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Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS for each answer.. Choose your answers A-G from the box below and write them next to questions 21-24.. “We have frequently seen them on the roofs of houses,’

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You should spend about 20 minutes on this task

The diagram below shows the process for making a water clock

Write a report for a university lecturer describing the information below

Write at least 150 words

HOW TO BUILD YOUR OWN WATER CLOCK

fill top bottle to overflow

level constant

finger away from hole levels per minute

NDANRWNE empty and repeat process for timing things

There is a task guide for this task type on page 228 and a sample answer on page 202

128 IELTS Test 4 ›» WRITING MODULE } > TASK 1

WRITING MODULE

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

In some countries, it can be very difficult for people over the age of 50 to get good jobs,

despite their experience

What do you think are the causes of this problem, and what measures could be taken to solve it?

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

and relevant evidence

Write at least 250 words

There is a sample answer on page 202

ELTS Test 4 >> WRITING MODULE >> TASK 2 129

* What sorts of food do you enjoy eating most?

* Do you spend much time shopping for food?

© Which do you prefer, eating at home or eating in restaurants?

¢ Do you think people should be careful about what they eat?

» PART 2 Example task Read the topic card below carefully

You will have to talk about the topic for 1 to 2 minutes

You have one minute to think about what you are going to say

You can make notes if you want

Describe a town you have enjoyed visiting

You should say:

why you went to the town who you saw there

and explain why you enjoyed visiting the town

@ What are the kinds of things people like to do when visiting towns and cities? ì

+ Why đo many people prefer to live in cities rather than in the countryside?

© Can you identify some of the main problems of living in large cities?

¢ What measures could be taken to reduce problems of congestion in cities? Ỉ

S Test 4 > > SPEAKING MODULE

1 How far is it from the youth hostel to the city centre? 2

2 What is the website address of the youth hostel? - `

` Choose the correct letters A-C

7 When does the train ride depart?

A 9.00

B 9.15

C 9.30

8 Where is it recommended to buy tickets?

A at the tourist office

B at the station

C at the youth hostel

9 How much is the group discount?

Choose the correct letter, A, B or C

11 Which chart shows the company’s sales figures for the last five years?

Sales Sales Sales

T—T—T—T—1 T—T—T—T— T—T—T—T—

12 38 4 5 12 3 45 12 38 45 Year Year Year

12 Which chart shows the relationship of three departments this year?

Last This Next Last This Next Last This Next year year year year year year year year year

S Test 5 >> LISTENING MODULE > > SECTION 2

Qui ions 14-19

Complete the notes below

Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS for each answer

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© Must attend 19 gigas 3§93498e5e2cuojc ðR THUYSEGayE

Choose TWO letters A~E

20 Which TWO things must be done today?

A complete form get security pass show certificates

B

C register for discount

D E_ watch information video

> Questions 21-30

Questions 21-24

Which action does each type of penguin do?

Choose your answers A-G from the box below and write them next to questions 21-24

always hesitate before jumping

avoid climbing if possible

lean backwards when calling

use its bill when climbing usually look twice at things

G walk with its flippers pointing do rds

Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS for each answer

25 How do penguins usually sleep?

ụ 26 What do a Rockhopper’s yellow feathers do when it is angry?

Questions 28-30

Complete the summary below

~ Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS for each answer

Penguins prefer to swim in groups because it makes it easier to 28 “ồô

When they are on land, they appear to be 29 The majoriry of

species are characterised by their 30_ G0380 028 which makes them

particularly interesting for humans to study

134 IELTS Test 5 >> LISTENING MODULE >> SECTION 3

SECTION 4

> Questions 31-40

Complete the sentences below

Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS for each answer

31 Governments have been mistaken to

32 There is often a lack of

33 Housing policies which are based on principles of

particularly effective

35 Migrants wilÏ onÏy - - 2xx xe

36 Governments often underestimate the importance of

housing projects

37 The availability of

housing development

38 Urbanisation can have a positive effect on the

39 The population size of cities enables a range of

should always be provided by governments

in housing if they feel secure

You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-13 which are based on Reading Passage | on pages 136 and 137

The birds of London

here are more than two hundred different species and sub-species of birds in the London area, ranging from the magpie to the greenfinch, but perhaps the most ubiquitous is the pigeon It has been suggested that the swarms of feral pigeons are all descended from birds

which escaped from dovecotes in the early medieval

period; they found a natural habirat in the crannies and ledges of buildings as did their ancestors, the rockdoves, amid the sea-girt cliffs “They nest in small colonies,’ one observer has written, ‘usually high up and inaccessible’

above the streets of London as if the streets were indeed a sea, A man fell from the belfty of St Stephen's Walbrook

in 1277 while in quest of a pigeon’s nest, while the Bishop

of London complained in 1385 of ‘malignant persons’

who threw stones at the pigeons resting in the city

churches So pigeons were already a familiar presence,

even if they were not treated with the same indulgence as their more recent successors A modicum of kindness to these creatures seems to have been first shown in the late nineteenth century, when they were fed oats rather than the customary stale bread

From the end of the nineteenth century, woodpigeons also migrated into the city; they were quickly urbanised, increasing both in numbers and in tameness “We have frequently seen them on the roofs of houses,’ wrote the author of Bird Life in London in 1893, ‘apparently as much at home as any dovecote pigeon.’ Those who look

up today may notice their ‘fly-lines’ in the sky, from Lincoln's Inn Fields over Kingsway and Trafalgar Square

to Battersea, with other lines to Victoria Park and to

156 IELTS Test 5 >› READING MODULE } > PASSAGE 4

Kenwood The air of London is filled with such ‘fly-lines’, and to trace the paths of the birds would be to envisage the city in an entirely different form; then it would seem linked and unified by thousands of thoroughfares and small paths of energy, each with its own history of use

The sparrows move quickly in public places, and they are now so much part of London that they have been adopted

by the native population as the ‘sparrer’; a friend was known to Cockneys as a ‘cocksparrer’ in tribute to a bird which is sweet and yet watchful, blessed with a dusky plumage similar to that of the London dust, a plucky little bird darting in and out of the city’s endless uproar They are small birds which can lose body heat very quickly, so

they are perfectly adapted to the ‘heat island’ of London

They will live in any small cranny or cavity, behind drainpipes or ventilation shafts, or in public statues, or holes in buildings; in that sense they are perfectly suited

to a London topography An ornithologist who described the sparrow as ‘peculiarly attached to man’ said it ‘never now breeds at any distance from an occupied building’

This sociability, bred upon the fondness of the Londoner,

is manifest in many ways One naturalist, W.H Hudson,

has described how any stranger in a green space or public

garden will soon find that ‘several sparrows are keeping

him company watching his every movement, and if he

sits down on a chair or a bench several of them will come close to him, and hop this way and that before him, uttering a little plaintive note of interrogation — Have you

s? They have also been described as the

self-assertive and

got nothing for u:

urchins of the streets —thievish,

pugnacious’ — a condition which again may merit the

attention and admiration of native Londoners

Remarkably attached to their surroundings, they rarely create ‘fly-lines’ across the city; where they are born, like other Londoners, they stay

There are some birds, such as the robin and the

chaffinch, which are less approachable and trustful in

the city than in the country Other species, such as the

mallird, row increasingly, shyet’as they leave London:

There has been a severe diminution of the number of

sparrows, while blackbirds are more plentiful Swans and

ducks have also increased in number Some species, however, have all but vanished The rooks of London are, perhaps, the most notable of the disappeared, their rookeries destroyed by building work or by tree-felling

Areas of London were continuously inhabited by rooks for many hundreds of years The burial ground of

St Dunstan's in the East and the college garden of the

Inner Temple dating from at least 1666, mentioned by

Oliver Goldsmith in 1774 Rooks nested on Bow Church and on St Olave’s ”

birds, preferring to cluster around ancient churches and hey were venerable London

the like as if they were their local guardians Yet, in the words of the nineteenth-century song, ‘Now the old rooks have lost their places’ There was a grove in Kensington Gardens devoted to the rooks; it contained some seven hundred trees forming a piece of wild

nature, a matter of delight and astonishment to those

who walked among them and listened to the endless cawing that blotted out the city’s noise But the trees were torn down in 1880 The rooks have never returned

Test 5 } > READING MODULE >> PASSAGE 1

137

Write your answers in boxes 1—4 on your answer sheet

1 What kind of birds are the London pigeons descended from?

2 What were pigeons given to eat before attitudes towards them changed?

3 What are the routes taken by woodpigeons known as?

4 What TWO activities have contributed to the drastic reduction in the number

of rooks?

Questions 5-9 Complete the notes below

Choose NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS from the passage for each answer

Write your answers in boxes 5-9 on your answer sheet

® suited to atmosphere of London because of tendency to rapidly

¢ always likely to reproduce Close to 7 “ characteristic noted: 8 because of attitude of people

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® make a sound that seems to be a kind of 9 ¢

138 |ELTS Test 5 »> READING MODULE > > PASSAGE 1

F rooks Write the correct letter A-F in boxes 10-13 on your answer sheet

10 They are happier with people when they are in rural areas

11 They rapidly became comfortable being with people

12 They used to congregate particularly at old buildings

13 They used to be attacked by people

Test 5 >> READING MODULE >

READING MODULE

> Questions 14-26 You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 14-26 which are based on Reading Passage 2 on the following pages Questions 14-20

Reading Passage 2 has seven paragraphs A-G Choose the correct heading for each paragraph from the list of headings below

Write the correct number i-x in boxes 14-20 on your answer sheet

List of Headings The advantage of an intuitive approach to personality assessment Overall theories of personality assessment rather than valuable guidance The consequences of poor personality assessment

Differing views on the importance of personality assessment Success and failure in establishing an approach to personality assessment Everyone makes personality assessments

Acknowledgement of the need for improvement in personality assessment Little progress towards a widely applicable approach to personality assessment The need for personality assessments to be well-judged

The need for a different kind of research into personality assessment

Psychology

and personality

A Our daily lives are largely made up

of contacts with other people, during which we are constantly making judgments of their

personalities and accommodating

our behaviour to them in

accordance with these judgments

A casual meeting of neighbours

on the street, an employer giving

instructions to an employee, a

mother telling her children how

to behave, a journey in a train

where strangers eye one another without exchanging a word — all these involve mutual

interpretations of personal

qualities

B Success in many vocations largely depends on skill in sizing up

people It is important not only to

such professionals as the clinical

psychologist, the psychiatrist or

the social worker, but also to the

doctor or lawyer in dealing with

their clients, the businessman

trying to outwit his rivals, the salesman with potential

customers, the teacher with his

pupils, not to speak of the pupils judging their teacher Social life,

indeed, would be impossible if we did not, to extent, understand, and react to the

motives and qualities of those we meet; and clearly we are sufficiently accurate for most practical purposes, although we

some

also recognize that

misinterpretations easily arise — particularly on the part of others

who judge us!

¢ Errors can often be corrected as

we go along But whenever we are

pinned down to a definite decision about a person, which

cannot easily be revised through

his ‘feed-back’, the inadequacies of our judgments become apparent

The hostess who wrongly thinks

that the Smiths and the Joneses

will get on well together can do

little to retrieve the success of her party.A school or a business may be saddled for years with an

undesirable member of staff,

because the selection committee

which interviewed him for a quarter of an hour misjudged his personality

D Just because the process is so familiar and taken for granted, it has aroused little scientific curiosity until recently

Dramatists, writers and artists

throughout the centuries have

excelled in the portrayal of

character, but have seldom stopped to ask how they, or we,

get to know people, or how

accurate is our knowledge

However, the popularity of such

unscientific systems as LavaterS physiognomy in the eighteenth

century, Gall’s phrenology in the nineteenth, and of handwriting

interpretations by graphologists,

or palm-readings by gipsies, show that people are aware of weaknesses in their judgments

and desirous of better methods of

diagnosis It is natural that they should turn to psychology for help, in the belief that

psychologists are specialists in

‘human nature’

This belief is hardly justified: for the primary aim of psychology

had been to establish the general

laws and principles underlying behaviour and thinking, rather

than to apply these to concrete

problems of the individual person

A great many professional psychologists still regard it as their main function to study the

nature of learning, perception and

motivation in the abstracted or average human being, or in lower

organisms, and consider it

premature to put so young a

science to practical uses They

would disclaim the possession of

any superior skill in judging their

fellow-men Indeed, being more aware of the difficulties than is the

non-psychologist, they may be more reluctant to commit

themselves to definite predictions

or decisions about other people

Nevertheless, to an increasing

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