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IELTS practice test

LISTENING

22 SECTION 1
Questions 1–5

Complete the form below.

Write NO MORE THAN ONE WORD AND/OR A NUMBER for each answer.

Lake Pane Campground, US

Bookings

Example Answer
Length of stay: 5 nights

Date of arrival: 1

Family name: 2

Contact number: 3

Camp facilities: 4 WATER AND 5

Questions 6–10

Complete the notes below.

Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER for each answer.

Site code: 6

Location: $RIVE PAST THE OFlCES AND 7  +EEP GOING UNTIL YOU REACH THE
8  4HEN TURN LEFT

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Listening

23 SECTION 2
Questions 11–14

What does the speaker say about the following natural food colourings?

Write the correct letter, A–F, next to questions 11–14.

A It is made using another food product. 11 green

B The ingredients are difficult to find. 12 brown
13 red
C It is also used to dye cosmetics.
14 blue
D Sales fell then increased.
E It can be used to give processed food a uniform colour.
F It is less popular than other dyes.

Questions 15–17

Choose the correct letter, A, B, C or D.

15 When we buy new clothes, our

A friends may not like the colours we choose.
B choice may be based on the colours we see.
C ideas about fashion may not be up to date.

16 Colourists are people who

A decide which colours suit us best.
B create the dyes that are used to make clothes.
C predict which colours will be fashionable in the future.

17 What does the speaker say about the colours we wear?

A The colours we like change as we get older.
B Most people prefer light colours to dark ones.
C We worry too much about the colour of clothes.

Questions 18–20

Complete the sentences below.

Write ONE WORD ONLY for each answer.

18 Both a product and its must appeal to consumers.

19 Green indicates that businesses care about the .
20 Blue helps people to think in a more way.

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Practice test

24 SECTION 3
Questions 21–26

Complete the table below.

Write ONE WORD ONLY for each answer.

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Questions 27 and 28

Choose TWO letters, A–E.

When choosing a course, which TWO factors did students consider important?

A how expensive the course is

B the reputation of the institution
C the distance from home
D the qualifications of the tutors
E how useful the qualification will be

Questions 29 and 30

Choose TWO letters, A–E.

Which TWO incentives would encourage graduates to return home?

A scholarships for higher degrees

B research grants
C special housing
D lower tax rates
E special work zones

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Listening

25 SECTION 4
Questions 31–40

Complete the notes below.

Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS for each answer.

LIONS
Lion history
s Found today in Africa and a 31 in India
s Have lived on every continent apart from Antarctica and 32
s Killed by early humans:
a) in competition for food
b) for 33

Cave paintings
s 34 confirms European lions much bigger than African lions
s Date of first appearance of mane 35

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s Researchers first believed mane used for 37 during fights

The lion expert’s study

s Made some 38 with different manes
s 39 manes attracted female lions
s Conclusion: mane is a 40

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READING PASSAGE 1
Endangered chocolate
A The cacao tree, once native to the equatorial American forest, has some exotic traits
for a plant. Slender and shrubby, the cacao has adapted to life close to the leaf littered
forest floor. Its large leaves droop down. away from the sun. Cacao doesn't flower, as
most plants do at the tips of its outer and uppermost branches. Instead. its sweet white
buds hang from the trunk and along a few Fat branches which form where leaves drop
off. These tiny Flowers transform into pulp-filled pods almost the size of rugby balls. The
low-hanging pods contain the bitter-tasting magical seeds.

B Somehow, more than 2,000 years ago. ancient humans in Mesoamerica discovered
the secret of these beans. If you scoop them from the pod with their pulp. let them
ferment and dry in the sun, then roast them over a gentle fire, something extraordinary
happens: they become chocolaty. And if you then grind and press the beans, which are
half-cocoa butter or more, you will obtain a rich crumbly. chestnut brown paste -
chocolate at its most pure and simple.

C The Maya and Aztecs revered this chocolate, which they Frothed up with water and
spices to make bracing concoctions. It was an edible treasure, offered up to their gods,
used as money and hoarded like gold. Long after Spanish explorers introduced the
beverage to Europe in the sixteenth century. chocolate retained an aura of aristocratic
luxury. In 1753. the Swedish botanist Carolus Linnaeus gave the cacao tree genus the
name Theobroma. which means 'food of the gods',

D In the last 200 years, the bean has been thoroughly democratized - transformed from
an elite drink into ubiquitous candy bars, cocoa powders and confections. Today
chocolate is becoming more popular worldwide, with new markets opening up in
Eastern Europe and Asia. This is both good news and bad because. Although farmers
are producing record numbers of the cacao bean, this is not enough, some researchers
worry, to keep pace with global demand. Cacao is also facing some alarming problems.

E Philippe Petithuguenin, head of the cacao program at the Centre For International
Cooperation in Development-Oriented Agricultural Research (CiRAD) in France,
recently addressed a seminar in the Dominican Republic. He displayed a map of the
world revealing a narrow band within 180 north and south of the equator. where cacao
grows. In the four centuries since the Spanish first happened upon cacao, it has been
planted all around this hot humid tropical belt - from South America and the Caribbean
to West Africa, East Asia, and New Guinea and Vanuatu in the Pacific.

F Today 70% of all chocolate beans come from West Africa and Central Africa. In many
parts, growers practice so-called pioneer Farming. They strip patches of forest of all but
the tallest canopy trees and then they put in cacao, using temporary plantings of
banana to shade the cacao while it's young. With luck, groves like this may produce
annual yields of 50 to 60 pods per tree for 25 to 30 years. But eventually, pests,
pathogens and soil exhaustion take their toll and yields diminish. Then the growers
move on and clear a new forest patch - unless farmers of other crops get there first.
'You cannot keep cutting the tropical forest, because the forest itself is endangered:
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said Petithuguenin. 'World demand for chocolate increases by 3% a year on average.

With a lack of land for new plantings in tropical forests, how do you meet that?'

G Many farmers have a more imminent worry: outrunning disease. Cacao, especially
when grown in plantations, is at the mercy of many afflictions, mostly rotting diseases
caused by various species of fungi which cover the pods in fungus or kill the trees.
These fungi and other diseases spoil more than a quarter of the world's yearly harvest
and can devastate entire cacao-growing regions.

H One such disease, witches broom, devastated the cacao plantations in the Bahia
region of Brazil. Brazil was the third largest producer of cacao beans but in the 1980s
the yields fell by 75%. According to Petithuguenin, 'if a truly devastating disease like
witches broom reached West Africa (the world's largest producer), it could be
catastrophic.' If another producer had the misfortune to falter now, the ripples would be
felt the world over. In the United States, for example, imported cacao is the linchpin of
an $8.6 billion domestic chocolate industry that in turn supports the nation's dairy and
nut industries; 20% of all dairy products in the US go into confectionery.

I Today research is being carried out to try to address this problem by establishing
disease-resistant plants. However. even the best plants are useless if there isn't
anywhere to grow them. Typically, farmers who grow cacao get a pittance for their
beans compared with the profits reaped by the rest of the chocolate business. Most are
at the mercy of local middlemen who buy the beans then sell them for a much higher
price to the chocolate manufacturers. If the situation is to improve for farmers, these
people need to be removed from the process. But the economics of cacao is rapidly
changing because of the diminishing supply of beans. Some companies have realized
that they need to work more closely with the farmers to ensure that sustainable farming
practices are used. They need to replant areas and create a buffer for the forest, to
have ground cover, shrubs and small trees as well as the canopy trees. Then the 'soil
will be more robust and more productive. They also need to empower the farmers by
guaranteeing them a higher price for their beans so that they will be encouraged to grow
cacao and can maintain their way of life.

Questions 1-3
Choose the correct letter, A, B, C or D.
Write your answers on your answer sheet from 1-3

1 The flowers of the cacao plant appear

A at the end of its top branches.
B along all of its branches.
C mainly on its trunk
D close to its leaves.

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2 In Africa, banana trees are planted with the cacao plants in order to
A replace the largest trees.
B protect the new plants.
C provide an extra crop.
D help improve soil quality.

3 In paragraph H, what is the writer referring to when he says 'the ripples would be felt
the world over'?
A the impact a collapse in chocolate production could have on other industries
B the possibility of disease spreading to other crops
C the effects of the economy on world chocolate growers
D the link between Brazilian growers and African growers

Questions 4-9
The Reading Passage has nine paragraphs labelled A-I.
Which paragraph contains the following information?
Write the correct letter A-I in your answer sheet from 4-9.

4 a list of the cacao growing areas

5 an example of how disease has affected one cacao growing region
6 details of an ancient chocolate drink
7 a brief summary of how the chocolate industry has changed in modern times
8 the typical lifespan and crop size of a cacao plantation
9 a reference to the scientific identification of the cacao plant

Questions 10-13
Complete the notes below.
Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS from the passage for each answer.
Write your answers on your answer sheet from 10-13.
Ways of dealing with the plant's problems
 Need to find plants which are not affected by 10 __________.
 Chocolate producers need to work directly with farmers instead of 11
__________.
 Need to encourage farmers to use 12 __________. methods to grow cacao
plants
 Make sure farmers receive some of the 13 __________. made by the chocolate
industry

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READING PASSAGE 2
What is personality?
A We are all familiar with the idea that different people have different personalities,
but what does this actually mean? It implies that different people behave in different
ways, but it must be more than that. After all, different people find themselves in
different circumstances, and much of their behaviour follows from this fact. However,
our common experience reveals that different people respond in quite remarkably
different ways even when faced with roughly the same circumstances. Alan might be
happy to live alone in a quiet and orderly cottage, go out once a week, and stay in the
same job for thirty years. whilst Beth likes nothing better than exotic travel and being
surrounded by vivacious friends and loud music.
B In cases like these, we feel that it cannot be just the situation which is producing
the differences in behaviour. Something about the way the person is 'wired up' seems to
be at work. determining how they react to situations. and, more than that, the kind of
situations they get themselves into in the first place. This is why personality seems to
become stronger as we get older: when we are young, our situation reflects external
factors such as the social and family environment we were born into. As we grow older,
we are more and more affected by the consequences of our own choices (doing jobs
that we were drawn to, surrounded by people like us whom we have sought out). Thus,
personality differences that might have been very slight at birth become dramatic in later
adulthood.
C Personality, then, seems to be the set of enduring and stable dispositions that
characterise a person. These dispositions come partly from the expression of inherent
features of the nervous system, and partly from learning. Researchers sometimes
distinguish between temperament, which refers exclusively to characteristics that are
inborn or directly caused by biological factors, and personality, which also includes
social and cultural learning. Nervousness, for example, might be a factor of
temperament, but religious piety is an aspect of personality.
D The discovery that temperamental differences are real is one of the major
findings of contemporary psychology. It could easily have been the case that there were
no intrinsic differences between people in temperament, so that given the same learning
history. the same dilemmas, they would all respond in much the same way. Yet we now
know that this is not the case.
E Personality measures turn out to be good predictors of your health, how happy
you typically are - even your taste in paintings. Personality is a much better predictor of
these things than social class or age. The origin of these differences is in part innate.
That is to say, when people are adopted at birth and brought up by new families, their
personalities are more similar to those of their blood relatives than to the ones they
grew up with.
F Personality differences tend to manifest themselves through the quick, gut-
feeling, intuitive and emotional systems of the human mind. The slower, rational,
deliberate systems show less variation in output from person to person. Deliberate
rational strategies can be used to override intuitive patterns of response, and this is how
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people wishing to change their personalities or feelings have to go about it. As human
beings, we have the unique ability to look in at our personality from the outside and
decide what we want to do with it.
G So what are the major ways personalities can differ? The dominant approach is
to think of the space of possible personalities as being defined by a number of
dimensions. Each person can be given a location in the space by their scores on all the
different dimensions. Virtually all theories agree on two of the main dimensions.
neuroticism (or negative emotionality) and extroversion (or positive emotionality).
However, they differ on how many additional ones they recognise. Among the most
influential proposals are openness. conscientiousness and agreeableness. In the next
section I shall examine these five dimensions.
Questions 14-19
The reading passage has seven paragraphs A-G.
Choose the correct heading for each paragraph from the list below.

List of Headings
i A degree of control
ii Where research has been carried out into the effects of family on personality
iii Categorising personality features according to their origin
iv A variety of reactions in similar situations
v A link between personality and aspects of our lives that aren’t chosen
vi A possible theory that cannot be true
vii Measuring personality
viii Potentially harmful effects of emotions
ix How our lives can reinforce our personalities
x Differences between men’s and women’s personalities.

Example:
Paragraph A iv .
14 Paragraph B …….
15 Paragraph C …….
16 Paragraph D …….
17 Paragraph E …….
18 Paragraph F …….
19 Paragraph G …….

Questions 20-26
Do the following statements reflect the claims of the writer?
Write
YES if the statement reflects the claims of the writer
NO if the statement contradicts the claims of the writer
NOT GIVEN if it is impossible to say what the writer thinks about this

20 Alan and Beth illustrate contrasting behaviour in similar situations.

21 As we grow older, we become more able to analyse our personalities.
22 Nervousness is an example of a learned characteristic.

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23 The discovery of differences in temperament has changed the course of

psychological research.
24 Adopted children provide evidence that we inherit more of our personality than we
acquire.
25 The rational behaviour of different people shows greater similarity than their
emotional behaviour.
26 Most psychologists agree on the five major dimensions of personality.

Dressed to dazzle
As high-tech materials invade high-street fashion, prepare for clothes that are cooler
than silk and warmer than wool, keep insects at arm's length, and emit many pinpricks
of coloured light.

The convergence of fashion and high technology is leading to new kinds of fibres,
fabrics and coatings that are imbuing clothing with equally wondrous powers. Corpe
Nove, an Italian fashion company, has made a prototype shirt that shortens its sleeves
when room temperature rises and can be ironed with a hairdryer. And at Nexia
Biotechnologies, a Canadian firm, scientists have caused a stir by manufacturing spider
silk from the milk of genetically engineered goats. Not surprisingly, some industry
analysts think high-tech materials may soon influence fashion more profoundly than any
individual designer.

A big impact is already being made at the molecular level. Nano-Tex, a subsidiary of
American textiles maker Burlington, markets a portfolio of nanotechnologies that can
make fabrics more durable, comfortable, wrinkle-free and stain-resistant. The notion of
this technology posing a threat to the future of the clothing industry clearly does not
worry popular fashion outlets such as Gap, Levi Strauss and Lands' End, all of which
employ Nano-Tex's products. Meanwhile, Schoeller Textil in Germany, whose clients
include famous designers Donna Karan and Polo Ralph Lauren, uses nanotechnology
to create fabrics that can store or release heat.

Sensory Perception Technologies (SPT) embodies an entirely different application of

nanotechnology. Created in 2003 by Quest International, a flavour and fragrance
company, and Woolmark, a wool textile organisation, SPT is a new technique of
embedding chemicals into fabric. Though not the first of this type, SPT's durability
(evidently the microcapsule containing the chemicals can survive up to 30 washes)
suggests an interesting future. Designers could incorporate signature scents into their
collections. Sportswear could be impregnated with anti-perspirant. Hayfever sufferers
might find relief by pulling on a T-shirt, and so on.

The loudest buzz now surrounds polylactic acid (PLA) fibres - and, in particular, one
brand-named Ingeo. Developed by Cargill Dow, it is the first man-made fibre derived
from a 100% annually renewable resource. This is currently maize (corn), though in
theory any fermentable plant material, even potato peelings, can be used. In
performance terms, the attraction for the 30-plus clothes makers signed up to use Ingeo
lies in its superiority over polyester (which it was designed to replace).

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As Philippa Watkins, a textiles specialist, notes, Ingeo is not a visual trend. Unlike
nanotechnology, which promises to 'transform what clothes can do, Ingeo's impact on
fashion will derive instead from its emphasis on using natural sustainable resources.
Could wearing synthetic fabrics made from polluting and non-renewable fossil fuels
become as uncool as slipping on a coat made from animal fur? Consumers should
expect a much wider choice of 'green' fabrics. Alongside PLA fibres, firms are
investigating plants such as bamboo, seaweed, nettles and banana stalks as raw
materials for textiles. Soya bean fibre is also gaining ground. Harvested in China and
spun in Europe, the fabric is a better absorber and ventilator than silk, and retains heat
better than wool.

Elsewhere, fashion houses - among them Ermenegildo Zegna, Paul Smith and DKNY -
are combining fashion with electronics. Clunky earlier attempts Involved attaching
electronic components to the fabrics after the normal weaving process. But companies
such as SOFTswitch have developed electro-conductive fabrics that behave in similar
ways to conventional textiles.

Could electronic garments one day change colour or pattern? A hint of what could be
achieved is offered by Luminex, a joint venture between Stabio Textile and Caen. Made
of woven optical fibres and powered by a small battery, Luminex fabric emits thousands
of pinpricks of light, the colour of which can be varied. Costumes made of the fabric
wowed audiences at a production of the opera Aida in Washington, DC, last year.

Yet this ultimate of ambitions has remained elusive in daily fashion, largely because
electronic textiles capable of such wizardry are still too fragile to wear. Margaret Orth,
whose firm International Fashion Machines makes a colour-changing fabric, believes
the capability is a decade or two away. Accessories with this chameleon-like capacity -
for instance, a handbag that alters its colour - are more likely to appear first.

Questions 27-32
Look at the following list of companies (27-32) and the list of new materials below.
Match each company with the correct material.
Write the correct letter A-H next to the companies 27-32.

NB You may use any answer more than once.

27 Corpe Nove
28 Nexia Biotechnologies
29 Nano-Tex
30 Schoeller Textil
31 Quest International and Wool mark
32 Cargill Dow

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New materials

A material that can make you warmer or cooler

B clothing with perfume or medication added
C material that rarely needs washing
D clothes that can change according to external heat levels
E material made from banana stalks
F material that is environmentally-friendly
G fibres similar to those found in nature
H clothes that can light up in the dark

Questions 33-40
Complete the summary below.
Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS from the Reading Passage for each answer.

Major changes in fabrics

Using plants
Nanotechnology will bring changes we can see, while the brand
called 33 _____________ will help the environment. Fibre made from
the 34 ___________ plant has better qualities than silk and wool.

Electronics
In first attempts to use electronics, companies started with a material made by a
standard 35 ____________ method and then they fixed 36 ______________ to the
material.

Luminex fabric

• needs a 37 ___________ to make it work.

• has already been used to make stage 38 _________________________ is not
suitable for everyday wear because it is too 39 ______________________.
The first products that can change colour are likely to be 40 _____________________

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Task 1: The table below gives information about the

percentage of the internet users according to age in
1998,1999 and 2000.

Task 2: The air we breathe has a major impact on

our health and the environment. However,
individual efforts to improve air quality will not
give any results, and it's solely responsibility of our
governments to reduce air pollution.

Do you agree or disagree?

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