concentrate.
“There may be a huge amount of family pressure on you to succeed, and if you fail a subject or drop out of a course because it's too difficult then your self-esteem can suffer”
B — 'a huge amount of family pressure... to succeed' damages self-esteem if a subject is failed or a course abandoned.
“You may also be off your food, or you may have dietary problems because the local food is not to your liking and upsets you, and this can affect your health and studies. Glenda Roberts is our dietician in the Health Service and we can put you on to her”
C — dietary problems caused by local food affect health and studies, so students are referred to dietician Glenda Roberts.
“But remember, full-time students can get a low-interest loan of up to six hundred dollars to buy books and for similar study-related expenses”
A — full-time students may take 'a low-interest loan of up to six hundred dollars' for books and study expenses.
“When you move into a flat, starting-up expenses, including furniture for it, can be covered by a loan through the Welfare Service - see Jill Freeman for details”
B — flat starting-up costs such as furniture are 'covered by a loan through the Welfare Service', arranged with Jill Freeman.
“Well, last academic year, in spite of staff cuts, we counselled two hundred and forty international students for a total of twenty-six hundred hours counselling”
B — last year the service counselled 'two hundred and forty international students' for 'twenty-six hundred hours'.
“Well, last academic year, in spite of staff cuts, we counselled two hundred and forty international students for a total of twenty-six hundred hours counselling, and, finally we won all but just one of the twelve appeals that we launched on behalf of students. Not too bad for an understaffed service, don't you think”
A — they won 'all but just one of the twelve appeals', meaning eleven of the twelve succeeded.
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It is Part 2 of Cambridge IELTS 4 Listening Test 2, and it covers Questions 11–20.
What question types appear in The University Counselling Service?
The part is tested with One Choice. Each type is explained on this page, alongside the answers.
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