Reading Unit 2 Gap fill - Sentence and Summary Completion.pdf 09 JUNE Ielts PDF

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UNIT 2 Gap-fill Questions Types of ‘gap-fill’ questions 

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Fill the gaps with words from the passage 1.

Sentence completion

2.

Summary completion

3.

Labelling a diagram or map

4.

Table completion

Fill the gaps using words from a given list (box) 1.

Summary completion

2.

Labelling a diagram or map

What do you have to do? You are required to complete a text with words from the passage. Gap-fill question types test your ability to find detail/specific information in a text. Problem 1 – Read the question The following instructions come before a completion task. Complete the summary/flow chart/notes/table/sentences below. Choose NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS from the passage for each answer. Label the diagram below. Use NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER for each answer. Complete the summary below. Choose the appropriate letter, A-G, from the box Problem 2 – A test of grammar  The words you use to complete the text must fit grammatically.  Note clues: articles or prepositions, singular or plural, which may help you find the answer. Problem 3 – Recognise synonyms

Sentence Completion For sentence completion questions, you have to find a word or phrase in the passage that correctly completes a sentence. Basic exam techniques 1. Do not read the passage first 2. Just read the title 3. Then go to the first question 4. Underline ‘keywords’ in the question 5. Then search for those words in the passage 6. Underline them 7. Read that part of the passage carefully 8. Try to get the answer

Example: A Useful Plant Mosses are small flowerless plants that usually grow in dense green clumps, in damp and shady locations. The individual plants are usually composed of simple, one-cell thick leaves, covering a thin stem that supports them. At certain times they produce thin stalks topped with capsules containing spores. They are typically 1–10 centimetres tall, though some species are much larger, like Dawsonia, the tallest moss in the world, which can grow to 50 cm in height.

Question 1 Complete the sentence below. Write NO MORE THAN ONE WORD for the answer. 1.

Mosses are normally found in

with sufficient moisture and

shelter from sunlight.

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Exercise 1: Fighting the Dust PDF

Questions 1-9 Complete the sentences below. Use NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS from the passage for each answer. 1. The authorities are aware that

is

needed

to solve the problem of dust in buildings containing historical items. 2. Keeping historical items clean is difficult because of the time, expense and

potential

that is involved.

3. Small pieces broken from ancient

exhibited

in Roskilde have later been rescued from vacuum cleaner bags. 4. Ryhl-Svendsen says that even small breakages are serious as they mean

is lost. 5. Brimblecombe's research at London's Tate Gallery does not support the idea that

dust enters the building from 6. Brimblecombe

and

.

Ryhl-Svendsen

used

microscope

slides

and

to collect dust samples for analysis. 7. Their research findings suggest that levels of dust depend both on visitor

and on their closeness to the exhibits. 8. The

researchers

found

mat

the

most

serious

threat

came

from

the

of visitors. 9. It was found that a significant component of the dust on the Viking ships

consisted of

from visitors' jeans.

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Summary Completion Summarising questions can be in the form of: 

a brief summary of part of the reading passage



a brief summary of the whole reading passage



notes on the reading passage

Two types:

A

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Type I: Without a choice of possible answers (from passage)

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Type II: With a choice of possible answers (box/list) Summary Completion – Type I Example: Creative writing

New research, prompted by the relatively high number of literary families, shows that there may be an inherited element to writing good fiction. Researchers from Yale in the US and Moscow State University in Russia launched the study to see whether there was a scientific reason why well-known writers have produced other writers. The study analysed the creative writing of 511 children aged eight to 17 and 489 of their mothers and 326 fathers. All the participants wrote stories on particular themes. The stories were then scored and rated for originality and novelty, plot development and quality, and sophistication and creative use of prior knowledge. The researchers also carried out detailed intelligence tests and analysed how families functioned in the Russian households. Taking into account intelligence and family background, the researchers then calculated the inherited and the environmental elements of creative writing. They found what they describe as a modest heritability element to creative writing.

Questions 1 and 2 Complete the summary below. Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS for each answer. Creative Writing Creative writing ability may be 1.

from

parents,

according to a new study. Researchers compared 2. written by children and their parents, looking at elements such as originality and use of 3.

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Grammar Accuracy Exercise Complete the summary below. Use NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS form the passage The Causes of Storms Whatever the cause of a storm, there has to be lightning. You cannot have thunder without lighting because thunder is the sound of outspreading pressure waves from the sudden heating of the air along a lightning flash. How storms develop such immense amounts of electric charge is still not fully understood, but the most likely way is by raindrops carried skywards in up draughts in the clouds. As they are lifted into the higher, colder regions, they freeze on the outside. The shell of ice compresses the water inside it to the point at which it eventually bursts out and instantly freezes into positively charged slivers of ice.

Summary Scientists are still unsure how the 1.

is produced

during the storms but they suspect that it is the result of 2. reaching the lower clouds and then 3.

as

it

travels

further upwards.

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Exercise 2: Clocking Cultures PDF

Questions 12-14 Complete the summary below. Use NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS from the passage for each answer. Different cultures have different theories of time. In the West, time is sometimes said to be like an 12.

. 'Dreamtime' for Australian

Aborigines involves a special relationship between time and space. In other cultures, time may be compared to a 13. or a 14.

.

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Summary Completion – Type II In Type II you are required to choose answers from a list or bank of options. Task approach: In addition to the basic technique, you should note that:  The word from the list has to fit both in meaning and grammatically.  There are more words in the box than questions.  The words on the box are not usually the same as in the reading passage. Example: A Useful Plant Mosses are small flowerless plants that usually grow in dense green clumps, in damp and shady locations. The individual plants are usually composed of simple, one-cell thick leaves, covering a thin stem that supports them. At certain times they produce thin stalks topped with capsules containing spores. They are typically 1–10 centimetres tall, though some species are much larger, like Dawsonia, the tallest moss in the world, which can grow to 50 cm in height. Species of moss can be classed as growing on: rocks, exposed mineral soil, disturbed soils, acid soil, calcareous soil, cliff seeps and waterfall spray areas, stream sides, shaded humusy soil, downed logs, burnt stumps, tree trunk bases, upper tree trunks, and tree branches or in bogs. While mosses often grow on trees as epiphytes, they are never parasitic on the tree. Moss is often considered a weed in grass lawns, but is deliberately encouraged to grow under aesthetic principles exemplified by Japanese gardening. In old temple gardens, for example, moss can be added to carpet a forest scene, as it is thought to add a sense of calm, age, and stillness. Moss is also used in bonsai to cover the soil and enhance the impression of age.

Questions 5-9 Complete the following summary using words from the box below. Mosses grow in 5.

, shaded locations on rocks, soil, wood or in bogs.

When mosses grow on trees, they are not classed as 6.

,

but when they grow on lawns, they are typically seen as 7.

.

Japanese gardeners believe that moss has special 8. often used as a 9.

, and it is

in temple gardens.

dense

species

weeds

aesthetic

moist

sense

carpet

qualities

parasites

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Source:

Focus on Academic Skills for IELTS, New Edition Authors: Morgan Terry, Judith Wilson Published in: Essex, UK Publisher: Pearson Education, Longman Date of Publication: 17 June 2010 Adapted by: Marcela Chavez Task approaches and explanations Prepared by: Marcela Chavez Revised: August 2020

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