Cambridge IELTS 4 · Listening · Test 2 · Part 1
Tourist Information and Sightseeing — IELTS Listening Answers
All 10 answers for Tourist Information and Sightseeing, Cambridge IELTS 4 Listening Test 2 Part 1, with the transcript evidence and an explanation for each.
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Tourist Information and Sightseeing answer key at a glance
Questions 1–10. Tap an answer to see the evidence.
What this part tests
This part is tested with One Choice (Q1–5). Each section below gives the strategy for that question type, the answers, and the sentence that proves them.
Questions 1–5: 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.
“I'd love a really chilled mineral water or something. Will you have another coffee”
C — Sally asks for 'a really chilled mineral water', a cold soft drink rather than the coffee Peter offers her.
“Well, the exchange rate was looking healthy, but when I went to the teller, they told me the computer system was temporarily down, so they couldn't do any transactions”
C — the teller reports 'the computer system was temporarily down', so the transaction failed despite a healthy exchange rate.
“No, he was a tourist, from New York. His name's Henry, and he's been here for a week, but he's moving on to Germany tomorrow”
B — Henry is 'a tourist, from New York', here for a week before moving on to Germany.
“Oh, and he also gave me this map of the bus system”
B — he gave her 'this map of the bus system', so a bus map is the item she received.
“PETER: Well, I'm hungry, and we've got a lot of sightseeing to do, so let's just have a snack and a drink.SALLY: Sounds good to me”
A — Peter suggests they 'just have a snack and a drink' because there is a lot of sightseeing to do.
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Frequently asked questions
Where does the Tourist Information and Sightseeing listening section come from?
It is Part 1 of Cambridge IELTS 4 Listening Test 2, and it covers Questions 1–10.
What question types appear in Tourist Information and Sightseeing?
The part is tested with One Choice. Each type is explained on this page, alongside the answers.
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