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BEST IELTS General Reading Test 200
IELTS GENERAL READING TEST 200 – PASSAGE – 2
IELTS GENERAL READING TEST – 200
READING PASSAGE – 2
Crime dramas such as CSI and Waking the Dead may have helped fuel a rise of nearly a third in the number of students taking degree courses in forensic and archaeological science.
The explosion in fictional and documentary screen portrayals of scientific analysis of crime scenes and cold case reviews has coincided with a 32.4% increase in undergraduates, figures from the Higher Education Statistics Agency revealed yesterday.
Nearly 5,750 students were following such courses last year, and though this was lower than the 11,045 following chemistry or 9,348 doing physics, the growth dwarfed the 2% and 0.9% rise in these more traditional subjects. Overall numbers of undergraduates in the UK went up 3.3%, with only computer science and astronomy showing big drops.
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“We don’t know the definite cause,” said Brian Emsley, of the Royal Society of Chemistry. “But there is a rise in programmes like Waking the Dead and CSI and there is a sort of glamour involved.
“We don’t want to knock it because chemistry is part of it. But it would be useful to know how many jobs there are in forensic science. We point to the number of jobs there are out there for [people on] chemistry courses, not only in science.
Because they have a command of numeracy, mass data handling and analytic skills, they also go into banking, insurance and the City.”
But other figures suggest the television gloss of fingerprinting, blood analysis and weapons analysis is wearing off. Applications for forensic courses fell this year by just over 4%, while those for physics and chemistry went up by 12.2% and 11.3%.
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Questions 15 – 21
Choose NO MORE THAN ONE WORD from the box below for each answer.
analysed, both, sectors, job, resulting, portayed, compared, entirely, popularity, selection, respectively, partly, opting, alternatively, illustrated, frequently
It seems that certain television series may be (15)………. responsible for an increase in the number of students (16)………. for forensic and archaeological university courses. The incease in the (17)………. of these programs seems to have happened at the same time as demand for the courses has risen by around 32%.
This was a huge incease particulalry when (18)………. to increases in other science subjects such as chemistry and physics which both rose over the same period by 2% and 0.9%, (19)………. . Emsley believes that the trend may be due a certain glamour of the jobs (20)………. on the TV. He also feels that there be insufficent demand out there but that there are still opportunities in other (21)………. for people with the kind of skills acquired on forensic and archaelogical courses.
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Read the text and answer Questions 22 – 27.
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Questions 22 – 27
Do the following statements agree with the information given in the text?
TRUE – if the statement agrees with the information
FALSE – if the statement contradicts the information
NOT GIVEN – if there is no information on this
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23. The oven has a metallic outer surface.
24. The glass oven window can sometimes get hot.
25. The TMOI has a lower ‘pass’ system than most high quality ovens.
26. An extra full-width broiler pan is provided free with all TMIO ovens.
27. The amount of heat loss is reduced by using space technology.
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ANSWERS ARE BELOW
ANSWERS
15. PARTLY
16. OPTING
17. POPULARITY
18. COMPARED
19. RESPECTIVELY
20. PORTAYED
21. SECTORS
22. TRUE
23. TRUE
24. FALSE
25. FALSE
26. NOT GIVEN
27. TRUE