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IELTS Listening 2024 past questions and answers

This 2024 IELTS Listening set has 24 practice questions. Try these 5 free sample questions, tap a question to reveal the answer and explanation. Then practise the whole 2024 set with instant marking.

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Sample IELTS Listening 2024 questions

1. Why was the rooftop garden first established?
  1. To provide a meeting place for local residents
  2. To supply vegetables to nearby restaurants
  3. To offer gardening lessons to schoolchildren
  4. To create a rooftop café

Answer: A. To provide a meeting place for local residents

Priya says the first plan was to create a welcoming place for nearby residents to meet.

2. What is the central growing area mainly used for?
  1. Herbs for the café
  2. Flowers for pollinating insects
  3. Vegetables for school lunches
  4. Plants for the reading deck

Answer: B. Flowers for pollinating insects

The guide identifies the central area as flowers intended to attract pollinating insects.

3. What do visitors now mainly use the shaded reading deck for?
  1. Eating lunch in silence
  2. Attending gardening classes
  3. Swapping books and practising languages
  4. Watching fish in the pond

Answer: C. Swapping books and practising languages

Although intended as a quiet lunch corner, the deck is now used for book swaps and language exchanges.

4. Why are visitors asked not to pick plants unless they are marked?
  1. The beds are reserved for specific groups
  2. The roof cannot support visitors carrying plants
  3. The café has requested exclusive use
  4. Earlier picking left several beds stripped

Answer: D. Earlier picking left several beds stripped

Priya explains that picking was stopped after visitors stripped several beds in one afternoon.

5. What is the subject of the next Wednesday evening demonstration?
  1. Composting
  2. Seed saving
  3. Rainwater collection
  4. Growing salad leaves

Answer: A. Composting

The guide corrects the earlier advertisement and says the coming session is about composting.

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