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IELTS Reading Task 03:<\/span><\/h6>\n

IELTS Reading Tips: How can I improve my score (Part Three):<\/p>\n

Below are some IELTS reading tips about how you can improve your score. The tips include developing both IELTS reading exam skills and also improving your English.<\/p>\n

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  1. GT Test<\/strong>. The first two passages in the GT test are different to the academic test but the third passage is similar. To practice the first two types of reading passages, you can practice reading materials such as instruction manuals, schedules and employment terms. You can find practice tests in the IELTS Cambridge books. The same skills and question types apply to both the GT test and academic test so all lessons on this blog will be useful to Gt students.<\/li>\n
  2. Know your weaknesses<\/strong>. Unless you know your weaknesses, you won\u2019t know how to improve. You must check the reasons why you are getting your answers wrong or right. If you are getting answers wrong due to your understanding of the passage, then you know you must improve your English language. If you are getting your answers wrong because your couldn\u2019t find the information or you didn\u2019t understand the question or you ran out of time, then the problem is your technique and strategies. Spend time reviewing your performance.<\/li>\n
  3. Be realistic<\/strong>. If your level of English is not strong, don\u2019t expect to get band score 7.<\/li>\n
  4. Plan your training for IELTS reading.<\/strong> You should spend time\n
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    1. developing vocabulary and paraphrasing limitation<\/li>\n
    2. practicing particular question types<\/li>\n
    3. developing speed in locating information<\/li>\n
    4. doing practice test not under exam conditions so you can work on skills<\/li>\n
    5. doing practice tests under exam conditions to test your score and improvement<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n
    6. You must prepare<\/strong>. Like all tests, you need to prepare. Even native speakers need to prepare by learning about the different types of questions and developing the right skills.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Reading passage 03:<\/span><\/h2>\n
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      This is the third section of your IELTS Academic Reading test. You should spend about twenty minutes on it. Read the passage and answer questions 27-40.<\/p>\n

      Helium\u2019s future up in the air<\/span><\/h6>\n

      A) In recent years we have all been exposed to dire media reports concerning the impending demise of global coal and oil reserves, but the depletion of another key non-renewable resource continues without receiving much press at all. Helium \u2013 an inert, odourless, monatomic element known to lay people as the substance that makes balloons float and voices squeak when inhaled \u2013 could be gone from this planet within a generation.<\/p>\n

      B) Helium itself is not rare; there is actually a plentiful supply of it in the cosmos. In fact, 24 per cent of our galaxy\u2019s elemental mass consists of helium, which makes it the second most abundant element in our universe. Because of its lightness, however, most helium vanished from our own planet many years ago. Consequently, only a miniscule proportion \u2013 0.00052%, to be exact \u2013 remains in earth\u2019s atmosphere. Helium is the by-product of millennia of radioactive decay from the elements thorium and uranium. The helium is mostly trapped in subterranean natural gas bunkers and commercially extracted through a method known as fractional distillation.<\/p>\n

      C) The loss of helium on Earth would affect society greatly. Defying the perception of it as a novelty substance for parties and gimmicks, the element actually has many vital applications in society. Probably the most well known commercial usage is in airships and blimps (non-flammable helium replaced hydrogen as the lifting gas du jour after the Hindenburg catastrophe in 1932, during which an airship burst into flames and crashed to the ground killing some passengers and crew). But helium is also instrumental in deep-sea diving, where it is blended with nitrogen to mitigate the dangers of inhaling ordinary air under high pressure; as a cleaning agent for rocket engines; and, in its most prevalent use, as a coolant for superconducting magnets in hospital MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) scanners.<\/p>\n

      D) The possibility of losing helium forever poses the threat of a real crisis because its unique qualities are extraordinarily difficult, if not impossible to duplicate (certainly, no biosynthetic ersatz product is close to approaching the point of feasibility for helium, even as similar developments continue apace for oil and coal). Helium is even cheerfully derided as a \u201cloner\u201d element since it does not adhere to other molecules like its cousin, hydrogen. According to Dr. Lee Sobotka, helium is the \u201cmost noble of gases, meaning it\u2019s very stable and non-reactive for the most part \u2026 it has a closed electronic configuration, a very tightly bound atom. It is this coveting of its own electrons that prevents combination with other elements\u2019. Another important attribute is helium\u2019s unique boiling point, which is lower than that for any other element. The worsening global shortage could render millions of dollars of high-value, life-saving equipment totally useless. The dwindling supplies have already resulted in the postponement of research and development projects in physics laboratories and manufacturing plants around the world. There is an enormous supply and demand imbalance partly brought about by the expansion of high-tech manufacturing in Asia.<\/p>\n

      E) The source of the problem is the Helium Privatisation Act (HPA), an American law passed in 1996 that requires the U.S. National Helium Reserve to liquidate its helium assets by 2015 regardless of the market price. Although intended to settle the original cost of the reserve by a U.S. Congress ignorant of its ramifications, the result of this fire sale is that global helium prices are so artificially deflated that few can be bothered recycling the substance or using it judiciously. Deflated values also mean that natural gas extractors see no reason to capture helium. Much is lost in the process of extraction. As Sobotka notes: “[t]he government had the good vision to store helium, and the question now is: Will the corporations have the vision to capture it when extracting natural gas, and consumers the wisdom to recycle? This takes long-term vision because present market forces are not sufficient to compel prudent practice\u201d. For Nobel-prize laureate Robert Richardson, the U.S. government must be prevailed upon to repeal its privatisation policy as the country supplies over 80 per cent of global helium, mostly from the National Helium Reserve. For Richardson, a twenty- to fifty-fold increase in prices would provide incentives to recycle.<\/p>\n

      F) A number of steps need to be taken in order to avert a costly predicament in the coming decades. Firstly, all existing supplies of helium ought to be conserved and released only by permit, with medical uses receiving precedence over other commercial or recreational demands. Secondly, conservation should be obligatory and enforced by a regulatory agency. At the moment some users, such as hospitals, tend to recycle diligently while others, such as NASA, squander massive amounts of helium. Lastly, research into alternatives to helium must begin in earnest.<\/p>\n

      Questions 27\u201331<\/span><\/h6>\n
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      Reading passage 3 has six paragraphs, A\u2013F.<\/p>\n

      Which paragraph contains the following information?<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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      Questions<\/h3>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

      27) a use for helium which makes an activity safer<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
      28) the possibility of creating an alternative to helium<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
      29) a term which describes the process of how helium is taken out of the ground<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
      30) a reason why users of helium do not make efforts to conserve it<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
      31) a contrast between helium\u2019s chemical properties and how non-scientists think about it<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n
      Questions 32\u201335<\/span><\/h6>\n
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      Do the following statements agree with the claims of the writer in Reading passage 3?<\/p>\n

      Answer Yes, No or Not given to questions 32-35.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n
      Yes<\/td>\nif the statement agrees with the claims of the writer<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
      No<\/td>\nif the statement contradicts the claims of the writer<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
      Not given<\/td>\nif it is impossible to say what the writer thinks about this<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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      Questions<\/h3>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

      32) Helium chooses to be on its own.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
      33) Helium is a very cold substance.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
      34) High-tech industries in Asia use more helium than laboratories and manufacturers in other parts of the world.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
      35) The US Congress understood the possible consequences of the HPA.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n
      Questions 36\u201340<\/span><\/h6>\n
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      Complete the summary below.<\/p>\n

      Choose no more than two words from the passage for each answer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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      Questions<\/h3>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

      Sobotka argues that big business and users of helium need to help look after helium stocks because (36) \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.. will not be encouraged through buying and selling alone. Richardson believes that the (37) \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.. needs to be withdrawn, as the U.S. provides most of the world\u2019s helium. He argues that higher costs would mean people have (38) \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.. to use the resource many times over.<\/p>\n

      People should need a (39) \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.. to access helium that we still have. Furthermore, a (40) \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.. should ensure that helium is used carefully.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n

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      Remember, you have 60 minutes to complete the Reading test! You should spend about 20 minutes on each of the three sections.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

      You have now reached the end of your Reading test;\u00a0download the answers<\/a>\u00a0and see how well you have done.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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      Reading practice test 1 IELTS Academic – answers<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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      – GO TO GRAMMAR & VOCABULARY SECTION<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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