The Innovation of Grocery Stores, Stealth Forces in Weight loss, Bright Children Reading Answers

The IELTS Reading passage, The Innovation of Grocery Stores, along with the other two Academic passages – Stealth Forces in Weight loss and Bright Children makes this a complete Reading practice test. 

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Reading Passage 1 (The Innovation of Grocery Stores)

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• Sentence Completion
• Multiple Choice Questions

Reading Passage 2 (Stealth Forces in Weight loss)

• Matching information
• Summary Completion

Reading Passage 3 (Bright Children)

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• Multiple Choice Questions
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Reading Passage 1

The Innovation of Grocery Stores

Questions 1-5

NB You may use any letter more than once.

1 How Clarence Saunders，new idea had been carried out.

2 Introducing the modes and patterns of groceries before his age.

3 Clarence Saunders declared bankruptcy a few years later.

4 Descriptions of Clarence Saunders’ new conception.

5 The booming development of his business.

Questions 6-10

6 When Clarence Saunders was an adolescent, he took a job as a ……………………………. in a grocery store.

7 In the new innovation of grocery store, most of the clerks’ work before was done by………………………

8 In Saunders’ new grocery store，the section where customers finish the payment was called ………………….

9 Another area in his store which behind the public area was called the …………………., where only internal staff could access.

10 At……………………….. where customers were under surveillance.

Questions 11-13

11 Why did Clarence Saunders want to propel the innovation of grocery stores at his age?

A Because he was an enthusiastic and creative man.

B Because his boss wanted to reform the grocery industry.

C Because he wanted to develop its efficiency and make great profit as well.

D Because he worried about the future competition from the industry.

12 What happened to Clarence Saunders’ first store of Piggly Wiggly?

A Customers complained about its impracticality and inconvenience.

B It enjoyed a great business and was updated in the first twelve months.

C It expanded to more than a thousand franchised stores during the first year.

D Saunders were required to have his new idea patented and open more stores.

13 What left to Clarence Saunders after his death in 1953?

A A fully automatic store system opened soon near his first store.

B The name of his store the Piggly Wiggly was very popular at that time.

C His name was usually connected with his famous shop the Piggly Wiggly in the following several years.

D His name was painted together with the name of his famous store.

Reading Passage 2

Stealth Forces in Weight loss

Questions 14-18

14 evaluation on the effect of weight bss on different kind of diets

15 an example of research which include relatives of participants

16 Example of a group of people who never regain weight immediately after.

17 long term hunger may appear to be acceptable to most of the participants while losing weight

18 a continuous experiment may lead to a practical application besides diet or hereditary resort.

 Questions 19-23

List of Researchers

A Robert Berkowitz

B Rudolph Leibel

C Nikhil Dhurandhar

D Deirdre Barrett

E Jeffrey Friedman

F Teresa Hillier

19 A person’s weight is predetermined to a set point by the DNA.

20 Pregnant mother who are overweight may risk their fetus

21 The aim of losing Wright should be keeping healthy rather than attractiveness

22 mall changes in lifestyle will not have great impact on reducing much weight

23 Researchers should be divided into different groups with their own point of view about weight loss.

Question 24 – 27

In Bombay Clinic, a young doctor who came up with the concept ‘infect obesity¹ believed that the obesity is caused by a kind of virus, Years of experiment that he conducted on 24 ……………………… Later he moved to America and tested on a new virus named 25……………………… which proved to be a significant breakthrough. Although there seems no way to eliminate the virus, a kind of 26……………………… can be separated as to block the expressing power of the virus. The doctor future is aiming at developing a new 27………………… to effectively combating the virus.

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Reading Passage 3

Bright Children

Questions 28-33

28 America has a long history of selecting talented students into different categories.

29 Teachers and schools in Britain held welcome attitude towards government’s selection of gifted students.

30 Some parents agree to move near reputable schools in Britain.

31 Middle-class parents participate in their children’s education.

32 Japan and Finland comply with selected student’s policy.

33 Avoiding-selection-policy only works in a specific environment.

Questions 34-35

34 What’s Laszlo Polgar’s point of view towards geniuses of children?

A Chess is the best way to train geniuses

B Genius tend to happen on first child

C Geniuses can be educated later on

D Geniuses are bom naturally

35 What is the purpose of citing Zsofia’s example in the last paragraph?

A Practice makes genius

B Girls are not good at chessing

C She was an adopted child

D Middle child is always the most talented

Questions 36-40

A Scandinavia

B Japan

C Britain

D China

E America

36 Less gifted children get help from other classmates

37 Attending extra teaching is open to anyone

38 People are reluctant to favor gifted children due to social characteristics

39 Both view of innate and egalitarian co-existed

40 Craze of audio and video teaching for pregnant women.

Answers

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