Basic IELTS Reading (170 trang)

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IELTS OVERVIEW

Part 1 IEL TS Reading Question Types and IEL TS Reading Tips ... ããããããã 9

Unit IELTS Reading Question Types .....

Unit 2 IELTS Reading Tips (1) ...... .

Unit 3 IELTS Reading Tips (2) .....

Part 2 IEL TS Reading Practice ...

Unit 4 Reading Practice (1) .

Unit 5 Reading Practice (2) .

Unit 6 Reading Practice (3)

Unit 7 Reading Practice (4) ..

Unit 8 Reading Practice (5)

Unit 9 Reading Practice (6)

Unit 10 Reading Practice (7) ..

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Unit 12 Reading Practice (9) ...

Unit 13 Reading Practice (10) ...

Unit 14 Reading Practice (11)

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Unit 16 Reading Practice (13) ...

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Basic IELTS Reading

Unit 1 IELTS Reading Question Types

The IELTS Reading test contains forty questions and you are given exactly one hour to answer all the questions. Remember that in the IELTS Reading test (unlike the IELTS Listening test), no extra time is given to transfer your answers onto your answer sheet. Hence, it is very

important that you keep an eye on the time and timely transfer your answers onto your answer sheet as you complete each reading section.

There are many types of questions used in the Reading test. You should be familiar with these types.

The IELTS Reading test is, in fact, not as difficult as it seems to be. If you know the right approach, you can easily obtain a high band score.

1. Multiple-Choice Questions

Multiple-Choice Questions are designed to test a wide variety of reading skills. The questions may require you to have an overall understanding of the main points of the text in which you will need to be able to read for the gist. Or they may require you to have a detailed understand- ing of particular points in which you will need to be able to read for specific details. Multiple- Choice Questions may also ask you to identify facts or opinions in the text.

There are two types of Multiple-Choice Questions:

• Standard Multiple Choice

• Modified Multiple Choice

1.1 Standard Multiple-Choice Questions

Standard Multiple-Choice Questions are the most typical form of Multiple-Choice Ques- tions used in the IELTS test with one question and four possible answers.

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Unit 1 - IELTS Reading Question Types

1.2 Modified Multiple-Choice Questions

Modified Multiple-Choice Questions are a little different from the Standard Multiple-Choice Questions. This type of question requires two or more answers for one question. On the answer sheet, candidates have to write either two or more answers for one numbered question or one answer for each of the two or more numbered questions. They are used only occasionally in the test but you should know how to answer them.

The main elements required for survival are food, fire, shelter and water. Their order of importance will depend upon where you happen to be. In the desert water will head the list; in polar regions shelter and fire will be the main concerns. Ordering your priorities is the first step to survival.

It takes a healthy person quite a long time to die of starvation, for the body can use up its stored resources, but exposure to wind, rain and cold can be fatal even in mild climates and death comes in only minutes in the icy waters of the poles. Food is rarely the first prior- ity. Even in those places where it is difficult to find, there are usually other …