IELTS Listening Practice Test: Underwater Exploration Technology

Welcome to this IELTS Practice Listening Test based on a presentation about underwater exploration technology.

This test consists of 8 fill-in-the-blank questions that follow the sequence of information in the audio.

You will have time to read the questions before the audio begins.

Listen carefully and write your answers as you hear the relevant information.

Remember, this is great practice for improving your listening skills.

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Questions 1-8:#

Write NO MORE THAN ONE WORD AND/OR A NUMBER for each answer.

1. The Aquarius undersea laboratory is located approximately _______ miles from the coast of Key Largo.

2. The underwater facility is used by NASA to prepare _______ and aquanauts for extreme environments.

3. The speakers built their ROV using mostly _______ components.

4. The ROV they constructed costs about _______ times less than those used to explore the Titanic.

5. Initially, the creators shared their plans on a website called _______.

6. The project received funding through _______ in just two hours.

7. An image of the ROV was captured beneath ice in _______.

8. The speakers believe their open-source approach has created a worldwide network of _______ ocean explorers.

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1. 1fouralso: 4“Aquarius undersea laboratory four miles off the coast of Key Largo”
2. 2astronauts“NASA uses this extreme environment to train astronauts and aquanauts”
3. 3off-the-shelfalso: off the shelf“It’s built with mostly off-the-shelf parts”
4. 41,000also: 1000, thousand“costs about 1,000 times cheaper than the ROVs James Cameron used to explore the Titanic”
5. 5openROV.comalso: openrov, openrovcom“we created this website, openROV.com, and shared our intentions and our plans”
6. 6Kickstarter“we decided to put the project on Kickstarter, and … we raised our funding goal in about two hours”
7. 7Antarctica“this shot from under the ice in Antarctica”
8. 8DIY“this community of DIY ocean explorers that are forming all over the globe”

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