Tuần 29 là tuần luyện tính giờ toàn phần. Hôm nay: Listening 4 phần, 40 câu. Quy tắc: bật âm thanh, mỗi phần nghe một lần, không mở lời thoại, không dừng giữa chừng. Đọc câu hỏi trước mỗi phần (khoảng 30–45 giây). Chấm sau khi làm xong cả 40 câu.
⚠️ Bài luyện do khóa học soạn, không quy đổi ra band. Kết quả mỗi người khác nhau.
⏱️ Listening – 4 phần35:00
🎧 Part 1 – Câu 1–10
🎧 Bài nghe
A woman phones a hotel to book a room for a company training day (giả định)
Nghe tối đa 2 lần trước khi xem lời thoại.
📄 Xem lời thoại (sau khi làm bài)
- Receptionist
- Good afternoon, Lakeside Hotel events team. How can I help?
- Caller
- Hello, I'd like to book a meeting room for a training day for my company.
- Receptionist
- Certainly. Could I take your name first?
- Caller
- It's Rebecca Lindqvist. That's L-I-N-D-Q-V-I-S-T.
- Receptionist
- Thank you. And the date you have in mind?
- Caller
- Thursday the 18th of February. Actually, sorry – can we make it Tuesday the 16th? Some of our team are away on the Thursday.
- Receptionist
- Tuesday the 16th is fine. How many people will there be?
- Caller
- About twenty-five, but it could go up to thirty.
- Receptionist
- Then I'd suggest the Garden Room, which holds up to thirty-five. The Lake Room is smaller – it only takes twenty.
- Caller
- The Garden Room, then. What does it cost?
- Receptionist
- The full-day rate is 650 pounds, which includes the projector and Wi-Fi. Lunch is extra – it's 18 pounds per person for the buffet, or 24 for a sit-down meal.
- Caller
- We'll go for the buffet. And could we have coffee in the morning and afternoon?
- Receptionist
- Of course. Refreshments are included in the room rate if you book lunch with us.
- Caller
- Excellent. Is parking available?
- Receptionist
- Yes, there's a free car park behind the hotel, but it fills up quickly, so I'd recommend people arrive before half past eight.
- Caller
- Good to know. How do I confirm the booking?
- Receptionist
- We'll need a deposit of 20 per cent within seven days. I'll email you a booking form this afternoon.
- Caller
- Perfect, thank you.
Giọng đọc là giọng máy của trình duyệt; giọng và tốc độ khác nhau tùy thiết bị. Bài thi thật dùng giọng người với nhiều giọng địa phương.
Câu 1–10: Complete the form. ONE WORD AND/OR A NUMBER
- 1. Surname:
- 2. Date: Tuesday February
- 3. Maximum number of people:
- 4. Room: Room
- 5. Full-day room rate: £
- 6. Lunch option:
- 7. Lunch cost per person: £
- 8. Car park is located the hotel
- 9. Recommended arrival time: before a.m.
- 10. Deposit: % within seven days
🎧 Part 2 – Câu 11–20
🎧 Bài nghe
A city council officer introduces a new bike-hire scheme on local radio (giả định)
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- Officer
- Thanks for having me. Our new bike-hire scheme launches next month, and I'd like to explain how it works.
- Officer
- There'll be forty docking stations across the city to begin with. The largest is at the central railway station, with spaces for sixty bikes. Others are at the university, the hospital, the main shopping centre and along the river path.
- Officer
- To use a bike, you'll need to download our app and register a payment card. You'll then scan a code on the bike to unlock it. Unlike some schemes, you don't need to pay a membership fee – you simply pay for the time you use.
- Officer
- The first thirty minutes of every journey are free, which we hope will encourage short trips instead of driving. After that, it's one pound for each additional thirty minutes. If a bike isn't returned within twenty-four hours, there's a charge to cover the cost of recovering it.
- Officer
- All bikes are electric-assisted, which makes the hills in the north of the city much more manageable. Their batteries are charged overnight by our maintenance team, so you won't need to plug them in yourself.
- Officer
- A few people have asked about safety. Helmets aren't supplied with the bikes, because of hygiene concerns, but we're offering a discount voucher for helmets at three local shops. We'll also be running free cycling confidence sessions every Saturday morning in Riverside Park for anyone who hasn't cycled for a while.
- Officer
- Finally, users must be at least sixteen years old, and anyone between sixteen and eighteen will need a parent to approve their account.
Giọng đọc là giọng máy của trình duyệt; giọng và tốc độ khác nhau tùy thiết bị. Bài thi thật dùng giọng người với nhiều giọng địa phương.
✅ Câu 11–15: chọn A, B hoặc C
11. Where is the largest docking station?
12. What do users NOT have to pay?
13. How much does each extra 30 minutes cost after the free period?
14. Who charges the bike batteries?
15. Why are helmets not provided?
✅ Câu 16–20: Complete the notes. Choose A–G.
16. Number of docking stations at launch
17. Spaces at the largest station
18. Hours before a late-return charge applies
19. Day of free confidence sessions
20. Minimum age of users
🎧 Part 3 – Câu 21–30
🎧 Bài nghe
Two environmental science students, Priya and Tom, discuss their presentation on community gardens with their tutor (giả định)
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📄 Xem lời thoại (sau khi làm bài)
- Tutor
- So, how's the presentation on community gardens coming along?
- Priya
- Quite well. We've visited three gardens in the city and interviewed the organisers. We're planning to start with a short history of community gardening and then move on to our case studies.
- Tutor
- I'd be careful with the history – audiences tend to lose interest quickly. Could you open with something more striking?
- Tom
- We could start with a photo of the Hillcrest garden before and after – it used to be a car park.
- Tutor
- That's much stronger. What did you find out from the visits?
- Priya
- The main surprise was that food production wasn't the most important thing for most members. At Hillcrest especially, people said they came mainly for the social contact.
- Tom
- Although at the Eastside garden it was more about growing affordable vegetables – a lot of members there have large families.
- Priya
- True. And the third one, Millbank, is run with a local school, so the focus is education.
- Tutor
- Interesting. Have you thought about any problems the gardens face?
- Tom
- The biggest one is security of land. Two of the gardens are on land owned by the council, and their leases only run for five years. The organisers worry about investing in them.
- Priya
- And at Eastside, the issue is water – there's no mains supply, so they rely on collecting rainwater, which isn't enough in the dry season.
- Tutor
- Good. How will you divide the presentation?
- Tom
- I'll present the case studies, because I did most of the interviews. Priya's going to do the analysis and the recommendations.
- Priya
- And we'd like to finish by asking the audience a question rather than just summarising.
- Tutor
- Nice idea – just make sure you leave time for it. Ten minutes goes very fast.
Giọng đọc là giọng máy của trình duyệt; giọng và tốc độ khác nhau tùy thiết bị. Bài thi thật dùng giọng người với nhiều giọng địa phương.
✅ Câu 21–24: chọn A, B hoặc C
21. What does the tutor think about starting with history?
22. How will they now begin the presentation?
23. What surprised Priya most?
24. How will they end the presentation?
✅ Câu 25–27: What is the main focus of each garden? A = social contact, B = affordable food, C = education
25. Hillcrest
26. Eastside
27. Millbank
Câu 28–30: Complete the notes. ONE WORD AND/OR A NUMBER
- 28. Council land leases last only years
- 29. Eastside's main problem: supply
- 30. Tom will present the case
🎧 Part 4 – Câu 31–40
🎧 Bài nghe
A lecturer in psychology gives a talk on how habits form and change (giả định)
Nghe tối đa 2 lần trước khi xem lời thoại.
📄 Xem lời thoại (sau khi làm bài)
- Lecturer
- Today we're looking at habits – the behaviours we repeat so often that we perform them almost automatically.
- Lecturer
- Researchers often describe a habit as a loop with three parts. First, there's a cue – something in the environment, such as a time of day or a place, that triggers the behaviour. Then there's the routine itself – the behaviour we perform. And finally there's a reward, which makes us more likely to repeat it.
- Lecturer
- One important point is that habits are strongly linked to context. This is why people who move house or start a new job often find it easier to change their habits – the old cues are no longer there. Some researchers describe this as a window of opportunity.
- Lecturer
- How long does it take to form a new habit? You may have heard a specific number of days quoted. In reality, the time varies enormously between people and between behaviours. Simple actions, like drinking a glass of water after breakfast, may become automatic fairly quickly, whereas more demanding ones, like daily exercise, generally take much longer.
- Lecturer
- What about breaking bad habits? Relying on willpower alone tends to be unreliable, particularly when people are tired or stressed. A more effective strategy is often to change the environment so that the cue is removed or the behaviour becomes more difficult. For example, someone trying to spend less time on their phone might keep it in another room while working.
- Lecturer
- Another approach is called habit stacking – attaching a new behaviour to an existing one. Someone who wants to practise vocabulary might do it every time they wait for the kettle to boil. The existing habit acts as the cue.
- Lecturer
- Finally, a word about missing a day. Many people believe that if they break the chain once, they have failed. However, occasional lapses appear to make relatively little difference to whether a habit forms, as long as the person returns to the behaviour quickly. Consistency over time matters more than perfection.
Giọng đọc là giọng máy của trình duyệt; giọng và tốc độ khác nhau tùy thiết bị. Bài thi thật dùng giọng người với nhiều giọng địa phương.
Câu 31–40: Complete the notes. ONE WORD ONLY.
- 31. Habits are performed almost .
- 32. Habit loop: cue → routine → .
- 33. A cue may be a time of day or a .
- 34. Habits are strongly linked to .
- 35. Moving house can create a window of .
- 36. Time to form a habit varies between people and between .
- 37. Willpower is unreliable, especially when people are tired or .
- 38. Better strategy: change the .
- 39. Habit stacking: an existing habit acts as the .
- 40. Consistency matters more than .
📋 Sau khi làm xong – phân tích (15 phút)
| Phần | Dạng | Đúng / tổng | Lỗi chính (chính tả? bẫy tự sửa? paraphrase?) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Part 1 | form | … / 10 | … |
| Part 2 | MC + matching | … / 10 | … |
| Part 3 | MC + matching + notes | … / 10 | … |
| Part 4 | notes | … / 10 | … |
| Tổng | … / 40 |
🔍 Bẫy chính
- Câu 2: Thursday 18th → sửa thành Tuesday 16th.
- Câu 3: about twenty-five, but it could go up to thirty → tối đa 30.
- Câu 7: £24 là bữa ngồi, người gọi chọn buffet £18.
- Câu 18 vs 16–17: 24 giờ (late return) ≠ 40 trạm / 60 chỗ.
- Câu 23: wasn’t the most important thing – phủ định loại A.
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