Sugar And Other Sweeteners, Literate Women Make Better Mothers?, Preface to How The Other Half Thinks: Adventures In Mathematical Reasoning Reading Answers

The IELTS Reading passage, Sugar And Other Sweeteners, along with the other two Academic passages – Literate Women Make Better Mothers? and Preface to ‘How The Other Half Thinks: Adventures In Mathematical Reasoning makes this a complete Reading practice test. 

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Reading Passage 1 (Sugar And Other Sweeteners)

• Short answer questions
• Summary completion

Reading Passage 2 (Literate Women Make Better Mothers?)

• Summary completion
• Yes/No or Not Given
• Multiple Choice Questions

Reading Passage 3 (Preface to ‘How The Other Half Thinks: Adventures In Mathematical Reasoning)

• Matching information
• Sentence completion

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Reading Passage 1

Sugar And Other Sweeteners

Commercial Sweeteners. Relative to sucrose – base 1.0.

Questions 1-5

Refer to Reading Passage  “Sugar and Other Sweeteners”, and look at Questions 1 – 5 below.
Write your answers in boxes 1-5 on your Answer Sheet.
The first one has been done for you as an example.
Example: What do the letters HFCS stand for?
Answer: ……High Fructose Corn Syrup……
1 & 2. There are TWO naturally occurring sugar substances mentioned in the article other than sucrose. What are they?
3. What does the food industry consider to be the perfect sweetener?
4. & 5. Name the TWO most recent artificial sweeteners listed in the Figure

Questions 6-15

The following paragraphs summarise the reading passage. Choose the ONE most appropriate word from the box below the paragraphs to complete each blank space.
Write your answers in boxes 6- 15 on your answer sheet.
The first one has been done for you as an example.
NB. NO WORD CAN BE USED MORE THAN ONCE.
Sugar tastes sweet because of thousands of receptors on the tongue which connect the substance with the brain. The taste of sweetness is universally ……(Ex:) accepted…… as the most pleasurable known, although it is a ……(6)…… why a substance tastes sweet. ……(7)….. is the most naturally occurring sugar, sources of which include ……(8)…… and honey. Sucrose, which supplies ……(9)…… to the body, is extracted from the sugar-cane plant, and white sugar (pure sucrose) is used by food ……(10)…… to measure sweetness in other ……(11)…… . Approximately a dozen artificial sweeteners have been ……(12)……; one of the earliest was Sorbitol from France.
Manufacturers often add large amounts of sugar to foodstuffs but never more than the ……(13)…… required to produce the optimum pleasurable taste. Surprisingly, this amount is ……(14)…… for different people and in different cultures. No-one has yet discovered a way to predict whether a substance will taste sweet, and it was by chance alone that all the man-made ……(15)…… sweeteners were found to be sweet.

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Reading Passage 2

Literate Women Make Better Mothers?

Questions 16-20

Complete the summary using the list of words, A-J, below.
Write the correct letters, A-J, in boxes 16-20 on your answer sheet.

NB You may use any letter more than once.

The Nicaraguan National Literacy Crusade aimed to teach large numbers of illiterate 16 ……………… to read and write. Public health experts have known for many years that there is a connection between child health and 17……………… However, it has not previously been known whether these two factors were directly linked or not. This question has been investigated by 18………………. in Nicaragua. As a result, factors such as 19 …………………. and attitudes to children have been eliminated, audit has been shown that 20……………. can in itself improve infant health and survival.
A child literacy
B men and women
C an international research team
D medical care
E mortality
F maternal literacy
G adults and children
H paternal literacy
I a National Literacy Crusade
J family wealth

Questions 21-26

Do the following statements agree with the claims of the writer in Reading Passage 2?
In boxes 21-26 on your answer sheet, write:

YES if the statement agrees with the claims of the writer
NO if the statement contradicts the claims of the writer
NOT GIVEN if it is impossible to say what the writer thinks about this

21. About a thousand or the women interviewed by the researchers had learnt to read they were children.
22. Before the National Literacy Crusade, illiterate women had approximately the same levels of infant mortality as those who had learnt to read in primary school.
23. Before and after the National Literacy Crusade, the child mortality rate for the illiterate women stayed at about 110 deaths for each thousand live births.
24. The women who had learnt to read through the National Literacy Crusade showed the greatest change in infant mortality levels.
25. The women who had learnt to read through the National Literacy Crusade had the lowest rates of child mortality.
26. After the National Literacy Crusade, the children of the women who remained illiterate were found to be severely malnourished.

Questions 27 and 28

Choose TWO letters, A-E
Write the correct letters in boxes 25 and 26 on your answer sheet

Which TWO important implications drawn from the Nicaraguan study are mentioned by the writer of the passage?

A. It is better to educate mature women than young girls
B. Similar campaigns in other countries would be equally successful.
C. The effects of maternal literacy programmes can be seen very quickly
D. Improving child health can quickly affect a country’s economy.
E. Money spent on female education will improve child health.

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Reading Passage 3

Preface to ‘How The Other Half Thinks: Adventures In Mathematical Reasoning’

Questions 29-34

Reading Passage 3 has seven sections, A-G. Which section contains the following information?
Write the correct letter, A— G, in boxes 29 — 34 on your answer sheet.
NB. You may use any letter more than once.
29. personal examples of being helped by mathematics
30. examples of people who each had abilities that seemed incompatible
31. mention of different focuses of books about mathematics
32. a contrast between reading this book and reading other kinds of publication
33. a claim that the whole of the book is accessible to everybody
34. a reference to different categories of intended readers of this book

Questions 35-40

Complete the sentences below. Choose ONE WORD ONLY from the passage for each answer.
Write your answers in boxes 35- 40 on your answer sheet.
35. Some areas of both music and mathematics are suitable for someone who is a ………………..
36. It is sometimes possible to understand advanced mathematics using no more than a limited knowledge of ………………..
37. The writer intends to show that mathematics requires ……………….. thinking, as well as analytical skills.
38. Some books written by ……………….. have had to leave out the mathematics that is central to their theories.
39. The writer advises non-mathematical readers to perform ……………….. while reading
40. A lawyer found that studying ……………….. helped even more than other areas of mathematics in the study of law.

Preface to ‘How The Other Half Thinks: Adventures In Mathematical Reasoning’ Reading Answers (Passage 3)

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