Iii Cambridge Practice Tests for ielts

Questions
Task
Skills tested
13-19
Completing a flow
chart
• following a sequence of events
• scanning/skimming for information
• understanding gist and paraphrase
20-23
Labelling a diagram
• skimming for factual information
• understanding description and relationships
24-27
Yes, No, Not Given
• skimming for factual information
• understanding gist and paraphrase
14
full
“These are not moved in the
middle of the day because too
many of the bees would end up
homeless.”
Question
Answer
Location of answer in text
15
16
17
18
19
smoke
charge
machines
combs
split
“… bees can be pacified with a
few puffs of smoke …”
“… the beekeeper will pay the
farmer to allow his bees to feed
paraphrase of “uncapper” and
“carousel”
“… centrifugal force throws
the honey out of the combs .”
“… a healthy double hive can
be separated into two boxes.”
13
prepare
gist of paragraph 4
Answer
(hexagonal) cells//comb
frames (of comb)
screen
brood chamber
NOT GIVEN
YES
YES
NO
Question
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27

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Answer keys
READING PASSAGE 3
Tourism
Questions 28-37
Questions 38-41
Suggested approach
• Read the task rubric carefully. By choosing the
correct phrase A-H, you will make summary
points of the information given in the passage.
• It is obviously best to work from the questions
as these are the start of each sentence.
• Read through item 38.
• Read through the list of phrases to familiarise
yourself with them.
• Skim through the passage looking for key
words that indicate that the information in
question 38 is going to be discussed. For item
38, this occurs in paragraph B. In the middle of
the paragraph you read: “… the
popular concept of tourism is that …’. But to
understand the entire point you will have to
read the whole paragraph and take the gist. This
is best summarised in the second sentence of
the paragraph: “It is one manifestation of how
work and leisure are organised as separate and
regulated spheres of social practice in “modern”
societies.’ So the answer to question 38 is D.
• Go on to item 39 and repeat this procedure.