Cambridge IELTS 17 · Listening · Test 1 · Part 3
Work Experience For Veterinary Science Students — IELTS Listening Answers
All 10 answers for Work Experience For Veterinary Science Students, Cambridge IELTS 17 Listening Test 1 Part 3, with the transcript evidence and an explanation for each.
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Questions 21–30. Tap an answer to see the evidence.
What this part tests
This part is tested with One Choice (Q21–26). Each section below gives the strategy for that question type, the answers, and the sentence that proves them.
Questions 21–26: 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 21–26
- ATim found this easier than expected.
- BTim thought this was not very clearly organised.
- CDiana may do some further study on this.
- DThey both found the reading required for this was difficult.
- ETim was shocked at something he learned on this module.
- FThey were both surprised how little is known about some aspects of this.
“But finding the right sort of farm to apply to wasn’t easy.”
A fits because Tim stresses that 'finding the right sort of farm to apply to wasn't easy', so choosing a placement was the hard part.
“I was up most of one night helping a sheep deliver a lamb …”
B matches the demanding side of farm work: Tim was 'up most of one night helping a sheep deliver a lamb'.
“So were they bred for their meat?”
B is right because Tim asks whether the animals 'were bred for their meat', the point he wanted clarified.
“And he didn’t give them as a matter of routine, just at times when the chickens seemed to particularly require them.”
A fits the farmer's practice of not giving the treatment 'as a matter of routine', only when the chickens 'particularly require' it.
“But I got mixed up, and I poured some milk from the wrong cow in with the milk for humans, so the whole lot had to be thrown away.”
C matches Diana's mix-up, which meant 'the whole lot had to be thrown away' after the wrong milk was added.
“Well, he didn’t agree with that, but he said that actually some of the stuff the vets do, like minor operations, he’d be quite capable of doing himself.”
C is correct: the farmer thought minor operations were things 'he'd be quite capable of doing himself'.
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Frequently asked questions
Where does the Work Experience For Veterinary Science Students listening section come from?
It is Part 3 of Cambridge IELTS 17 Listening Test 1, and it covers Questions 21–30.
What question types appear in Work Experience For Veterinary Science Students?
The part is tested with One Choice. Each type is explained on this page, alongside the answers.
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