IELTS TEST 1

Test 1: Angkor Wat

1, west (the most significant point is that the temple is … to the west)

2, statue of Vishnu (through the courtyard to the final main …. Statue of Vishnu)

3, rotted away (the pegs were then …have since rotted away)

4, contemplate (once at the central tower … symbolism)

5, moat (Angkor Wat is surrounded by moat)

6, sandstone causeway (from the west, a sandstone …)

7 quarried: (The sandstone blocks from which Angkor Wat was built were quarried more than 50km)

8 cranes / trucks (either answer): paragraph 7: "…an unbelievable feat given the lack of cranes and
trucks .

9 breathtaking: "It (Angkor Wat) is the largest and undoubtedly the most breathtaking of the
monuments at Angkor …..

10 GACP: "they are now being restored by the teams of the German Apsara Conservation Project
(GACP)."

11 spatial universe:: "Like the other temples of Angkor, Angkor Wat also replicates the spatial universe
in miniature.

12 sandstone: "In the gate tower, to the right as you approach, is a statue of Vishnu, 3.25m in height and
hewn from a single block of sandstone.

13 pilgrimage:"Once at the central tower, the pilgrimage is …

Test 2

1. NG

2. T “…a vast expanse of solar panels … 3000 hours of sun received…”

3. T “store water in their leaves, shelter from the sun, need to be salt-resistant”

4. NG

5. F “…use the desert as a huntig ground.”

6. C “With high levels of salinity in the soil, …need to be salt-resistant.”

7. H “…the landscape has been little changed by agriculture…”

8. A “… trumpeter finches, a common resident…hide themselves away in the numerous rocky

crevices…”
9. F “Another feature is piping…creating an underground pipe…created the Swiss cheese effect”

10. D “Another is the winter-flowering toadflax…release their vanilla scent…”

11. C “Although the desert may look like it has scare vegetation, it in fact harbours a variety…”

12. 4 days “With its annual rainfall of 240mm concentrated in no more than four days a year…”

13. Mammals “…mammals are less common with around…, the most important being the Algeria
hedgehog.”

Test 3

14. portuguese “The company soon began competing with the Portugese…”

15. exotic textiles “…found a rich source os exotic textiles…exported back to Britain…”

16. Charles II “…Charles II was restored…the company ingratiated itself with him…”

17. Charles II “When she married Charles…tea gradually became a fashionable drink…”

18. William Pitt “…until William Pitt the Younger became the Prime Minister…slashed the tax on tea so
dramatically…”

19. increase profits “Needing to increase profits…to export direct to America…”

20. Native Americans “…when a mass of townpeople, dressed as Native Americans…”

21. G “To satisfy the demand of the less wealthy, an enormous amount of tea was smuggled in…”

22. B

23. A “…the tea should not be brought ashore nor the duty on it paid”

24. D “The Americans were outtraged, many considered such British-imposed taxes illegal.”

25. T “…the British was crucial to the history of the tea trade.”

26. T “…set up in Netherlands, Denmark and France.”

27. NG