A Conversation Between a University Student and a Librarian about Using the City Archives - IELTS Listening Sample Answer

The IELTS Listening section comprises two monologues and conversations. Candidates need to answer 40 IELTS listening questions. This topic - A conversation between a university student and a librarian about using the City Archives is IELTS listening part Three. Candidates need to answer the following IELTS Listening question types:

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Audio Transcript

You will hear a conversation between a university student and a librarian about using the City Archives.

Student: Hello. I was wondering if you could give me some information about

using the archives .

Librarian: I’d be happy to. Are you a resident of the city?

Student: Actually, 1 live just outside the city, but I study at the university downtown .

Librarian: That’s fine. All you need to do is show your university identification card and you can use the archives at no charge , as long as your ID card is current, of course.

Student: Yes, it’s valid. So I don’t have to pay anything?

Librarian: No. City residents pay an annual fee, but students can use the archives for free. Everyone else needs to get special permission from the director, but that doesn’t apply to you, of course.

Student: Oh, good. I was also wondering about the schedule. I have classes every day, Monday through Friday, and I also have a part-time job, so I could really only use the archives on weekends.

Librarian. That’s not a problem at all. We’re open all weekend; actually the only day we’re closed is Monday. So you can come any day, Tuesday through Sunday.

Student: Are you open in the evenings?

Librarian: Yes, we’re open from 9:30 in the morning until 8:30 in the evening.

Student: That will fit my schedule well.

Librarian: Is there something else I can help you with?

Student: Yes. One thing I’ll be needing to see for one of my class projects is old photographs . Do you have photographs of the city in the 19th century that I could look at?

Librarian: Yes, we store all the photographs in the basement . Those stairs over there will take you down to the photography collection. Just tell the library there what you’re interested in, and he’ll help you.

Student: Those would be nineteenth-century photographs?

Librarian: Yes, the entire collection is there. Now, if you’re interested in seeing documents from the nineteenth century , those are right here on the ground floor .

Student: I would like to see some of those documents. Does that collection include newspapers, too?

Librarian: No, all the newspapers from the earliest ones, in the eighteenth century, up to the current time, are on the second floor. Here, let me just give you this map of the archives , and you’ll be able to find whatever it is you need.

Student: Thank you. Oh, I see you have a whole room devoted to maps.

Librarian: Yes, on the third floor.

Student: That’s great because one thing I need to do is look at how the city has developed over time.

Librarian: I’m sure you’ll find a lot of helpful information there. Of course, some of the maps are several centuries old, so generally visitors are only allowed to see photographic reproductions of them.

Student: That shouldn’t be a problem. What’s this on the fourth floor— Ogden’s Woolen Mill?

Librarian: As I’m sure you know, Ogden’s Woolen Mill was the major entity responsible for the growth of this city in the nineteenth century . The Ogden airs gave money for the archives to devote an entire floor to information about the history of the mill.

Student: Will I be able to find information about the Ogden family there photographs, personal papers , things like that?

Librarian: Probably the family photographs are stored downstairs in the photography collection. The personal papers would be on the fifth floor , where we keep all the personal papers of famous residents of our city.

Student: Thank you so much for your help. I’ll be able to do a lot of my research here.

Questions 21-24.

Complete the information about the archives.
Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER for each answer.

Welcome to City Archives

The following people may use the archives:

University students with a valid 21_____________

City residents with payment of 22_____________

All others: Special permission from the director is required.

Hours:

Days: 23 ____________ through _______________

Hours: 9:30 A.M. until 24 ________________P.M.

Question 21.

Answer: student identification card/ID card/university identification card

Explanation: It has been mentioned in the conversation that university students can use the archives with a valid university identification card.

Also, check:

Question 22.

Answer: (an)annual fee

Explanation: The city residents pay an annual fee to access the archives.

Question 23.

Answer: Tuesday; Sunday/Tuesday through Sunday/Tuesday to Sunday

Explanation: The librarian mentioned that ‘you can come any day, Tuesday through Sunday’. Therefore the answer should be Tuesday through Sunday.

Question 24.

Answer: 8:30

Explanation: It is mentioned by the librarian that they are open from 9:30 in the morning until 8:30 in the evening.

Questions 25-30.

Write the correct Utter, A-G next to questions 25-30.
What can be found on each floor1 of the archives building?

City Archives

1. nineteenth-century documents
2. maps
3. personal papers
4. photographs
5. books about the city
6. newspapers
7. Information about the woolen mill

The floor of the Building

25 basement _____
26 ground floor _____
27 second floor _____
28 third floor _____
29 fourth floor _____
30 fifth floor _____

Question 25.

Answer: D

Explanation: As informed by the librarian ‘we store all the photographs in the basement’. Option D is the correct answer.

Question 26.

Answer: A

Explanation: The librarian said to the student ‘if you’re interested in seeing documents from the nineteenth century, those are right here on the ground floor’. Hence the answer is A.

Question 27.

Answer: F

Explanation: As mentioned in the conversation ‘all the newspapers from the earliest ones, in the eighteenth century, up to the current time, are on the second floor’. Thus F should be the correct answer.

Question 28.

Answer: B

Explanation: It is mentioned that they have a whole room on the third floor especially devoted to maps.

Question 29.

Answer: G

Explanation: The student curiously asked What’s this on the fourth floor— Ogden’s Woolen Mill? To which the librarian responded ‘As I’m sure you know’ so the answer is option G.

Question 30.

Answer: C

Explanation: The librarian informed the student that ‘The personal papers would be on the fifth floor,’ so the answer is option C.