Cambridge 19 IELTS Academic Listening Test 1 - Free Computer Based Mock Practice

Part 4

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Questions 31-40

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Céide Fields

an important Neolithic archaeological site in the northwest of Ireland

Discovery

In the 1930s, a local teacher realised that stones beneath the bog surface were once 31.
His 32 became an archaeologist and undertook an investigation of the site: – a traditional method used by local people to dig for 33 was used to identify where stones were located – carbon dating later proved the site was Neolithic.
Items are well preserved in the bog because of a lack of 34.

Neolithic farmers

Houses were 35 in shape and had a hole in the roof.
Neolithic innovations include: – cooking indoors – pots used for storage and to make 36.
Each field at Céide was large enough to support a big 37.
The fields were probably used to restrict the grazing of animals – no evidence of structures to house them during 38.

Reasons for the decline in farming