IELTS READING
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
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
