IELTS Listening Practice Test 76 with Audio and Answer Key

Step up your preparation with the IELTS Listening Practice Test. Test your listening skills, then explore the transcript and answer key to understand your results.

In this test, you will listen to 4 Sections and answer Questions 1–40 based on the information you hear. Each Section reflects a typical situation you may encounter in the actual IELTS Listening exam.

• Section 1: A tourist information officer recommends family-friendly excursions, including a lake cruise, farm visit, and cycling trail. 

• Section 2: A restaurant manager welcomes new kitchen assistants and explains their duties, workplace rules, safety procedures, and key staff roles. 

• Section 3: Two library science students plan a research paper on public libraries, discussing their changing role and ideas for a case study.  

• Section 4: A business lecturer examines common business values—collaboration, hard work, creativity, and excellence—and explains how they can sometimes hinder success. 

By completing this practice test, you can strengthen your listening skills, understand spoken English more effectively, and prepare yourself confidently for the IELTS exam.

IELTS Listening Practice Test 76

Section 1

Questions 1-10

Complete the notes below.

FAMILY EXCURSIONS

Cruise On A Lake

• Travel on an old steamship
• Can take photos of the 1. ............  that surround the lake

Farm Visit

• Children can help feed the sheep
• Visit can include a 40-minute ride on a 2. ............ 
• Visitors can walk in the farm’s 3. ...............  by the lake
• 4. ..............  is available at extra cost

Cycling Trips

• Cyclists explore the back road
• A 5. ...............  is provided
• Only suitable for cyclists who have some 6. .............. 
  
  • Bikes can be hired from 7. .................  (near the cruise ship terminal)
• Cyclists Need:
  • A repair kit
  • Food and drink
  • A 8. ................  (can be hired)
• There are no 9. ............... or accommodation in the area

Cost

• Total cost for the whole family of the cruise and farm visit: 10. $................. 

Section 2

Questions 11-14

Talk To The New Kitchen Assistants

11. According to the manager, what do most people like about the job of kitchen assistant?

A. The variety of work

B. The friendly atmosphere

C. The opportunities for promotion

12. The manager is concerned about some of the new staff members

A. Jewelry

B. Hairstyles

C. Shoes

13. The manager says that the day is likely to be busy for the kitchen staff because

A. It is a public holiday

B. The head chef is absent

C. The restaurant is almost fully booked

14. Only kitchen staff who are 18 or older are allowed to use

A. The waste disposal unit

B. The electric mixer

C. The meat slicer

Questions 15 and 16

According to the manager, which TWO things can make the job of a kitchen assistant stressful?

A. They have to follow orders immediately.

B. The kitchen gets very hot

C. They may not be able to take a break

D. They have to do overtime

E. The work is physically demanding

Questions 17-20

What is the responsibility of each of the following restaurant staff?

Choose FOUR answers from below.

Responsibilities

A. Training courses

B. Food stocks

C. First aid

D. Breakages

E. Staff discounts

F. Timetables

Restaurant staff

17. Joy Parkins 

18. David Field 

19. Dexter Wills 

20. Mike Smith 

Section 3

Questions 21-23

Paper On Public Libraries

21. What will be the main topic of Trudie and Stewart’s paper?

A. How public library services are organized in different countries

B. How changes in society are reflected in public libraries

C. How the funding of public libraries has changed

22. They agree that one disadvantage of free digitized books is that

A. They may take a long time to read

B. They can be difficult to read

C. They are generally old

23. Stewart expects that in the future, libraries will

A. Maintain their traditional function

B. Become centers for local communities

C. No longer contains any books

Questions 24-30

Complete the notes below.

Study Of Local Library: Possible Questions

• Whether it has a 24. ..............  of its own
• Its policy regarding noise of various kinds
• How it’s affected by laws regarding all aspects of 25. ............... 
• How the design needs to take the 26. ...............  of customers into account
• What 27. ..............  is required in case of accidents
• Why a famous person’s 28. ............  is located in the library
• Whether it has a 29. ...............  of local organisations
• How it’s different from a library in a 30. ............... 

Section 4

Questions 31-40

Complete the notes below.

Four Business Rules

• Many business values can result in 31. ............... 
• Senior managers need to understand and deal with the potential 32. ............... that may result

Collaboration

• During a training course, the speaker was in a team that had to build a 33. ................. 
• Other teams experienced 34. ...............  from trying to collaborate
• The speaker’s team won because they reduced collaboration
• Sales of a 35. ................  were poor because of collaboration

Industriousness

• Hard work may be a bad use of various companies 36. .............. 
• The word lazy in the context refers to people who avoid doing tasks that are 37. .............. 

Creativity

• An advertising campaign for a 38. .............  was memorable but failed to boost sales
• Creativity should be used as a response to a particular 39. .............. 

Excellence

• According to one study, on average, pioneers had a 40. ................  that was far higher than that of followers.

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