Candidate Number Candidate Name ______________________________________________ INTERNATIONAL ENGLISH LANGUAGE TESTING SYSTEM Academic Reading PRACTICE TEST 1 hour Time 1 hour INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES Do not open this question paper until you are told to do so. Write your name and candidate number in the spaces at the top of this page. Read the instructions for each part of the paper carefully. Answer all the questions. Write your answers on the answer sheet. Use a pencil. You
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The Best has Found Better Kristiana Cavar Mrs. Raposo February 27th2013 Janica Kostelic is a Croatian alpine skier. She is the most successful female skier ever‚ with four gold Olympic medals and two silver Olympic medals. She has won the gold in five world championships of skiing. Janica Kostelic was born in Zagreb‚ Croatia in the year 1982. She was born on the fifth of January. Janica Kostelic’s father Ante Kostelic is a skier himself and acts as her trainer. As money is scarce and hard
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which style would you prefer and why? I prefer Around the horn because it has more sport talk then espn news and they believe in what the other person is talking about . There is a guy name mike and he is the main guy that do most of the talking but there are other people on the show that interrupts when he talking . He does not use open ended questions much. Also it is a great show to watch because when a main topic is brought up about a person like Kobe Bryant mike is the first person to
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Tommy Baldwin 4/13/12 U.S. History Period 10 The Help Writing Prompt In the movie "The Help" there are many aspects of The Civil Rights movement. It shows the struggle in the United States during the 1950’s and 1960’s against Racism‚ Segregation‚ Cultural Differences‚ and Friendships amongst the people. It shows the hardship of African American’s lives during this time‚ and how they stood up for their rights and fought back for what they believed in. They fought against unjust laws of segregation
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I. INTRODUCTION OF THE LIFESTRAW WATER PURIFIER A. Product benefits for the consumers (IRIN‚ 2008; Frandsen‚ 2013) 1. The product can filter at least 264 gallons of water 2. Reduce water turbidity with 0.2 micros 3. Remove 99.9% waterborne bacteria 4. Remove 99.9% protozoan cysts 5. Remove 98.7% waterborne viruses 6. Easy to carry and use B. Production cost is $4 per unit (IRIN 2008) C. Product targeting consumers 1. The primary targeting group is poor to high middle class people who live
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The search for an identity - a sense of self- is a life-long journey and a great dilemma. It is an undeniable fact that our identities are formed by where we are – whether it be the physical location or a passage in time. The child of the 21st century will be very different to that of the 18th or 19th century. The same can be said about our physical location- it is impossible to compare the identities of a child growing up in a privileged western society to that of the Middle East or Africa. However
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The novel The Book Thief by Markus Zusak‚ their are people who are going to die‚ just like in the movie Passengers. In the movie‚ Jim preston‚ (Chris Pratt)‚ and Aurora‚ (Jennifer Lawrence)‚ go on a ship where they are going a planet called homestead two which is 180 years away. They both wake up from hibernation to early‚ and therefore‚ they both know it is a death sentence because their is no way to go back to sleep. This is just like the book Thief in the way that the main characters both know
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children This quote means that cronus is trying to stop his children from taking control of him.My conclusion is that cronus swallowed his children and he betrayed his son. The lightning thief
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often times‚ it is the goal of the author to create a piece of matter which fosters this suspension in an effort to convey their message or theme (Bernett). In an effort to do so‚ they tailor their work to target audiences. With regards to The Book Thief and All the Light We Cannot See‚ my initial response after reading them was that they were remarkably similar‚ what with their World War II settings‚ their female protagonists‚ the theme of abandonment‚ etc. This sparked my interest and led to my desire
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In The Book Thief‚ readers follow through the childhood of Liesel Meminger‚ a young German girl growing up in Nazi Germany during World War II‚ all through the interesting perspective of Death. After losing her entire family‚ she is adopted into a new family‚ and gradually adapts to a new life in the town of Molching‚ on a street named Himmel. She learns how to live with her two adoptive parents: a stern‚ “small wardrobe-sized” mother who swears “Saumensch” on a daily basis‚ and a father who plays
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