Full-length practice test
The real three-part order — Part 1 Speaking & Writing → Part 2 Reading → Part 3 Listening. On test day you can’t go back a part, and Listening audio plays once. Reading, Listening and the writing tasks are scored; the speaking tasks are recorded practice you self-review, because the real test machine-scores your pronunciation and fluency.
1. Read Aloud. A short text appears. You have prep time, then read it aloud clearly and at a natural pace.
Urban planners increasingly argue that walkable neighbourhoods do more than reduce traffic: by placing shops, schools and parks within a short distance of homes, they encourage the kind of daily, unplanned social contact on which a sense of community quietly depends.
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2. Repeat Sentence. You hear a sentence once, then repeat it exactly. (Read this aloud once, look away, and say it back.)
The library extends its opening hours during the final week of every term.
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3. Describe Image. An image (chart, map or graph) appears. Describe what it shows in detail.
Picture a bar chart titled “Average monthly rent by city, 2026”: five bars rising left to right — Halifax lowest, then Ottawa, Calgary, Toronto, and Vancouver highest, roughly double Halifax. Describe the trend, the extremes, and the overall message.
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4. Re-tell Lecture. You hear (or read) a short lecture, then re-tell it in your own words.
Short lecture to re-tell: “Coral reefs cover less than one per cent of the ocean floor, yet they support around a quarter of all marine species. When water warms even slightly, corals expel the algae that feed them and turn white — a process called bleaching. Repeated bleaching, scientists warn, is now outpacing the reefs’ ability to recover.”
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5. Answer Short Question. You hear a short question with an obvious one- or few-word answer. Answer immediately.
What do we call the frozen form of water that falls from the sky in winter?
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6. Respond to a Situation. You hear or read a situation, then respond appropriately, as if speaking to the person.
Situation: A neighbour has offered to water your plants while you are away for two weeks, but you barely know them. Respond: thank them, decide how to handle it, and say what you’d like to arrange.
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7. Summarize Group Discussion. You hear a discussion, then summarize the main ideas and the speakers’ viewpoints.
Discussion: One student argues that recorded lectures improve access and revision. Another says live attendance creates better questions and accountability. A third supports a hybrid model that keeps both benefits.
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Many people believe that online learning is as effective as traditional classroom learning. To what extent do you agree or disagree?
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Read the passage and answer the question.
Coral reefs are among the most diverse ecosystems on Earth, yet they cover less than one percent of the ocean floor. Rising sea temperatures cause corals to expel the algae living in their tissues, a process known as bleaching. Without these algae, corals lose their main source of food and often die.
Read the passage and answer the question.
Urban beekeeping has grown rapidly over the past decade, with rooftops and balconies across many cities now hosting hives. Supporters argue that city bees benefit from the wide variety of flowering plants in parks and private gardens, which often bloom across a longer season than rural crops. However, some ecologists caution that adding too many managed honeybee colonies can place pressure on wild pollinators, such as solitary bees, which must compete for the same limited supply of nectar. They suggest that cities should focus less on installing more hives and more on planting diverse, flower-rich green spaces that support all pollinating insects.
Read the passage and answer the question.
When a volcano erupts, it can affect the planet's temperature far beyond the area around the eruption. Large eruptions inject sulphur dioxide high into the stratosphere, where it reacts to form tiny droplets that linger for months or even years. These droplets reflect a portion of incoming sunlight back into space, producing a modest but measurable cooling of the global surface. Ash, by contrast, falls back to the ground relatively quickly and has little lasting effect on climate. The cooling influence eventually fades as the droplets gradually settle, allowing temperatures to return to their previous levels.
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The introduction of standardised shipping containers in the mid-twentieth century transformed global trade in ways few predicted at the time. Before containers, goods were loaded onto ships piece by piece, a slow and labour-intensive process that left cargo vulnerable to damage and theft. The metal box, identical in size everywhere, allowed cranes to move freight quickly between ships, trucks and trains without repacking. This sharply reduced the cost of moving goods, making it economical to manufacture products in one country and sell them across the world. Many historians now regard the container as one of the quiet engines of modern globalisation.
Arrange the sentences into a logical order.
Put the sentences in the correct order:
- Today, a queue forms outside its doors every morning.
- Word of its excellent coffee soon spread across the town.
- At first, only a handful of curious locals stopped by.
- A new café opened on Main Street last month.
Arrange the sentences into a logical order.
Put the sentences in the correct order:
- It was only a decade later that other scientists turned his discovery into the first mass-produced antibiotic.
- Although he published his findings, he lacked the means to purify the compound for medical use.
- Curious about this effect, he isolated the substance the mould produced and named it penicillin.
- Among the neglected dishes, he noticed that a stray mould had killed the bacteria growing around it.
- In 1928, the bacteriologist Alexander Fleming returned from a holiday to find his laboratory in disarray.
Arrange the sentences into a logical order.
Put the sentences in the correct order:
- If the heat persists and the algae do not return, the starved corals eventually die, and the reef collapses.
- When the surrounding water grows too warm, however, the stressed corals expel these algae and turn ghostly white.
- The algae supply the corals with food through photosynthesis, while the corals offer them shelter and nutrients.
- This abundance depends on a partnership between the corals and tiny algae that live inside their tissues.
- Coral reefs cover less than one percent of the ocean floor, yet they shelter roughly a quarter of all marine species.
Arrange the sentences into a logical order.
Put the sentences in the correct order:
- The resulting material can then be returned to gardens and farms, enriching the soil rather than warming the planet.
- One practical response is composting, which lets organic matter decompose with air instead.
- Because of this, wasted food contributes a surprising share of the emissions driving climate change.
- In reality, buried scraps break down without oxygen and release methane, a gas that traps far more heat than carbon dioxide.
- Most people assume that the food they throw away simply rots harmlessly in a landfill.
Choose the word that best fits each blank.
Regular exercise the risk of heart disease and can also mood by releasing endorphins.
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When a honeybee discovers a rich patch of flowers, she does not simply fly back and lead her hivemates to it. Instead, she performs a remarkable routine on the vertical surface of the comb known as the waggle dance. By walking in a straight line while rapidly shaking her body, then circling back to repeat the movement, she conveys two crucial pieces of information at once. The angle of the straight run relative to vertical tells the other bees the direction of the food in relation to the sun, while the length of time she spends waggling indicates how far away the food lies. The more vigorous her performance, the richer the source she has found. Through this elegant code, a single forager can recruit dozens of others to a location she alone has visited.
A honeybee that finds flowers does not lead others there but instead performs a on the comb, using the angle of her run to signal direction and the duration of her waggling to how far the food is, while a more vigorous dance a richer source.
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In the early 1670s, a Dutch cloth merchant named Antonie van Leeuwenhoek began grinding tiny glass lenses of extraordinary quality. Though he had no formal scientific training, his curiosity led him to examine droplets of pond water, rainwater, and scrapings from his own teeth under these single-lens instruments. To his astonishment, he saw countless minuscule creatures swimming and tumbling in the liquid, organisms far too small for the unaided eye to detect. He called them animalcules. When he described these findings in letters to the Royal Society in London, many members were sceptical, for no one had reported such a hidden world before. Eventually, however, his careful observations were confirmed, and Leeuwenhoek is now remembered as one of the founders of microbiology.
Although he lacked any formal scientific , Leeuwenhoek used his finely ground lenses to reveal a world of tiny organisms he named animalcules; the Royal Society at first received his reports with , but his observations were later confirmed.
Choose the word that best fits each blank.
Cities around the world are increasingly turning to rooftop gardens as a practical response to rising temperatures. When a building's flat roof is covered with soil and plants, the vegetation absorbs sunlight that would otherwise be soaked up by dark surfaces and released as heat. This cooling effect can lower the temperature of the surrounding air, easing the so-called urban heat island that makes city centres noticeably warmer than nearby countryside. Beyond cooling, these green roofs soak up rainwater that would otherwise rush into overwhelmed drains, and they provide habitat for insects and birds in places where greenery is scarce. The chief obstacle remains cost, since older buildings often need structural reinforcement before they can bear the added weight of soil and water.
Rooftop gardens help the urban heat island because plants absorb sunlight instead of letting dark surfaces release it as heat, and they also rainwater that would otherwise flood city drains; their main is the cost of strengthening older buildings.
Read the passage and select ALL statements it supports.
Urban beekeeping has grown rapidly in many cities over the past decade. Rooftops, balconies, and community gardens now host hives that supply local honey and help pollinate nearby plants. Supporters argue that the practice reconnects city dwellers with nature and raises awareness about declining insect populations. However, some ecologists caution that crowding too many managed honeybee colonies into a small area can intensify competition for the limited flowers available in cities. When honeybees dominate the scarce food supply, wild bees and other native pollinators may struggle to find enough nectar, potentially reducing their numbers rather than protecting them.
Read the passage and select ALL statements it supports.
The invention of the mechanical clock in medieval Europe gradually reshaped daily life. Before clocks, people measured time loosely by sunrise, sunset, and the ringing of church bells. As public clocks appeared in town squares, communities began to organise work, markets, and meetings around fixed hours rather than the changing position of the sun. This new precision suited the growing towns, where merchants and craftsmen valued punctuality. Over time, the shared sense of standardised hours encouraged habits of scheduling that would later prove essential to industrial workplaces, where coordinated shifts depended on everyone agreeing on exactly what time it was.
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Tardigrades, sometimes called water bears, are microscopic animals famous for surviving conditions that would kill almost anything else. When their watery habitat dries out, they do not simply tough it out. Instead, they expel more than ninety percent of the water from their bodies, pull in their legs, and curl into a barrel-shaped form known as a tun. In this state their metabolism nearly stops, and they may persist for years until moisture returns. Protective molecules such as trehalose and special proteins shield their cells from collapse. Once rehydrated, the animal slowly reactivates and resumes ordinary life as though nothing had happened.
Read the passage and select ALL statements it supports.
Before satellite navigation, lighthouses were vital guardians of dangerous coastlines. A revolving lamp at the top of a tall tower warned ships away from hidden rocks and shallow waters. The real breakthrough came in the early nineteenth century with a special stepped lens that bent scattered light into a single powerful beam, allowing a modest flame to be seen many kilometres out at sea. Each lighthouse was given its own pattern of flashes, so that a captain could identify exactly which light he was passing simply by timing the intervals of darkness. Keepers once lived on site to tend the lamp, but most stations are now fully automated.
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Cities are often warmer than nearby rural areas because concrete and asphalt solar energy during the day and release it slowly after sunset. Researchers call this the urban heat-island effect. Planting street trees can the problem by shading hard surfaces and cooling the air through evaporation. The benefit is not evenly , however, because neighbourhoods with fewer parks frequently experience the highest temperatures. Effective plans therefore combine city-wide targets with local data so investment reaches the communities most to extreme heat.
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Sleep does not simply pause mental activity. During deep sleep, recently formed memories are and connected with older knowledge. Experiments show that people recall new material more accurately after sleeping than after an equal period spent awake. The effect is especially when learning is followed by uninterrupted rest. Researchers caution that extra sleep cannot for poor study methods, but regular sleep may help the brain preserve information that was learned effectively. This finding has practical for students who replace sleep with late-night revision.
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Citizen-science projects invite members of the public to help collect or classify research data. Their greatest is scale: thousands of volunteers can observe birds, weather, or night-sky conditions across areas that professional teams could never cover alone. The approach also has limits. Volunteers vary in experience, so researchers must design clear protocols and unusual reports before using them. When those safeguards are in place, public observations can formal surveys rather than replace them. Participants also gain a more understanding of how scientific evidence is produced.
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Museums must display objects while protecting them from the conditions that make display possible. Light allows visitors to see a textile or manuscript, but prolonged exposure can pigments and weaken fibres. Conservators therefore calculate a light budget: a fragile object may be shown brightly for a short period or dimly for longer. The damage is cumulative and cannot be , so each exhibition uses part of a limited lifetime allowance. Modern sensors help staff exposure precisely, while replicas and digital images provide access when the original must rest. The aim is to balance public access with long-term .
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Summarize the recording in 50–70 words.
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Summarize the recording in 50–70 words.
This is an unofficial practice estimate computed entirely in your browser — nothing is uploaded. It is not an official score. Grammar and spelling use a basic check until you begin writing; the full offline engine then loads on demand.
Summarize the recording in 50–70 words.
This is an unofficial practice estimate computed entirely in your browser — nothing is uploaded. It is not an official score. Grammar and spelling use a basic check until you begin writing; the full offline engine then loads on demand.
Summarize the recording in 50–70 words.
This is an unofficial practice estimate computed entirely in your browser — nothing is uploaded. It is not an official score. Grammar and spelling use a basic check until you begin writing; the full offline engine then loads on demand.