IELTS Reading: False or not given (SIMON Tip)
IELTS Reading: False or not given? Students are often confused by the difference between ‘false’ and ‘not given’. You should choose false if the information...
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IELTS Reading: Paragraph headings (SIMON Tip)
1. Do these questions last Paragraph headings’ questions are difficult, especially because the answers will not be in order in the text. For most other...
Read 21: FIRST IMPRESSIONS COUNT
FIRST IMPRESSIONS COUNT A. Traditionally uniforms were — and for some industries still are — manufactured to protect the worker. When they were first designed, it...
Read 20: Looking for a Market among Adolescents
Looking for a Market among Adolescents A. In 1992, the most recent year for which data are available, the US tobacco industry spent $5 billion...
Read 19: The Pursuit of Happiness
The Pursuit of Happiness “New research uncovers some anti-intuitive insights into how many people are happy – and why.” Compared with misery, happiness is relatively...
Read 18: Creating Artificial Reefs
Creating Artificial Reefs In the coastal waters of the US, a nation’s leftovers have been discarded. Derelict ships, concrete blocks, scrapped cars, army tanks, tyres...
Read 17: The Discovery of Uranus
The Discovery of Uranus Someone once put forward an attractive though unlikely theory. Throughout the Earth’s annual revolution around the sun there is one point...
Read 16: The Danger of ECSTASY
The Danger of ECSTASY Use of the illegal drug named Ecstasy (MDMA) has increased alarmingly in Britain over the last few years, and in 1992...
Read 15: Destinations for international english students
Destinations for international english students Paragraph (i) At any given time, more than a million international students around the world are engaged in the study...
Read 14: Beneath The Canopy
BENEATH THE CANOPY 1. The world’s tropical rainforests comprise some 6% of the Earth’s land area and contain more than half of all known life forms,...