# A Tour of the Bicentennial Park: answers and explanations

Cambridge IELTS 7, Test 4, Listening Part 2

Source: Recording, questions and answer key from Cambridge IELTS 7, Test 4, Listening Part 2. © Cambridge University Press & Assessment. Used for educational practice. Explanations and evidence notes are written by Testmigo.

## Answer key

| Q | Answer | Proof |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 11 | C | I hope that you're all wearing your most comfortable shoes, and that you can keep up the pace. ... So follow me up the stairs |
| 12 | B | There used to be a lot of factories in this area until the 1960s. ... was originally warehouses and storehouses. |
| 13 | A | they wanted to use the site for recreation. ... Residents wanted open space for outdoor activities |
| 14 | B | is the center point for the formal gardens. |
| 15 | car park | There is also a car park, but it only holds a limited number of cars. |
| 16 | rose garden | you can relax and sit on a bench to smell the flowers in the rose garden. |
| 17 | café | if you look through the trees, you can see the cafe, which has lovely views across the water. |
| 18 | cycling | but in fact it's more often used for cycling |
| 19 | biology lesson | the area is now most often used by primary schools for biology lessons. |
| 20 | viewing shelter | the park's viewing shelter is a favorite spot for bird watchers |

## Why these answers are right

**11. C.** Sally never names the type of tour, so you have to infer it. She hopes everyone has comfortable shoes and can keep up the pace, and later asks the group to follow her up the stairs, which points to a walking tour, not a bus or train.

**12. B.** The question asks what stood on the site first. Sally says the area had a lot of factories until the 1960s and that the park space was originally warehouses and storehouses, which are all industrial buildings. Housing was only proposed later, and shops are never mentioned.

**13. A.** You need what local residents wanted the land for. Sally says they wanted the site used for recreation, with open space for outdoor activities rather than housing or an indoor sports complex. Recreation means leisure, so A fits, while B and C are what residents rejected.

The why and the trap for questions 14 onwards are free with an account on the [answers page](https://testmigo.com/ielts/listening/a-tour-of-the-bicentennial-park/answers).

## Transcript

**Announcer:** Section 2, you will hear a guide giving a tour of a park.

**Announcer:** First, you have some time to look at questions 11 to 14.

**Announcer:** Now listen carefully and answer questions 11 to 14.

**Sally:** Welcome to all of you.

**Sally:** Can everybody see and hear me?

**Sally:** Good.

**Sally:** I'm Sally, your guide for this tour of the Bicentennial Park.

**Sally:** I hope that you're all wearing your most comfortable shoes, and that you can keep up the pace.

**Sally:** So, let's get underway on our tour around this wonderful park.

**Sally:** I'll start today with some general background information.

**Sally:** There used to be a lot of factories in this area until the 1960s.

**Sally:** Creating the park required the demolition of lots of derelict buildings on the site.

**Sally:** So most of the exciting park space all around you was originally warehouses and storehouses.

**Sally:** The idea of building a public park here was first discussed when a property developer proposed a high-rise housing development, but the local community wasn't happy.

**Sally:** If the land was to be cleaned up, they wanted to use the site for recreation.

**Sally:** Residents wanted open space for outdoor activities, rather than housing or even an indoor sports complex.

**Sally:** Now to the Bicentennial Park itself, it has two areas, a nature reserve, and a formal park with manmade features and gardens.

**Sally:** The tall blue-and-white building in front of us is called The Tower, and is the center point for the formal gardens.

**Sally:** It stands 12 meters high.

**Sally:** So follow me up the stairs to where we can take advantage of the fantastic views.

**Announcer:** Before you hear the rest of the tour, you have some time to look at questions 15 to 20.

**Announcer:** Now listen and answer questions 15 to 20.

**Sally:** Well, here we are at the top of The Tower, and we're gonna look at the view from each direction.

**Sally:** Out to the east, the large buildings about a kilometer away are on the Olympic site.

**Sally:** There's an indoor arena for gymnastics, a stadium for track and field, and a swimming pool for races and synchronized swimming, and also diving.

**Sally:** If you look carefully down there, you can see the train lines.

**Sally:** The Olympic site has its own station to encourage the use of public transport.

**Sally:** There is also a car park, but it only holds a limited number of cars.

**Sally:** The formal park has some specially created water features.

**Sally:** If you look out here to the south, you can see a circular ornamental pond, and around to the west, you can relax and sit on a bench to smell the flowers in the rose garden.

**Sally:** And finally up to the north, if you look in front of you now.

**Sally:** There's a lake with a small island in the center.

**Sally:** You can hire rowing boats at the boat shed, which you can't see from here, but if you look through the trees, you can see the cafe, which has lovely views across the water.

**Sally:** OK, let's climb down now.

**Sally:** We will go now and have a look at the nature reserve section of the park, which has opened up natural wetland to the public.

**Sally:** The mangroves have been made more accessible to visitors by the boardwalk built during the park's upgrade.

**Sally:** You'd think that people would come here to look at the unusual plant life of the area, but in fact it's more often used for cycling, and is very popular with the local clubs.

**Sally:** This is the far end of the park, and over there you can see the Frog Pond, a natural feature here long before the park was designed.

**Sally:** Just next to it, we have our outdoor classroom.

**Sally:** A favorite spot for school parties, the area is now most often used by primary schools for biology lessons.

**Sally:** And finally, let's pass by the waterbird refuge.

**Sally:** This area is in a sheltered part of the estuary.

**Sally:** That's why the park's viewing shelter is a favorite spot for bird watchers who can use it to spy through binoculars.

**Sally:** You can watch a variety of waterbirds, but most visitors expect to see black swans when they come to the shelter.

**Sally:** You might spot one yourself right now.

**Sally:** Well, here we are back at our starting point, the Visitor Center.

**Announcer:** That is the end of section 2.

**Announcer:** You now have half a minute to check your answers.

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