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IELTS Mock Test 2020 February

IELTS Mock Test 2020 February

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Part 1: Question 1 - 13
  • 1 C
  • 2 D
  • 3 F
  • 4 E
  • 5 ADHD
  • 6 wrist monitors
  • 7 paying attention
  • 8 tough
  • 9 FALSE
  • 10 FALSE
  • 11 TRUE
  • 12 NOT GIVEN
  • 13 NOT GIVEN
Part 2: Question 14 - 26
  • 14 B
  • 15 F
  • 16 D
  • 17 E
  • 18 22 A,C,D,E,H
  • 23 C
  • 24 C
  • 25 A,B
  • 26 A,C
Part 3: Question 27 - 40
  • 27 A
  • 28 C
  • 29 C
  • 30 A
  • 31 diaries
  • 32 high tea
  • 33 an average of
  • 34 gender segregated
  • 35 playing football
  • 36 TRUE
  • 37 FALSE
  • 38 TRUE
  • 39 TRUE
  • 40 NOT GIVEN

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Review & Explanations:

Part 1: Questions 1-13

Questions 1-4

The text has 7 paragraphs (A - G).

Which paragraph contains each of the following pieces of information?

1 Traffic accidents are sometimes caused by lack of sleep.

2 The number of children included in the study

3 How two schools are trying to deal with the problem

4 How the effect of having less sleep was measured

  • 1 Answer: C
    Locate Explain Report

    • The keywords concerned in Q1 must be “traffic accidents” and “lack of sleep”.

    • In this question, we have to find out the paragraph which shows that one of the reasons of traffic accidents is lack of sleep.

    • First, we will need to scan the passage and figure out which paragraph discuss about the disadvantages of not sleeping enough.

    • At the paragraph C, they claim “Not getting enough is linked to a host of problems.” Thanks to the words “problems” and the phrase “not getting enough” which mentions about lack of sleep, we can guess that C is the paragraph we need to find out. 

    • And after that, they give out some examples such as car crashes, crippled memory or inhibited creativity. Because car crashes is the other expression of traffic accidents, we can be sure that paragraph C is the correct one.

    • So, we must choose C for this question.
  • 2 Answer: D
    Locate Explain Report

    • The keywords of Q2 are “The number of children” and “the study”.

    • In this question, we have to find out the paragraph which contains the number of children in the study.

    • At the beginning of paragraph D, we can see that they write “They recruited seventy-four 6- to 12-year-olds from Rhode Island and southern Massachusetts for the three-week study”. From this information, we can conclude that their study was conducted among 74 children from 6 to 12 years old.

    • So, we can be sure that D is the correct answer for this question.
  • 3 Answer: F
    Locate Explain Report

    • The keywords of Q3 are “two schools” and “deal with the problem”.

    • In this question, we have to find out the paragraph containing the ways of two schools to solve their problem.

    • Because the school name “Potter-Burns Elementary School” and the phrase “another school” at 3 first sentences of paragraph F are suitable with the key “two schools”, we can guess that this paragraph may be the right one that we need to find out.

    • In these above-mentioned sentences, we can also get the information about what two schools do to solve the problem about students’ sleep. In particular, they will send notes to parents or include it in the monthly newsletters.

    • From these clues, we can be sure that this paragraph is the correct answer. So, we must write F for this question.
  • 4 Answer: E
    Locate Explain Report

    • The keywords of Q4 are “effect of having less sleep” and “was measured”.

    • In this question, we need to find out the paragraph containing the way to measure the effect of having less sleep.

    • At the paragraph E, the phrase “a variety of performance measures” in the 1st sentence gives us the clue.

    • Moreover, in the following part, in the sentence “The teachers reported significantly more academic problems during the week of sleep deprivation”, we have the phrase “bad effects of sleep deprivation” is equal to “effect of having less sleep” so we can infer that this paragraph contains answer of Q4.

    • In particular, we get information from this paragraph that the students who sleep 8 hours or less a night will become more forgetful, have trouble learning new lessons or have problems paying attention. Those descriptions can help us make sure that they are signals of bad effects of having less sleep.

    • Therefore, we can conclude that E is the right answer for Q4.

Questions 5-8

Complete the following sentences using NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS from the text for each gap.

Fallone is now studying the sleep patterns of children with 5

The researchers used 6 that show movement to check that children went to bed at the right time.

Students with less sleep had problems with memory, remembering new material, and 7

Fallone admitted that it was 8 for children to get enough sleep.

  • 5 Answer: ADHD
    Locate Explain Report

    • The keywords of Q5 are “Fallone”, “study”, “sleep patterns” and “children”.

    • At paragraph B, the sentence “Fallone now is studying that question …” is the signal for us to pay more attention to this part. 

    • What the phrase “that question” means may be a clue for us. And from the previous sentence “… raising the question of whether sleep deprivation could prove even worse for people with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD”, we can conclude that Fallone is now studying about bad impacts of sleep deprivation on people with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). 

    • The last information of this paragraph which is “…sleep problems could hit children with ADHD as a double whammy” provides for us a very important clue that Fallone is also studying this problem on children with ADHD.

    • Hence, we must write down ADHD in this question.
  • 6 Answer: wrist monitors
    Locate Explain Report

    • The keywords of Q6 are “the researchers”, “show movement to check that children went to bed at the right time”. 

    • From these keywords, we can assume that the answer is a method for the researchers control the time children go to sleep.

    • The paragraph D is the one discussing about the research on children’s sleep, so we need to focus on this part.

    • This paragraph mainly talks about the number of hours that children must spend on sleeping a night during 3 weeks of the research. And in the final sentence “In addition to parents’ reports, the youngsters wore motion detecting wrist monitors to ensure compliance”, we can found that “the youngsters”, “to ensure compliance” are respectively compatible with the key words “children” and “check that children went to bed at the right time”, so we can infer that parents use wrist monitors to control their children’s sleeping time.

    • Therefore, the correct answer must be wrist monitors.
  • 7 Answer: paying attention
    Locate Explain Report

    • The keywords of Q7 are “students”, “less sleep”, “problems with memory, remembering new material”.

    • From these keywords, we can assume that the answer is a disadvantage of students not having enough sleep.

    • Thanks to the Q4, we can know that paragraph E is most possible part that contains the answer. Therefore, we need to pay more attention to this paragraph.

    • And at the last sentence of this part, we can see that they point out “Students who got eight hours of sleep or less a night were more forgetful, had the most trouble learning new lessons, and had the most problems paying attention …”

    • Because forgetful has the same meaning with problems with memory, and trouble learning new lessons is the synonym of remembering new material, the one we need to find out must be problems of paying attention.

    • Hence, the right answer for Q7 is paying attention.
  • 8 Answer: tough
    Locate Explain Report

    • The keywords of Q8 are “Fallone” and “children to get enough sleep”.

    • From these keywords, we can guess that the answer must be an opinion of Fallone about how to make children have enough sleep.

    • And at the very last sentence of passage G, a short quote of Fallone which is “It’s tough” may be the right answer. 

    • Because the previous sentences mainly talk about the difficulties of Fallone’s daughter to get enough sleep, we can conclude that tough is the most suitable opinion of Fallone about this problem.

    • So, the correct answer of Q8 is tough.

Questions 9-13

Do the following statements agree with the information given in Reading Passage 1?

In boxes 9 - 13 on your answer sheet, write

TRUE if the statement agrees with the information
FALSE if the statement contradicts the information
NOT GIVEN If there is no information on this

9 The results of the study were first distributed to principals of American schools,

10 Some of the children in the study had previously shown signs of sleeping problems.

11 The study could influence how doctors deal with children’s health problems.

12 Fallone does not let his daughter play soccer.

13 Staying up later is acceptable if the child is doing homework.

  • 9 Answer: FALSE
    Locate Explain Report

    • The keywords of Q9 are “the results of the study”, “first distributed” and “principals of American schools”.

    • At paragraph E, line 4, we can see that the study is mentioned in the sentence “ … the study, which will be published in the journal Sleep in December, concluded”. From this information, we can conclude that the results of this study is going to be published in a journal, not distributed to the principals of American schools.

    • So, we can be sure that this statement is FALSE.
  • 10 Answer: FALSE
    Locate Explain Report

    • The keywords of Q10 are “some of the children”, “previously” and “signs of sleeping problems”.

    • At paragraph B, line 2, we can find out the information about the children who were chosen to take part in the study in the sentence “The study, unveiled Thursday at an American Medical Association (AMA) science writers meeting, was conducted on healthy children who had no evidence of sleep- or learning-related disorders …”. According to this clue, it is clearly that the chosen children in this study are healthy children and they don’t have any sleeping problems before.

    • Therefore, we can conclude that this statement is FALSE.
  • 11 Answer: TRUE
    Locate Explain Report

    • The keywords of Q11 are “the study”, “influence”, “how doctors deal with children’s health problems”.

    • We can find out the information related to this statement in the last sentences of paragraph F, which are “… However, the findings may change physician practice, said Dr. Regina Benjamin, a family physician ...”.

    • In the clause “the findings may change physician practice”, we can see there are almost words that are compatible with keywords such as: “the findings” = “the study”, “change” = “influence”, “physician practice” = “how doctors deal with children’s health problems” so we can sure that this statement is TRUE. 
  • 12 Answer: NOT GIVEN
    Locate Explain Report

    • The keywords of Q12 is “does not let his daughter play soccer”.

    • We can see that the information about Fallone and his daughter is mentioned at paragraph G. There is a sentence “Fallone insists that his own second-grader get ten hours a night, even when it meant dropping soccer - season …”. According to this sentence, Fallone just insists his daughter get ten hours a night, even when it meant dropping soccer - season. The word “insists” mean require/expect and have no compulsory meaning, while the key word in question is “does not let”, which has compulsory meaning so there is no prove that Fallone does not let his daughter play soccer.

    • So, in this question, we have to choose NOT GIVEN.
  • 13 Answer: NOT GIVEN
    Explain Report

    • The keywords of Q13 are “staying up late”, “acceptable” and “doing homework”.

    • Throughout the passage, we cannot find out any information about children can stay up late for doing homework purpose, therefore, we can conclude that it is not given.

    • Hence, with Q13, the answer must be NOT GIVEN.
Part 1

Reading Passage 1

You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1 -13, which are based on Reading Passage 1 below.

Sleepy Students Perform Worse

A. Staying up an hour or two past bedtime makes it far harder for kids to learn, say scientists who deprived youngsters of sleep and tested whether their teachers could tell the difference. They could. If parents want their children to thrive academically, “Getting them to sleep on time is as important as getting them to school on time," said psychologist Gahan Fallone, who conducted the research at Brown Medical School.

B. The study, unveiled Thursday at an American Medical Association (AMA) science writers meeting, was conducted on healthy children who had no evidence of sleep- or learning-related disorders. Difficulty paying attention was among the problems the sleepy youngsters faced - raising the question of whether sleep deprivation could prove even worse for people with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD. Fallone now is studying that question, and suspects that sleep problems “could hit children with ADHD as a double whammy”.

C. Sleep experts have long warned that Americans of all ages do not get enough shuteye. Sleep is important for health, bringing a range of benefits that, as Shakespeare put it, “knits up the ravelled sleave of care”. Not getting enough is linked to a host of problems, from car crashes as drivers doze off to crippled memory and inhibited creativity. Exactly how much sleep correlates with school performance is hard to prove. So, Brown researchers set out to test whether teachers could detect problems with attention and learning when children stayed up late - even if the teachers had no idea how much sleep their students actually got.

D. They recruited seventy-four 6- to 12-year-olds from Rhode Island and southern Massachusetts for the three-week study. For one week, the youngsters went to bed and woke up at their usual times. They already were fairly good sleepers, getting nine to 9.5 hours of sleep a night. Another week, they were assigned to spend no fewer than ten hours in bed a night. The other week, they were kept up later than usual: First -and second-graders were in bed no more than eight hours and the older children no more than 6.5 hours. In addition to parents’ reports, the youngsters wore motiondetecting wrist monitors to ensure compliance.

E. Teachers were not told how much the children slept or which week they stayed up late, but rated the students on a variety of performance measures each week. The teachers reported significantly more academic problems during the week of sleep deprivation, the study, which will be published in the journal Sleep in December, concluded. Students who got eight hours of sleep or less a night were more forgetful, had the most trouble learning new lessons, and had the most problems paying attention, reported Fallone, now at the Forest Institute of Professional Psychology.

F. Sleep has long been a concern of educators. Potter-Burns Elementary School sends notes to parents reminding them to make sure students get enough sleep prior to the school’s yearly achievement testing. Another school considers it important enough to include in the school’s monthly newsletters. Definitely, there is an impact on students’ performance if they come to school tired. However, the findings may change physician practice, said Dr. Regina Benjamin, a family physician in Bayou La Batre, who reviewed the data at the Thursday’s AMA meeting. “I don't ask about sleep” when evaluating academically struggling students, she noted. “I’m going to start.”

G. So how much sleep do kids need? Recommended amounts range from about ten to eleven hours a night for young elementary students to 8.5 hours for teens. Fallone insists that his own second-grader get ten hours a night, even when it meant dropping soccer - season that practice did not start until 7:30 — too late for her to fit in dinner and time to wind down before she needed to be snoozing. “It’s tough,” he acknowledged, but “parents must believe in the importance of sleep."

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