Top Tips for ielts academic Reading

Answer the questions below.
1
In which year was Alvin built? (in) 
1964 
✓
2
What material is Alvin made of? syntactic faom 
✗
3
What equipment on Alvin can operate instruments? 
robotic arm 
✗
4
What equipment on Alvin is used as a container? (a) 
basket 
✓
Explanation:
 In 
2
one word, ‘foam’, has been copied wrongly, so the 
answer won’t get a mark. In 
3
one of the two words, ‘arms’, has been copied 
wrongly, so this answer will be marked wrong.
The questions and answers follow the order of the text.

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Top Tips for Academic Reading
 
Flow-chart completion
TIP: To work out the order in which activities happen, try to identify 
particular words in the text that show this.
Example
Here is part of a text about the process of producing sugar. In this example, 
answers should be no more than one word and/or a number.
Raw sugar comes from sugar cane. When the cane is harvested, it first 
goes to mills, usually in the same region, and raw sugar is extracted 
from it. This is then sent in bulk to refineries, which are often located 
in heavy sugar-consuming countries. There are several stages in the 
refining process, starting with affination, which includes the removal of 
various impurities by using a centrifuge. Eventually the recovery stage 
is reached, which leaves white sugar and a sweet by-product which is 
often used as cattle feed.
Complete the flow chart below.
Sugar cane sent to 
1
mills
Raw sugar shipped to