Copy of IELTS Academic Reading Mock Test 9

Questions 1-5

Reading Passage 1 has five paragraphs, A-E.
Choose the correct heading for each paragraph from the list of headings below.

Write the correct number 1-8, in boxes on your answer sheet.

List of Headings

1. Avoiding an overcrowded centre
2. A successful exercise in people power
3. The benefits of working together in cities
4. Higher incomes need not mean more cars
5. Economic arguments fail to persuade
6. The impact of telecommunications on population distribution
7. Increases in travelling time
8. Responding to arguments against public transport

Questions 6-10

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

In boxes 6-10 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

6. The ISTP study examined public and private systems in every city in the world.

7. Efficient cities can improve the quality of life for their inhabitants.

8. An inner-city tram network is dangerous for car drivers.

9. In Melbourne, people prefer to live in the outer suburbs.

10. Cities with high levels of bicycle usage can be efficient even when public transport is only averagely good.

Questions 11-13

Look at the following cities (Questions 11-13) and the list of descriptions below.

Match each city with the correct description, A-F.
Write the correct letter, A-F, in boxes 11-13 on your answer sheet.

List of Descriptions
A     successfully uses a light rail transport system in hilly environment
B     successful public transport system despite cold winters
C     profitably moved from road to light rail transport system
D     hilly and inappropriate for rail transport system
E     heavily dependent on cars despite widespread poverty
F     inefficient due to a limited public transport system

Questions 14-22

Complete the summary using the list of words, A-Q, below.
Write the correct letter, A-Q, in boxes 14-22 on your answer sheet.

Questions 23-26

Complete each sentence with the correct ending, A-H, below.
Write the correct letter, A-H, in boxes 23-26 on your answer sheet.

List of endings

A. may cause heart disease.
B. can be helped by hormone treatment.
C. may cause rises in levels of stress hormones.
D. have cost the United States government more than $200 billion.
E. may help prevent mental decline.
F. may get stronger at night.
G. allow old people to be more independent.
H. can reduce stress in difficult situations.

Questions 32-40

Complete each sentence with the correct ending, A-G, below.
Write the correct letter, A-G, in boxes 27-31 on your answer sheet.

List of endings

A. was necessary in order to fulfil a civic role.
B. was necessary when people began farming.
C. was necessary for the development of arithmetic.
D. persists in all societies.
E. was used when the range of number words was restricted.
F. can be traced back to early European languages.
G. was a characteristic of early numeration systems.

Questions 32-40

Do the following statements agree with the information given in Reading Passage 3?
In boxes 32-40 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

32. For the earliest tribes, the concept of sufficiency was more important than the concept of quantity.

33. Indigenous Tasmanians used only four terms to indicate numbers of objects

34. Some peoples with simple number systems use body language to prevent misunderstanding of expressions of the number.

35. All cultures have been able to express large numbers clearly.

36. The word ‘thousand’ has Anglo-Saxon origins.

37. In general, people in seventh-century Europe had poor counting ability.

38. In the Tsimshian language, the number for long objects and canoes is expressed with the same word.

39. The Tsimshian language contains both older and newer systems of counting.

40. Early peoples found it easier to count by using their fingers rather than a group of pebbles.