NEW IELTS Reading TRUE, FALSE or NOT GIVEN

 

Questions:

1.  We can decide what to dream
2. Not all day dreams come true.
3.  Day dreaming helps in formation of new ideas.
4.  Day dreams may become dreams.
5.  Issac Newton said that imagination is more important than knowledge

 

Questions:

1. The Thames Tunnel was the first tunnel ever built under a river.
2. The Thames Tunnel was the Eighth Wonder of the World.
3. The tunnel was used more by the middle and upper classes.
4. People were able to travel by sea or land in those days.
5. The aim of the tunnel was to turn a profit as a tourist attraction.

Questions:

1. The controversy over the method used in the construction of the pyramids has been solved by scientists.
2. It is possible that Ancient Egyptians could have lubricated paths to aid transportation by sledge.
3. Sledges were dragged by animals not humans.
4. The Romans learned the techniques of moving huge stones from the Ancient Egyptians.
5. The building work of the Ancient Egyptians is unrivalled.

Sample 4

The practice of homeopathy was first developed by the German physician Samuel Hahnemann. During research in the 1790s, Hahnemann began experimenting with quinine, an alkaloid derived from cinchona bark that was well known at the time to have a positive effect on fever. Hahnemann started dosing himself with quinine while in a state of good health and reported in his journals that his extremities went cold, he experienced palpitations, “infinite anxiety”, a trembling and weakening of the limbs, reddening cheeks, and thirst. “In short,” he concluded, “all the symptoms of relapsing fever presented themselves successively…” Hahnemann’s main observation was that things which create problems for healthy people cure those problems in sick people, and this became his first principle of homeopathy: similia similibus (with help from the same). While diverging from the principle of apothecary practice at the time, which was contraria contrariis (with help from the opposite), the efficacy of similia similibus was reaffirmed by subsequent developments in the field of vaccinations. Hahnemann’s second principle was minimal dosing – treatments should be taken in the most diluted format which remain effective. In case it negated any possible toxic effects of similia similibus. 

1.German Physician Hippocrates first introduced the practice of homeopathy. 

2. During the 1790s, Quinine, an alkaloid was widely used to reduce fever as it had positive effects. 

3. The first principle of homeopathy was the things that cured problems in the sick people created problems in the healthy people. 

4. The second principle of homeopathy by Hahnemann is The Single Remedy theory, in which only one homeopathic remedy can be given at any one time 

5. Even in the pink of his health, Hahnemann started dosing himself with Quinine. 

Sample 5

The process starts when you get the original script and a tape. ‘We would start by translating and adapting the film script. The next step is what we call ‘timing’, which means synchronizing the subtitles to the dialogue and pictures.’ This task requires discipline. You play the film, listen to the voice and the subtitles are up on your screen ready to be timed. You insert your subtitle when you hear the corresponding dialogue and delete it when the dialogue finishes. The videotape carries a time code that runs in hours, minutes, seconds, and frames. Think of it as a clock. The subtitling unit has an insert key to capture the time code where you want the subtitle to appear. When you press the delete key, it captures the time code where you want the subtitle to disappear. So each subtitle would be an exacting part of the translation profession. Melanie Leyshon talks to Virginie Verdier of London translation company VSI about the glamour and the grind. Virginie is quick to point out that this is as exacting as any translating job. You work hard. It’s not all entertainment as you are doing the translating. You need all the skills of a good translator and those of a top-notch editor. You have to be precise and, of course, much more concise than in traditional translation work.

1.Synchronizing the subtitles to pictures and dialogues requires extreme discipline. 

2.Think of the videotape as a clock. 

3. When clicking the delete key, everything including the subtitles get deleted.   

4. Leyshon describes the process of adding subtitles as any translation job. 

5. There’s an insert key in the subtitling unit that will capture the time code in a place where the subtitle must be added. 

Sample 6

In many coral-reef areas, tourism is one of the main industries bringing employment, and in many cases, is promoted to provide alternatives to fisheries-based livelihoods and to ensure that local reef resources are conserved. In the Caribbean alone, tours based on scuba-diving have attracted 20 million people in one year. The upgrading of roads and communications associated with the expansion of tourism may also benefit local communities. However, plans for development must be considered carefully. The ability of the poorer members of the community to access the benefits of tourism is far from guaranteed, and requires development guided by social, cultural, and environmental principles. There is growing recognition that sustainability is a key requirement, as encompassed in small-scale eco-tourism activities, for instance.

1.Tourism is one of the primary industries that bring job opportunities to the coral-reef regions. 

2. Caribbean Island depends only on tourism for their economy. 

3. Scuba-diving in the Caribbean Islands witnesses more than 20 million tourists in one year. 

4. Plans associated with upgrading the roads and communications will not help expand the coral-reef region’s development. 

5. In the small-scale ecotourism activities, sustainability is the crucial requirement. 

Sample 7

Among the professional and managerial classes, working hours have increased and, overall, in the economy, record numbers of people are in employment. As people work more, the appetite for leisure activities has grown to compensate for the greater stress. The past five years alone have seen the leisure business expand by 25%, with a change in emphasis to short domestic weekend breaks and long-haul short breaks to exotic destinations in place of long holidays. In the future, it is expected that people will jump from one leisure activity to another in complexes catering to everyone’s needs with gyms, cinemas, cafes, restaurants, bars, and internet facilities all under one roof. The leisure complexes of today will expand to house all the leisure facilities required for the leisure age.

1.Working hours have increased by 25% among the professionals and managerial classes. 

2. People in the upcoming future will constantly change their leisure hour activities from one to another, all under the same roof. 

3. People work more to enjoy the leisure hours during their long-haul short breaks.

4. In the past five years, the business hours have increased to 25%.

5. People enjoy their leisure hours in gyms, cafes, cinemas, restaurants, bars, and others. 

Sample 8

In the late 1890s, while traveling as an Itinerant salesperson for the Crown, Cork, and Seal Company. King C. Gillette observed how his corked bottle caps were discarded immediately after opening. Nevertheless, his company turned a healthy profit, and there was Immense business value. Gillette soon came to realize a product that was used only a few times. Gillette had his breakthrough while struggling with a straight-bladed razor – a slow, fiddly, and potentially dangerous instrument that required sharpening regularly. A simple, disposable blade that could be thrown away when it dulled would meet a real need and generate substantial profits, he correctly reasoned. After founding the American Safety Razor Company In 1901. his sales leaped from 168 blades in 1903 to 123.648 blades only a year later.

1.King C. Gillette was an itinerant salesperson in the late 1890s.

2. Crown, Cork, and Seal Company were owned by King C.Gillette. 

3. Gillette discovered something when struggling with the straight-bladed razor. 

4. American Safety Razor Company generated profits as soon as it started in 1901.

5. A straight-bladed razor should be sharpened regularly. 

Sample 9

One of the strongest explanations for the severe loss of life has been the fact that the Titanic did not carry enough lifeboats for everyone on board. Maritime regulations at the time tied lifeboat capacity to the ship size, not to the number of passengers on board. This meant that the Titanic, with room for 1,178 of its 2,222 passengers, actually surpassed the Board of Trade’s requirement to carry lifeboats for 1,060 of its passengers. Nevertheless, with lifeboats being lowered less than half full in many cases, and only 712 passengers surviving despite a two-and-a-half-hour window of opportunity, more lifeboats would not have guaranteed more survivors in the absence of better training and preparation. Many passengers were confused about where to go after the order to launch lifeboats was given; a lifeboat drill scheduled for earlier on the same day that the Titanic struck the iceberg was cancelled by Captain Smith to allow passengers to attend church. 

1. The Titanic carried 1,178 lifeboats for 2,222 passengers. 

2. Out of the total 2,222 passengers, only 712 passengers survived with the help of lifeboats

3. Lifeboat drills were cancelled by Captain Smith on the very same day when Titanic ended up hitting the iceberg 

4. Captain Smith knew that the Titanic would hit the iceberg. 

5. Passengers who survived the tragic accident were already trained and prepared.