Cambridge IELTS 4 · Listening · Test 1 · Part 4
The Urban Landscape — IELTS Listening Answers
All 10 answers for The Urban Landscape, Cambridge IELTS 4 Listening Test 1 Part 4, with the transcript evidence and an explanation for each.
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The Urban Landscape 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.
“There are two major areas that I will focus on in my talk: how vegetation can have a significant effect on urban climate, and how we can better plan our cities using trees to provide a more comfortable environment for us to live in”
After 'plan our', the gap needs a plural noun for the urban areas trees improve, and 'cities' matches the talk's focus on urban climate.
“They can make a city, as a whole, a bit less windy or a bit more windy, if that's what you want”
The gap needs an adjective describing wind: trees can make a whole city 'a bit less windy or a bit more windy'.
“they can make it a bit more humid if it's a dry inland city”
A dry inland city becomes 'a bit more humid' once trees are planted, so the adjective humid fills the climate-effect gap.
“On the local scale – that is, in particular areas within the city – trees can make the local area more shady, cooler, more humid and much less windy”
On the local scale, trees make an area 'more shady, cooler, more humid', so the adjective shady is required here.
“In fact trees and planting of various kinds can be used to make city streets actually less dangerous in particular areas”
The adjective follows 'less' in 'less dangerous': planting makes city streets safer, so dangerous is the word needed.
“It evaporates water through its leaves, and that means that the temperature of the leaves is never very far from our own body temperature”
Water 'evaporates through its leaves', so the plural noun leaves is the plant part the gap describes.
“The reason that high buildings make it windier at ground level is that, as the wind goes higher and higher, it goes faster and faster”
High buildings increase wind 'at ground level', so the gap's noun is ground rather than roof or sky.
“Trees filter the wind and considerably reduce it, preventing those very large strong gusts that you so often find around tall buildings”
The verb after 'trees' is filter: trees 'filter the wind and considerably reduce it', so filter fits the gap.
“Low-frequency noise, in particular, just goes through the trees as though they aren't there”
The gap needs the frequency type: 'Low-frequency noise' passes through trees, so the adjective is low.
“Trees need water to grow. They also need some sunlight to grow and you need room to put them”
The gap needs a noun for what trees occupy; the speaker says 'you need room to put them', so space matches room.
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Frequently asked questions
Where does the The Urban Landscape listening section come from?
It is Part 4 of Cambridge IELTS 4 Listening Test 1, and it covers Questions 31–40.
What question types appear in The Urban Landscape?
The part is tested with Note Completion. Each type is explained on this page, alongside the answers.
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