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IELTS Listening
Lecture: Growing Food in Cities
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
- What is urban farming? (Importing food to cities / Growing food inside cities / Selling food at city markets / Farming near motorways)
- Which form of urban farming is the oldest? (Vertical farms / Rooftop gardens / Community allotments / Hydroponic tanks)
- How much less water do vertical farms use? (About ten per cent less / About half / About ninety per cent less / No water at all)
- Why do vertical farms need no pesticides? (The crops are sealed away from insects / The soil is treated / The plants are resistant / The lights kill insects)
- What is the main problem with vertical farms? (They need a lot of energy / They need a lot of soil / They need a lot of workers / They produce too little food)
- How much more energy did lettuce need in the study? (Twice as much / Five times as much / Around fifteen times as much / A hundred times as much)
- What have some farms done about the energy problem? (Closed at night / Put solar panels on their roofs / Moved to the countryside / Grown fewer crops)
- Which crops are mostly grown in vertical farms? (Wheat and rice / Leafy greens and herbs / Potatoes / Fruit trees)
- Why have some companies closed? (They could not compete with cheaper imports / They ran out of land / Customers disliked the taste / They were banned)
- What is the lecturer's conclusion? (Cities will soon feed themselves / Urban farming may work as a supplement / Urban farming will fail / Allotments should be closed)
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