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 - 48
Question: 1 Mike: Haven't seen you for ........
Correct Answer : 1 [ages]
Notes: Mike: Haven't seen you for ages.
Question: 2 Linda: No, I've been ....... a lot of pain the last few months.
Correct Answer : 2 [in]
Notes: Linda: No, I've been in a lot of pain the last few months.
Question: 3 Mike: I'm sorry to hear that. Tell me ....... it.
Correct Answer : 3 [about]
Notes: Mike: I'm sorry to hear that. Tell me about it.
Question: 4 Linda: It's awful really. At the ....... it's in my knee.
Correct Answer : 4 [moment]
Notes: Linda: It's awful really. At the moment it's in my knee.
Question: 5 Mike: That can ....... walking very difficult.
Correct Answer : 5 [make]
Notes: Mike: That can make walking very difficult.
Question: 6 Linda: Then ....... the pain in my back.
Correct Answer : 6 [there's]
Notes: Linda: Then there's the pain in my back.
Question: 7 Mike: I know what that's ........
Correct Answer : 7 [like]
Notes: Mike: I know what that's like.
Question: 8 Linda: Of ....... I mustn't forget the pains in my feet.
Correct Answer : 8 [course]
Notes: Linda: Of course I mustn't forget the pains in my feet.
Question: 9 Mike: Suddenly I'm ....... much better. I won't see the doctor today. Good bye.
Correct Answer : 9 [feeling]
Notes: Mike: Suddenly I'm feeling much better. I won't see the doctor today. Good bye.
Question: 10 Linda: But you can't go ....... I haven't described my other pains.
Correct Answer : 10 [yet]
Notes: Linda: But you can't go yet I haven't described my other pains.
Question: 1 She's ....... a high at the moment because everything is going her way.
Correct Answer : 1 [on]
Notes: She's on a high at the moment because everything is going her way.
Question: 2 I have high ....... that we will succeed with our project in view of all the interest we have received.
Correct Answer : 2 [hopes]
Notes: I have high hopes that we will succeed with our project in view of all the interest we have received.
Question: 3 It's high ....... we left if we really want to be there on time.
Correct Answer : 3 [time]
Notes: It's high time we left if we really want to be there on time.
Question: 4 You'll just have to get used to these highs and ....... as it's all part of being in business.
Correct Answer : 4 [lows]
Notes: You'll just have to get used to these highs and lows as it's all part of being in business.
Question: 5 Now that he's become office manager you can't even talk to him — he's so high and ........
Correct Answer : 5 [mighty]
Notes: Now that he's become office manager you can't even talk to him — he's so high and mighty.
Question: 6 The really high ....... of the evening's entertainment was when two clowns came into the ring and started throwing things at each other.
Correct Answer : 6 [spot]
Notes: The really high spot of the evening's entertainment was when two clowns came into the ring and started throwing things at each other.
Question: 7 He left the safe door unlocked last night so I reckon he'll be for the high ....... this morning.
Correct Answer : 7 [jump]
Notes: He left the safe door unlocked last night so I reckon he'll be for the high jump this morning.
Question: 8 It's always the same when you break one of the rules of the office, she gets on her high ....... and starts shouting at you.
Correct Answer : 8 [horse]
Notes: It's always the same when you break one of the rules of the office, she gets on her high horse and starts shouting at you.
Question: 9 The moment she joined the staff you just knew she was a high ....... and it was no surprise when she got promotion within six weeks.
Correct Answer : 9 [flier]
Notes: The moment she joined the staff you just knew she was a high flier and it was no surprise when she got promotion within six weeks.
Question: 10 They wanted to make sure that their small daughter shared in the meal and so they asked the restaurant to provide a high ........
Correct Answer : 10 [chair]
Notes: They wanted to make sure that their small daughter shared in the meal and so they asked the restaurant to provide a high chair.
Question: 1 Thanks to the crash barrier in the middle of the motorway cars are ....... from hitting those on the other side in the event of an accident.
Correct Answer : 1 [prevented]
Notes: Thanks to the crash barrier in the middle of the motorway cars are prevented from hitting those on the other side in the event of an accident.
Question: 2 It doesn't matter what position you hold in society everyone is ....... to the same laws.
Correct Answer : 2 [subject]
Notes: It doesn't matter what position you hold in society everyone is subject to the same laws.
Question: 3 As I was a stranger in that country I was not ....... with some of their customs and didn't understand why people were laughing at me.
Correct Answer : 3 [acquainted]
Notes: As I was a stranger in that country I was not acquainted with some of their customs and didn't understand why people were laughing at me.
Question: 4 You can have that car in any colour you want in fact you have a ....... of 24 different ones.
Correct Answer : 4 [choice]
Notes: You can have that car in any colour you want in fact you have a choice of 24 different ones.
Question: 5 The theatre was ....... to display in the entrance some of the excellent newspaper reviews the play had received.
Correct Answer : 5 [delighted]
Notes: The theatre was delighted to display in the entrance some of the excellent newspaper reviews the play had received.
Question: 6 As the hospital had been careless with its hygiene procedures, the patient found she had been ....... with a harmful virus.
Correct Answer : 6 [infected]
Notes: As the hospital had been careless with its hygiene procedures, the patient found she had been infected with a harmful virus.
Question: 7 As a ....... of the district she had absolutely no difficulty in understanding the local dialect.
Correct Answer : 7 [native]
Notes: As a native of the district she had absolutely no difficulty in understanding the local dialect.
Question: 8 There is a new company regulation to remove the danger of passive smoking, which ....... all employees from smoking at their place of work.
Correct Answer : 8 [prohibits]
Notes: There is a new company regulation to remove the danger of passive smoking, which prohibits all employees from smoking at their place of work.
Question: 9 He finds breathing very difficult in restricted spaces as he ....... from asthma.
Correct Answer : 9 [suffers]
Notes: He finds breathing very difficult in restricted spaces as he suffers from asthma.
Question: 10 I am very pleased to be working with you because I think the same way and ....... with your policies.
Correct Answer : 10 [agree]
Notes: I am very pleased to be working with you because I think the same way and agree with your policies.