Cambridge IELTS 8 · Listening · Test 2 · Part 4
What People in Britain Think of Doctors — IELTS Listening Answers
All 10 answers for What People in Britain Think of Doctors, Cambridge IELTS 8 Listening Test 2 Part 4, with the transcript evidence and an explanation for each.
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What People in Britain Think of Doctors answer key at a glance
Questions 31–40. Tap an answer to see the evidence.
What this part tests
This part is tested with One Choice (Q31–36). Each section below gives the strategy for that question type, the answers, and the sentence that proves them.
Questions 31–36: 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.
Options for Questions 31–36
- Agave false data
- Bdecided to stop participating
- Crefused to tell Shona about their job
- Dkept changing their mind about participating
- Ebecame very angry with Shona
- Fwas worried about confidentiality
“Now I had to set up my programme of research in three different countries so I approached postgraduates in my field in overseas departments, contacting them by email, to organise things for me at their end”
B is correct: she set the project up by emailing postgraduates 'in overseas departments' to organise the research at their end.
“I decided that people under 18 should be excluded because most of them are students or looking for their first job, and also I decided at this stage just to focus on men who were in employment”
B is correct: under-18s were 'excluded' and she chose to 'focus on men who were in employment'.
“With the questionnaire, rather than limiting it to one specific point, I wanted to include as much variety as possible”
A is correct: the questionnaire aimed to 'include as much variety as possible' rather than one specific point.
“At the moment it looks as if, in the UK, despite the fact that newspapers continually report that people are unhappy with medical care, in fact it is mainly the third level of care, which takes place in hospitals, that they are worried about.”
A is correct: newspapers claim people are unhappy, yet hospital care is 'less of an issue than the media would have us believe'.
“Certainly I will need to do more far-reaching research than I had anticipated in order to establish if people want extra medical staff invested in the community, or if they want care to revert to fewer, but larger, key medical units”
C is correct: more 'far-reaching research' is needed to learn whether people want community staff or fewer, larger medical units.
“But I was taken aback and rather concerned that something I thought I'd set up very well didn't necessarily seem that way to everyone in my own department”
C is correct: she was 'taken aback' that her own department did not see the project as well set up.
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Frequently asked questions
Where does the What People in Britain Think of Doctors listening section come from?
It is Part 4 of Cambridge IELTS 8 Listening Test 2, and it covers Questions 31–40.
What question types appear in What People in Britain Think of Doctors?
The part is tested with One Choice. Each type is explained on this page, alongside the answers.
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