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BEST IELTS General Reading Test 178
IELTS GENERAL READING TEST 178 – PASSAGE – 1
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READING PASSAGE – 1
Read the text below and answer Questions 1-5.
ENTERING AUSTRALIA
There are certain rules that an entrant needs to adhere before entering Australia.
1. When you enter Australia, you need to show us your travel documents or passport.
2. Your visa is electronically attached to the passport you used on your visa application.
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3. Make sure you bring a current, valid passport or travel document and any expired passports or travel documents linked to your visa. (SmartGates automatically process you through passport control at the border. They use facial recognition technology and your ePassport to check your identity.)
4. You will need to complete and show us your Incoming Passenger Card. (You may carry an unlimited amount of cash into Australia but if you are carrying AUDIO, 000 or more you must declare it.)
5. Your bags will also be checked for prohibited or restricted items.
Quarantine Requirements Many items are restricted or prohibited and cannot be carried by you as a traveler on entry into Australia. Learn more about what you can bring into the country.
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Carry on limits
There are limits on the powders, liquids, aerosols and gels you can carry on board an airplane.
The limits are
Liquids, aerosols, and/or gels in containers with a maximum capacity of100mL each.
Inorganic powders less than 350 milliliters or 350 grams per person.
Australia has strict requirements on the food, plant materials or animal products that can enter or leave the country. ‘Wildlife’ defined by the Department as any whole, part or derivative of a plant or animal, either living or non-living. E.g. wood, seeds, insects, leather/fur, pills/medicines, feces, teeth, meat, live plants, fresh or dried flowers etc.
Some tourist souvenirs and items you buy over the Internet are made from or contain derivatives of plants and animals. Some may even be from endangered species. Before buying products online or before travelling to/from Australia (to study or to live permanently) with your items you should specially check ‘The Do I need a permit page’?
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Questions 1-5
Do the following statements agree with the information given in the text? In boxes 1- 5 on your answer sheet, write
TRUE – if the statement agrees with the information
FALSE – if the statement contradicts the information
NOT GIVEN – if there is no information on this.
1. For both airport identification and visa application you should carry the same personal identity proof
2. Biometrics may not be considered a too much of personal details.
3. There are carry on limits to the cash one can carry.
4. Cats are allowed to enter in Australia.
5. Ivory goods may not be checked for a permit.
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Read the text below and answer Questions 6 -13.
WALT DISNEY PRODUCTION ARTS
Walt Disney, by name of Walter Elias Disney, (born December 5, 1901, in Chicago, Illinois, and died December 15, 1966 in Los Angeles, California), American motion-picture and television producer and showman, famous as a pioneer of animated cartoon films and as the creator of such cartoon characters as Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck. He also planned and built Disneyland, a huge amusement park that opened near Los Angeles in 1955, and before his death he had begun building a second such park, Walt Disney World, near Orlando, Florida. The Disney Company he founded has become one of the world’s largest entertainment conglomerates.
First Animated Cartoons
Disney and Iwerks started. a small studio of their own in 1922 and acquired a secondhand movie camera with which they made one and two-minute animated advertising films for distribution to local movie theatres. They also did a series of animated cartoon sketches called Laugh-O-grams and the pilot film for a series of seven-minute fairy tales that combined both live action and animation, Alice in Cartoon land.
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A New York film distributor cheated the young producers, and Disney was forced to file for bankruptcy in 1923. He moved to California to pursue a career as a cinematographer, but the surprise success of the first Alice film compelled Disney and his brother Roy—a lifelong business partner to reopen shop in Hollywood.
They invented a character called Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, contracted for distribution of the films at S1,500 each, and propitiously launched their small enterprise. In 1927, just before the transition to sound in motion pictures, Disney and Iwerks experimented with a new character a cheerful, energetic, and mischievous mouse called Mickey.
Mickey Mouse, the most popular character of Walt Disney’s animated cartoons and arguably the most popular cartoon star in the world.
Feature-Length Cartoons
Walt Disney was never one to rest or stand still. He had long thought of producing feature-length animated films in addition to the shorts. In 1934 he began working on a version of the classic fairy tale “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” (1937), a project that required great organization and coordination of studio talent and a task for which Disney possessed a unique capacity. While he actively engaged in all phases of creation in his films, he functioned chiefly as coordinator and final decision maker rather than as designer and artist.
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Disney departed from the scope and techniques of the shorts and thus proved animation’s effectiveness as a vehicle for feature-length stories.
Questions 6 – 13
Choose NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS from the text for each answer.
6. At which place the construction was being done in 1966 for Disney Park?
7. How long was the first feature film?
8. What was the first Disney picture work called?
9. Which character causes the opening of an official business?
10. What was featured after 1934 by Disney work for the first time?
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Questions 11-13
Choose the correct letter A, B, C or D.
11. Alice in cartoon land
A. Was the first animated film.
B. Included movement with dialogues.
C. Lead to bankruptcy.
D. Was very successful.
12. Roy and Walt Disney
A. Felt unfortunate after the bankruptcy.
B. Created a character Mickey.
C. Started own small scale firm in Florida.
D. Worked together in Disney.
13. Mickey as a character
A. Was made solely by Iwerks.
B. Included sound with motion.
C. Was not moral at first.
D. Was out-shined by other characters.
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ANSWERS ARE BELOW
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ANSWERS
1. TRUE
2. FALSE
3. FALSE
4. NOT GIVEN
5. FALSE
6. FLORIDA
7. 7 MINUTES
8. LAUGH-O-GRAM
9. OSWALD
10. FEATURE-LENGTH CARTOON/FILM
11. C
12. D
13. C
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