Cambridge IELTS 19 · Listening · Test 2 · Part 2
Working As A Lifeboat Volunteer — IELTS Listening Answers
All 8 answers for Working As A Lifeboat Volunteer, Cambridge IELTS 19 Listening Test 2 Part 2, with the transcript evidence and an explanation for each.
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Working As A Lifeboat Volunteer answer key at a glance
Questions 11–20. Tap an answer to see the evidence.
What this part tests
This part is tested with One Choice (Q11–16). Each section below gives the strategy for that question type, the answers, and the sentence that proves them.
Questions 11–16: 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 never really planned to be a lifeboat volunteer when I came to live in Northsea. I’d been working in London as a website designer, but although that was interesting, I didn’t like city life.”
Option A fits: he had been really keen on boats as a teenager and moved to the coast to pursue that interest, not for work.
“It was built 15 years ago with funds provided by a generous member of the public, who’d lived here all her life.”
Option B fits: the station was built fifteen years ago with funds from a generous member of the public, so a private donation paid for it.
“They gave me tests for colour blindness and they thought I might have a problem there, but it turned out I was OK.”
Option A fits: the colour blindness tests made them suspect a problem, but it turned out he was fine, so his sight was acceptable.
“When the coastguard gets an alert, all the volunteers are contacted and rush to the lifeboat station. Our target’s to get there in five minutes, then we try to get the boat off the dock and out to sea in another six to eight minutes.”
Option B fits: volunteers aim to reach the station in five minutes and launch in another six to eight, so about eleven minutes in total.
“And it’s ultimately my decision whether it’s safe to launch the boat.”
Option C fits: it is ultimately his decision whether it is safe to launch the boat, so the final call rests with him.
“As well as going out on the lifeboat, my work involves other things too. A lot of people underestimate how windy conditions can change at sea, so I speak to youth groups and sailing clubs in the area about the sorts of problems that sailors and swimmers can have if the weather suddenly gets bad.”
Option A fits: he speaks to youth groups and sailing clubs about how quickly conditions change at sea, which is his educational work.
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Frequently asked questions
Where does the Working As A Lifeboat Volunteer listening section come from?
It is Part 2 of Cambridge IELTS 19 Listening Test 2, and it covers Questions 11–20.
What question types appear in Working As A Lifeboat Volunteer?
The part is tested with One Choice. Each type is explained on this page, alongside the answers.
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