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IELTS General Training Practice Test 25

AI-generated practice paper in the style of IELTS General Training — original material, not a reproduction of any real exam paper, following the official four-module structure (Listening, Reading, Writing, Speaking). Listening audio is read aloud by your browser's voice, Writing tasks can be scored by AI, and for Speaking you can record yourself and compare with a model answer.

Listening

Part 1

Listen and answer questions 1–10.

Complete the booking notes below. Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER for each answer.

1. Surname: ______

2. Holiday starts on: ______ August

3. Name of cottage: ______ Cottage

4. Rent for the week: ______ pounds

5. Deposit: ______ pounds

6. Postcode: ______

7. Nearest village: ______

Choose the correct letter, A, B or C.

8. What is the cottage's policy on pets?

9. Guests can get into the cottage

10. The keys must be collected from

Part 2

Listen and answer questions 11–20.

Complete the notes below. Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER for each answer.

11. Adult admission price: ______ dollars

12. Lamb feeding times: eleven and ______

13. Cost to lead a pony around the track: ______ dollars

What does the speaker say about each of the following areas? Choose the correct letter, A-F, for questions 4 to 7.

14. The Barn

15. The Pig Pen

16. The Pony Paddock

17. The Duck Pond

Choose the correct letter, A, B or C.

18. The Milking Shed talk happens at

19. Wellington boots

20. A birthday party package starts at

Part 3

Listen and answer questions 21–30.

21. What does Anna want to focus on in the essay?

22. Why does Dr. Lee reject writing about both topics equally?

23. What primary source does Anna have?

24. How will the essay be organised?

25. Which chapters of Hadfield's book should the students read?

26. What does Dr. Lee warn about?

27. How many references should they include?

What will each student do in the essay? Choose your answers from the list, A-E: A Check the drafts with software; B Write about workers, using a diary; C Analyse costs, using account books; D Compare canals with roads; E Read all of the library book.

28. Anna

29. Ben

30. Dr. Lee

Part 4

Listen and answer questions 31–40.

Complete the notes below. Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS for each answer.

31. Wetlands were historically viewed by many as unproductive ______.

32. Vast areas were drained to create agricultural land or space for ______ expansion.

33. Wetlands filter ______ out of water passing through them.

34. Wetlands absorb and slowly release ______ during storms.

35. Restoration projects generally start with a careful ______ assessment.

36. Restoring the correct water ______ pattern is fundamental to success.

37. Reintroducing native ______ species stabilises the soil.

38. Some projects have reintroduced the ______ in parts of Europe and North America.

39. Beaver dams create and maintain wetland ______.

40. A fully functioning wetland ecosystem can take a decade or more to ______.

Reading

Section 1: Notices

You should spend about 20 minutes on Section 1.

NOTICE A — Prestige Motors: Service Reminder Notice Our records show that your vehicle is due for its annual service within the next month. Booking online before the end of this month entitles you to a complimentary vehicle health check and a 10% discount on any additional work identified as necessary during the service. A courtesy car is available on request for services expected to take longer than four hours, subject to availability at the time of booking. Customers whose vehicles are still under the manufacturer's warranty are reminded that using an approved service centre, such as ours, is essential to keep the warranty valid. We recommend booking at least two weeks in advance, as our most popular appointment slots, particularly Saturday mornings, are booked up quickly. Please bring your service booklet and vehicle registration document to your appointment. NOTICE B — Willowmere Apartments: Package Locker Installation New secure package lockers will be installed in the entrance lobby of each block from next week, providing a safer alternative to parcels being left with neighbours or outside doors. Delivery couriers will be given a temporary access code to place parcels directly into an available locker, and residents will receive an automatic text message with a unique collection code once a parcel has arrived. Parcels not collected within 72 hours will be returned to the building management office for collection during office hours instead. The lockers come in three sizes to accommodate different parcel dimensions, though items larger than a washing machine box cannot be accommodated and will continue to be left with the concierge as before. There is no charge to residents for using the new locker system.

Questions 1–3. Choose the correct letter, A, B, C or D.

1. What discount is offered for booking a service online before the end of the month?

2. How will residents be notified that a parcel has arrived in a locker?

3. How many sizes of locker are being installed?

Questions 4–6. Do the following statements agree with the information in Notice A? Write TRUE if the statement agrees, FALSE if it contradicts, or NOT GIVEN if there is no information on this.

4. A courtesy car is guaranteed for every booking regardless of service length.

5. Using an approved service centre is essential to keep a manufacturer's warranty valid.

6. Customers are recommended to book their service at least two weeks in advance.

Question 7. Complete the sentence below. Choose NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS from Notice A for each answer.

7. Customers should bring their service booklet and __________ to the appointment.

Questions 8–9. Answer the question below. Choose NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS from Notice A.

8. Which appointment slots are mentioned as booking up quickly?

9. What complimentary check is offered for booking online before the end of the month?

Questions 10–11. Do the following statements agree with the information in Notice B? Write TRUE if the statement agrees, FALSE if it contradicts, or NOT GIVEN if there is no information on this.

10. There is a charge to residents for using the new locker system.

11. Couriers will be given a temporary access code.

Questions 12–13. Complete the sentence below. Choose NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS from Notice B for each answer.

12. Parcels not collected within __________ will be returned to the management office.

13. Uncollected parcels are returned to the building management office for collection during __________.

Question 14. Answer the question below. Choose NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS from Notice B.

14. What happens to items too large for the lockers, such as those larger than a washing machine box?

Section 2: Workplace

You should spend about 20 minutes on Section 2.

TEXT A — Human Resources: Whistleblowing Policy Update The company's whistleblowing policy has been updated to introduce a new confidential external reporting hotline, operated by an independent third party, alongside the existing option to raise concerns directly with a line manager or HR. Staff who report genuine concerns in good faith, even where an investigation ultimately does not substantiate the concern, are protected from any form of retaliation or unfair treatment as a result of making the report. Reports can be made anonymously through the hotline, though providing contact details, while optional, allows investigators to follow up for additional information if needed. All reports will be acknowledged within five working days and, where appropriate, an outcome summary will be provided to the reporter, subject to confidentiality constraints around any individuals involved. Managers will receive updated training on how to respond appropriately if a team member raises a concern with them directly. TEXT B — Facilities: New Supplier Approval Process Any new supplier or contractor engaged by the company must now go through a formal approval process before any purchase order can be raised, replacing the previous practice of informal approval by individual department budget holders. The process includes a basic financial stability check and a review of the supplier's own policies on matters such as modern slavery and environmental sustainability. Approval typically takes five to ten working days depending on supplier complexity, so departments are advised to plan ahead for any new supplier relationships rather than expecting immediate approval. Existing, already-approved suppliers are unaffected by this change and can continue to be used as before. Departments requiring an urgent exception to the standard timeline should contact the Procurement team directly to discuss options.

Questions 15–17. Choose the correct letter, A, B, C or D.

15. What new reporting option has been introduced under the updated whistleblowing policy?

16. What must now happen before a purchase order can be raised for a new supplier?

17. Who previously approved new suppliers informally, according to the passage?

Questions 18–20. Do the following statements agree with the information in Text A? Write TRUE if the statement agrees, FALSE if it contradicts, or NOT GIVEN if there is no information on this.

18. Staff who report concerns in good faith are protected from retaliation even if the concern is not substantiated.

19. Providing contact details when making a report is compulsory.

20. Managers will receive updated training on how to respond if a team member raises a concern directly.

Question 21. Complete the sentence below. Choose NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS from Text A for each answer.

21. All reports will be acknowledged within __________.

Question 22. Answer the question below. Choose NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS from Text A.

22. Who operates the new external reporting hotline?

Questions 23–24. Do the following statements agree with the information in Text B? Write TRUE if the statement agrees, FALSE if it contradicts, or NOT GIVEN if there is no information on this.

23. Existing, already-approved suppliers are unaffected by this change.

24. Approval always takes exactly five working days regardless of complexity.

Questions 25–26. Complete the sentence below. Choose NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS from Text B for each answer.

25. The approval process includes a review of a supplier's policies on modern slavery and __________.

26. The approval process includes a basic __________ and a review of supplier policies.

Question 27. Answer the question below. Choose NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS from Text B.

27. Who should departments contact for an urgent exception to the standard timeline?

Section 3: Why Do We Dream? Theories of Dreaming

You should spend about 20 minutes on Section 3.

Despite dreaming being a universal feature of human experience, occurring nightly across cultures and throughout recorded history, scientific consensus on its precise function remains elusive, with several competing theories each commanding significant, if partial, empirical support rather than any single explanation achieving decisive dominance. This persistent uncertainty is somewhat unusual for a phenomenon so consistently and universally experienced. The threat-simulation theory, developed by Finnish researcher Antti Revonsuo, proposes that dreaming evolved as a mechanism for rehearsing threatening scenarios in a low-risk, simulated environment, thereby improving an individual's ability to recognise and respond to genuine dangers while awake. Supporting evidence includes cross-cultural studies finding that a disproportionate share of dream content involves threatening or dangerous situations compared with the relatively mundane content of typical waking experience, and that children living in genuinely dangerous environments, such as active conflict zones, tend to report a higher frequency of threat-related dream content than children in safer settings, consistent with a rehearsal function calibrated to actual environmental risk. A competing and not necessarily incompatible theory frames dreaming as an extension of memory consolidation processes occurring during sleep, discussed elsewhere in relation to sleep's role in learning; on this view, dreams represent a kind of by-product, or perhaps an active component, of the brain's overnight reorganisation and integration of recent memories with existing knowledge structures, explaining why dream content frequently, though not always coherently, incorporates fragments of recent waking experience. A third perspective, associated with the 'activation-synthesis' hypothesis first proposed in the 1970s, takes a considerably less purposeful view, suggesting that dreams are simply the brain's attempt to make narrative sense of essentially random neural activity generated during REM sleep, with the vivid, often bizarre storylines of dreams representing post-hoc interpretation rather than any meaningful underlying psychological content, a view that stands in direct tension with both the threat-simulation and memory-consolidation theories' assumption that dream content carries genuine functional significance. More recent researchers have increasingly suggested that these theories need not be mutually exclusive, proposing that dreaming may serve multiple overlapping functions simultaneously, with different theoretical emphases perhaps capturing different aspects of a genuinely multi-purpose phenomenon rather than competing for a single correct explanation. What remains firmly established, regardless of which functional theory eventually proves most accurate, is that REM sleep deprivation reliably produces measurable cognitive and emotional impairments, providing strong indirect evidence that whatever dreaming accomplishes, it accomplishes something genuinely important for psychological functioning.

Questions 28–30. Choose the correct letter, A, B, C or D.

28. What does the threat-simulation theory propose dreaming evolved to do?

29. How does the memory-consolidation theory of dreaming explain dream content?

30. What does REM sleep deprivation reliably produce, according to the passage?

Questions 31–34. Do the following statements agree with the information given in the passage? Write TRUE if the statement agrees, FALSE if it contradicts, or NOT GIVEN if there is no information on this.

31. Children in conflict zones tend to report more threat-related dream content than children in safer settings.

32. Dream content typically reflects the mundane, calm nature of most waking experience.

33. The activation-synthesis hypothesis assumes dream content carries genuine functional significance.

34. The three theories discussed are presented as necessarily mutually exclusive and incompatible.

Question 35. Complete the sentence below. Choose NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS from the passage for each answer.

35. The threat-simulation theory was developed by the Finnish researcher __________.

Questions 36–38. Answer the question below. Choose NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS from the passage.

36. What hypothesis, proposed in the 1970s, views dreams as narrative sense-making of random neural activity?

37. Recent researchers increasingly suggest that different theories of dreaming need not __________.

38. What is dreaming described as being, universally, across cultures and history?

Questions 39–40. Do the following statements agree with the writer's claims? Write YES if the statement agrees with the writer's claims, NO if it contradicts, or NOT GIVEN if it is impossible to say what the writer thinks.

39. The writer believes scientific consensus on dreaming's function has been firmly reached.

40. The writer believes REM sleep deprivation has no measurable effect on cognitive functioning.

Speaking

Part 1: Introduction and interview

The examiner asks you questions about yourself and familiar topics (4–5 minutes).

Part 1 (Parks / Plants) — the examiner asks about two familiar topics. Topic 1: Parks Q1. Are there many parks in your town or city? Q2. What do people usually do in parks there? Topic 2: Plants Q3. Do you have any plants at home? Q4. Do you think it's good to have plants in an office?
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Model answer: 1. Quite a few, actually. There's a large one in the city centre, and every neighbourhood seems to have a smaller one with a playground and some benches. 2. On sunny weekends, families have picnics and children play football. In the mornings you see lots of people jogging or doing gentle exercises like tai chi. 3. Yes, I have about six, mostly on the windowsill in the living room. I'm not brilliant at looking after them, but a cactus and a spider plant have survived for years. 4. I do, yes. They make the room look more pleasant, and some studies say they improve the air. I'd say it also gives people something to look after together.

Part 2: Individual long turn

You have one minute to prepare, then speak for one to two minutes.

Describe a city that you would like to visit in the future. You should say: - which city it is - where it is located - how you first heard about it and explain why you would like to visit it. You are given a minute to get ready before talking about it for one to two minutes.
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Model answer: The city I'd really like to visit one day is Kyoto, in Japan. I first became interested in it through a colleague who went there for her honeymoon and came back with hundreds of photographs of temples surrounded by autumn leaves in shades of orange and red. Since then I've read a bit more about its history; apparently it was the imperial capital of Japan for over a thousand years, so it's full of old wooden temples, traditional gardens, and narrow streets that have apparently changed very little in appearance for generations. What appeals to me most is the contrast between that history and the fact that it's also a modern, functioning city with good transport and plenty of excellent restaurants. I'm particularly drawn to the idea of visiting a bamboo forest I've seen pictures of, and trying the local tea ceremonies, which sound very calming compared to my usual rushed lifestyle. I'd also love to see cherry blossom season, though I know the timing can be unpredictable and the city gets extremely crowded then. I haven't managed to save enough for the trip yet, but it's definitely at the top of my travel list for the next couple of years.

Part 3: Two-way discussion

The examiner asks more abstract questions linked to the Part 2 topic.

Part 3 (travel and tourism) — the examiner asks four related questions. Q1. What are the benefits and drawbacks of tourism for a local community? Q2. Do you think tourism changes the character of a place over time? Q3. Is it better to travel independently or with an organised tour? Q4. How do you think tourism will develop in the next few decades?
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Model answer: 1. Tourism brings jobs and income to local businesses, but it can also raise prices for residents and put pressure on infrastructure, especially in small towns that weren't originally built for large numbers of visitors. 2. Definitely, especially in places that become very popular. Shops and restaurants sometimes shift to cater mainly to tourists, and locals can end up feeling like their own town has been altered for outsiders. 3. It depends on the traveller. Independent travel gives more freedom and often a deeper experience, while organised tours are convenient and reassuring for people visiting somewhere unfamiliar or with limited time. 4. I think sustainable tourism will grow in importance, with more destinations limiting visitor numbers to protect the environment and local culture, alongside a rise in slower, more responsible styles of travel.

Writing Task 1

Your child's school trip was cancelled at the last minute, causing inconvenience to your family's plans. Write a letter to the school. In your letter: explain the inconvenience this caused, ask for the reason for the late cancellation, and suggest how this could be avoided in future. Write at least 150 words. You do NOT need to write your own address. Begin your letter 'Dear ...,'

Writing Task 2

Some people believe that children should be given smartphones from a young age, while others think this should be delayed until they are older. Discuss both views and give your own opinion. Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience. Write at least 250 words.
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