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Reading Tips
  • As the IELTS test is a proficiency test, it is not based on a specific language syllabus. This means that you cannot predict exactly the language which the test will contain.
  • Aim to improve your general language knowledge and skills, as well as to develop effective strategies.
  • Aim to read appropriate materials about a wide range of topics as often as possible. Even academic texts about different subjects have a high proportion of words and structures in common.
  • Try also to increase your reading speed. The length of time allowed for each section of the reading test is relatively short, so you will need to be able to read the texts and the questions quickly.
  • Over time, your general proficiency in English will increase and your potential test performance will rise.

Welcome to your IELTS READING#6

Questions 1-7

Complete the table below.

Choose NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS from the text for each answer.
Write your answers in boxes 1-7 on your answer sheet.

Paul Wickens's development of Ntropy

built matchstick structures and created a big model of a

Left college and worked in IT

sent of Ntropy to games companies

built of Ntropy

tested the game

redesigned the game and introduced

founded a firm named

had the base for the game designed by a friend

had the base made by a firm using something called

had the sticks made using material that comes from

Questions 8-13

The passage has ten paragraphs labelled A-J

Which paragraph contains the following information?

Write the correct letter A-J in boxes 8-13 on your answer sheet.

8) a reference to an assumption Paul Wickens made that proved to be incorrect

9) a reason why Paul Wickens thought he was qualified to start his own games company 

10) Paul Wickens's aim regarding the market for Ntropy

11) a description of a coincidence that proved fortunate for Paul Wickens

12) a reason why Paul Wickens began to consider his future

13) an explanation of the name Paul Wickens gave to his game

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Reading Tip: MULTIPLE-CHOICE QUESTIONS

A useful strategy is to use the key words in the question stem – or synonyms of them – to help you identify the correct part of the text. Read the sentence or sentences carefully. Think of your own answer to the question and see which of the options matches it the closest.

Remember that all the options will be mentioned in the text in some way but only one will completely answer the question.

Reading Tip: TRUE, FALSE, NOT GIVEN

Skim read the text quickly before looking at the questions. This will give you a general idea of the structure of the text which will help you locate information quickly and avoid wasting time looking in the wrong part of the text.

Not Given statements are often based on the information you might expect to be in the text but isn’t, and often use words that do appear in the text itself. Read each statement and the relevant part of the text very carefully before deciding whether the ideas are given or not. Make sure you are clear about who is being referred to in the text.

Welcome to your IELTS READING#5

Questions 1-2

Choose the correct letter, A, B, C or D.

1. What do pluralists believe?

2. What circumstance helped astronomers to study Mars in the late 19th century?

Questions 3-8

Look at the following lists of astronomers and thinkers (Questions 3-8) and ideas about Mars (A-I).

Match each astronomer with the idea or ideas he expressed.

NB There are more ideas than astronomers and thinkers, so you will not need to use them all.

A A particular geographical feature of Mars has disappeared.

B People think they can see canals, but they do not really exist.

C Life on Mars has become extinct.

D Some canali are organised in pairs.

E The canali are used to carry water from colder areas to warmer areas.

F The canals must be extremely deep to carry so much water.

G The inhabitants of Mars are still building canals.

H The Martians have adapted natural features to meet their needs.

I The canali might be very wide and not artificial.

3. Schiapareili

4. Perrotin

5. Proctor

6. Flammarion

7. Green

8. Lowell

Questions 9-14

Do the following statements agree with the information given in the Reading Passage?

In boxes 9-14 on your answer sheet, write

  • YES                     if the statement agrees with the writer's claims
  • NO                     if the statement contradicts the writer's claims
  • NOT GIVEN       if there is impossible to say what the writer thinks about this

9. Discussion about whether there is life on Mars forms part of a long tradition.

10. The belief that life existed on Mars was encouraged by a translation error.

11. The limitations of 19th century technology encouraged the idea that there were canals on Mars.

12. All Lowell's statements about Mars were based on what he was able to see.

13. Lowell's investigations of Mars aroused little interest outside the scientific community.

14. Lowell's theory about how canals on Mars were used may have been inspired by fashionable ideas of the time.

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