Tips for IELTS Reading

Academic/General Training Module by Adam Smith

First Published in 2015

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Answer Key
Ex. 1 4. A building, physical places

Libraries are quite difficult to define. Ex. 4

Libraries are organized in three ways. 1. Ludwig Zamenhof

2. In 1887
Nowadays libraries are under the
3. 1 million people
threat for a number of reasons.
4. Brazil & Japan
It is difficult to predict the future of 5. China
libraries. 6. Western languages/Latin
7. Adjectives
Ex. 2
Ex. 5
1. 4
2. 5 1. B
3. 10 2. B
4. 14 3. D

Ex. 3 Ex. 6

1. Audio visual materials, CD 1. T

ROMs and newspapers 2. T
2. 3 3. F
3. Hardware and personnel costs 4. NG

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 5. T 1. F
6. F 2. D
7. NG 3. H
8. F 4. A
5. E
Ex. 7
6. B
1. D 7. I
2. A 8. G
3. C 9. C
4. G
Ex. 11
5. B
6. H 1. C
7. F 2. B
8. E 3. F
9. I 4. E
5. A
Ex. 8
6. G
1. An overview 7. D
2. Short but effective
Ex. 12
3. Receive funding
4. Weed out 1. G
5. Oral 2. C
3. D
Ex. 9
4. F
1. Brought up 5. H
2. To handle 6. E
3. Mixed 7. A
4. A cohort 8. B
5. A range of
Ex. 13
6. (state) comprehensives
7. Fuelled 1. B
2. A
Ex. 10

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 3. E 1. F
4. F 2. B
5. C 3. D
6. G 4. A
7. D 5. C
6. G
Ex. 14
7. E
1. K
Ex. 17
2. J
3. G 1. D
4. F 2. E
5. E 3. C
6. I 4. F
7. C 5. B
8. D 6. G
9. A 7. A
10.H 8. H
11.B
Ex. 18
Ex. 15
1. A
1. J 2. D
2. H 3. B
3. I 4. F
4. G 5. E
5. F 6. D
6. E 7. I
7. C 8. H
8. A 9. G
9. B
Ex. 19
10.D
1. C
Ex. 16
2. D

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 3. E 1. F
4. A 2. B
5. F
Ex. 24
6. B
1. F
Ex. 20
2. A
1. B 3. A being overweight
2. C B decreasing
3. D C too much
4. A
Ex. 25
5. F
6. E 1. T
2. A
Ex. 21
3. A harmful
1. B B frequency
2. F
Reading multiple choice Page 42
3. D
4. C C
5. A
Second passage Page 43
6. E
7. H B&E
8. I
Multiple choice questions activity
9. G
Pages 44 & 45
Ex. 22
10 C
1. Chronic
11 B
2. Skeptical
3. Loath 12 D
4. Orthodox
Identifying information Page 47
5. Disillusioned
1. True
Ex. 23
2. False

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 3. Not given 17 H

Identifying writer’s views or claims 18 A

Page 48
19 D
1. No
Ex. 30
2. Not given
1. E
Identifying information Page 52
2. F
4 No 3. A
4. B
5 Not given
5. C
6 Yes 6. D

7 Not given Matching headings Page 60

Ex. 26 A iii

Not needed Bi

Ex. 27 Matching headings activity Page 61

Not needed Av

Ex. 28 B vii

1. No C ii
2. Not given
D iv
3. Yes
4. Not given E vi

Matching information activity Page Fi

56
Matching features or classification
14 C Page 65

15 F 1. C
2. A
16 E

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 3. C 1. Cultural anthropologists
4. C 2. Natural environment
5. B 3. Years
6. B 4. Understanding
5. Insider
Matching features activity
6. Observer
11 A
Note completion Page 79
12 B
1. Protect
13 C 2. Stiff
3. Transparent
Matching sentence endings Page 71
4. Glycerin
8E
Table completion Page 80
9G
1. 1912
10 H 2. Metal
3. Osaka
Sentence completion Page 75
4. 32,200
1. Functions 5. 1962
2. Board 6. New Jersey
3. Publicity 7. 2,500
4. Planning
Flow-chart completion Page 81
Summary completion Type A Page
1. Mills
77
2. Refineries
1. F 3. Impurities
2. D 4. Recovery
3. H
Summary, Note, Table, Flow-chart
4. B
Completion Activity Page 82
5. G
6. I 9 temperate

Summary completion Type B Page 78 10 early spring

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 11 2-5 (two to five) 3. B

12 sub-tropical Ex. 34

13 (South African) tunneling 1. True

2. Not given
Diagram label completion Page 85
3. True
6 South African
Ex. 35
7 French
NA
8 Spanish
Ex. 36
Short-answer questions Page 88
A5
1. In 1964
B1
2. Syntactic foam
3. Robotic arms C2
4. A basket
Ex. 37
Page 89
1. B
1. 1946 2. C
2. Social, economic,
Ex. 38
environmental
3. 1970’s 1. True
2. False
Ex. 31 & 32
3. Not given
D
Ex. 39
1. True
1.
2. False
3. Not given Ex. 40

Ex. 33 A5

1. E B2
2. F

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Ex. 41 Ex. 48

1. True 1. Not given

2. True 2. True
3. True 3. Not given

Ex. 42 Ex. 49

1. Advances 1. False
2. Empower 2. True
3. Cutting 3. True
4. Chief
Ex. 50
5. Coming
6. Developing 1. True
2. Not given
Ex. 43
3. False
B
Ex. 51
Ex. 44
1. C
1. B 2. B
2. C 3. A
4. D
Ex. 45
Ex. 52
1. (a lucky) accident
2. Inhibited 1. On the edge
3. Repressing 2. Delivery street
3. Discourage
Ex. 46
Ex. 53
1. True
2. False 1. Not given
3. Not given 2. Not given
3. True
Ex. 47
Ex. 54
2

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 A2 1. B
2. C
B4
Ex. 61
Ex. 55
1. Not given
A4
2. False
B1
Ex. 62
C6
B
D2
Ex. 63
E3
1. C
Ex. 56 2. B

1. Liberal values Ex. 64

2. Accessible to
C
3. Students
Ex. 65
Ex. 57
1. C
1. True
2. H
2. False
3. B
3. True
4. C
Ex. 58 5. E
6. True
3
7. True
Ex. 59 8. False
9. Not given
1. Not given
10.Acoustic quality
2. False
11.Research center
3. False
12.Experimental psychology
4. True
13.Relevant task
Ex. 60 14.Statistical analysis

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Ex. 66 1. False
2. Not given
1. iii
3. True
2. iv
4. False
3. viii
5. True
4. ix
6. Not given
5. v
7. True
6. i
7. ii Ex. 71
8. false
1
9. true
10.not given Ex. 72
11.true
1. Not given
12.true
2. False
13.not given
3. True
Ex. 67
Ex. 73
1. False
1. Not given
2. Not given
2. True
3. True
3. True
4. Not given
4. True
Ex. 68
Lessons from the Titanic Page 147
First paragraph 4
Summary completion
Second paragraph 2
1. Ocean
Ex. 69 2. Safety
3. Record
1. False
4. Size
2. True
5. Confident
3. True
6. Water
Ex. 70 7. Float
8. Inadequate

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 9. Procedures 3. D

Match the headings Table completion

Hi 1. Ice warnings
2. Outdated/out of date
E iii
3. Yes
D vi 4. Doesn’t say
5. Buckle
G vii
6. Yes
I ix 7. 24 hour
8. Yes
Identifying the writer’s views
Sentence completion
1. Yes
2. No 1. International agreements/new
3. Not given regulations
4. No 2. Sixteen water tight
5. Not given compartments
6. Yes 3. Previous forty years
7. Yes
Short answer questions
Multiple choice
1. Safety/life boats
1. C 2. Britain/the British government
2. B 3. Maiden

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