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Basic IELTS Reading - Practice 8 - Passage 2

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

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.

a)

collect

b)

revise

c)

write

d)

arrange

2.

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.

a)

almost

b)

barely

c)

actually

d)

only

3.

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.

a)

printed copies

b)

conducted studies

c)

experiments

d)

research

4.

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.

a)

joined in

b)

supported

c)

were interested in

d)

enjoyed

5.

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.

a)

feeling full trust

b)

feeling worried

c)

feeling interested

6.

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.

a)

highly

b)

having a lot of power to control people and events

c)

having a lot of strength or force

d)

having a very great effect

7.

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.

a)

modern

b)

electronic

c)

traditional

8.

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

a)

traditional

b)

electronic

c)

non-networked

9.

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.

a)

written

b)

spoken

c)

both spoken and written

10.

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.

a)

lượt đàm thoại

b)

lượt tham gia

c)

lượt viết bài

11.

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


They found that students in the computer-networked class showed significantly greater gains in writing than the students did in the traditional class.

a)

slightly

b)

considerably

c)

trivially

12.

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


Linguists have found that less confident students not only communicate more during electronic discussions than during face-to-face ones but also make more useful comments in their own writing.

a)

someone who teaches online

b)

someone who teaches or studies linguistics

c)

someone who learns a foreign language

13.

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


Studies show that the use of electronic discussion doesn't work in native speaker composition classes.

a)

someone who has learned a particular language since they were an adult

b)

someone who has learned a particular language since they were a child

c)

someone who has spoken a particular language since they were a baby

14.

The two classes Pratt and Sullivan compared in their study were both taught online with the same syllabus


The two classes Pratt and Sullivan compared in their study were both taught online with the same syllabus.

a)

course

b)

programme

c)

major

15.

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


To help overcome this fear and give their students as much writing practice as possible, some composition teachers conduct almost all of their courses through electronic discussion.

a)

organize

b)

learn

c)

study