Cambridge IELTS 3_part 2 pot

Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS OR A NUMBER for each answer.. Some surface-dwelling beetles, including a South African species, cut perfectly-shaped balls from the pat, which are rolled a

WRITING WRITING TASK 1

You should spend about 20 minutes on this task

The charts below show the number of Japanese tourists travelling abroad between 1985 and 1995 and Australia’s share of the Japanese tourist market.

Write a report for a university lecturer describing the information shown below.

You should write at least 150 words

WRITING TASK 2

You should spend about 40 minutes on this task

Present a written argument or case to an educated reader with no specialist knowledge of the following topic

Popular events like the football World Cup and other international sporting occasions are essential in easing international tensions and releasing patriotic emotions in a safe way.

To what extent do you agree or disagree with this opinion?

You should use your own ideas, knowledge and experience and support your arguments with examples and relevant evidence

You should write at least 250 words

SPEAKING PART 1

The examiner asks the candidate about him/herself, his/her home, work or studies and other familiar topics

EXAMPLE

Family

• Do you have a large family or a small family?

• Can you tell me something about them?

• How much time do you manage to spend with members of your family?

• What sorts of things do you like to do together?

• Did/Do you get on well with your family? [Why?]

PART 2

Describe a teacher who has influenced you in your education

You should say:

where you met them

what subject they taught

what was special about them

and explain why this person influenced you so much

You will have to talk about the topic for 1 to 2 minutes You have one minute to think about what you’re going to say You can make some notes

to help you if you wish

PART 3

Discussion topics:

Developments in education

Example questions:

How has education changed in your country in the last 10 years?

What changes do you foresee in the next 50 years?

A national education system

Example questions:

How do the expectations of today’s school leavers compare with those of the previous

generation?

What role do you think extracurricular activities play in education?

Different styles/methods of teaching and learning

Example questions:

What method of learning works best for you?

How beneficial do you think it is to group students according to their level of ability?

Test 2

LISTENING

SECTION 1 Questions 1-10

Questions 1-5

Complete the table below

Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS OR A NUMBER for each answer

Programme of Activities for First Day

Questions 6-10

Label the rooms on the map below.

Choose your answers from the box below and write them next to questions 6-10

SECTION 2 Questions 11-20

Questions 11-15

Complete the table below.

Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer

• using the library

14

• individual interests

• 15

Questions 16-20

Complete the notes below.

Write NUMBERS OR NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer

SECTION 3 Questions 21-30

Questions 21-24

Choose the correct letters A-C.

21 At the start of the tutorial, the tutor emphasises the importance of

A interviews.

B staff selection.

C question techniques.

22 An example of a person who doesn’t ‘fit in’ is someone who

A is over-qualified for the job.

B lacks experience of the tasks set.

C disagrees with the rest of the group.

23 An important part of teamwork is having trust in your

A colleagues’ ability

B employer’s directions

C company training.

24 The tutor says that finding out personal information is

A a skill that needs practice

B avoided by many interviewers

C already a part of job interviews.

Questions 25-29

Complete the notes below.

Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer

Question 30

Choose the correct letter A—C.

What is the tutor trying to do in the tutorial?

A describe one selection technique

B criticise traditional approaches to interviews

C illustrate how she uses personality questionnaires

SECTION4 Questions 31-40

Questions 31 and 32

Complete the notes below.

Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER for each answer

Questions 33 and 34

Label the diagrams.

Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer.

Introduction to Hat-Making

cut into centre and 33 the cut

stick flaps to 34 of circle

Questions 35-37

Complete the notes below.

Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer

READING READING PASSAGE 1

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

In the early 1960s George Bornemissza, then a scientist at the Australian Government’s premier research

organisation, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), suggested that dung beetles should be introduced to Australia to control dung-breeding flies Between 1968 and 1982, the CSIRO imported insects from about 50 different species of dung beetle, from Asia, Europe and Africa, aiming

to match them to different climatic zones in Australia Of the 26 species that are known to have become successfully integrated into the local environment, only one,

an African species released in northern Australia, has reached its natural boundary Introducing dung beetles into a pasture is a simple process: approximately 1,500 beetles are released, a handful at a time, into fresh cow pats2 in the cow pasture The beetles immediately disappear beneath the pats digging and tunnelling and, if they successfully adapt to their new environment, soon become a permanent, self-sustaining part of the local ecology In time they multiply and within three or four years the benefits to the pasture are obvious

Dung beetles work from the inside of the pat so they are sheltered from predators such as birds and foxes Most species burrow into the soil and bury dung in tunnels directly underneath the pats, which are hollowed out from within Some large species originating from France excavate tunnels to a depth of approximately 30 cm below the dung pat These beetles make sausage-shaped brood chambers along the tunnels

dig narrow tunnels of approximately 20 cm below the surface of the pat Some surface-dwelling beetles, including a South African species, cut perfectly-shaped balls from the pat, which are rolled away and attached to the bases of plants

For maximum dung burial in spring, summer and autumn, farmers require a variety of species with overlapping periods of activity In the cooler environments of the state

of Victoria, the large French species (2.5 cms long) is matched with smaller (half this size), temperate-climate Spanish species The former are slow to recover from the winter cold and produce only one or two generations of offspring from late spring until autumn The latter, which multiply rapidly in early spring, produce two to five generations annually The South African ball-rolling species, being a subtropical beetle, prefers the climate of northern and coastal New South Wales where it

commonly works with the South African tunnelling species In warmer climates, many species are active for longer periods of the year

Dung beetles were initially introduced in the late 1960s with a view to controlling buffalo flies by removing the dung within a day or two and so preventing flies from breeding However, other benefits have become evident Once the beetle larvae have finished pupation, the residue is a first-rate source of fertiliser The tunnels

abandoned by the beetles provide excellent aeration and water channels for root systems In addition, when the new generation of beetles has left the nest the abandoned burrows are an attractive habitat for soil-enriching earthworms The digested dung in these burrows is an excellent food supply for the earthworms, which decompose it further to provide essential soil nutrients If it were not for the dung beetle, chemical fertiliser and dung would be washed by rain into streams and rivers before it could be absorbed into the hard earth, polluting water courses and causing blooms of blue-green algae Without the beetles to dispose of the dung, cow pats would litter pastures making grass inedible to cattle and depriving the soil of sunlight Australia’s 30 million cattle each produce 10-12 cow pats a day This amounts to 1.7 billion tonnes a year, enough to smother about 110,000 sq km of pasture, half the area of Victoria

Dung beetles have become an integral part of the successful management of dairy farms in Australia over the past few decades A number of species are available from the CSIRO or through a small number of private breeders, most of whom were

entomologists with the CSIRO’s dung beetle unit who have taken their specialised knowledge of the insect and opened small businesses in direct competition with their former employer

Glossary

1 dung: the droppings or excreta of animals

2 cow pats: droppings of cows

Questions 1-5

Do the following statements reflect the claims of the writer in Reading Passage 1?

In boxes 1-5 on your answer sheet write

YES if the statement reflects the claims of the writer

NO if the statement contradicts the claims of the writer

NOT GIVEN if it is impossible to say what the writer thinks about this

1 Bush flies are easier to control than buffalo flies.

2 Four thousand species of dung beetle were initially brought to Australia by the CSIRO.

3 Dung beetles were brought to Australia by the CSIRO over a fourteen-year period.

4 At least twenty-six of the introduced species have become established in Australia.

5 The dung beetles cause an immediate improvement to the quality of a cow pasture

Question 9-13

Complete the table below

Choose NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS OR A NUMBER from Reading Passage 1 for each

answer

Write your answers in boxes 9—13 on your answer sheet

Preferred climate

Complementary species

Start of active period

Number of generations per year

South African

READING PASSAGE 2

You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 14-28 which are based on Reading Passage 2 on

the following pages.

Questions 14-18

Reading Passage 2 has six sections A-F.

Choose the most suitable headings for sections A-D and F from the list of headings below.

Write the appropriate numbers i-ix in boxes 14-18 on your answer sheet

iii Farming and soil erosion

iv The effects of government policy in rich countries

v Governments and management of the environment

vi The effects of government policy in poor countries

vii Farming and food output

viii The effects of government policy on food output

ix The new prospects for world trade

Section A

The role of governments in environmental management is difficult but inescapable Sometimes, the state tries to manage the resources it owns, and does so badly Often, however, governments act in an even more harmful way They actually subsidise the exploitation and consumption of natural resources A whole range of policies, from farm-price support to protection for coal-mining, do environmental damage and (often) make no economic sense Scrapping them offers a two-fold bonus: a cleaner environment and a more efficient economy Growth and environmentalism can actually go hand in hand, if politicians have the courage to confront the vested interest that subsi-dies create

SectionB

No activity affects more of the earth’s surface than farming It shapes a third of the planet’s land area, not counting Antarctica, and the proportion Is rising World food output per head has risen by 4 per cent between the 1970s and 1980s mainly as a result of increases in yields from land already in cultivation, but also because more land has been brought under the plough Higher yields have been achieved by increased irrigation, better crop breeding, and a doubling in the use of pesticides and chemical fertilisers in the 1970s and 1980s

Section C

All these activities may have damaging environmental impacts For example, land clearing for agriculture is the largest single cause of deforestation; chemical fertilisers and

pesticides may contaminate water supplies; more intensive farming and the abandonment

of fallow periods tend to exacerbate soil erosion; and the spread of mono-Culture and use

of high-yielding varieties of crops have been accompanied by the disappearance of old varieties of food plants which might have provided some insurance against pests or diseases in future Soil erosion threatens the productivity of land In both rich and poor countries The United States, where the most careful measurements have been done, discovered in 1982 that about one-fifth of its farmtand as losing topsoil at a rate likely to diminish the soil’s productivity The country subse-uently embarked upon a program to convert 11 per cent of its cropped land to meadow or forest Topsoil in India and China is vanishing much faster than in America

Section D

Government policies have frequently compounded the environmental damage that farming can cause In the rich countries, subsidies for growing crops and price supports for farm output drive up the price of land.The annual value of these subsidies is immense: about $250 billion, or more than all World Bank lending in the 1980s.To increase the output

of crops per acre, a farmer’s easiest option is to use more of the most readily available inputs: fertilisers and pesticides Fertiliser use doubled in Denmark in the period 1960-1985 and increased in The Netherlands by 150 per cent The quantity of pesticides applied has risen too; by 69 per cent In 1975-1984 in Denmark, for example, with a rise of 115 per cent

in the frequency of application in the three years from 1981

In the late 1980s and early 1990s some efforts were made to reduce farm subsidies The most dramatic example was that of New Zealand, which scrapped most farm support in

1984 A study of the environmental effects, conducted in 1993, found that the end of fer-

tiliser subsidies had been followed by a fall in fertiliser use (a fall compounded by the decline in world commodity prices, which cut farm incomes) The removal of subsidies also stopped land-clearing and over-stocking, which in the past had been the principal causes of erosion Farms began to diversify The one kind of subsidy whose removal appeared to have been bad for the environment was the subsidy to manage soil eroslon,

In less enlightened countries, and in the European Union, the trend has been to reduce rather than eliminate subsidies, and to introduce new payments to encourage farmers to treat their land In environmentally friendlier ways, or to leave it follow It may sound strange but such payments need to be higher than the existing incentives for farmers to grow food crops Farmers, however, dislike being paid to do nothing In several countries they have become interested in the possibility of using fuel produced from crop residues either as a replacement for petrol (as ethanol) or as fuel for power stations (as biomass) Such fuels produce far less carbon dioxide than coal or oil, and absorb carbon dioxide as they grow.They are therefore less likely to contribute to the greenhouse effect But they die rarely competitive with fossil fuels unless subsidised - and growing them does no less environmental harm than other crops

Section E

In poor countries, governments aggravate other sorts of damage Subsidies for pesticides and artificial fertilisers encourage farmers to use greater quantities than are needed to get the highest economic crop yield A study by the International Rice Research Institute Of pesticide use by farmers in South East Asia found that, with pest-resistant varieties of rice, even moderate applications of pesticide frequently cost farmers more than they saved.Such waste puts farmers on a chemical treadmill: bugs and weeds become resis-tant to poisons,

so next year’s poisons must be more lethal One cost is to human health, Every year some 10,000 people die from pesticide poisoning, almost all of them in the developing countries, and another 400,000 become seriously ill As for artificial fertilisers, their use world-wide increased by 40 per cent per unit of farmed land between the mid 1970s and late 1980s, mostly in the developing countries Overuse of fertilisers may cause farmers to stop rotating crops or leaving their land fallow That, In turn, may make soil erosion worse

Section F

A result of the Uruguay Round of world trade negotiations Is likely to be a reduction of 36 per cent In the average levels of farm subsidies paid by the rich countries in 1986-1990 Some of the world’s food production will move from Western Europe to regions where subsidies are lower or non-existent, such as the former communist countries and parts of the developing world Some environmentalists worry about this outcome It wiB

undoubtedly mean more pressure to convert natural habitat into farmland But it will also have many desirable environmental effects The intensity of farming in the rich world should decline, and the use of chemical inputs will diminish Crops are more likely to be grown p the environments to which they are naturally suited And more farmers in poor coun-tries wilt have the money and the incentive to manage their land in ways that are sustainable in the long run That is important To feed an increasingly hungry world, farmers need every