READING TASK TYPES
Task type 1 – Multiple choice
Task type 2 – Identifying information (TRUE / FALSE / NOT GIVEN)
Task type 3 – Identifying writer’s views/claims (YES / NO / NOT GIVEN)
Task type 4 – Matching information
Task type 5 – Matching headings
Task type 6 – Matching features
Task type 7 – Matching sentence endings
Task type 8 – Sentence completion
Task type 9 – Summary, note, table, flow-chart completion
Task type 10 – Diagram label completion
Task type 11 – Short-answer questions
TIPS
1. Don’t read slowly
skim – main idea
scan – detail
2. Don’t spend too much time on an answer
3. Spend less time on earlier questions
17 minutes – 1
20 minutes – 2
23 minutes – 3
4. Enough time to transfer answers
5. No more than three words
example: the tomb of the Pharoah
the Pharoah’s tomb
6. Spelling
7. Grammar – singular / plural
8. Not reading instructions – example: choose two
– Yes, No, Not Given / True, False, Not given
, First Sentences
Our muscles are amazing structures. With the trigger of a thought, filaments slide past each other
and bundles of contracting fibers pull on the bones moving our bodies. The triggered stretching
behavior of muscle is inherently based in geometry, characterized by a decrease in length and
increase in volume (or vice versa) in response to a change in the local environment, such as
humidity or heat.
a) humidity and heat
b) environment
c) geometry
d) muscles
Variations of dynamic geometry appear elsewhere in nature, exhibiting a variety of mechanisms and
structures and inspiring development in artificial muscle technology. Spider silk, specifically
Ornithoctonus Huwena spider silk, now offers the newest such inspiration thanks to research from a
collaboration of scientists in China and the U.S.
a) Inspiration for artificial muscles
b) Dynamic geometry
c) Spider silk
d) China and the U.S.
“Spider silk is a natural biological material with high sensitivity to water which inspires us to study
the interaction between spider silk and water.” said Hongwei Zhu, a professor of Material Science
and Engineering in Beijing and part of the collaboration. “Ornithoctonus Huwena spider is a unique
species as it can be bred artificially and it spins silk of nanoscale diameter.”
a) Spider silk
b) Spider silk and water
c) Beijing
d) Artificial spiders