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IELTS Mock Test 2020 January

IELTS Mock Test 2020 January

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  • Đăng ngày: 08 Feb 2020
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Part 1: Question 1 - 13
  • 1 D
  • 2 C
  • 3 E
  • 4 A
  • 5 biggest
  • 6 an agent/a registered agent
  • 7 Tea
  • 8 long dominated
  • 9 NOT GIVEN
  • 10 TRUE
  • 11 FALSE
  • 12 FALSE
  • 13 FALSE
Part 2: Question 14 - 26
  • 14 B
  • 15 G
  • 16 F
  • 17 E
  • 18 22 A,B,C,F,G
  • 23 A,C
  • 24 A,B
  • 25 A,C
  • 26 B
Part 3: Question 27 - 40
  • 27 C
  • 28 B
  • 29 A
  • 30 C
  • 31 cell phones
  • 32 useful light
  • 33 remote
  • 34 (heavy) import duties
  • 35 dust
  • 36 TRUE
  • 37 NOT GIVEN
  • 38 FALSE
  • 39 TRUE
  • 40 TRUE

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Part 1: Questions 1-13

Questions 1-4

Questions 5-8

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

Safaricom is the 5 mobile phone company in Kenya.

An M-Pesa account needs to be credited by 6

7 companies are particularly interested in using M-Pesa.

Companies like Moneygram and Western Union have 8 the international money transfer market.

  • 5 Answer: biggest

    Keywords in Questions

    Similar words in Passage

    Q5

    Safaricom is the ________ mobile phone company in Kenya.

    In what is being touted as a world first, Kenya’s biggest mobile operator is allowing subscribers to send cash to other phone users by SMS. Known as M-Pesa, or mobile money, the service is expected to revolutionise banking in a country where more than 80% of people are excluded from the formal financial sector. Apart from transferring cash - a service much in demand among urban Kenyans supporting relatives in rural areas - customers of the Safaricom network will be able to keep up to 50,000 shillings (£370) in a “virtual account” on their handsets.

    Note

    The needed words to fill in the blank should be an adjective(before noun)

    To answer this question, we look for keywords “Safaricom” and “mobile phone company in Kenya.” These words can be found in paragraph A.

    According to the passage, customers of the Safaricom network can send cash to other phone users by SMS by using the service called M-Pesa. And this company is described as Kenya’s biggest mobile operator. 

    Therefore, the answer for Q5 is “biggest”.

  • 6 Answer: an agent/a registered agent

    Keywords in Questions

    Similar words in Passage

    Q6

    An M-Pesa Account needs to be credited by _____.

    M-Pesa’s is simple. There is no need for a new handset or SIM card. To send money, you hand over the cash to a registered agent - typically a retailer - who credits your virtual account.

    Note

    The answer should be a noun - a person (passive structure – by someone) 

    The keyword for this question is ‘M-Pesa account’ which can be found in paragraph C.

    In order to send money, you have to give cash to a registered agent, who will credit your account.

    Therefore, the answer here is “a registered agent”.

  • 7 Answer: Tea

    Keywords in Questions

    Similar words in Passage

    Q7

     _______companies are particularly interested in using M-Pesa.

    Companies will be able to pay salaries directly into workers’ phones - something that has already attracted the interest of larger employers, such as the tea companies, whose workers often have to be paid in cash as they do not have bank accounts.

    Note

    The answer should be a noun/ an adjective(a kind of companies)

    The keyword here is ‘companies’ and “interested in using M-Pesa”. You can find this in paragraph D

    In the passage, it is stated that being able to pay salaries directly into workers’ phone has attracted the interest of many companies, such as tea companies because their workers often have to be paid in cash as they do not have bank accounts.

    Therefore, the answer is “tea”. 

  • 8 Answer: long dominated

    Keywords in Questions

    Similar words in Passage

    Q8

    Companies like Moneygram and Western Union have _______ the international money transfer market.

    The project is being watched closely by mobile operators around the world as a way of targeting the multibillion-pound international cash transfer industry long dominated by companies such as Western Union and Moneygram.

    Note

    The answer should be a verb in past participle form (have + PP)

    The keyword here is ‘Moneygram and Western Union’, and information about these 2 companies is found in paragraph E.It is stated that the multibillion-pound international cash transfer industry has long been dominated by companies like these 2.

    Therefore, the answer is “dominated”.

Questions 9-13

Part 1

Reading Passage 1

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

Money Transfers by Mobile

A. The ping of a text message has never sounded so sweet. In what is being touted as a world first, Kenya’s biggest mobile operator is allowing subscribers to send cash to other phone users by SMS. Known as M-Pesa, or mobile money, the service is expected to revolutionise banking in a country where more than 80% of people are excluded from the formal financial sector. Apart from transferring cash - a service much in demand among urban Kenyans supporting relatives in rural areas - customers of the Safaricom network will be able to keep up to 50,000 shillings (£370) in a “virtual account” on their handsets.

B. Developed by Vodafone, which holds a 35% share in Safaricom, M-Pesa was formally launched in Kenya two weeks ago. More than 10,000 people have signed up for the service, with around 8 million shillings transferred so far, mostly in tiny denominations. Safaricom’s executives are confident that growth will be strong in Kenya, and later across Africa. “We are effectively giving people ATM cards without them ever having to open a real bank account,” said Michael Joseph, chief executive of Safaricom, who called the money transfer concept the “next big thing” in mobile telephony.

C. M-Pesa’s is simple. There is no need for a new handset or SIM card. To send money, you hand over the cash to a registered agent - typically a retailer - who credits your virtual account. You then send between 100 shillings (74p) and 35,000 shillings (£259) via text message to the desired recipient - even someone on a different mobile network - who cashes it at an agent by entering a secret code and showing ID. A commission of up to 170 shillings (£1.25) is paid by the recipient but it compares favourably with fees levied by the major banks, whose services are too expensive for most of the population.

D. Mobile phone growth in Kenya, as in most of Africa, has been remarkable, even among the rural poor. In June 1999, Kenya had 15,000 mobile subscribers. Today, it has nearly 8 million out of a population of 35 million, and the two operators’ networks are as extensive as the access to banks is limited. Safaricom says it is not so much competing with financial services companies as filling a void. In time, M-Pesa will allow people to borrow and repay money, and make purchases. Companies will be able to pay salaries directly into workers’ phones - something that has already attracted the interest of larger employers, such as the tea companies, whose workers often have to be paid in cash as they do not have bank accounts. There are concerns about security, but Safaricom insists that even if someone’s phone is stolen, the PIN system prevents unauthorised withdrawals. Mr. Joseph said the only danger is sending cash to the wrong mobile number and the recipient redeeming it straight away.

E. The project is being watched closely by mobile operators around the world as a way of targeting the multibillion pound international cash transfer industry long dominated by companies such as Western Union and Moneygram. Remittances sent from nearly 200 million migrant workers to developing countries totalled £102 billion last year, according to the World Bank. The GSM Association, which represents more than 700 mobile operators worldwide, believes this could quadruple by 2012 if transfers by SMS become the norm. Vodafone has entered a partnership with Citigroup that will soon allow Kenyans in the UK to send money home via text message. The charge for sending £50 is expected to be about £3, less than a third of what some traditional services charge.

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