IELTS Basic - Reading - Lesson 3
1. TRUE
Para: 1
Keywords: at the time, voyage, unique, navigational skills
At the time, Mau was the only man alive who know how to navigate just by observing the stars, the wind and the sea
2. FALSE
Para: 2
Keywords: Mau, familiar, sea around Tahiti
He had never before sailed to Tahiti
3. NOT GIVEN
Para: 2
Keywords: thought, difficult, use, compass and charts
he did it without a compass or charts, but there is no information about what he THOUGHT of them
4. NOT GIVEN
Para: 3
Keywords: grandfather, only teacher
his grandfather began the task of teaching him how to navigate when he was still a baby, but there is no information about ONLY
5. TRUE
Para: 3
Keywords: stones, learn where each star, in the sky
Mau used a circle of stones to memorise the positions of each star
6. NOT GIVEN
Para: 4
Keywords: first inhabitants, Hawaii, could read and write
Hawaii’s first inhabitants came in small boats and navigated by reading the sea and the stars, but there is no information about COULD READ AND WRITE
7. FALSE
Para: 4
Keywords: students, memorise, positions, stars
He explained the positions of the stars to his students, but he allowed them to write things down
1. TRUE
Para: 3
Keywords: metal, float process, specific properties
The metal had to melt at a temperature less than the hardening point of glass (about 600 degrees), but could not boil at a temperature below the temperature of the molten glass (about 1500 degrees). The best metal for the job was tin.
2. NOT GIVEN
Para: 5
Keywords: Pilkington, invested, some, own money, float plant
Pilkington built a pilot plant in 1953 and by 1955 he had convinced his company to build a full-scale plant, but there is no information that Pilkington invested his own money to build this float plant or not.
3. FALSE
Para: 5
Keywords: fist full-scale plant, instant commercial success
by 1955, he had convinced his company to build a full-scale plant. However, it took 14 months … before the plant produced any usable glass… They finally succeded in 1959.
4. TRUE
Para: 6
Keywords: process, Pilkington, now been improved
Float plants today make glass of near optical quality…It adds up to a continuous melting process…” Several processes – melting, refining, homogenizing were used in this process of delivering glass smoothly and continuously to the float bath = these were the recent improvements in the process invented by Pilkington.
5. TRUE
Para: 7
Keywords: computers, better than humans, detecting faults
Inspection technology allows more than 100 million measurements a second to be made across the ribbon, locating flaws the unaided eye would be unable to see.
1. NOT GIVEN
Para: 1
Keywords: Sylvia Earle, lives, USA
Sylvia Earle … was born in the USA in 1935, but there is no information that Sylvia Earle lives in the USA
2. NOT GIVEN
Para: 3
Keywords: Until 1970, nobody, lived, underwater, before
In 1970, she became famous around the world when she became the captain of the first all-female team to live underwater, but there is no information that nobody had lived underwater before 1970
3. TRUE
Para: 3
Keywords: Sylvia Earle, worried, amount of fish, being caught
fishing methods meant that people were catching too many fish, Earle warned, and many species were in danger of becoming extinct
4. TRUE
Para: 4
Keywords: her books, offer, solutions, marine problems
Since then she has written several books… in which she suggests ways of reducing the damage that is being done to the world’s ocean
5. FALSE
Para: 4
Keywords: She thinks, people, avoid, seafood
It would be wrong to tell people they should stop eating fish
1. TRUE
Para: 1
Keywords: leaving school, Moore, did, father, wanted
After leaving school, Moore hoped to become a sculptor, but instead he complied with his father’s wish
2. FALSE
Para: 2
Keywords: began, sculpture, first term, Leeds School of Art
Although he wanted to study sculpture, no teacher was appointed until his second year
3. NOT GIVEN
Para: 2 & 3
Keywords: Royal College of Art, reputation, sculpture, excellent
there's mentioning of his period of study at Royal College of Art, but there is no information on the reputation of this school
4. TRUE
Para: 3
Keywords: aware, ancient sculpture, visiting, London museums
he discovered the power and beauty of ancient Egyptian and African sculpture
5. NOT GIVEN
Para: 4
Keywords: Trocadero Museum, Mayan sculpture, public, interest
Moore became fascinated with this stone sculpture, but there is no information that the sculpture attracted a lot of public interest
6. FALSE
Para: 4
Keywords: Mayan sculpture, similar, other, stone sculptures
Moore became fascinated with this stone sculpture, which he thought had a power and originality that no other stone sculpture possessed
7. TRUE
Para: 5
Keywords: artists, Unit One, modern art, architecture, popular
The aim of the group was to convince the English public of the merits of […] modern art and architecture