Top Tips for ielts academic Reading

Complete the notes below.
Initial experiment:
• aim: to 
1 protect cloth cloth from stains 
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• problem: the cloth became
 2 stiff 
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• potential value: the coating of film was 
3 transparent and could 
easily be separated from the cloth 
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Development:
• used 
4 glycerine to to change the texture of the film 
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Explanation: 
1
is wrong, because ‘cloth’ is repeated. The correct answer is 
‘protect’. 
4
is wrong, because ‘to’ is repeated. The correct answer is ‘glycerine’. 

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Top Tips for Academic Reading
 
Sentence completion
TIP: Make sure you use words from the text exactly as they are written 
in the text, and that they fit the sentences grammatically.
Example
Here is part of a text about public relations. In this example, answers should 
be no more than one word and/or a number.
Not so long ago, public relations – or PR, as it is usually referred to – 
was the poor relation of many functions within an organisation. 
While Production, Finance and even Human Resources were usually 
represented at Board level, the PR function was much further down 
the hierarchy, simply expected to do its job of issuing press releases 
and gaining positive publicity for the organisation. This is now changing. 
In addition to these bread-and-butter tasks, PR specialists may now 
be involved in strategic planning, as senior managers realise how much 
PR can contribute as the ears and eyes of the organisation.
Complete the sentences below.
1
Some of an organisation’s other 
function used to be considered 
more important than PR. 
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