IELTS June 2nd 2018 Reading

Passage One
Title: Ahead of its time

Question type: Judgement Question 4, Process fill in the blank 5, Outline fill in the blank 4

Theme of the article:

The first paragraph: It was mentioned that a young boy accidentally discovered a skull

while walking along the flooding river.

The second paragraph: This discovery has attracted the interest of many researchers.

The third, fourth, and fifth paragraphs: Tell you about the researchers' research on this

skull identity and the research on related issues. Based on their own research, scientists

propose various assumptions about the source of the skull.

Paragraph 6: Propose the most likely hypothesis and related evidence for the source of

the skull.

Question 4

1. NG (question mentions that the river where the skull was found went into the water

and did not mention the original)

2. T (Don't say that the child mistakenly recognized the skull as something else. The

original mentions that he will treat it as a whale hook)

3. F (doesn't say the child doesn't know what this is, the article mentions that he realized

it was a skull)

4. NG (handout says that the young boy's mother was surprised at the fact that many

people were studying the skull.)

Process fill in the blank 5

5. Police

6. European

7. Radiocarbon dating
8. Sample

9. 296

Subject fills in the blank 4

10. race

11. archaeologist

12. Australia

13. Shipwreck

Passage Two
Title: the importance of play

Question type: Paragraph information pairing 5, person's point of view matching 4, main

idea blank

Theme of the article:

The first paragraph mainly mentions the importance of play and introduces the relevant

research background.

In the second paragraph, the researchers demonstrated through experiments that playing

can make the child's brain develop better.

The third paragraph, the fourth paragraph, and the fifth paragraph cannot explain the

researcher's research on rats to prove the positive effect of play on the brain.

In the sixth paragraph, speaking about playing can make children smarter, emotional

intelligence higher, and better respond to unknown situations.

Paragraph information pairing 5

14. B

15. A

16. G

17. C

18. A
Personal Name Pairing 4

19. B

20. C

21. D

22. A

Subject fills in blank 4

23. Brains

24. Cats

25. Anxiety

26. Ball

Passage Three
Topic: A closer examination of verbal and nonverbal messages

Question type: fill in the blanks of the choice 4, determine the question 5, single choice

question 5

Theme of the article:

The first paragraph mainly introduces the background of the research on verbal

communication and non-verbal communication.

The second paragraph: We mentioned an experiment with pictures and tone as variables.

The fourth paragraph of the third paragraph: analyzed the deficiencies of this experiment

in terms of content and framework.

The sixth paragraph of the fifth paragraph explains the methodology of verbal 

communication and non-verbal communication research.

Paragraph 8 of paragraph 7: refers to an objective understanding of the relationship

between the two.

Blanks 4

27. D
28. G

29. A

30. E

Question 5

31. F

32. T

33. NG

34. T

35. NG

Single choice question 5

36. A

37. D

38. D

39. C

40. A