It contains four complete tests for Academic module candidates, plus extra Reading and Writing modules for General Training module candidates. An introduction to these different modules is included in each book, together with with an explanation of the scoring system used by Cambridge English Language Assessment.
A comprehensive section of answers and tapescripts makes the material ideal for students working partly or entirely on their own. The book aims to take students with a global IELTS band score of 3 through to a band score of 4 with 12 units containing grammar and vocabulary activities, model answers, writing sections, useful advice and audioscripts.
It is designed primarily for English language students at an advanced level, i. The book has been written from a cognitive, rather than a grammatical, point of view. Popular Books. So although there seems to be no no one has ever 2 …………….. It has been symmetry is an important 8 …………….. Before you answer the test questions, go to the Further Practice and Guidance pages which follow.
For questions 9—16, read the text below and think of the word which best fits each gap. Use only one word in each gap. We left-handed people tend to lack pride Now, years later, Apparently a third of those Without doubt, the skill of writing is one that becomes crucial at a most impressionable age, and defines I have never used scissors, baseball bat, hockey stick or computer mouse with anything but my right; Missing words can include articles, after it.
Some questions may involve completing collocations and fixed phrases. However, she bought an expensive car last week. However, her sister, Mary, is quite rich. Nevertheless, she bought an expensive car last week. Despite this, she bought an expensive car last week. Despite the fact that She bought an expensive car last week, though. B Use the correct conjunctions to fill the gaps in the following sentences. There may be more than one possible answer. Now check your answers to Part 2 of the test.
You are going to read a newspaper article about the diaries of two famous explorers, Robert Falcon Scott and Ernest Shackleton.
For questions 31—36, choose the answer A, B, C or D which you think fits best according to the text. What do the diaries of Shackleton and Scott reveal? Rebecca Hunt, once a diary-keeper herself, examines the Roald Amundsen, he slowly returns.
In a move far despair seeps from the page as the distance that Scott and more decisive than mine, my aunt torched her diaries in a his four men have left to travel becomes impossible to bonfire.
The third diarist in my family is my great- square with diminishing supplies and deteriorating grandfather, who fought in the first world war. The many health. In his last entries Scott reveals a a similar way. The words are he makes biting asides about incompetence.
But he was brave and considered rather than raw and desperate, since equally impatient with himself. His rigid belief in self- they were for his wife, who must have been sick with worry discipline was the result of a lifelong disgust at his own and had three young sons to care for. Falcon Scott had set off for the South Pole. With curious symmetry, Cherry-Garrard later noted. Scott, I suspect, never had it in mind for would.
As found it greatly absorbing. It continued to be so for months. The difference would prove to be important. Incredibly, they made it. His book South! And despite the Scott. It took another 30 years after his death before he overwhelming probability that no one from Endurance began to gain similar levels of public renown.
Their most would survive, a spirit of cheerfulness permeates the book. As Shackleton remarks in the what makes these two expeditions so extraordinary. Writing retrospectively, his focus is naturally man writing privately at the end of each day. He never had on the larger triumph of the rescue and escape rather than the chance to appraise the situation objectively, so we read it the smaller, spikier aspects of their ordeal.
It makes for a more intimate, but perhaps less grinding torture. Beaten to the South Pole by Norwegian comprehensive account. B she had considered it a personal obligation to uphold a family tradition. C the family diary-keepers are all prone to occasions of melodramatic behaviour.
D her great-grandfather was more cautious in what he wrote compared to her aunt. B Unlike Shackleton, Scott had no say in the decision to publish his diary. D Shackleton was frustrated by the inevitable comparisons to Scott.
D the way Scott applied the same exacting standards to himself and to those working with him. D it is ironic that fame and credit for achievement are often acquired only after death.
Before you check your answers, go to page The order of the questions follows the same paper come from a variety of sources, for example, order as the corresponding information in the text. In newspapers, magazines, brochures, non-technical Part 5, the final question may sometimes test your journals and books, and may deal with a range of overall understanding of the text, for example, you topics with an academic flavour.
A range of reading skills are tested: Tips Part 5: understanding detail, opinion, tone, purpose, main idea, implication, attitude, and recognizing how Read the text first to get a general understanding of the certain text organization features show main points. If you look at the questions first, you may exemplification, comparison and reference.
Part 6: understanding opinion and attitude: After reading the text, highlight the key words in the comparing and contrasting of opinions and attitudes questions and the four options. Carefully read the part across texts. Make sure the option you choose coherence and global meaning. Part 8: understanding detail, opinion or attitude and locating specific information. A detailed study The exercise below will help you to make sure you have chosen the correct options for the Part 5 questions 31—36 on page Do all family members behave this way?
A Is there any reference to fiction in the text? Is it about Scott and his journey? Is there a phrase in the text that paraphrases this idea? D In what way s are Scott and Shackleton similar? Are we told how Shackleton felt about this? A The writer says that South! Is there anywhere in the text where the writer suggests that Shackleton has exaggerated?
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