General Training Reading Practice Test 2

INTERNATIONAL ENGLISH LANGUAGE TESTING SYSTEM

Candidate Name:

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Additional materials
• Sample Answer sheet for Reading
• Practice Test 2 – Answers

Time:
60 minutes

Instructions to candidates:
• Do not open this question paper until you are told to do so.
• Write your name and candidate number in the space at the top of this page.
• Read the instructions for each part of the paper carefully.
• Answer all the questions.
• Write your answer on the answer sheet. Use a pencil.
• You must complete the answer sheet within the time limit.
• At the end of the test, hand in both this question paper and your answer sheet.

Information for candidates:

• There are 40 questions on this paper.
• Each question carries one mark.

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PART 1 Questions 1 – 14

Read the advertisements below and answer Questions 1 – 7.

Services for the Home

A Our franchisees can take care of any aspect of B We know how hectic it can be when moving
your lawn and garden. Whether it's hedging, home or office. The packing, the organising - it's
weeding, keeping your garden in tip top condition never ending. Imagine being able to move out
or simply mowing your lawns, we are here to help. without having to worry about that dreaded exit
clean.
Our franchisees are fully trained and offer a wide
variety of services; from paving to pruning, sub- With V.I.P. we take care of it for you, leaving you
surface irrigation to rainwater tank installation we to enjoy the excitement of moving into your new
do the lot, so contact us today for a free quote. home or office.

All franchisees are: Our staff use the 'V.I.P. Cleaning Procedure' to
• Fully insured ensure a professional, detailed clean to your
• Police checked home or office.
• Owner operated – ensuring you receive the
very best service directly from the business Leave it to us to take the pressure off you when
owner you're moving.

C No-one likes driving around in a messy, dirty

car – but come on, you haven’t even got time to
take it through a car wash, let alone clean it
D You want the best for your home and your
yourself! Just pick up the phone and call James’ family, so don’t trust just anyone to take care of
Home Services, and we’ll come to you. We’ll do nasty insect pests. Call Pestaway for a safe, quick
everything from a wash, wax and chamois dry to and convenient spray treatment of your kitchen,
dressing the tyres, cleaning the windows and cupboards, ceilings and skirting boards to protect
vacuuming the interior – we’ll even empty the you from cockroaches, ants and silverfish and
ashtrays! their germs and destructive habits.

Do yourself a favour and book a repeat Regular We can also treat the exterior perimeter, eaves
service for an amazing price, or ask for our and guttering for added extra protection.
Executives’ Special or Super Clean for added extras
like an upholstery shampoo and deodorise. Our And our service is guaranteed for at least five
Elite Service will leave you smiling and your car years!
looking like new!

E At Lifestyle Home Services we understand the importance of providing the right care to support
people in their own homes and community. Our focus is on meeting individual needs and we will tailor a
home care support plan to suit you.

Our workers receive special training in the areas of aged care, dementia care, and supporting people with
complex needs. When using Lifestyle Home Services as your home nursing agency you can have peace of
mind knowing that your loved one is receiving the highest quality home care services.

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Questions 1-7

Look at the five advertisements for home services, A-E.

For which advertisements are the following statements true?

Write the correct letter, A-E, in boxes 1-7 on your answer sheet.

NB You may use any letter more than once.

1 This service applies to both inside and outside the home.

2 This service is offered at different levels.

3 This service will be designed according to the person who is receiving it.

4 This service will only be needed very occasionally by most people.

5 This service is offered at a discount if you use it often.

6 This service will interest those concerned about hygiene.

7 This service offers to give you a price before you accept the service.

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Read the text below and answer Questions 8 – 14.

CHAPMAN CROSS SHOPPING CENTRE - GETTING HERE

You’ll find Chapman Cross at 1341 Springwood Road, Chapman Cross, Victoria 3124. Alternatively, enter
your starting point in the Online Journey Planner to see the most direct route. Many people prefer to
jump on a train towards Chapman Cross, and then catch a quick bus from the train station straight to the
shopping centre (see below for bus routes from train stations).

CAR PARKING
Chapman Cross boasts the largest shopping centre car park in Australia, with 6,000 free parking spaces –
including 1,500 undercover parking, Mobility Impaired parking and Parents with Prams parking. Not sure
which car park to use? Enter the name of the store you want to visit in our website search box, and we’ll
show you the closest car park.

FREE FASHION SHUTTLE

FEDERATION SQUARE TO CHAPMAN CROSS (daily except Christmas Day)
9:00AM, 10:30AM, 11:30AM, 12:30PM, 1:30PM, 2:30PM, 3:30PM

CHAPMAN CROSS TO FEDERATION SQUARE

11:00AM, 12:00PM, 1:00PM, 2:00PM, 3:00PM, 4:30PM, 6:00PM

CHAPMAN CROSS TOURISM SHOPPING PASSPORT

The Chapman Cross Tourism Shopping Passport is an exclusive offers booklet featuring a great range of
retailers including luxury brands, Australian designers, men's and women's fashion brands, homewares
and much more. Tourists visiting Chapman Cross can collect their booklet at the in-centre customer
service desks from 20 May 2019. Please note that proof of identification in the form of a passport or
drivers licence will be required to obtain the Tourism Shopping Passport. The following selection criteria
need to be met in order to be classified as a ‘Tourist’:

• You live regionally (over 50km away outside of the Melbourne CBD)
• You live interstate
• Overseas

TAKE A BREAK AND LET THE KIDS PLAY

Happy kids mean happy parents! After the shopping's done, check out Cheeky Chinos, the perfect place
for a treat. Or take them to the loop mall, a safe play area that your kids will love. You'll find baby change
rooms in convenient locations on the Ground and Lower Levels at Chapman Cross.
These spacious rooms have everything you need to keep you and your bub comfortable - including
change tables, bottle warming facilities, microwaves and toilets.

ACCESSIBILITY AT CHAPMAN CROSS

We want to make your visit to Chapman Cross as comfortable as possible. If you are coming by car, you’ll
find disabled parking spaces at every entrance. Inside, every amenities block has spacious disabled
bathrooms. Plus, there are travelators throughout the centre to make moving between levels easier. We
also have manual and motorised wheelchairs available for hire, free of charge. Simply show approved
identification at one of our customer service desks to hire one.

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Questions 8 – 14

Answer the questions below.

Choose NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER from the text for each answer.

Write your answers in boxes 8-14 on your answer sheet.

8 What service will help the visitor to know how to reach the shopping centre?

9 How many cars can park at the shopping centre?

10 What service will help drivers who use wheelchairs?

11 On which day will you not be able to catch a free bus to the shopping centre?

12 What will you need to present, to get the Shopping Passport?

13 What food preparation equipment is available for visitors to use at the centre?

14 What will help handicapped visitors carry their shopping?

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PART 2 Questions 15 – 27

Read the text below and answer Questions 15 – 21.

Becoming a Driving Instructor

Any person who teaches another person to drive for money or reward is required by law to hold a Driving
Instructor’s licence. Applicants for a Driving Instructor’s licence must be at least 21 years old and have held
a full driver licence (not learner, provisional, probationary or restricted) of the relevant class for at least three
years during the four-year period immediately prior to the application for an instructor’s licence. They must
have been authorised by The Department of Transport to undertake an approved course in driving
instruction, and have passed. Generally, most new driving instructors will take at least six months to
complete the required qualifications.

Documents and Checks

Applicants must provide a completed Driving Instructor application form, and proof of medical examinations
stating their fitness to drive (see pages 4 and 5 of the application form). Police and criminal checks are carried
out on all applicants. Two specimen signatures and four colour passport-sized photos are required.

Tests
The extended knowledge test on road rules consists of 90 questions which all applicants must pass, followed
by a driving test with a 95% pass rate. Applicants undertaking the test in an automatic vehicle will have a
condition on their Driving Instructor licence that restricts them to these vehicles for teaching. Riding
Instructor applicants must pass a Motorcycle Operator Skills Test (MOST) with a 100% result. All applicants
must supply the vehicle for driving/riding tests and assessments.

Letter of Eligibility & Training Course

On submission of documents and test certificates, the DoT will issue a Letter of Eligibility (LE), entitling
applicants to enrol in an instructor training course. LEs expire after one year and will be checked for currency
at enrolment. The nationally-agreed instructor training standards are included in the Australian Quality
Training Framework (AQTF). Course ID numbers and approved providers can be found on the D oT website.

Regulator Final Assessment

Applicants must pass a final assessment in the type of vehicle they wish to teach in (applicant to supply own
vehicle) for all driving assessments. Motorcycle instructors are exempted from this step but must be
accredited by the DoT before instructing in the Rider Training Scheme. During the final assessment,
applicants are required to demonstrate the knowledge, skills and driving behaviours expected of a
professional Driving Instructor. The test includes:

• Presenting lessons
• Demonstrating safe driving
• A drive with verbal commentary
• Various manoeuvres.

After passing the Regulator Final Assessment and paying the licence fee, the successful applicant is issued
with a Driving Instructor Licence, valid for five years. Fees are payable to the DoT for tests and courses, while
other fees, such as those payable to medical practitioners for medical checks, are the applicant’s
responsibility.

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Questions 15 – 21

Do the following statements agree with the information given in the Reading Passage?

In boxes 15 – 21 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

15 Any driver with a full licence and three years’ experience may apply to become an instructor.

16 Applicants have to provide evidence of their physical fitness as part of the application
process.

17 The pass score for the driving test depends on the type of vehicle for which the applicant
wishes to be an instructor.

18 The AQTF Instructor training standards are reviewed every year.

19 All applicants have to undertake a final driving test.

20 Car instructors are required to speak aloud about their driving actions during their final test.

21 After five years, instructors have to undergo repeat medical tests.

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Read the text below and answer Questions 22 – 27.

Department of Energy: Report on Standing Desks

Background
Many staff will have become aware from recent media reports of the possible benefits of standing desks.
These allow the worker to avoid spending long periods sitting and immobile, a practice which has been
linked to a variety of adverse health outcomes in recent studies. Those who wish to understand the issues
in greater detail are advised to visit the Workplace Health and Safety (WHS) section of the departmental
website. Having reviewed the research, however, the WHS management team has issued the following
guidelines to assist work teams to evaluate their needs and make appropriate choices for desk furniture.

Steps to be undertaken at the team level

• Team leaders are asked to use the WHS presentation with their teams to apprise everyone of the
possible benefits of standing desks.
• Inventory of current desk arrangements in each open office to be taken along with survey of each
staff member’s preferences for future furniture purchases. Those wishing to continue with current
furniture should indicate this in the survey.
• Visits to the Standing Desk Demonstration (Policy Office) in Pratt Building Level 12. This has been
installed as a pilot scheme in a working office. Staff there will make time to discuss the impact of
the new furniture on their work practices as well as any drawbacks they have discovered. A variety
of solutions can be seen. Please call ahead to arrange appointments, as drop-in visits are
discouraged.
• Upon publication of the survey results, Team Leaders are to discuss budgetary implications of their
team’s choices with their Line Managers. It is anticipated that not all staff will prefer the same
solution, so as the various solutions differ in price, the total of each team’s choices must remain
within the next financial year’s budget allocations.
• Two suggested solutions are laid out below, but this does not preclude staff from making further
suggestions which will be vetted by the WHS Committee

$1,250 from ProDesk - Prodesk Bamboo

The Prodesk Bamboo is the most sophisticated sit/stand desk on the market. It has a sleek aluminium
frame, layered bamboo top, and a motorised lift mechanism. The Prodesk is more visually appealing than
most, and its motors are quieter. However the accessories such as stationery fitments and keyboard trays
will add a lot to the cost.

$450 from Simplore Desktop - Simplore Starter

The Simplore Starter is the best way to transform your current desk into an adjustable desk and easily
switch between sitting and standing, with five heights to choose from. If you already have a desk that you
like and aren’t ready to commit to a full-size sit/stand desk, consider the Simplore Starter. It sits on top of
an existing desk and manually converts from sitting to standing positions in seconds.

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Questions 22 – 27

Complete the table below.

Choose NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS from the text for each answer.
Write your answers in boxes 22 – 27 on your answer sheet.

Benefits Avoid health problems caused by sitting.

Further reading available on 22 __________________ .

Guidelines Intended to help staff to 23 __________________ .

Surveys and visits Allow staff to indicate their 24 __________________ and ask users

about possible 25 __________________ .

Budget considerations Costs of proposed purchases should not exceed budget allocations.

Possible options The Prodesk Bamboo price excludes 26 __________________ .

The Simplore Starter desk can be positioned at 27 __________________ .

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PART 3 Questions 28 – 40

Read the text below and answer Questions 28 – 40.

Concepts in zoo design

In the 19th century, zoo exhibits* were relatively natural in design, but not because designers were
concerned with the needs of the animals. Designers considered the viewing area as a tableau, in which
animals were placed for the appreciation of the viewer. In the mid-20th century, those romantic
landscapes were replaced by concrete boxes that look barbaric to us now, but were clearly meant as a
step up in animal care. “The life-spans of animals were in fact extended, because zoo staff could clean
easily and control disease”, explains designer Joanna Trimingham. But those bare spaces caused other
problems both for animals and viewers. For example, behaviours like pacing emerged as symptoms of
stress and under-stimulation.

In the late 1970s, zoos began to introduce the landscape immersion exhibit. The goal was to recreate a
natural habitat which combined aesthetic and empathetic qualities with animal care and longevity — an
attempt which met with limited success. Although the spaces were a success in the short term, they
often failed to meet the long-term needs of both the animals and the zoos. The problems with creating
specific landscapes for specific animals become clear when the species in an exhibit is changed, as often
occurs because zoo populations are far from static, and zoo staff have to make use of the animals in
their inventory.

“For example, a snow leopard exhibit would be very vertical, there would be a lot of rocks, places for
the animals to climb and to hide," Trimingham says. When baboons are placed in the same space, for
them it is little better than the concrete box, although it would still appear to be a suitably wild habitat
to the viewer. The naturalistic exhibit gives a little more choice than the sterile environment, but there
must be facilities that allow the animal to engage with the environment in natural ways. Because
baboons are not climbers by nature, most of that vertical space would be of no use to them and would
not help them engage in their natural behaviours.

To create a state-of-the-art exhibit, designers start with the needs of the specific animal. Whether or
not the animal is land-based or arboreal, diurnal or nocturnal, originates in deserts, is wide- ranging, or
requires aquatic elements are among the many influencing factors. Much of the detailed information
about each species comes from Association of Zoos and Aquariums husbandry manuals written by
experts. Still, individual animals may surprise, as designer Toni Harrison found when designing a giraffe
exhibit for the Canning Zoo. She says “I was certain that giraffes would never step over a swathe of large
stones, called rip-rap, or large fallen trees, so I used those as natural-looking barriers to keep the
giraffes from feasting on expensive decorative trees. However, when the giraffes were brought into the
finished space, they approached the rip- rap, and after a short delay, just crossed the barrier!”.

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It is also important to account for keepers who may have slightly different ways of working with the
same species in different facilities. They vary in the extent of species-specific training they can access,
the proximity they enter into with the animals , and the variety of physical environments they are able
to create in the space, with animals moving between them, in horizontal and vertical planes. The needs
of the keepers are critical, and are evolving all the time. One noticeable trend is that keepers are
spending more time with the animals. "We're seeing a definite evolution of keepers being more
specialized and tasked to fewer animals, and spending more time with animals throughout the day",
notes Bob Tarras of ZuLogia Ltd. The result is that, although he used to think about building permanent
enrichment facilities into exhibits — like a digging pit for bears, for example — now the priority is
making it possible for keepers to change things frequently.

A major goal of any zoo is reaching the public, so another aspect of researching a species is devising the
educational message. "We usually look at conservation issues and work up a kind of story based around
that animal," Trimingham says. "It's important to create a storyline that will create a place that people
will be immersed in." One recent project that put all those considerations together in a clever way is the
polar bear exhibit at the Daynesville Zoo. There are several connected areas, one of which provides a
stage for both changeable enrichment and an educational message. The room may be concrete, so it
can be hygienic, but the contents can be changed regularly. The keepers set up items of interest to
bears, which model their interaction with realistic settings, such as trash cans full of treats, ice blocks
and so on. The trash cans don't look natural, but they fit perfectly into the story the exhibit tells: the
room is designed like a loading dock in the middle of a fictional Alaskan town, where the bears are
starting to forage in town because of habitat loss and diminishing food sources.

The work of zoo designers is complex, as they must also now consider commercial matters, visitor
psychology, and integration with local ecosystems, as well as more well-understood conservation and
educational needs. In a world of fragile ecology, they are at the forefront of our understanding and
enjoyment of many increasingly rare species.

*Exhibit: the space in the zoo where an animal lives and can be seen by the public

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Questions 28 – 33

Choose the correct letter A, B, C, or D.

Write your answers in boxes 28 – 33 on your answer sheet.

28 Before the 20th century, zoos were designed

A to make it easy to look after the animals.
B to present animals to the public as if they were in a picture.
C to allow the animals to move freely.
D to help the animals to live longer.

29 The designs of exhibits after the mid-20th century

A provided excellent animal care.
B focused mainly on extending the lifespans of animals.
C were suitable for changes in zoo populations.
D were considered to be successful at first.

30 It is difficult to design exhibits for animals in zoos because

A zoo visitors have very different ideas about what they want to see.
B zoo staff have a strong preference for natural-looking spaces.
C each exhibit may need to be used later for a very different animal.
D exhibits must be kept as sterile as possible.

31 The design of an exhibit

A must take into consideration the needs of both the animals and the keepers.
B must follow the guidelines of the Association of Zoos and Aquariums.
C must allow the keepers to train the animals.
D must take the safety of the keepers as the first priority.

32 The modern zoo keeper

A has to get physically very close to the animals.
B tends to work with a particular type of animal for longer periods.
C tries to avoid changing the animals’ environments too frequently.
D has to be able to work in different kinds of zoos.
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33 The polar bear exhibit at the Daynesville Zoo
A shows how Alaskan citizens are working with conservationists.
B consists of a concrete room mainly for hygiene reasons.
C is notable for illustrating conservation and education messages.
D is designed as a story so that children will be able to understand it.

Questions 34 – 40

Do the following statements agree with the information given in the text above?
In boxes 34 – 40 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

34 Mid-20th century zoo exhibits successfully met their aims.

35 Zoo exhibits can usually be changed easily to accommodate a different animal.
36 Zoo visitors may not be good judges of whether an exhibit is suitable for an animal.
37 Baboons can be taught to climb even though it is not natural to them.
38 Animals occasionally behave in ways which zoo designers do not expect.
39 Zoo designers are involved in the training of zoo keepers for specific animal species.
40 The natural food sources of polar bears are beginning to be found closer to towns.

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