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IELTS READING_ TRUE FALSE NOT GIVEN PRACTICE

The statement that you read in the


What you read in the passage Answer
question sheet

1. All doctors like to help people. Most doctors like to help people. T F NG

2. My father likes chocolate a lot. Paul said, ‘My father loves chocolate.’ T F NG

3. Animals that are hungry need to eat


All animals need to eat more. T F NG
more.

4. They build the best houses. Their houses are the most expensive. T F NG

5. The policeman asked very difficult The questions that the policeman
T F NG
questions. asked were not too hard.

6. The man who smiled at the girl wore


The man smiled at the girl. T F NG
glasses.

7. Dan is an Australian. Dan comes from Melbourne. T F NG

8. Dan comes from Melbourne. Dan is an Australian. T F NG

9.Dee usually visits her mother in the Dee’s mother always gets a visit from
T F NG
summer. her in the summer.

The scenery in Thailand is very


10. Thailand is a tropical country. T F NG
beautiful.

11. Thailand is a tropical country Thailand’s weather is tropical T F NG

12. Thai people always grin. Thai people always grimace. T F NG

Your reflection corner (answer the following questions):


What are the differences between T F NG?
How can you approach this task effectively?

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IELTS Academic Reading Task Type 2 (Identifying Information) and Type 3
(Identifying Writer’s Views/Claims) Activity – Sample Task

The Risks of Cigarette Smoke


Discovered in the early 1800s and named ‘nicotianine’, the oily essence now called nicotine is the main
active ingredient of tobacco. Nicotine, however, is only a small component of cigarette smoke, which
contains more than 4,700 chemical compounds, including 43 cancer-causing substances. In recent
times, scientific research has been providing evidence that years of cigarette smoking vastly increases
the risk of developing fatal medical conditions.
In addition to being responsible for more than 85 per cent of lung cancers, smoking is associated with
cancers of, amongst others, the mouth, stomach and kidneys, and is thought to cause about 14 per cent
of leukaemia and cervical cancers. In 1990, smoking caused more than 84,000 deaths, mainly resulting
from such problems as pneumonia, bronchitis and influenza. Smoking, it is believed, is responsible for
30 per cent of all deaths from cancer and clearly represents the most important preventable cause of
cancer in countries like the United States today.
Passive smoking, the breathing in of the side-stream smoke from the burning of tobacco between puffs
or of the smoke exhaled by a smoker, also causes a serious health risk. A report published in 1992 by
the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) emphasized the health dangers, especially from side-
stream smoke. This type of smoke contains more smaller particles and is therefore more likely to be
deposited deep in the lungs. On the basis of this report, the EPA has classified environmental tobacco
smoke in the highest risk category for causing cancer.
As an illustration of the health risks, in the case of a married couple where one partner is a smoker and
one a non-smoker, the latter is believed to have a 30 per cent higher risk of death from heart disease
because of passive smoking. The risk of lung cancer also increases over the years of exposure and the
figure jumps to 80 per cent if the spouse has been smoking four packs a day for 20 years. It has been
calculated that 17 per cent of cases of lung cancer can be attributed to high levels of exposure to second-
hand tobacco smoke during childhood and adolescence.
A more recent study by researchers at the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) has shown
that second-hand cigarette smoke does more harm to non-smokers than to smokers. Leaving aside the
philosophical question of whether anyone should have to breathe someone else’s cigarette smoke, the
report suggests that the smoke experienced by many people in their daily lives is enough to produce
substantial adverse effects on a person’s heart and lungs.
The report, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (AMA), was based on the
researchers’ own earlier research but also includes a review of studies over the past few years. The
American Medical Association represents about half of all US doctors and is a strong opponent of
smoking. The study suggests that people who smoke cigarettes are continually damaging their
cardiovascular system, which adapts in order to compensate for the effects of smoking. It further states
that people who do not smoke do not have the benefit of their system adapting to the smoke inhalation.
Consequently, the effects of passive smoking are far greater on non-smokers than on smokers.
This report emphasizes that cancer is not caused by a single element in cigarette smoke; harmful effects
to health are caused by many components. Carbon monoxide, for example, competes with oxygen in red
blood cells and interferes with the blood’s ability to deliver life-giving oxygen to the heart. Nicotine and
other toxins in cigarette smoke activate small blood cells called platelets, which increases the likelihood
of blood clots, thereby affecting blood circulation throughout the body.

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The researchers criticize the practice of some scientific consultants who work with the tobacco industry
for assuming that cigarette smoke has the same impact on smokers as it does on non-smokers. They
argue that those scientists are underestimating the damage done by passive smoking and, in support of
their recent findings, cite some previous research which points to passive smoking as the cause for
between 30,000 and 60,000 deaths from heart attacks each year in the United States. This means that
passive smoking is the third most preventable cause of death after active smoking and alcohol-related
diseases.
The study argues that the type of action needed against passive smoking should be similar to that being
taken against illegal drugs and AIDS (SIDA). The UCSF researchers maintain that the simplest and
most cost-effective action is to establish smoke-free work places, schools and public places.

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Questions 4 – 7

Do the following statements reflect the claims of the writer in Sample Passage 8?

In boxes 4-7 on your answer sheet write

YES if the statement reflects the claims of the writer


NO if the statement contradicts the claims of the writer
NOT GIVEN if it is impossible to say what the writer thinks about this

4 Thirty per cent of deaths in the United States are caused by smoking-related diseases.

5 If one partner in a marriage smokes, the other is likely to take up smoking.

6 Teenagers whose parents smoke are at risk of getting lung cancer at some time during their lives.

7 Opponents of smoking financed the UCSF study.

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