Simon 128 IELTS
reading exercises
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Exercise 12
IELTS Reading: paragraph heading
Read the paragraph below and choose the best heading from the list.
Reading underwent serious changes in the 18th century. Until 1750, reading was done
“intensively”: people tended to own a small number of books and read them repeatedly,
often to a small audience. After 1750, people began to read “extensively”, finding as many
books as they could, and increasingly reading them alone. Libraries that lent out their
material for a small price started to appear, and occasionally bookstores would offer a small
lending library to their patrons. Coffee houses commonly offered books, journals and
sometimes even popular novels to their customers.
1. The appearance of the first public libraries.
2. Intensive and extensive reading habits.
3. The reading revolution.
Exercise 13
IELTS Reading: yes, no, not given
Read the following passage about geometry:
Geometry (from the Ancient Greek:
γεωμετρία; geo- "earth", -metron "measurement") is a
branch of mathematics concerned with questions of shape, size, relative position of figures,
and the properties of space. The earliest recorded beginnings of geometry can be traced to
ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt in the 2nd millennium BC.
An important application of geometry is in the field of architecture. Apart from the
mathematics needed when engineering buildings, architects use geometry for several
reasons: to define the spatial form of a building; to create forms that are considered
harmonious; to lay out buildings and their surroundings according to mathematical,
aesthetic and sometimes religious principles; to decorate buildings with mathematical
objects such as tessellations; and to meet environmental goals, such as to minimise wind
speeds around the bases of tall buildings.
In the graphic arts, geometry can be seen in the use of perspective, which may be
described as the approximate representation, generally on a flat surface (such as paper), of
an image as it is seen by the eye. The two most characteristic features of perspective are
that objects appear smaller as their distance from the observer increases, and that they are
subject to foreshortening, meaning that an object's dimensions along the line of sight
appear shorter than its dimensions across the line of sight.
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