Onterra Tutor
IELTS Listening
Lecture: How the Romans Built Roads
10 questions, about 9 minutes, marked the moment you submit with the right answer beside every question you missed. The recording plays once, the way the real test plays it.
What you will hear
A talk of a few minutes with specific facts: names, numbers, prices and times. The transcript unlocks after marking, so you can find the exact words that cost you.
The questions
- How long was the Roman road network at its height? (About eight thousand kilometres / More than eighty thousand kilometres / About two hundred thousand kilometres / More than a million kilometres)
- What was the main reason for building roads? (Trade / Tourism / Military movement / Religion)
- How far could soldiers march in a day on a good road? (About ten kilometres / About thirty kilometres / About fifty kilometres / About a hundred kilometres)
- Who did much of the building? (Slaves only / The legions / Local farmers / Foreign engineers)
- What was put at the bottom of the trench? (Sand / Large stones / Paving stones / Clay)
- What is the camber? (A ditch beside the road / The raised middle of the road surface / A layer of gravel / A type of milestone)
- According to the lecturer, why have some Roman roads survived? (Good drainage / Frequent repairs / Little traffic / Expensive materials)
- What did milestones show? (The age of the road / The distance to the nearest town / The name of the builder / The price of travel)
- How often were there rest stations for changing horses? (About every five kilometres / About every fifteen kilometres / About every fifty kilometres / Once a day's journey)
- How far could a message travel in a day by relays of riders? (Fifty kilometres / One hundred kilometres / Two hundred and fifty kilometres / Five hundred kilometres)
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