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IELTS Mock Test 2023 April

IELTS Mock Test 2023 April

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Part 1: Question 1 - 13
  • 1 B
  • 2 C
  • 3 B
  • 4 B
  • 5 TRUE
  • 6 NOT GIVEN
  • 7 FALSE
  • 8 TRUE
  • 9 NOT GIVEN
  • 10 the next crash
  • 11 a commodities boom
  • 12 necessary infrastructure
  • 13 growth accelerating
Part 2: Question 14 - 26
  • 14 NOT GIVEN
  • 15 NOT GIVEN
  • 16 TRUE
  • 17 NOT GIVEN
  • 18 FALSE
  • 19 acquired
  • 20 differentiate
  • 21 good
  • 22 aroma
  • 23 seasonings
  • 24 flavour
  • 25 indelibel
  • 26 chemical aromas
Part 3: Question 27 - 40
  • 27 D
  • 28 B
  • 29 D
  • 30 A
  • 31 C
  • 32 B
  • 33 FALSE
  • 34 TRUE
  • 35 NOT GIVEN
  • 36 TRUE
  • 37 computer-chip level
  • 38 so-called multicore technology
  • 39 shrink circuits
  • 40 performance

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剑桥雅思12听力原文-TEST6

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Part 1: Questions 1-13

Questions 1-4

Questions 5-9

Questions 10-13

Complete the following summary of the paragraphs of Reading Passage Volatility Kills, using NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS from the Reading Passage Volatility Kills for each answer. Write your answers in boxes 10-13 on your answer sheet.

According to one research carried by the world bank, some countries in Africa may suffer from 10 due to the lack of according preconditions. they experienced a growth stimulated by 11 , but according to another study, they may not keep this trend stable because they don’t have 12 which would attract investors. to some countries with abundant resources, this fast-growth period might even mean something devastating to their endeavor. during one specific decade accompanied by 13 as a matter of fact, the governing saw a deterioration.
  • 10 Answer: the next crash

    Keywords in Questions

    Similar words in Passage

    Q10. According to one research carried by the world bank, some countries in Africa may suffer from ________ due to the lack of according preconditions

    Paragraph C. The prerequisites to prevent the next crash are not in place, according to a World Bank study issued in January

    Note:

    The answer should be a Noun to complete the structure “suffer from Noun”.

    Scan keywords “research”, “World Bank”, “lack of precondition” and think of their synonyms to limit the answer in paragraph C.

    Notice some paraphrases “precondition” – “prerequisite”, “not in place” – “lack of”

    It is clear from the text that Africa countries do not have prerequisites to prevent the next crash, or they suffer from the next crash due to lack of prerequisites (preconditions)

    Answer: THE NEXT CRASH

  • 11 Answer: a commodities boom

    Keywords in Questions

    Similar words in Passage

    Q11. They experienced a growth stimulated by _________

    Paragraph C. The growth period that began in 1995, driven by a commodities boom spurred in particular by demand from China

    Note:

    The answer should be a noun to complete the structure “stimulated by Noun”.

    It is stated in paragraph C that African countries (they) had a growth period (experienced a growth), driven by (stimulated by, thanks to) a commodities boom.

    Answer: A COMMODITIES BOOM

  • 12 Answer: necessary infrastructure

    Keywords in Questions

    Similar words in Passage

    Q12. but according to another study, they may not keep this trend stable because they don’t have _______ which would attract investors

    Paragraph C. The region lacks the necessary infrastructure that would encourage investors to look to Africa to find the next Bengaluru ( Bangalore ) or Shenzhen, a November report from the bank concludes

    Note:

    The answer should be a Noun to follow the verb “have” and to come before the relative clause “(something) which would attract investors”.

    Notice the phrase “another study”, which could refer to “a November report”, to rule out “January study” at the beginning of the passage C mentioned in Q10.

    Some paraphrases are used here: “lack” – “do not have”, “encourage investors to look to Africa” – “attract investors”

    Answer: NECESSARY INFRASTRUCTURE

  • 13 Answer: growth accelerating

    Keywords in Questions

    Similar words in Passage

    Q13. During one specific decade accompanied by ________ as a matter of fact, the governing saw a deterioration.

    Paragraph C. From 1996 to 2005, with growth accelerating, measures of governance– factors such as political stability, rule of law, and control of corruption- actually worsened, especially for countries endowed with abundant mineral resources, the January report notes

    Note:

    The answer should be a Noun to follow preposition “by” (accompanied by something)

    Notice the phrase “one decade”, which could refer to “1996 to 2005” to limit possible answers.

    Some paraphrases are used here: “accompanied by” – “with”, “as a matter of fact” – “actually”, “the governing” – “measures of governance”, “deterioration” – worsened”

    “With growth accelerating” means that in the situation where these countries had an accelerating growth.

    Answer: GROWTH ACCELERATING

Part 1

READING PASSAGE 1

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

Volatility Kills

A . Despite gun battles in the capital of Chad, rioting in Kenya, and Galloping inflation in Zimbabwe, the economies of sub-Saharan Africa are, as a whole, in better shape than they were a few years ago. The World Bank has reported recently that this part of the continent experienced a respectable growth rate of 5.6 percent in 2006 and a higher rate from 1995 to 2005 than in previous decades. The bank has given a cautions assessment that the region may have reached a turning point. An overriding question for developmental economists remains whether the upswing will continue so Africans can grow their way out of poverty that relegates some 40 percent of the nearly 744 million in that region to living on less than a dollar a day. The optimism, when inspected more closely, maybe short-lived because of the persistence of a devastating pattern of economic volatility that has lingered for decades.

B. “In reality, African countries grow as fast as Asian countries and other developing countries during the good times, but afterward they see growth collapses,” comments Jorge Arbache, a senior World Bank economist. “How to prevent collapses may be as important as promoting growth.” If these collapses had not occurred, he observes, the level of gross domestic product for each citizen of the 48 nations of sub -Saharan Africa would have been third higher.

C . the prerequisites to prevent the next crash are not in place, according to a World Bank study issued in January, Is Africa’s Recent Growth Robust? The growth period that began in 1995, driven by a commodities boom spurred in particular by demand from China, may not be sustainable, because the economic fundamentals- new investment and the ability to stave off inflation, among other factors-are absent. The region lacks the necessary infrastructure that would encourage investors to look to Africa to find the next Bengaluru ( Bangalore ) or Shenzhen, a November report from the bank concludes. For sub–Saharan countries rich in oil and other resources, a boom period may even undermine efforts to institute sound economic practices.. From 1996 to 2005, with growth accelerating, measures of governance– factors such as political stability, rule of law, and control of corruption- actually worsened, especially for countries endowed with abundant mineral resources, the January report notes.

D . Perhaps the most incisive analysis of the volatility question comes from Paul Collier, a longtime specialist in African economics at the University of Oxford and author of the recent book The Bottom Billion. He advocates a range of options that the U.S. and other nations could adopt when formulating policy toward African countries. They include revamped trade measures, better-apportioned aid, and sustained military intervention in certain instances, to avert what he sees as a rapidly accelerating divergence of the world’s poorest, primarily in Africa, from the rest of the world, even other developing nations such India and China.

E. Collier finds that bad governance is the main reason countries fail to take advantage of the revenue bonanza that results from a boom. moreover, a democratic government, he adds, often makes the aftermath of a boom worse. “Instead of democracy disciplining governments to manage these resource booms well, what happens is that the resource revenues corrupt the normal functioning of democracy-unless you stop ( them from) corrupting the normal function of democracy with sufficient checks and balances”, he said at a talk ion January at the Carnegie Council in New York City.

F. Collier advocates that African nations institute an array of standards and codes to bolster governments, one of which would substitute auctions for bribes in apportioning mineral rights and another of which would tax export revenues adequately. He cites the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which took in $ 200 million from mineral exports in 2006 yet collected only $86000 in royalties for its treasury. “If a nation gets these points right, ” he argues, “It’s going to develop. If it gets them wrong, it won’t.”

G . To encourage reform, Collier recommends that the G8 nations agree to accept these measures as voluntary guidelines for multinationals doing business in Africa- companies, for instance, would only enter new contracts through auctions monitored by an international verification group. Such an agreement would follow the examples of the so-called Kimberley Process, which has effectively undercut the trade in blood diamonds, and the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, in which a government must report to its citizens the revenues it receives from sales of natural resources.

H . These measures, he says, are more important than elevating aid levels, an approach emphasized by economist Jeffrey D. Sachs of Columbia University and celebrity activists such as Bono. Collier insists that first Angola receives tens of billions of dollars in oil revenue and whether it gets a few hundred million more or less in aid is really second-order.

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