IELTS free practice tests and answers

Prepare for IELTS with our free practice tests and answers. Use these tests to carry out timed practice sessions and develop your test technique. 

We strongly advise test takers to practice IELTS. By taking our free practice tests, you will get to know the test format, experience the types of tasks you will be asked to undertake, test yourself under timed conditions and review your answers and compare them with model answers.

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Exercise - 132

Question: 1 Getting over a break-up is hard to do. Instead of wallowing in your ......., try to take positive steps to put your failed relationship behind you.

Correct Answer : 1 [heartache]

Notes: Getting over a break-up is hard to do. Instead of wallowing in your heartache, try to take positive steps to put your failed relationship behind you.

Question: 2 Spanish singing ....... Enrique Iglesias has been forced to pull out of concerts in Hong Kong and in the Philippines because of a visa problem in Malaysia.

Correct Answer : 2 [heartthrob]

Notes: Spanish singing heartthrob Enrique Iglesias has been forced to pull out of concerts in Hong Kong and in the Philippines because of a visa problem in Malaysia.

Question: 3 I feel really blessed, you know, because a lot of people who have a ....... never get any advance warning.

Correct Answer : 3 [heart attack]

Notes: I feel really blessed, you know, because a lot of people who have a heart attack never get any advance warning.

Question: 4 Nighttime ....... not only disrupts your sleep, but it may lead to other health risks such as raising your risk of cancer or aggravating asthma.

Correct Answer : 4 [heartburn]

Notes: Nighttime heartburn not only disrupts your sleep, but it may lead to other health risks such as raising your risk of cancer or aggravating asthma.

Question: 5 Allow me to express my ....... sorrow at the immense tragedy that has been perpetrated upon the American people by the wicked evildoers who were responsible for the September 11th terrorist attacks.

Correct Answer : 5 [heartfelt]

Notes: Allow me to express my heartfelt sorrow at the immense tragedy that has been perpetrated upon the American people by the wicked evildoers who were responsible for the September 11th terrorist attacks.

Question: 6 Palpitations are ....... sensations that feel like pounding or racing.

Correct Answer : 6 [heartbeat]

Notes: Palpitations are heartbeat sensations that feel like pounding or racing.

Question: 7 Just about everyone experiences the type of grief we call ....... at one time or another.

Correct Answer : 7 [heartbreak]

Notes: Just about everyone experiences the type of grief we call heartbreak at one time or another.

Question: 8 The UK has one of the highest rates of death from ....... in the world.

Correct Answer : 8 [heart disease]

Notes: The UK has one of the highest rates of death from heart disease in the world.

Question: 9 The Burgundy countryside is fast becoming the Islamic ....... of France.

Correct Answer : 9 [heartland]

Notes: The Burgundy countryside is fast becoming the Islamic heartland of France.

Question: 10 Bollywood ....... Hrithik Roshan pointed a finger at a gang of camera-happy Indian fans gathered to watch him shooting a film on the south bank of the river Thames.

Correct Answer : 10 [heartthrob]

Notes: Bollywood heartthrob Hrithik Roshan pointed a finger at a gang of camera-happy Indian fans gathered to watch him shooting a film on the south bank of the river Thames.