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

Tip: 
The answers may not come in the same order as the information in the text. 
 

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 IELTS
 JOURNAL 
 
79 
Reading: Note completion 
Tip:
Only write the missing words, and make sure you don't repeat words from 
either side of the gap. 
Example:
Here is part of a text about the invention of cellophane. In this example answers 
should be no more than one word and/or a number. 
Cellophane was invented by Jacques Edwin Brandenberger, a Swiss chemist. In 
1990, he made a coating to be applied to cloth, to protect it from being stained. 
The cloth was too stiff, but when he saw that the coating easily peeled off it as a 
transparent film, he realized the coating could be of value as a material in its 
own right. He eventually perfected the material, mainly by adding glycerin to 
soften it, and constructed a machine to make it. 
 
Questions:
Complete the notes below. 
Initial experiment: 
Aim: to 1 …… cloth from stains
Problem: the cloth became 2 …… 
Potential value: the coating of film was 3 …… and could easily be 
separated from the cloth
Development: 
Used 4 …… to change the texture of the film 
 
 
 

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 IELTS
 JOURNAL 
 
80 
Reading: table completion 
Tip: 
Use the information in the table to help you predict the type of word you need to 
find in the text. The answers may not follow the order of the text, but are generally in 
the same part of the text. 
Example:
One of Japan's major companies is Sharp Corporation, started by 18-year-old Tokuji 
Hayakawa in 1912, in Tokyo. At first the company worked with metal, producing snap 
buckles for belts, then, from 1915, the 'Ever-Sharp Pencil' – a mechanical pencil that 
gave the company its present name. The Sharp Group is now a major manufacturer of 
electronic goods, from LCD TVs to solar cells. It had expanded into 25 countries or 
regions around the world, and has a total of 60,200 employees worldwide, including 
32,200 in its home country, where its head office has now moved to Osaka. The 
company entered the USA market in 1962, setting up Sharp Electronics Corporation 
(SEC), with its headquarters in New Jersey. SEC now employs 2,500 people.