IELTS Recent Mock Tests Volume 3
- Published on: 31 Jan 2018
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Answer Keys:
Part 1: Question 1 - 13
- 1 nest
- 2 tortoises
- 3 oaks
- 4 Native Americans
- 5 prescribed burns
- 6 shrubs
- 7 soil
- 8 ant
- 9 eggs
- 10 TRUE
- 11 FALSE
- 12 NOT GIVEN
- 13 TRUE
Part 2: Question 14 - 26
- 14 D
- 15 G
- 16 A
- 17 B
- 18 H
- 19 B
- 20 B
- 21 C
- 22 A
- 23 Poetics
- 24 tragedy
- 25 landmarks(-stories)
- 26 flaw/weakness
Part 3: Question 27 - 40
- 27 iv
- 28 x
- 29 iii
- 30 vii
- 31 i
- 32 v
- 33 ix
- 34 linear
- 35 obstacle
- 36 acoustic
- 37 barchan
- 38 shape
- 39 tone
- 40 minerals
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Questions 1-5
Complete the notes below.
Choose NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS from the passage for each answer.
Write your answers in boxes 1-5 on your answer sheet.
Forest fire ensures that: • Birds can locate their 1 in the ground. • The burrows of a species of 2 provide homes to many other animals. • Hardwoods such as 3 can grow and outnumber long-leaf trees. Apart from fires lit by lightning: • Fires are created by 4 and settlers. • Fires deliberately lit are called 5 |
- 1 Answer: nest
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Q1: Birds can locate their _______ in the ground.
Bachman's sparrow is a secretive bird with a beautiful song that echoes across the longleaf flatwoods. It tucks its nest on the ground beneath clumps of wiregrass and little bluestem in the open under-story.
Note:
Firstly, this blank requires a noun.
It is something that belong to the birds and are in the ground and these word can only be found in the sixth paragraph.
The word It refers to Bachman's sparrow and secretive bird.
Therefore, we can conclude that the answer for Q1 is nest
- 2 Answer: tortoises
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Q2: The burrows of a species of _______ provide homes to many other animals.
Gopher tortoises, the only native land tortoises east of the Mississippi, are also abundant in longleaf. A keystone species for these forests, its burrows provide homes and safety to more than 300 species of vertebrates and invertebrates ranging from eastern diamond-back rattlesnakes to gopher frogs.
Note:
The blank requires a noun.
From the question, it can be understood that the burrows of this creature is used as homes by other animals.
The word its refers to tortoises, so the answer for Q2 is tortoises
- 3 Answer: oaks
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Q3: Hardwoods such as _______ can grow and outnumber long-leaf trees.
Fire knocks back the oaks and other hardwoods that can grow up to overwhelm long-leaf forests.
Noun:
This blank requires a noun.
The question is giving example of other kinds of hardwoods.
Therefore, we can conclude that oaks is the answer for Q3.
- 4 Answer: Native Americans
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Q4: Fires are created by ________ and earlier settlers.
Native Americans also lit fires to keep the forest open," Mitchell says. "So did the early pioneers.
Noun:
The blank must be filled by a noun.
The word "and" let us know that the blank refers to a group of people that did the same action as the earlier settlers.
With these clues, the answer for Q4 must be Native Americans
- 5 Answer: prescribed burns
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Q5 Fires deliberately lit are called _______
Today, fire is used as a vital management tool for preserving both longleaf and its wildlife. Most of these fires are prescribed burns, deliberately set with a drip torch
Note:
The blank here is a noun.
The word deliberately means to be done in a way that was planned, not by chance , a synonym of prescribed which means planned
With that, we can conclude that the question of Q5 must be prescribed burns.
Questions 6-9
Complete the flow-chart below.
Choose ONE WORD ONLY from the passage for each answer. Write your answers in boxes 6-9 on your answer sheet.
How to increase the number of cockaded woodpeckers |
Calcium stored in 6 |
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Shrubs are burned |
ↆ |
Calcium released into 7 and travels up to the leaves |
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a kind of 8 eats the leaves |
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Red-cockaded woodpeckers eat those ants |
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The number of 9 increases |
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More cockaded woodpeckers |
- 6 Answer: shrubs
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Note:
In order to this type of questions, flow chart completion, quickly and effectively, it is vital that we should locate and narrow down the search range.
In this task, the main point is about woodpecker and we can also see that only the eighth paragraph contains information about it. As a result, it is where we should pay attention to.
Q6 Calcium stored in _______
"We learned calcium is stashed away in woody shrubs when the forest is not burned," James says.
The word stash mean to keep or put something in a safe or secret place, so we can conclude that the answer for Q6 is shrubs.
- 7 Answer: soil
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Q7 Calcium released into _______ and travels up to the leaves .
"But when there is a fire, a pulse of calcium moves down into the soil and up into the longleaf."
The word release means to allow a substance to flow out from somewhere. As a result, the answer to Q7 is soil.
- 8 Answer: ant
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Q8
A kind of _______ eats the leaves
Eventually, this calcium makes its way up the food chain to a tree-dwelling species of ant, which is the red-cockaded's favorite food
Following the previous question and understanding question 8, we can infer that this question asks for a species which eats the leaves containing calcium. It was stated in the passage that "calcium makes its way up the food chain to a tree-dwelling species of ant", in other words, a kind of ant eats these leaves. Thus, the answer to this question is ant
- 9 Answer: eggs
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Q9
The number of _______ increases
The result: more calcium for the birds, which leads to more eggs, more young and more woodpeckers.
The word increase show a rise in a number of something which is relatable to more.
As a result we can conclude that the answer to Q9 is eggs
Questions 10-13
Do the following statements agree with the information given in Reading Passage 1?
In boxes 10-13 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 |
10 The sparse distribution of longleaf pine trees leads to the most diversity of species.
11 It is easier to restore forests converted to farms than forests converted to plantations.
12 The cost to restore forest is increasing recently.
13 Few can live to see the replanted forest reach its maturity.
- 10 Answer: TRUE
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Q10. The sparse distribution of longleaf pine trees leads to the most diversity of species.
In longleaf pine forests, trees grow widely scattered, creating an open, parklike environment, more like a savanna than a forest. The trees are not so dense as to block the sun. This openness creates a forest floor that is among the most diverse in the world
The question indicates the fact that the longleaf pine trees cover a large area creates an open environment and this environment is responsible for the diversity of the forest floor.
Therefore, we can conclude that the answer for Q10 is True.
- 11 Answer: FALSE
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Q11. It is easier to restore forests converted to farms than forests converted to plantations.
In areas where the land has not been chewed up by farming, but converted to loblolly or slash pine plantations, the seed bank of the longleaf forest usually remains viable beneath the soil. In time, this original vegetation can be coaxed back. Where agriculture has destroyed the seeds, however, wiregrass must be replanted
From the reading, we can see that the seed bank in the forests converted to farm still remains intact which can be restored late. However, in the forest converted to plantations, it has been destroyed by agriculture and must be planted again. It means that there is an additional step that must be done,so the process can not be easier. As a result, the answer to Q11 is False
- 12 Answer: NOT GIVEN
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Q12. The cost to restore forest is increasing recently.
Diop is spearheading a new NWF effort to restore longleaf. "It's a species we need to go back to," he says. Educating landowners about the advantages of growing longleaf is part of the program, he adds, which will soon be under way in nine southern states. "Right now, most longleaf is on public land," says Jerry McCollum, president of the Georgia Wildlife Federation. "Private land is where we need to work," he adds, pointing out that more than 90 percent of the acreage within the historic range of longleaf falls under this category [...] Right now, the expense is pro-hibitive, but researchers are searching for low-cost solutions.
There is only information about the plan to restore the longleaf forests and its extremely high cost. However, there is nothing concerning the increase or rise in the cost. Therefore, the answer to Q12 must be Not Given
- 13 Answer: TRUE
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Q13 Few can live to see the replanted forest reach its maturity.
Few of us will be alive when the pines being planted today become mature forests in 70 to 80 years.
The word few in the question has a negative meaning which mean only a small number of us, so we can understand that most of us can not see the pines being planted fully grow in the future. As a result, the answer for Q13 is True.
READING PASSAGE 1
You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-13, which are based on Reading Passage 1 below.
The Forgotten Forest
Found only in the Deep South of America, longleaf pine woodlands have dwindled to about 3 percent of their former range, but new efforts are under way to restore them.
THE BEAUTY AND THE BIODIVERSITY of the longleaf pine forest are well-kept secrets, even in its native South. Yet it is among the richest ecosystems in North America, rivaling tallgrass prairies and the ancient forests of the Pacific Northwest in the number of species it shelters. And like those two other disappearing wildlife habitats, longleaf is also critically endangered.
In longleaf pine forests, trees grow widely scattered, creating an open, parklike environment, more like a savanna than a forest. The trees are not so dense as to block the sun. This openness creates a forest floor that is among the most diverse in the world, where plants such as many-flowered grass pinks, trumpet pitcher plants, Venus flytraps, lavender ladies and pineland bog-buttons grow. As many as 50 different species of wildflowers, shrubs, grasses and ferns have been cataloged in just a single square meter.
Once, nearly 92 million acres of longleaf forest flourished from Virginia to Texas, the only place in the world where it is found. By the turn of the 2lst century, however, virtually all of it had been logged, paved or farmed into oblivion. Only about 3 percent of the original range still supports longleaf forest, and only about 10,000 acres of that is uncut old-growth—the rest is forest that has regrown after cutting. An estimated 100,000 of those acres are still vanishing every year. However, a quiet movement to reverse this trend is rippling across the region. Governments, private organisations (including NWF) and individual conservationists are looking for ways to protect and preserve the remaining longleaf and to plant new forests for future generations.
Figuring out how to bring back the piney woods also will allow biologists to help the plants and animals that depend on this habitat. Nearly two-thirds of the declining, threatened or endangered species in the southeastern United States are associated with longleaf. The outright destruction of longleaf is only part of their story, says Mark Danaher, the biologist for South Carolina's Francis Marion National Forest. He says the demise of these animals and plants also is tied to a lack of fire, which once swept through the southern forests on a regular basis. "Fire is absolutely critical for this ecosystem and for the species that depend on it," says Danaher.
Name just about any species that occurs in longleaf and you can find a connection to fire. Bachman's sparrow is a secretive bird with a beautiful song that echoes across the longleaf flatwoods. It tucks its nest on the ground beneath clumps of wiregrass and little bluestem in the open under-story. But once fire has been absent for several years, and a tangle of shrubs starts to grow, the sparrows disappear. Gopher tortoises, the only native land tortoises east of the Mississippi, are also abundant in longleaf. A keystone species for these forests, its burrows provide homes and safety to more than 300 species of vertebrates and invertebrates ranging from eastern diamond-back rattlesnakes to gopher frogs. If fire is suppressed, however, the tortoises are choked out. "If we lose fire," says Bob Mitchell, an ecologist at the Jones Center, "we lose wildlife."
Without fire, we also lose longleaf. Fire knocks back the oaks and other hardwoods that can grow up to overwhelm longleaf forests. "They are fire forests," Mitchell says. "They evolved in the lightning capital of the eastern United States." And it wasn't only lightning strikes that set the forest aflame. "Native Americans also lit fires to keep the forest open," Mitchell says. "So did the early pioneers. They helped create the longleaf pine forests that we know today."
Fire also changes how nutrients flow throughout longleaf ecosystems, in ways we are just beginning to understand. For example, researchers have discovered that frequent fires provide extra calcium, which is critical for egg production, to endangered red-cockaded woodpeckers. Frances James, a retired avian ecologist from Florida State University, has studied these small black-and-white birds for more than two decades in Florida's sprawling Apalachicola National Forest. When she realised female woodpeckers laid larger clutches in the first breeding season after their territories were burned, she and her colleagues went searching for answers. "We learned calcium is stashed away in woody shrubs when the forest is not burned," James says. "But when there is a fire, a pulse of calcium moves down into the soil and up into the longleaf." Eventually, this calcium makes its way up the food chain to a tree-dwelling species of ant, which is the red-cockaded's favorite food. The result: more calcium for the birds, which leads to more eggs, more young and more woodpeckers.
Today, fire is used as a vital management tool for preserving both longleaf and its wildlife. Most of these fires are prescribed burns, deliberately set with a drip torch. Although the public often opposes any type of fire—and the smoke that goes with it—these frequent, low-intensity burns reduce the risk of catastrophic conflagrations. "Forests are going to burn," says Amadou Diop, NWF's southern forests restoration manager. "It's just a question of when. With prescribed burns, we can pick the time and the place."
Diop is spearheading a new NWF effort to restore longleaf. "It's a species we need to go back to," he says. Educating landowners about the advantages of growing longleaf is part of the program, he adds, which will soon be under way in nine southern states. "Right now, most longleaf is on public land," says Jerry McCollum, president of the Georgia Wildlife Federation. "Private land is where we need to work," he adds, pointing out that more than 90 percent of the acreage within the historic range of longleaf falls under this category.
Interest among private landowners is growing throughout the South, but restoring longleaf is not an easy task. The herbaceous layer—the understory of wiregrasses and other plants—-also needs to be re-created. In areas where the land has not been chewed up by farming, but converted to loblolly or slash pine plantations, the seed bank of the longleaf forest usually remains viable beneath the soil. In time, this original vegetation can be coaxed back. Where agriculture has destroyed the seeds, however, wiregrass must be replanted. Right now, the expense is pro-hibitive, but researchers are searching for low-cost solutions.
Bringing back longleaf is not for the short-sighted, however. Few of us will be alive when the pines being planted today become mature forests in 70 to 80 years. But that is not stopping longleaf enthusiasts. "Today, it's getting hard to find longleaf seedlings to buy," one of the private landowners says. "Everyone wants them. Longleaf is in a resurgence."
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