IELTS Reading - Complete IELTS 5-6.5 - Unit 4

IELTS Reading - Complete IELTS 5-6.5 - Unit 4

Multiple Select

Which uses of the World Wide Web are mentioned?

• keeping track of large scientific projects

• linking electrical documents about particle physics in laboratories around the world

• building personal training program

• recruiting amateur scientists to help professionals

• creating a business

TRUE/ FALSE/ NOT GIVEN

Choose True if the information in the text AGREES with the question.

Choose False if the information CONTRADICTS the question.

Choose NOT GIVEN if the information relevant to the question cannot be found.

Multiple Choice

Management: A Proposal'. That was the bland title of a document written in March 1989 by a then little- known computer scientist called Tim Berners-Lee, who was working at CERN, Europe's particle physics laboratory, near Geneva. His proposal, modestly called the World Wide Web, has achieved far more than anyone expected at the time.

1. Tim Berners-Lee was famous for his research

in physics before he invented the World

Wide Web.

• True

• False

• Not Given

Multiple Choice

In fact, the Web was invented to deal with a specific problem. In the late 1980s, CERN was planning one of the most ambitious scientific projects ever, the Large Hadron Collider•, or LHC. As the first few lines of the original proposal put it, 'Many of the discussions of the future at CERN and the LHC end with the question "Yes, but how will we ever keep track of such a large project?" This proposal provides an answer to such questions.'

2. The original intention of the Web was to help manage one extremely complex project.

• True

• False

• Not Given

Multiple Choice

The Web, as everyone now knows, has many more uses than the original idea of linking electronic documents about particle physics in laboratories around the world. But among all the changes it has brought about, from personal social networks to political campaigning, it has also transformed the business of doing science itself, as the man who invented it hoped it would.

3. Tim Berners-Lee has also been active in politics.

• True

• False

• Not Given

Multiple Choice

It allows journals to be published online and links to be

made from one paper to another. It also permits professional scientists to recruit thousands of amateurs to give them a hand. One project of this type, called GalaxyZoo, used these unpaid workers to classify one million images of galaxies into various types (spiral, elliptical and irregular). This project, which was intended to help astronomers understand how galaxies evolve, was so successful that a successor has now been launched, to classify the brightest quarter of a million

of them in finer detail. People working for a more modest project called Herbaria@home examine scanned images of handwritten notes about old plants stored in British museums. This will allow them to track the changes in the distribution of species in response to climate change.

4. The Web has allowed professional and

amateur scientists to work together.

• True

• False

• Not Given

Multiple Choice

It allows journals to be published online and links to be made from one paper to another. It also permits professional scientists to recruit thousands of amateurs to give them a hand. One project of this type, called GalaxyZoo, used these unpaid workers to classify one million images of galaxies into various types (spiral, elliptical and irregular). This project, which was intended to help astronomers understand how galaxies evolve, was so successful that a successor has now been launched, to classify the brightest quarter of a million of them in finer detail. People working for a more modest project called Herbaria@home examine scanned images of handwritten notes about old plants stored in British museums. This will allow them to track the changes in the distribution of species in response to climate change.

5. The second galaxy project aims to examine more galaxies than the first.

• True

• False

• Not Given

Multiple Choice

It allows journals to be published online and links to be made from one paper to another. It also permits professional scientists to recruit thousands of amateurs to give them a hand. One project of this type, called GalaxyZoo, used these unpaid workers to classify one million images of galaxies into various types (spiral, elliptical and irregular). This project, which was intended to help astronomers understand how galaxies evolve, was so successful that a successor has now been launched, to classify the brightest quarter of a million of them in finer detail. People working for a more modest project called Herbaria@home examine scanned images of handwritten notes about old plants stored in British museums. This will allow them to track the changes in the distribution of species in response to climate change.

6. Herbaria@home's work will help to reduce the effects of climate change.

• True

• False

• Not Given

NOTE COMPLETION

It tests your ability to scan a text and find specific details.

1. Underline the keywords in questions

2. Find the keywords or similar words in the text and underline them

3. COPY the words CAREFULLY!

THINGS TO NOTICE:

• Word form

• Logic

• Number of words allowed

• ==> Always pre-read the questions and leave some time to CHECK your answers

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7. Web used by social scientists (including Dr. Huberman) to investigate the ................. of the social networks.

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8. Most .......... intended for a limited number of people, not everyone on the list.

Fill in the Blank

9. Dr Huberman also investigated ................. to discover how long people spend on a particular website.

Fill in the Blank

10. Dr Huberman also investigated web surfing to discover why a number of sites get much more ................ than others on the same subject

SHORT ANSWERS

Write no more than 2 words.

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11. Whose writing improves as a result of feedback received from readers?

Fill in the Blank

12. What type of writing is not reviewed extensively on the Web?

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13. Which publication invited authors to publish their articles on the World Wide Web?