Duration: 60 minutes Downloadable Academic Reading sample tasks Academic Reading – Matching features Academic Reading – Table completion Academic Reading – Flow-chart completion (selecting words from the text) Academic Reading – Identifying information (True False Not Given) Academic
Day: June 19, 2019
Sample Academic Reading Summary Completion (selecting words from the text)Sample Academic Reading Summary Completion (selecting words from the text)
[Note: This is an extract from a Part 3 text about the ‘Plain English’ movement, which promotes the use of clear English.]‘The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language’, David Crystal, 3rd Edition, © Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Sample Academic Reading Summary Completion (selecting from a list of words or phrases)Sample Academic Reading Summary Completion (selecting from a list of words or phrases)
[Note: This is an extract from a Part 3 text about language.]© Guy Deutscher, Random House Adult Trade Publishing Group. 2006 ‘This Marvellous Invention’ Of all mankind’s manifold creations, language must take pride of place.
Sample Academic Reading Multiple Choice (one answer)Sample Academic Reading Multiple Choice (one answer)
[Note: This is an extract from a Part 1 text about older people in the workforce.]© The Economist Newspaper Limited, London, 1999 The general assumption is that older workers are paid more in spite of,
Sample Academic Reading Multiple Choice (more than one answer)Sample Academic Reading Multiple Choice (more than one answer)
[Note: This is an extract from a Part 1 text about older people in the workforce.]© The Economist Newspaper Limited, London, 1999 Clearly, when older people do heavy physical work, their age may affect their
Sample Academic Reading Matching HeadingsSample Academic Reading Matching Headings
[Note: This is an extract from a Part 2 text about the physics of traffic behaviour.]© 2000 The Atlantic Media Co., as first published in The Atlantic Magazine. All rights reserved. Distributed by Tribune Content
Sample Academic Reading Identifying Information (True/False/Not Given)Sample Academic Reading Identifying Information (True/False/Not Given)
[Note: This is an extract from a Part 1 text about the scientist Marie Curie.] Adapted with permission from Encyclopaedia Britannica, © 2007 by Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. The life and work of Marie Curie Marie
Sample Academic Reading Flow-chart Completion (selecting words from the text)Sample Academic Reading Flow-chart Completion (selecting words from the text)
[Note: This is an extract from a Part 3 text about the effect of a low-calorie diet on the ageing process.] Adapted from ‘The Serious Search for an Anti-Aging Pill’. Copyright © 2006 Scientific American,
Academic Reading sample task – Table completionAcademic Reading sample task – Table completion
[Note: This is an extract from an Academic Reading passage on the subject of dung beetles. The text preceding this extract gave some background facts about dung beetles, and went on to describe a decision
Academic Reading sample task – Matching featuresAcademic Reading sample task – Matching features
[Note: This is an extract from an Academic Reading passage on the development of rockets. The text preceding this extract explored the slow development of the rocket and explained the principle of propulsion.] The invention