Listening Comprehension Practice Questions with Answer Key
- Posted by Brian Stocker MA
- Date May 11, 2015
- Comments 17 comments
Caterpillars
Caterpillars
Butterfly larvae, or caterpillars, consume plant leaves and spend practically all of their time in search of food. Although most caterpillars are herbivorous, a few species eat other insects. Some larvae form mutual associations with ants. They communicate with the ants using vibrations that are transmitted through the soil as well as using chemical signals. The ants provide some degree of protection to the larvae and they in turn gather honeydew secretions.
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Questions
1. What do most larvae spend their time doing?
a. Eating
b. Sleeping
c. Communicating with ants.
d. None of the above
2. Are all caterpillars herbivores?
a. Yes
b. No, some eat insects
3. What benefit do larvae get from association with ants?
a. They do not receive any benefit.
b. Ants give them protection.
c. Ants give them food.
d. Ants give them honeydew secretions.
4. Do ants or larvae benefit most from association?
a. Ants benefit most.
b. Larvae benefit most.
c. Both benefit the same.
d. Neither benefits.
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Answer Key
1. A
Eating. Larvae spend most of their time in search of food and their food is leaves.
2. B
Some caterpillars eat other insects.
3. B
From the passage, the ants provide some degree of protection
4. C
The association is mutual so they both benefit.
Tips for Answering Listening Comprehension Question on a Test
Focus Focus on the main ideas, supporting details, tone, and especially the context. The setting, situation, and the speaker’s relationships gives clues for answering. By understand the context and a few details you can understand enough to answer. You may not need to understand 100%.
Predict: When listening to the audio, try to predict questions and answers that may be asked.
Signal Words: Words like “however,” “but,” “therefore,” etc., generally indicate shifts in ideas or important points.
Eliminate: Elimination is the best multiple choice strategy. Learn more about answering multiple choice questions strategically
Review Answers: Good advice for any type of question.
Practice: Regular practice is the best test prep strategy!
How to Answer Listening Comprehension
Date Published: Monday, May 11th, 2015
Date Modified: Monday, August 26th, 2024
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17 Comments
Thanks but it so tricky
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This was great. I wish that I could find more of these.
thanks!
I can’t understand
thanks
how to select the answers for the comprehensions??
This page is not interactive – we have a Listening comprehension course – with some free questions here that is interactive
How is Eating the same as Searching for food? for the first question
Presumably they don’t search for food to NOT eat it. I think Choice A is the BEST choice given the other choices. Perhaps a vague questions? Or perhaps not – I will review.
The answer to 1st question can’t be eating. The Larvae spend most time in search of food and searching for food is not same as eating food. So logical answer should be D.
same thought, i chose D
OK sure – searching for food presumes you are going to eat it but it doesn’t actually say that ! LOL perhaps the questions is ambiguous
This is good practice!
Thanks