IELTS Listening Exercise: Multiple choice.

Exercise 2

Here you will find IELTS Listening exercise for multiple choice questions. By completing this exercise you will improve your IELTS Listening skills and develop specific techniques for answering multiple choice questions.

Multiple choice questions usually contain 3 answers and only one of them is correct. Your task is to choose the correct answer. Multiple choice questions are common for parts 2, 3 and 4 of IELTS Listening test.

To succeed in IELTS Listening multiple choice questions you should:

Be patient. You are likely to hear ALL the given answers, so choosing the one you hear the first is not a good strategy.
Be attentive - sometimes the speaker can correct himself or give new details.
Beware of order - the answers will not necessarily be in the same order as the speaker gives information.

Now listen to the recording and choose the correct letter, A, B, or C.

The narrator choose which of the following books, as his favourite?

During the first minute of the recording, we can hear the narrator contemplating his two favourite book by Robert Louis Stevenson: Treasure Island and Kidnapped. So choice C is incorrect. Later on, we can hear the narrator says: "Stevenson begin to write "Kidnapped"..." And from the context, it can be understood that B is the right answer.
1. Treasure Island
2. Kidnapped
3. A Child's Garden of Verses

Louise joined the narrator primarily because

The narrator describes Louise as a writer and Stevenson's admirer, but it is a description of Louise. Then the narrato says: "...With me is Louise...to take us through a story..." So the right answer is C.
1. she was lucky to be selected randomly from a group of readers to join
2. she is a writer and likes Robert Louis Stevenson
3. she will help to take people through the story of "Kidnapped"

Louise envies people who have not yet read "Kidnapped" because

We can hear Louise say: "I almost envy them [people, who have not read "Kidnapped], because they're in for such an amazing treat..." This indicates the A is the correct answer.
1. they still have this great novel awaiting for them
2. it is the best work of Stevenson
3. it appeals to all kinds of people
Alan Breck and David Balfour are considered to be opposite, because

We can hear Louise say that ...They really are opposite. Youth with experience,..., a catholic with a protestant... The answer A says that one is yound and other is old, but experienced doesn't mean old, so both A and C is incorrect.
1. one is young and the other is old
2. one is catholic and the other is protestant
3. Both A and B

It is common for Stevenson to

We can hear in the last part of the recording: "...I think it is typicall of him that these two very different people [a protagonist and a villian] actually form a wonderfull, loyal friendship". So we can see that B is the right answer.
1. fill his works with tension
2. make a protagonist and a villian form a friendship in his works
3. tell a story of a natinal/historical conflict in his works

What part of Scottish landscape plays major role in the book?

One of the speakers says: "The whole landscape of Scotland is a character in the book, but it seems that water plays the special part..." So answer C is correct.
1. Fields
2. Mountains
3. Water

Which of the following about Robert Louis Stevenson isn't true?

We can hear speakers mentioning that Stevenson was an engineering apprentice for his father and that he died in his forties. We also hear that Stevenson was living in the South Seas, but there is no evidence that he died on a ship. So answer A is correct.
1. He died on a ship
2. He was in his forties when he died
3. He was an engineering apprentice

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IELTS Listening Exercise: Multiple choice.

Exercise 2