IELTS Mock Test 2023 June
Reading Practice Test 4
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READING PASSAGE 1
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Questions 1-14, which are based on Reading Passage
1 below.
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promissory note and afterwards simplified all their forms. Citibank counsel Carl Falsenfield
says: ‘We have lost no money and there has been no litigation as a result of simplification.’ The
cost-effectiveness of clarity is demonstrable. A satisfied customer more readily signs on the
bottom line and thus contributes to the corporation’s bottom line. Some documents simply can’t
be simplified. The only legal language that has been tested for centuries in the courts is precise
enough to deal with a mortgage, a deed, a lease, or an insurance policy. Here, too, the
experience of several corporations and insurance companies has proved that contracts and
policies can be made more understandable without sacrificing legal effectiveness.
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What does the future hold for the Plain English movement? Today, American consumers are
buffeted by an assortment of pressures. Never before have consumers had as many choices in
areas like financial services, travel, telephone services, and supermarket products. There are
about 300 long-distance phone companies in the US. Not long ago, the average supermarket
carried 9,000 items; today, it carries 22,000. More importantly, this expansion of options –
according to a recent report – is faced by a staggering 30 million Americans lacking the reading
skills to handle the minimal demands of daily living. The consumer’s need, therefore, for
information expressed in plain English is more critical than ever.
H
What is needed today is not a brake on the movement’s momentum but another push toward
plain English contracts from consumers. I still hear plain English on the TV and in the streets,
and read plain English in popular magazines and best-sellers, but not yet in many functional
documents. Despite some victories, the was against gobbledygook is not over yet. We do well
to remember, the warning of Chrissie Maher, organizer of Plain English Campaign in the
UK:
‘People are not just injured when medical labels are written in gobbledygook – they die.
Drivers are not just hurt when their medicines don’t tell them they could fall asleep at the wheel
– they are killed.’
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