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BEST Reading IELTS General Test 175
IELTS GENERAL READING TEST 175 – PASSAGE – 2
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READING PASSAGE – 2
Read the text below and answer Questions 14 – 22.
AMERICAN LIBRARIES
The US has some of the largest libraries in the world. The Library of Congress is by far the largest in the US, according to the volumes it holds. The majority of the top ten largest libraries are affiliated to universities. In fact, in the top ten, only three are not affiliated with any university, and they are the Library of Congress, the Boston Public Library, and the New York Public Library.
The Library of Congress
The Library of Congress is the largest library in the US holding 34,528,818 items. It encompasses three buildings on Capitol Hill, Washington, DC, and Packard campus in Virginia. Underground passageways interconnect all the three buildings. The collections within the library are not limited to any subject, format or any country. It has collections from different parts of the world in more than 450 languages and more than half of the books it receives in a year are in languages other than English.
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Boston Public Library
Boston Public Library in Massachusetts is the second largest library in the US holding 19,090,261 volumes of cataloged materials. It is a municipal public library and was founded in 1848. It is also known as the Library of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and all the adult citizens of the Commonwealth arc entitled to borrow materials and other research privileges. It is the biggest municipal public library in the US and is a member of Association of Research Libraries (ARL).
The library has strengths in arts, art history, and American history. Because of the volumes the library holds a variety of subjects; it is one the five most important libraries in the US and the other four are the Library of Congress, the New York Public Library, the University Library of Yale and Harvard University Library. In 1888 Charles Follen McKim architects designed the extension of the Library fashioning it on Bibliotheque. Nationale in France and had the look of the Renaissance style architecture and is known as the Mckim building.
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Harvard University Library
Harvard University Library in Cambridge, Massachusetts is the third largest library in the US with 16,832,952 catalogued materials. There are more than 70 libraries that all make the Harvard Library system, and it is the oldest library in the US. It is also the Largest University Library in the US and the largest private library in the world. The library had its beginning in 1638 when John Harvard donated 400 books. The library was razed by fire in 1764 destroying all the books and other materials in the library. Only the books that were loaned out remained undestroyed.
The library was rebuilt, and many people donated books to restock the library again. By 1912 there was more than one building devoted to library services and over the years several other branches of the library were established. The Harvard Library board is part of the governing body, and they are responsible for reviewing and assessing the strategic plans of the Harvard University Library. The board is chaired by the Provost and is composed of six permanent members and five members who serve for three years on a rotational basis.
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Questions 14 – 22
Choose ONE WORD ONLY from the text for each answer.
14. Most ofthe libraries in list are a part of ………….. .
15. Harvard University library is the ………….. library in America.
16. Mckim building style was inspired from architecture in ………….. .
17. ………….. was the cause of destruction of books in one of the American library
18. The Boston public library has great strength in ………….. domains.
19. The Library of Congress is composed of three campuses connected through ………….. ducts.
20. Increase in the number of buildings was because of the development of the ………….. of the Harvard University Library.
21. 60% of the books have been written in other ………….. in the Library of Congress.
22. ………….. is not the only medium of instruction in the literature of The Library of Congress.
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Read the text below and answer Questions 23 – 27.
WIND TURBINES IN UK
A. Over the course of a year, about 15% of the UK’s electricity comes from wind power. “And a quarter of the energy we are using in Britain today has come from wind”. At the time of writing, wind power is currently generating about a quarter of the UK’s electricity, about the same as gas. B. The advantages of wind energy are more apparent than the disadvantages. The main advantages include an unlimited, free, renewable resource (the wind itself), economic value, maintenance cost, and placement of wind harvesting facilities. First and foremost, wind is an unlimited, free, renewable resource.
C. Wind is a simple technology and a reliable, endlessly renewable resource. It can also play an important role in energy security – because the more energy we generate here in the UK, the less vulnerable we are to cuts in supply or hikes in the cost of imported gas, coal or oil.
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D. Each 8MW (megawatt) turbine is 195 meters tall, higher than London’s Gherkin tower, with blades that are 80 metres long, and one rotation produces enough electricity to power a home for 29 hours. The wind farm has 32 turbines in total.
E. Wind power is cost-effective. Land-based utility-scale wind is one of the lowest-priced energy sources available today, costing between two and six cents per kilowatt-hour, depending on the wind resource and the particular project’s financing.
Questions 23-27
The following text has 5 sections. Choose the correct heading for each section from the list of headings below. On your answer sheet, list the headings from i – xi.
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List of Headings
i. Calculated output.
Ii. Power supplies and time
iii. Cost of energy
iv. A solution of a problem
v. Pros and cons of wind power
vi. Equipments in use
vii. Cost of energy
viii. Economic value
ix. Power cuts
x. Proportion contribution of wind energy
xi. Finance and control
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23. Section A
24. Section B
25. Section C
26. Section D
27. Section E
ANSWERS ARE BELOW
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ANSWERS
14. UNIVERSITY
15. OLDEST
16. FRANCE
17. FIRE
18. 3
19. UNDERGROUND
20. BRANCHES
21. LANGUAGES
22. ENGLISH
23. x
24. v
25. iv
26. vi
27. i
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