Basic IELTS Reading - Practice 8 - 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.

Students write about the writing process, discuss electronically things they have read, share their own work with the others and compose compositions together.

• collect

• revise

• write

• arrange

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

One class met one or two times a week in a computer-networked classroom where virtually all class discussion was carried out electronically.

• almost

• barely

• actually

• only

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

An analysis of the transcripts of large group discussions, one from each class, showed strong differences in participation patterns.

• printed copies

• conducted studies

• experiments

• research

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

Whereas only 50% of the students spoke up even once during the oral discussion, 100% of the students participated in the electronic discussion.

• joined in

• supported

• were interested in

• enjoyed

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

Studies of native speaker composition classes have also shown similar advantages for computer-networked writing instruction, particularly for students who come into a course less skilled or confident about their writing.

• feeling full trust

• feeling worried

• feeling interested

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

They find that the more students write, the more comfortable they get with it - especially because their writing occurs in such a powerful communicative context.

• highly

• having a lot of power to control people and events

• having a lot of strength or force

• having a very great effect

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

She has taught this way for 3 years and says she feared even the thought of going back to non-networked writing instruction.

• modern

• electronic

• traditional

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

One class met one or two times a week in a computer-networked classroom where virtually all class discussion was carried out electronically

• traditional

• electronic

• non-networked

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

The other class was conducted in a traditional classroom with oral discussion.

• written

• spoken

• both spoken and written

What does the word "conversational turns" mean in Vietnamese?

Furthermore, in the oral discussion the teacher took 85% of the conversational turns, whereas in the electronic discussion the teacher took only 35% of the turns.

• lượt đàm thoại

• lượt tham gia

• lượt viết bài