Ielts Multiple Choice Practice
Objectives:
To practice IELTS multiple choice questions
To practice scanning techniques
To look at the use of synonyms in IELTS reading questions
Strategies to answer the questions
Look through the questions first
Underline key words from the question
Then scan the text for those key words that you have underlined
The answer should be found close to that word
The answers will be found in the text in the same order as the questions
Things to beware of
There will be synonyms used in the reading - the words in the IELTS multiple choice questions may not be the same as in the text
One Paragraph Practice Exercise
Before looking at a longer reading, we'll have a practice with two paragraphs. It is the first part of the full reading you will do.
Identify the key word in the question first of all. Then scan the text to find it. When you have done this, read the sentences around this key word and see what information best matches the three choices you have.
What is dry farming? Preserving nitrates and moisture.
Ploughing the land again and again.
Cultivating fallow land.
To answer this question you should have highlighted the word dry farming.
You should then have been able to scan the two paragraphs to quickly find this word.
Reading the information around it more carefully would the give you the answer:
Cultivating means to improve and prepare (land) by ploughing or fertilizing, for raising crops.
So the answer was "the ploughing of fallow land...to eventually be
To practice IELTS multiple choice questions
To practice scanning techniques
To look at the use of synonyms in IELTS reading questions
Strategies to answer the questions
Look through the questions first
Underline key words from the question
Then scan the text for those key words that you have underlined
The answer should be found close to that word
The answers will be found in the text in the same order as the questions
Things to beware of
There will be synonyms used in the reading - the words in the IELTS multiple choice questions may not be the same as in the text
One Paragraph Practice Exercise
Before looking at a longer reading, we'll have a practice with two paragraphs. It is the first part of the full reading you will do.
Identify the key word in the question first of all. Then scan the text to find it. When you have done this, read the sentences around this key word and see what information best matches the three choices you have.
What is dry farming? Preserving nitrates and moisture.
Ploughing the land again and again.
Cultivating fallow land.
To answer this question you should have highlighted the word dry farming.
You should then have been able to scan the two paragraphs to quickly find this word.
Reading the information around it more carefully would the give you the answer:
Cultivating means to improve and prepare (land) by ploughing or fertilizing, for raising crops.
So the answer was "the ploughing of fallow land...to eventually be