Academic/General Training Module by Adam Smith First Published in 2015

 
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Exercise 43: Multiple choice 
Look at the following question from Cambridge IELTS 5 and the section of text that 
contains the answer. I've underlined the keywords that you need to find. 
Question: 
The writer suggests that newspapers print items that are intended to 
A) educate readers 
B) meet their readers' expectations 
C) encourage feedback from readers 
D) mislead readers 
Passage: 
A third source of confusion is the attitude of the media. People are clearly more 
curious about bad news than good. Newspapers and broadcasters are there to 
provide what the public wants. That, however, can lead to significant distortions 
of perception. 
Task: Which keywords in the passage match the keywords in the question? What is the 
correct answer? Why? 
 
 

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 IELTS
 JOURNAL 
 
105 
Exercise 44: Multiple choice 
Read the following text and choose the best answer for each question.
The term "IQ" comes from German "Intelligenz-Quotient", coined by the 
German psychologist William Stern in 1912, who proposed a method of scoring 
children's intelligence tests. Since the early 20th century, scores on IQ tests have 
increased in most parts of the world. The phenomenon of rising score 
performance means that if test-takers are scored by a constant standard scoring 
rule, IQ test scores have been rising at an average rate of around three IQ points 
per decade. This phenomenon was named the Flynn effect in the book The Bell 
Curve after James R. Flynn, the author who did the most to bring this 
phenomenon to the attention of psychologists. 
Questions: 
1. “IQ” refers to 
A) a type of intelligence test for children 
B) a means of rating intelligence tests 
C) an area of psychology 
2. Flynn noticed that 
A) IQ scores were constant around the world 
B) IQ was a global phenomenon 
C) intelligence scores had gradually risen over several decades