Bilingualism in Children, Changing Rules for Health Treatment, The Romantic Poets Reading Answers

Courtney Miller

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Updated On Aug 14, 2024

Reading Passage 1
Bilingualism in Children
Reading Passage 2
Changing Rules for Health Treatment
Reading Passage 3
The Romantic Poets
Answers

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This article contains The Romantic Poets reading answers.

The IELTS Reading passage, Bilingualism in Children, along with the other two Academic passages – Changing Rules for Health Treatment and The Romantic Poets makes this a complete Reading practice test.

You will have 60 minutes to complete the whole test, which consists of 40 questions in total.

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Here are the question types in this reading test

Reading Passage 1 (Bilingualism in Children)

Sentence completion
Matching headings
True or False / Not Given

Reading Passage 2 (Changing Rules for Health Treatment)

Multiple Choice Questions
Matching features

Reading Passage 3 (The Romantic Poets)

True or False / Not Given
Table completion
Sentence completion

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Reading Passage 1

You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-13, which are based on the Reading Passage below. Find the practice test with the Bilingualism in Children PDF here.

Bilingualism in Children

Questions 1-3

Complete the sentences.

Choose NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS from the passage for each answer.

1 For more than______________________________, books and articles were wrong about

the intelligence of bilingual children.

2 For approximately 40 years, there was a mistaken belief that children who spoke two

languages were_____________________________.

3 It was commonly thought that people with a single _________ were more effective thinkers.

Questions 4-9

Reading Passage 1 has eight paragraphs, A-H.

Choose the correct heading for paragraphs B-G from the list of headings below.

i No single definition of intelligence

ii Faulty testing, wrong conclusion

iii Welsh research supports IQ testing

iv Beware: inadequate for Selling intelligence

v International research supports bilingualism

vi Current thought on the advantage bilinguals have

vii Early beliefs regarding bilingualism

viii Monolinguals ahead of their bilingual peers

ix Exemplifying the bilingual advantage

Example	Paragraph A	vii
4	Paragraph B
5	Paragraph C
6	Paragraph D
7	Paragraph E
8	Paragraph F
9	Paragraph G

Questions 10-13

Do the following statements agree with the information given in Reading Passage 1? Write

TRUE, if the statement agrees with the information

FALSE, if the statement contradicts the information

NOT GIVEN, if there is no information on this

10 Balanced bilinguals have more permanent than temporary advantages over

monolinguals.

11 Often bilinguals concentrate more on the way a word sounds than on its meaning.

12 Monolinguals learn to speak at a younger age than bilinguals.

13 Bilinguals just starting school might pick up certain skills faster than
monolinguals.

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Reading Passage 2

You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-13, which are based on the Reading Passage below. Find the practice test with the Changing Rules for Health Treatment PDF here.

Changing Rules for Health Treatment

Questions 14-16

Choose THREE letters A-H.

NB, Your answers may be given in any order.

Which THREE of the following statements are true of NICE, according to the text?

A It feels that people with bad health habits should not receive treatment.

B It is an agency that offers advice to the NHS.

C Some of the reports they produce discriminate against the elderly.

D It insists its decision should only be applicable in certain situations.

E It is an agency that controls all NHS policy regarding treatments.

F Its powers are not as extensive as those of the NHS.

G Many PCTs base their decisions concerning funding on ones made by NICE.

H It has made a statement that overweight people will not receive new joints.

Questions 17-19

Choose the correct letter, A, B, C, or D, and write them next to 17-19 on your answer sheet.

17 NICE argues that

A rich person should not be given special consideration over the poor.

B only patients from certain classes should be considered for treatment

C social roles should be considered when deciding treatment.

D cost of treatment would depend on patients’ income.

18 What recommendations has NICE made?

A to provide older women with IVF treatments

B to make flu drugs accessible to women under 40

C to give people between 23-39 flu drugs

D to allow certain women to have 1 VF treatments

19 NICE admits that

A some drugs used by the NHS were not clinically effective.

B their advice is sometimes ignored by the NHS.

C it is often hard to determine if a patient has caused his or her condition.

D they are more concerned about cost-effectiveness than patients.

Questions 20-26

Look at the following statements (Questions 20-26) and the list of people below.

Match each statement with the correct person A-C.

20 This person was happy that-NICE realized age discrimination needed dealing
with.

21 This person holds a very high position in the NICE agency.

22 This person is a member of a political party.

23 This person says their policy regarding age is precise and easy to understand.

24 This person does not agree with the position taken by NICE.

25 This person feels the NHS must further improve its relations with the elderly.

26 This person says that NICE does not discriminate on the grounds of age.

A	Michael Rawlins
B	Steve Webb
C	Jonathan Ellis

Reading Passage 3

You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-13, which are based on the Reading Passage below. Find the practice test with The Romantic Poets PDF here.

The Romantic Poets

Questions 27-32

Do the following statements agree with the information given in Reading Passage 3?

Write: TRUE, if the statement agrees with the information

FALSE, if the statement contradicts the information

NOT GIVEN, if there is no information on this

27 The Romantic Movement lasted for more than a century.

28 The Romantic poets adopted a style dissimilar to that of poets who had come before them.

29 Unfortunately, the works of the Romantics had no lasting impression on art.

30 The Romantics had no respect for any style of poetry apart from their own.

31 The Romantics were gifted with a strong sense of imagination.

32 Much of the Romantics’ poetry was inspired by the natural world.

Questions 33-39

Complete the table below.

Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer.


	Date of birth	Education
Byron	1788	Cambridge University	went on a journey around; came to love 34………………
Shelley	1972	Eton and Oxford University	some people disapproved of 35……….. and the beliefs he held
Wordsworth	1770	33 ……………	became more accepted when he changed his 36………….
Coleridge	1772	bright scholar	his 37………….was smaller than the other Romantic poets’; left the Wordsworths due to 38………….
Keats	1795	qualified as a surgeon	left England for a change of 39…………

Question 40

Complete the sentence. Choose NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS from the passage for the answer.

40 According to the writer, the Romantic poets left us with the ideas of……………………….

Answers

Bilingualism in Children Reading Answers (Passage 1)

1.	a hundred years/100 years
2.	mentally confused/behind monolingual children
3.	(well-developed) language
4.	ii
5.	vi
6.	iv
7.	i
8.	ix
9.	v
10.	FALSE because it says in the last paragraph: ‘”balanced” bilinguals may have temporary and occasionally permanent advantages over monolinguals^>.
11.	FALSE because it says in the last paragraph: ‘being less fixed on the sounds of words and more centred on the meaning of words’
12.	NOT GIVEN
13.	TRUE because it says in the last paragraph: ‘This advantage may mean an initial head start in learning to read and learning to think about language’ 14-16 (in any order)

Changing Rules for Health Treatment Reading Answers (Passage 2)

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14.	B because it says in paragraph 1: which advice on the clinical and cost-effectiveness of treatments for the National Health Service (NHS) in the UK’.
15.	D because it says in paragraph 2: ‘Its ruling should apply only if the treatment was likely to be less effective, or not work because of an unhealthy habit.’
16.	G because it says in paragraph 3: ‘Across the UK, primary care trusts (PCTs) regularly wait for many months for a NICE decision before agreeing to fund a new treatment
17.	A because it says in paragraph 4: ‘no priority should be given to patients based on income’
18.	D because it says in paragraph 4: ‘NICE has already ruled that IVF should be available on the NHS to women aged 23 to 39′.
19.	C because it says in paragraph 5: ‘They acknowledge that it can be difficult to decide whether an illness such as a heart attack was self-inflicted in a smoker.’
20.	C because it says in the last paragraph: ‘Jonathan Ellis, the policy manager at Help the Aged, said it was pleased NICE had finally shown an understanding of the importance of tackling age discrimination.’
21.	A because it says in paragraph 6: ‘Prof Sir Michael Rawlins, the chairman of NICE’
22.	B because it says in paragraph 7: ‘Steve Webb, the Liberal Democrat health spokesman’ The Liberal Democrats are a political party in the UK.
23.	A because it says in paragraph 6: ‘On age, we are very clear’.
24.	B because it says in paragraph 7: ‘There is no excuse for cash- strapped hospitals denying treatment to people whose lifestyle they disapprove of’.
25.	C because it says in the last paragraph: ‘The NHS now has much to learn. It will ensure a fairer deal all round for older people using the NHS.’
26.	A because it says in paragraph 6: ‘NICE values people, equally, at all ages.’

The Romantic Poets Reading Answers (Passage 3)

27.	FALSE because it says in paragraph 1: ‘During the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries’.
28.	TRUE because it says in paragraph 1: casting off their predecessors’ styles in favour of a gripping and forceful art’.
29.	FALSE because it says in paragraph 1: a gripping and forceful art which endures with us to this day’.
30.	NOT GIVEN
31.	TRUE because it says in paragraph 2, ‘Indeed, imagination was the most critical attribute of the Romantic poets.⁵
32.	TRUE because it says in paragraph 2: ‘Nature, mythology, and emotion was of great importance’.
33.	(the) Mediterranean
34.	Greece
35.	his (colourful) lifestyle
36.	political views
37.	output
38.	failing health
39.	climate
40.	individualism and imagination, because it says in the last paragraph: ‘They introduced the concept of individualism and imagination.