IELTS Beat Reading Test 7-AC

Part 1 Questions

Questions 1—8

Complete the sentences below.

Choose ONE WORD ONLY from the passage for each answer.

The Phoenicians’ trading activities

The Phoenicians’ skill at 1Fill in the blank 1 of 8 helped them to trade.

In an ancient story, a 2Fill in the blank 2 of 8 from Phoenicia, who lived in Egypt, owned 50 ships.

A king of Israel built a 3Fill in the blank 3 of 8 using supplies from Phoenicia.

Phoenicia supplied Solomon with skilled 4Fill in the blank 4 of 8 .

The main material that Phoenicia sent to Israel was 5 Fill in the blank 5 of 8 .

The kings of Phoenicia and Israel formed a business 6Fill in the blank 6 of 8 in order to carry out trade.

Phoenicians carved 7Fill in the blank 7 of 8 , as well as cedar.

The Phoenicians also earned a 8Fill in the blank 8 of 8 for shipping goods.

Questions 9—13

Do the following statements agree with the information given in Reading Passage 1? Choose
TRUE if the statement agrees with the information
FALSE if the statement contradicts the information
NOT GIVEN if there is no information on this

9 Problems with Assyria led to the establishment of a number of Phoenician colonies.

TRUE

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10 Carthage was an enemy town which the Phoenicians won in battle.

TRUE

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11 Phoenicians reached the Atlantic ocean.

TRUE

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12 Parts of Phoenicia were conquered by a series of empires.

TRUE

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13 The Phoenicians welcomed Roman control of the area.

TRUE

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Part 2 Questions

Questions 14—19

Reading Passage 2 has six paragraphs, A—F.

Choose the correct heading for each paragraph from the list of headings below.

Write the correct number, i—viii, in boxes 14—19.

List of Headings

i. The power within each studio

ii. The movie industry adapts to innovation

iii. Contrasts between cinema and other media of the time

iv. The value of studying Hollywood’s Golden Age

v. Distinguishing themselves from the rest of the market

vi. A double attack on film studios’ power

vii. Gaining control of the industry

viii. The top movies of Hollywood’s Golden Age

14 Paragraph A Fill in the blank 1 of 6
15 Paragraph B Fill in the blank 2 of 6
16 Paragraph C Fill in the blank 3 of 6
17 Paragraph D Fill in the blank 4 of 6
18 Paragraph E Fill in the blank 5 of 6
19 Paragraph F Fill in the blank 6 of 6

Questions 20—23

Do the following statements agree with the information given in Reading Passage 2? Choose
TRUE if the statement agrees with the information
FALSE if the statement contradicts the information
NOT GIVEN if there is no information on this

20 After The Jazz Singer came out, other studios immediately began making movies with synchronized sound.

TRUE

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FALSE

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21 There were some drawbacks to recording movie actors’ voices in the early 1930s.

TRUE

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22 There was intense competition between actors for contracts with the leading studios.

TRUE

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23 Studios had total control over how their actors were perceived by the public.

TRUE

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Questions 24—26

Complete the summary below.

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

THE HOLLYWOOD STUDIOS

Throughout its Golden Age, the Hollywood movie industry was controlled by a handful of studios. Using a system known as 24Fill in the blank 1 of 3 the biggest studios not only made movies, but handled their distribution and then finally showed them in their own theatres. These studios were often run by autocratic bosses — men known as 25Fill in the blank 2 of 3 who often remained at the head of organisations for decades. However, the domination of the industry by the leading studios came to an end in 1948, when they were forced to open the market to smaller producers — a process known as 26Fill in the blank 3 of 3 .

Part 3 Questions

Questions 27—30

Complete each sentence with the correct ending, A—F, below.

Write the correct letter, A—F, in boxes 27—30.

A. lateralisation is more common in some species than in others.

B. it benefits a population if some members have a different lateralisation than the majority.

C. lateralisation helps animals do two things at the same time.

D. lateralisation is not confined to human beings.

E. the greater an animal’s lateralisation, the better it is at problem-solving.

F. strong lateralisation may sometimes put groups of animals in danger.

27 In the 1970s, Lesley Rogers discovered that Fill in the blank 1 of 4
28 Angelo Bisazza’s experiments revealed that Fill in the blank 2 of 4
29 Magat and Brown’s studies show that Fill in the blank 3 of 4
30 Vallortigara and Ghirlanda’s research findings suggest that Fill in the blank 4 of 4

Questions 31—35

Complete the summary below.

Choose ONE WORD ONLY from the passage for each answer.

Lesley Rogers’ 2004 Experiment

Lateralisation is determined by both genetic and 31Fill in the blank 1 of 5 influences. Rogers found that chicks whose eggs are given 32Fill in the blank 2 of 5 during the incubation period tend to have a stronger lateralisation. Her 2004 experiment set out to prove that these chicks were better at 33Fill in the blank 3 of 5 than weakly lateralised chicks. As expected, the strongly lateralised birds in the experiment were more able to locate 34Fill in the blank 4 of 5 using their right eye, while using their left eye to monitor an imitation 35Fill in the blank 5 of 5 located above them.

Questions 36—40

Reading Passage 3 has eight paragraphs, A—H.

Which paragraph contains the following information?

Write the correct letter, A—H, in boxes 36—40.

NB You may use any letter more than once.

36 description of a study which supports another scientist’s findings Fill in the blank 1 of 5
37 the suggestion that a person could gain from having an opposing lateralisation to most of the population Fill in the blank 2 of 5
38 reference to the large amount of knowledge of animal lateralisation that has accumulated Fill in the blank 3 of 5
39 research findings that were among the first to contradict a previous belief Fill in the blank 4 of 5
40 a suggestion that lateralisation would seem to disadvantage animals Fill in the blank 5 of 5

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