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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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Remember, you will take the Listening, Reading and Writing tests on the same day with no breaks in between, so it’s important to practise under similar conditions.

When taking the tests, remember that each test is presented over a number of web pages. Make sure you answer all the questions and carry out the tasks on each page in the correct order. 

Exercise - 223

Question: 1 Mary: Why are you ....... so worried?

Correct Answer : 1 [looking]

Notes: Mary: Why are you looking so worried?

Question: 2 Pete: I'm not really worried. It's just that for ....... I've been trying to remember the name of that actor in the first ever colour film.

Correct Answer : 2 [ages]

Notes: Pete: I'm not really worried. It's just that for ages I've been trying to remember the name of that actor in the first ever colour film.

Question: 3 Mary: Do you know what the film was .......?

Correct Answer : 3 [called]

Notes: Mary: Do you know what the film was called?

Question: 4 Pete: No, that's just it. It's completely gone out of my ........

Correct Answer : 4 [head]

Notes: Pete: No, that's just it. It's completely gone out of my head.

Question: 5 Mary: At least tell me what the actor looked ........

Correct Answer : 5 [like]

Notes: Mary: At least tell me what the actor looked like.

Question: 6 Pete: Well, he was tall and spoke with a very English ........

Correct Answer : 6 [accent]

Notes: Pete: Well, he was tall and spoke with a very English accent.

Question: 7 Mary: When was the film actually ....... ?

Correct Answer : 7 [made]

Notes: Mary: When was the film actually made?

Question: 8 Pete: It ....... have been some time in 1947, I'm sure of that.

Correct Answer : 8 [must]

Notes: Pete: It must have been some time in 1947, I'm sure of that.

Question: 9 Mary: Why are you so keen to find ....... who it was?

Correct Answer : 9 [out]

Notes: Mary: Why are you so keen to find out who it was?

Question: 10 Pete: To tell you the ....... , I've forgotten that, too!

Correct Answer : 10 [truth]

Notes: Pete: To tell you the truth, I've forgotten that, too!

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