Ielts reading question-type based tests true false not given matching headings

Questions 1-5 
Do the following statements agree with the information given in Reading Passage? 
True if the statement agrees with the information 
False if the statement contradicts the information 
NOT GIVEN If there is no information on this
Q1.
Integrated Pest Management has generally been regarded as a success in the across the US.
 
Q2.
Oregon farmers of apples and pears have been promoted as successful examples of Integrated Pest 
Management.
Q3.
The IPPC uses scientists from different organisations globally
Q4.
Shaw mulch experiments produced unplanned benefits.
Q5.
The apple industry is now facing a lot of competition from abroad.

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QUESTION-TYPE BASED TESTS 
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TEST 3 - Terminated Dinosaur Era 
A.
The age of dinosaurs, which ended with the cataclysmic bang of a meteor impact 65 million years 
ago, may also have begun with one. Researchers found recently the first direct, though tentative, geological 
evidence of a meteor impact 200 million years ago, coinciding with a mass extinction that eliminated half of 
the major groups of life and opened the evolutionary1 door for what was then a relatively small group of 
animals: dinosaurs. 
B.
The cause and timing of the ascent of dinosaurs has have been much debated. It has been 
impossible to draw any specific conclusions because the transition between the origin of dinosaurs and their 
ascent to dominance has not been sampled in detail. "There is a geochemical signature of something 
important happening, probably an asteroid impact, just before the time in which familiar dinosaur-dominated 
communities appear," said Dr. Paul E. Olsen, a professor of earth and environmental sciences at Columbia 
University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades, N.Y. 
C.
Olsen and his colleagues studied vertebrate fossils from 80 sites in four different ancient rift 
basins, part of a chain of rifts that formed as North America began to split apart from the supercontinent that 
existed 230-190 million years ago. In the layer of rock corresponding to the extinction, the scientists found 
elevated amounts of the rare element iridium. A precious metal belonging to the platinum group of elements, 
iridium is more abundant in meteorites than in rocks. 
D.
On Earth, a similar spike of iridium in 65 million-year-old rocks gave rise in the 1970s to the 
theory that a meteor caused the demise of the dinosaurs. That theory remained controversial for years until it 
was corroborated by other evidence and the impact site was found off the Yucatan Peninsula. Scientists will 
need to examine the new iridium anomaly similarly. The levels are only about one-tenth as high as those 
found at the later extinction. That could mean that the meteor was smaller or contained less iridium or that a 
meteor was not involved—iridium can also come from the Earth's interior, belched out by volcanic 
eruptions. Dr. Michael J. Benton, a professor of vertebrate paleontology at the University of Bristol in 
England, described the data as "the first reasonably convincing evidence of an iridium 
spike". 
E.
The scientists found more evidence of rapid extinction in a database of 10,000 fossilized footprints 
in former lake basins from Virginia to Nova Scotia. Although individual species cannot usually be identified 
solely from their footprints — the tracks of a house cat, for example, resemble those of a baby tiger — 
footprints are much more plentiful than fossil bones and can provide a more complete picture of the types of 
animals walking around. "It makes it very easy for us to tell the very obvious signals of massive fauna 
change," Dr. Olsen said. Because the sediment piles up quickly in lake basins, the researchers were able to 
assign a date to each footprint, based on the layer of rock where it was found. They determined that the mix 
of animals walking across what is now the East Coast of North America changed suddenly about 200 
million years ago. 
F.
The tracks of several major reptile groups continue almost up to the layer of rock marking the end 
of the Triassic geologic period 202 million years ago, and then vanish in younger layers from the Jurassic 
period. "I think the footprint methodology is very novel and very exciting," said Dr. Peter D. Ward, a 
professor of geology at the University of Washington. He called the data "very required more research. Last 
year, researchers led by Dr. Ward reported that the types of carbon in rock changed abruptly at this time, 
indicating a sudden dying off of plants over less than 50,000 years. The footprint research reinforces 
the hypothesis that the extinction was sudden. 

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