IELTS Academic Reading Sample 140 - Lost for Words Last Updated: Tuesday‚ 23 September 2014 07:42 Written by IELTS Mentor Hits: 4740 You should spend about 20 minutes on Question 1-13 which are based on Reading Passage 140 below. Lost for Words Many minority languages are on the danger list. In the Native American Navajo nation which sprawls across four states in the American south-west‚ the native language is dying. Most of its speakers are middle-age or elderly. Although many students take classes
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Agriculture The beginning of agriculture with the domestication and farming of wild plants of wide success and earliest prominence occurred in the Mediterranean habitat of the Fertile Crescent. Early crops of the Fertile Crescent included barley‚ emmer wheat‚ einkorn wheat‚ peas‚ lentil‚ chickpeas‚ flax‚ and muskmelon. This change from hunter-gatherer to farmer was subtle at first and experimental‚ as the outcome was unknown and unforeseen to early farmers. To-be farmers would pick wild plants
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Should Sex Education be taught in Schools? One of the main purposes for comprehensive sex education to be taught in schools is because it brings about awareness. Many teens are misinformed about sex through various resources so they mis-inform friends and the trend continues which results to teen pregnancy. Comprehensive sex education that is effective starts early‚ prior to children reaching puberty‚ and before they have developed patterns of acting out sexual behaviors. Parents of children
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Over 1‚000 Essential Words and Phrases! BUSINESS WORDS YOU SHOULD KNOW From Accelerated Depreciation to Zero-based Budgeting—Learn the Lingo for Any Field H. DEAN M C KAY‚ P H .D.‚ AND P.T. SHANK Business Words You should knoW From Accelerated Depreciation to Zero-based Budgeting—Learn the Lingo for Any Field h. dean MckaY‚ Ph.d.‚ and P.T. shank Avon‚ Massachusetts I dedicate this book to Susan Shank Mix‚ my wife‚ lifelong friend‚ and trusted advisor. Without
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In “The Marvels of Spain and America” section of “Beginnings to 1700‚” Wayne Franklin describes the remarkable changes that occurred to both Europe and the Americas as voyages began to take place. Americas like Europe:“complete with fortresses‚ churches‚ horses‚ new foods… and much else that Colón in 1493 could have found only in Europe” (Franklin 4). The natives and Europeans both used their own traditions and borrowed from each other to endure or outwit the opposing side‚ causing the earliest records
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Should a student be graded according to lots of worksheets and test with a low average or with few worksheets and test with a higher average? Some teachers give lots of work at class and others not too much. In school‚ people can see both things‚ lots of worksheets with low average and few worksheets with high average. So‚ should a student be graded according to lots of worksheets and test with a low average or with few worksheets and test with a higher average? Students should complete lots of
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Cody Miller Combiths English 1106 20 April 2015 Should Student-Athletes be Paid? Introduction In the modern college sports era‚ the call for student-athletes to be paid has escalated. These athletes are now apart of a nearly billion-dollar industry in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). There are arguments for both sides. Those who believe that the athletes should be paid make the argument that schools and the NCAA are making millions of dollars off these athletes and are not being
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I read the novel “The Bad Beginning” by Lemony Snicket. This is the unhappy tale of the Baudelaire orphans. The three children Violet ‚ Klause‚ and Sunny are all very bright and charming . Unfortunately their lives are filled with misery and despair ‚ disaster always lurking around the corner. Snickets style of writing is very unique ‚ he uses an interesting and extensive vocabulary. This paper hopefully summarizes the twist and turns of the Baudelaire’s dreary lives. The story starts when the
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Are Uniforms the Answer? There is a continuous debate about whether or not grade school students should have to wear uniforms. There isn’t really a definitive answer‚ since either side could argue valid points. Benefits and disadvantages could stem from both arguments. People who argue that students should wear uniforms‚ do so for a variety of different reasons. One big reason is because having a school uniform stops gangs from wearing their colors‚ which in turn decreases violence. We all want
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Through Third Grade: Children’s Beginning School Experiences (2004) only twenty-nine percent of all third-grade children surveyed in the longitudinal study were able to make interpretations beyond what was stated in text. Improved Comprehension Connections Genre/Text Features V ocabulary Themes/Topics T ext-to-Text T ext-to-Self T ext-to-World Reader 5 R esearch Paper: Connections for Comprehension With the goal of improving students’ reading comprehension‚ Connections for
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