Cambridge IELTS 14 · Listening · Test 2 · Part 3
Woolly Mammoths On St Paul’s Island — IELTS Listening Answers
All 10 answers for Woolly Mammoths On St Paul’s Island, Cambridge IELTS 14 Listening Test 2 Part 3, with the transcript evidence and an explanation for each.
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Woolly Mammoths On St Paul’s Island 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 (Q21–24). Each section below gives the strategy for that question type, the answers, and the sentence that proves them.
Questions 21–24: 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.
“it could be a timeline to show when they lived, with illustrations?”
B fits: the suggestion is 'a timeline to show when they lived, with illustrations'.
“Well the mammoth bones previously found on the North American mainland were much less recent than that.”
C fits because mainland bones were 'much less recent', so the island date is surprisingly late.
“So those mammoths on the island couldn’t escape; they had to stay on the island.”
A fits: the mammoths 'couldn't escape; they had to stay on the island', so isolation explains their fate.
“They concluded that the extinction happened 5,600 years ago, which is a very precise time for a prehistoric extinction.”
A fits: the extinction was dated to '5,600 years ago', described as 'a very precise time'.
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Frequently asked questions
Where does the Woolly Mammoths On St Paul’s Island listening section come from?
It is Part 3 of Cambridge IELTS 14 Listening Test 2, and it covers Questions 21–30.
What question types appear in Woolly Mammoths On St Paul’s Island?
The part is tested with One Choice. Each type is explained on this page, alongside the answers.
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