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IELTS General Training Practice Test 45

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 registration form below. Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER for each answer.

1. Surname: ______

2. Date of birth: 3 ______ 1991

3. Address: Flat 4, 27 ______ Street

4. Occupation: ______

5. Medical condition: ______

6. Appointment: Thursday at ______

7. Fee for an adult patient: ______ dollars

Choose the correct letter, A, B or C.

8. What does Jack need to bring to the first appointment?

9. The first appointment will be with

10. If he cannot attend, Jack should phone

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. Session length: ______ minutes

12. Session cost: ______ dollars

13. Grip socks cost, if needed: ______ 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 Main Arena

15. The Dodgeball Court

16. The Foam Pit

17. The Airbag

Choose the correct letter, A, B or C.

18. In the Main Arena, the rule is

19. The Toddler Zone is for

20. Large groups should arrive

Part 3

Listen and answer questions 21–30.

21. What did Frank originally think was causing the crash?

22. What does Dr. Lee say about rewriting the login module?

23. What kind of error messages should users see?

24. What new tests should be added?

25. Which branches should be merged today?

26. Where should the fix be tested before going live?

27. Who should attend tomorrow's code review?

What does Dr. Lee decide about each of these? Choose your answers from the list, A-E: A Merge them today; B Keep them generic; C One paragraph plus the commit reference; D Test there before production; E Wait until the bug is fixed.

28. The smaller branches

29. Error messages

30. Documenting the fix

Part 4

Listen and answer questions 31–40.

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

31. Each autumn, monarchs fly south to overwinter in the mountain forests of ______.

32. Individual butterflies starting furthest north can cover well over four thousand ______.

33. The autumn generation lives considerably longer, surviving up to ______ months.

34. Each monarch relies on inherited, genetically encoded ______ rather than learned experience.

35. Monarchs use an internal sun ______ to navigate.

36. Navigation is also guided by the butterfly's internal circadian ______.

37. ______ sensing may help on heavily overcast days.

38. In Mexico, monarchs cluster on ______ fir trees.

39. Clustering helps reduce individual water ______ during winter.

40. Population decline is linked to loss of ______ plants along the route.

Reading

Section 1: Notices

You should spend about 20 minutes on Section 1.

NOTICE A — Chapter and Verse Book Club: Meeting Format Change Following feedback from members who have moved away from the local area but wish to remain involved, the club will move to a hybrid meeting format from next month, with in-person attendance continuing as usual at the library meeting room while a video call link will also be available for remote members to join simultaneously. The book selection process remains unchanged, with members taking turns to suggest and vote on the following month's book at each meeting. Remote members will need to email the club coordinator by the day before the meeting to receive the video call link, as this will not be posted publicly to protect the privacy of the discussion. In-person members are asked to remain mindful of remote participants during discussion, ensuring the room's microphone can pick up their contributions clearly. The club's small annual membership fee, covering the cost of the venue and occasional guest speakers, remains unchanged for both in-person and remote members. NOTICE B — Willowbrook Apartments: Fob and Key Card System Upgrade The building's existing fob and key card entry system will be upgraded to a newer, more secure model next month, as the current system's manufacturer has announced it will no longer provide security updates or replacement fobs after this year. All residents will need to collect a new fob from the building manager during a two-week collection window, bringing photo identification to confirm their identity before a new fob is issued. The old fobs will continue to work alongside the new system for a two-week transition period before being permanently deactivated, giving residents ample time to collect their replacement without being locked out. Lost fobs under the new system can be deactivated instantly through an online portal, unlike the previous system which required a physical visit to the building manager's office to deactivate a lost fob.

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

1. What new format will the book club adopt from next month?

2. Why is the fob and key card system being upgraded?

3. How long is the collection window for the new fobs?

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. The video call link will be posted publicly for anyone to join.

5. The membership fee is different for remote members compared with in-person members.

6. The book selection process remains unchanged, with members voting on the following month's book.

Questions 7–8. Complete the sentence below. Choose NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS from Notice A for each answer.

7. Remote members must email the club coordinator by __________ the meeting to receive the link.

8. In-person members are asked to remain mindful of remote participants and ensure the room's __________ can pick up their contributions.

Question 9. Answer the question below. Choose NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS from Notice A.

9. What type of speakers does the annual membership fee help cover the cost of, besides the venue?

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. Residents must bring photo identification to collect a new fob.

11. The old fobs will stop working immediately with no transition period.

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

12. Lost fobs under the new system can be deactivated instantly through an __________.

Questions 13–14. Answer the question below. Choose NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS from Notice B.

13. How did residents previously have to deactivate a lost fob?

14. What does the two-week transition period give residents time to do?

Section 2: Workplace

You should spend about 20 minutes on Section 2.

TEXT A — Human Resources: New Grievance Procedure Announcement A revised formal grievance procedure will take effect from next month, introducing a new informal resolution stage that staff are encouraged, though not required, to attempt before escalating to a formal written grievance. The informal stage involves a facilitated conversation between the parties involved, supported by a trained HR mediator, aimed at resolving the underlying issue without the need for a formal investigation. Where a formal grievance is raised, either from the outset or following an unsuccessful informal stage, an outcome must now be provided within 20 working days, down from the previous 30-day target, reflecting feedback that the previous process felt unnecessarily slow to those directly involved. Employees raising a grievance will be assigned a single named HR contact throughout the process to ensure consistent, personal communication rather than dealing with different HR staff at each stage. The right to be accompanied by a colleague or trade union representative at any formal meeting remains entirely unchanged under the revised procedure. TEXT B — Reward Team: Staff Recognition Scheme Launch A new peer-to-peer staff recognition scheme will launch next month, allowing any employee to nominate a colleague for a small monetary reward, up to £50, in recognition of a specific example of going above and beyond in their role. Nominations are submitted through a simple online form describing the specific action being recognised, and are automatically approved for smaller reward amounts, while larger amounts within the scheme's limit require sign-off from the nominee's line manager. Recognised colleagues will receive both the monetary reward and a personalised note describing why they were nominated, which will also be shared, with the nominee's consent, in the monthly company newsletter. The scheme is intended to complement, rather than replace, existing formal recognition mechanisms such as performance reviews and the annual awards ceremony. Managers are encouraged to actively promote awareness of the scheme within their teams to ensure good, consistent take-up across the organisation.

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

15. What new stage has been introduced to the grievance procedure?

16. What is the maximum monetary reward under the new recognition scheme?

17. How are nominations submitted under the new scheme?

Questions 18–19. 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. The informal resolution stage is mandatory for all employees.

19. A formal grievance outcome must now be provided within 20 working days.

Questions 20–21. Complete the sentence below. Choose NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS from Text A for each answer.

20. Employees raising a grievance will be assigned a single named __________ throughout the process.

21. The informal stage involves a facilitated conversation supported by a trained HR __________.

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

22. What right remains entirely unchanged under the revised procedure?

Questions 23–25. 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. Larger reward amounts require sign-off from the nominee's line manager.

24. The scheme replaces the annual awards ceremony entirely.

25. The new recognition scheme is intended to replace formal recognition mechanisms such as performance reviews.

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

26. Recognised colleagues receive a monetary reward and a personalised __________.

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

27. Where might a nomination be shared, with the nominee's consent?

Section 3: The Rise of Vertical Farming

You should spend about 20 minutes on Section 3.

As global population growth continues to place mounting pressure on finite agricultural land and freshwater resources, vertical farming, the practice of cultivating crops in vertically stacked layers within a fully controlled indoor environment rather than conventional outdoor fields, has emerged over the past two decades as a genuinely promising, if still commercially unproven at true global scale, potential solution to at least some of modern agriculture's most pressing structural and environmental challenges. The core practical appeal of vertical farming lies in its dramatically more efficient use of limited land area: a single vertical farm can produce yields per square foot of physical building footprint many times higher than conventional single-layer outdoor farming, since growing space is effectively multiplied by stacking numerous cultivation layers on top of one another within the same physical building footprint. Precise, fully automated environmental control over light intensity and spectrum, temperature, humidity, and nutrient delivery allows crops to be grown reliably year-round regardless of external outdoor climate or seasonal weather conditions, essentially eliminating conventional agriculture's inherent and often costly vulnerability to unpredictable droughts, unseasonal frosts, or other severe weather events. Water efficiency represents a further genuinely significant advantage frequently highlighted by vertical farming proponents: modern vertical farms typically employ hydroponic or aeroponic growing systems that recirculate water in a closed loop rather than allowing it to be lost to evaporation, surface runoff, or drainage as commonly occurs in conventional soil-based outdoor agriculture, with some vertical farming operations reporting water usage reductions exceeding 90% compared with equivalent conventional outdoor crop production for the same yield. Despite these genuinely significant advantages, vertical farming faces substantial and largely unresolved economic challenges that have limited its commercial expansion considerably. The very high upfront capital costs of specialised building construction, advanced automated growing equipment, and particularly ongoing artificial lighting energy consumption have meant that vertical farms have so far proven most economically viable only for high-value, fast-growing crops such as leafy greens and herbs, rather than the staple, calorie-dense grain crops such as wheat, rice, and maize that form the essential foundation of most of humanity's actual caloric intake worldwide, meaning vertical farming's realistic practical contribution to genuine global food security, at least for the foreseeable near-term future, likely remains fundamentally limited by these persistent economic and technical constraints regardless of its other genuine environmental advantages. Several prominent, well-funded vertical farming companies have unfortunately experienced well-publicised financial difficulties and, in some cases, outright business failure in recent years, prompting renewed and increasingly sober industry-wide reassessment of realistic near-term commercial viability at true meaningful scale, even as continued technological improvements in energy-efficient LED lighting and further automation continue to gradually and incrementally improve the underlying economics of the sector over time, suggesting a longer, more gradual path to genuine widespread commercial viability than some of the sector's more enthusiastic early proponents originally and perhaps prematurely predicted.

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

28. What is the core practical appeal of vertical farming, according to the passage?

29. What crops have vertical farms proven most economically viable for, according to the passage?

30. What high upfront costs does the passage mention for vertical farming?

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. Vertical farms can grow crops year-round regardless of external weather conditions.

32. Vertical farms typically use significantly more water than conventional outdoor farming.

33. Several prominent vertical farming companies have experienced financial difficulties in recent years.

34. Vertical farming is described as commercially proven at true global scale already.

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

35. Some vertical farming operations report water usage reductions exceeding __________ compared with conventional farming.

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

36. What growing systems do modern vertical farms typically employ to recirculate water?

37. What technology is mentioned as continuing to improve the economics of vertical farming?

38. What is multiplied by stacking cultivation layers within the same building footprint?

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. Vertical farming is currently economically viable for staple grain crops such as wheat and rice.

40. The writer believes vertical farming's contribution to global food security is likely to remain fundamentally limited for now.

Speaking

Part 1: Introduction and interview

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

Part 1 (Food / Cooking) — the examiner asks about two familiar topics. Topic 1: Food Q1. What kind of food do you like to eat? Q2. Is there any food you really dislike? Topic 2: Cooking Q3. Can you cook? Q4. Who usually cooks in your home?
Recorded on your device only — play it back and compare with the model answer.
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Model answer: 1. I enjoy a bit of everything, but I'm particularly fond of spicy dishes, like curries and anything with chilli. My mother's lentil soup is my all-time favourite, though. 2. Yes, I can't stand liver. I tried it once at a friend's house to be polite and I had to drink a lot of water afterwards to get rid of the taste. 3. A little. I can make pasta, omelettes and a few simple stews, but I wouldn't call myself a proper cook. I'm still learning from online videos. 4. Mostly my dad. He works from home, so he has time to prepare dinner, and he's much better at it than the rest of us. On Sundays, my mum takes over and makes something special.

Part 2: Individual long turn

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

Describe a time when you had to wait for something important. You should say: - what you were waiting for - how long you had to wait - what you did while you were waiting and explain how you felt when it finally happened. You will be given one minute to prepare before speaking for one to two minutes.
Recorded on your device only — play it back and compare with the model answer.
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Model answer: A time I remember very clearly was when I waited for the results of my university entrance exam, about eight years ago. The exam itself was in June, but the results weren't announced until the middle of July, so I had to wait for almost five weeks. Everything depended on those results, because if my marks were too low, I wouldn't get a place on the engineering course I wanted. During the wait I tried to keep myself busy. I worked part-time in a bookshop, I helped my father to paint the fence, and I went out with my friends as much as possible. But at night I'd lie awake, running over the questions in my head and wondering whether I'd made any mistakes. On the day the results came out, I got up at six o'clock and sat in front of the computer for two hours, refreshing the page again and again because the website had crashed. When my score finally appeared and I saw that I'd passed with a good margin, I actually jumped out of my chair and ran to tell my parents. I remember feeling enormous relief, as if I'd been carrying a heavy bag for weeks and someone had finally taken it from me.

Part 3: Two-way discussion

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

Part 3 (advertising) — the examiner asks four related questions. Q1. How effective do you think advertising is at influencing what people buy? Q2. Should advertising aimed at children be restricted? Q3. Do you think online advertising is more powerful than traditional advertising? Q4. How might advertising change as technology develops further?
Recorded on your device only — play it back and compare with the model answer.
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Model answer: 1. Very effective, even when people don't feel personally persuaded, since repeated exposure builds familiarity, and familiarity often translates into trust when someone is choosing between similar products. 2. Yes, I think so, since children generally can't distinguish clearly between entertainment and persuasion, making them especially vulnerable to marketing for things like sugary snacks or expensive toys. 3. In many ways, yes, because online advertising can target specific interests and behaviours precisely, whereas traditional adverts reach a broader, less targeted audience with a single generic message. 4. I expect increasingly personalised advertising based on browsing habits, though growing privacy concerns may eventually push regulators to limit exactly how much personal data companies can use.

Writing Task 1

You are unable to attend a close friend's wedding due to circumstances beyond your control. Write a letter to your friend. In your letter: apologise and explain the situation, express your feelings about missing the occasion, and suggest how you would like to celebrate with them another time. 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 everyone should adopt a plant-based diet for environmental and health reasons, while others think this is a personal choice that should not be encouraged by governments. 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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