Basic IELTS Reading - Practice 7 - Passage 2

Decide which of the following choices is CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined word(s) in the sentence and choose the corresponding letter.

A public library is for all the people in a community to use.

• the people living in one particular area

• a group of animals or plants that live or grow together

• the act of communicating with people

Decide which of the following choices is CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined word(s) in the sentence and choose the corresponding letter.

It would depend on what the people in that city had pointed out they found useful.

• decided

• agreed

• indicated

Decide which of the following choices is CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined word(s) in the sentence and choose the corresponding letter.

The library lends its materials.

• borrow

• sells

• loans

Decide which of the following choices is CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined word(s) in the sentence and choose the corresponding letter.

There are a few that are instead supported from money that has been donated.

• given for free

• asked in payment

• loaned

• charged

Decide which of the following choices is CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined word(s) in the sentence and choose the corresponding letter.

A public library is for all the people in a community to use. It charges no fee for its service.

• askes in payment

• requires

• increases

Decide which of the following choices is CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined word(s) in the sentence and choose the corresponding letter.

Storybooks - works of fiction - are separated from information, or fact books.

• fiction

• nonfiction

• comic

Decide which of the following choices is CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined word(s) in the sentence and choose the corresponding letter.

Your nearest library may be like the Los Angeles Public Library, which has over 4,538,458 books and bound periodicals in its collection.

• periods

• times

• magazines and journals

Decide which of the following choices is CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined word(s) in the sentence and choose the corresponding letter.

The public library will have available, within the limits of its budget, a wide variety of books and other materials.

• an amount of money paid to the government that is based on your income or the cost of goods or services you have bought

• the amount of money you have available to spend

• an amount of money that is borrowed, often from a bank, and has to be paid back, usually together with an extra amount of money that you have to pay as a charge for borrowing

Decide which of the following choices is CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined word(s) in the sentence and choose the corresponding letter.

The public library will have available, within the limits of its budget, a wide variety of books and other materials.

• varied

• various

• collection

Decide which of the following choices is CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined word(s) in the sentence and choose the corresponding letter.

These holdings almost always reflect the community's special interests.

• show

• donate

• loan

• lend