IELTS

The newspaper production process has come a long way from the old days when the paper was written, edited, typeset and ultimately printed in one building with the journalists working on the upper floors and the printing presses going on the ground floor. These days the editor, subeditors and journalists who put the paper together are likely to find themselves in a totally different building or maybe even in a different city. This is the situation which now prevails in Sydney. The daily paper is compiled at the editorial headquarters, known as the prepress Centre, in the heart of the city, but printed far away in the suburbs at the printing Centre. Here human beings are in the minority as much of the work is done by automated machines controlled by computers.

Please choose the correct the main idea from paragraph above.

• Looking ahead

• The LGVs' main functions

• Split location for newspaper production

• Newspapers superseded by technology

• Getting the newspaper to the printing Centre

Once the finished newspaper has been created for the next morning’s edition, all the pages are transmitted electronically from the prepress centre to the printing centre. The system of transmission is an update on the sophisticated page facsimile system already in use in many other newspapers. An imagesetter at the printing centre delivers the pages as films. Each page takes less than a minute to produce, although for color pages four versions, once each for black, cyan, magenta and yellow are sent. The pages are then processed into photographic negatives and the film is used to produce aluminum printing plates ready for the presses.

Please choose the correct the main idea from paragraph above

• Looking ahead

• The LGVs' main functions

• Split location for newspaper production

• Newspapers superseded by technology

• Getting the newspaper to the printing Centre

The question newspaper workers must now ask, however, is, “how long will it be before the robots are writing the newspapers as well as running the printing Centre, churning out the latest edition every morning?”

Please choose the correct the main idea from paragraph above

• Looking ahead

• Controlling the robots

• Beware of robots!

• Newspapers superseded by technology

• Getting the newspaper to the printing Centre

Houses are rectangular and either have a courtyard in the center or the rooms come off a central corridor. Most social life occurs in the courtyard. They are usually built of hardened mud and have roofs of corrugated iron or, in the countryside, thatch. Buildings of this material are easy to alter, either by knocking down rooms or adding new ones. And can be improved by coating the walls with cement. Richer people often build their houses of concrete blocks and, if they can afford to, build two-storey houses. Within compounds there can be quite a mixture of building types. Younger well-educated people may have well-furnished houses while their older relatives live in mud walled buildings and sleep on mats on the floor.

• Town facilities

• Colonization

• Urban divisions

• Architectural home styles

• Types of settlements

Amenities vary. In some towns most of the population uses communal water taps and only the rich have piped water, in others piped water is more normal. Some areas have toilets, but bucket toilets are common with waste being collected by a “night soil man”. Access to water and electricity are key political issues.

Please choose the correct the main idea from paragraph above

• Town facilities

• Colonization

• Urban divisions

• Architectural home styles

• Types of settlements

Coffee is one of the most popular hot drinks in the world. Almost a third of the world’s population drinks coffee. People often meet at cafes or coffee shops for a coffee break during the middle of the morning or stop work in the afternoon to drink coffee.

About 7 million tons of coffee are produced every year. Brazil is, by far, the world’s largest coffee producer. About a third of the world’s production comes from this South American country. Other coffee producing countries include Vietnam, Indonesia and Columbia.

The United States is the biggest coffee consumer in the world. About 1.2 billion kilograms of coffee are consumed there every year. Drinking coffee is extremely popular in European countries, like Italy, France and Germany, as well as in Brazil.

What is the best title for the passage below?

• Coffee-a popular hot drink

• Coffee-the main consumers

• Coffee-the main producers