Questions –13 The correct answer is false

‘Problems’ is incorrect
as the gap has the word is after it, so the answer must
be singular.
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IELTS 16, Test 1 answer key with extra explanations, Listening
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Part 2
Questions 11–20
11 The correct answer is C: 
The speaker says that the founder of Stevenson’s ‘set up this 
company … in 1926’.
 A is incorrect 
as he left school in 1923. 
B is incorrect 
as
 
he started 
thinking (making plans) to set up the company in 1924.
12 The correct answer is A: 
The speaker says that for the first five years Stevenson’s made
 
‘goods for hospitals and other players in the healthcare industry’. 
B and C are incorrect
as 
manufacturing for these industries was a ‘long-term plan’, and manufacturing for the machine 
tools industry ‘never came about’.
13 The correct answer is B: 
The speaker says that the ‘site is big enough’. 
A is incorrect 
as the 
speaker says that
 
‘moving to a new location has never been necessary’. 
C is incorrect
as the 
speaker says that the site will be refurbished (improved) ‘over the next five years’.
14 The correct answer is C: 
The speaker says that the students will have ‘a presentation 
(talk) from one of the managers’. 
A is incorrect 
as
 
the speaker does not mention the students 
doing research. 
B is incorrect 
as
 
the speaker says, ‘your school isn’t able to arrange [a teacher 
coming in] this year’.
15 The correct answer is H:
The speaker directs you along a corridor to the left of the 
reception area and says, ‘the door facing you at the end is the entrance to the coffee room’. 
The speaker says that it ‘looks out onto the main road on one side, and some trees on the 
other’.