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QUESTIONS 1-10
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access to an a u d io
C D player, please 
refer t o th e a u d io ­
s c rip ts s ta rtin g on 
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to an a u d io passage.
Questions 1—10
Complete the form below.
Write N O M ORE THAN TW O WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER for
each answer.
Example:
ClearPoint Telephone Com'b&nis/ 
Customer Order Form
Order taken by:
Ms. Tones
Name:
Harold 1
Address:
2 
.... Fulton Avenue, apartment 12
Type of service:
3 
..................
Employer:
Wrightsville Medical Group
Occupation:
4
Work phone:
5
Time at current job:
6
Special services:
7 ..............
8 __ 
......
Installation scheduled for: 
Dav 9 
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QUESTIONS 11-20
Questions 11-14
Choose the correct letter> A, B, or C.
11 The fair will take place at the
A fairgrounds.
B park.
C school.
12 The fair will begin on Friday
A morning.
B afternoon.
C evening.
13
The fair will begin with a 
A parade.
B dance performance.
C speech by the mayor.
14
There will be free admission on
A Friday.
B Saturday.
C Sunday.
Questions 15—
2 0
Complete the chart1 below.
Write N O MORE THAN ONE WORD for each answer.
Saturday afternoon
15
show
Saturday evening
16
by the lake
Sunday afternoon
17
.......... contest
All weekend
18
food
19
for children
20 ..........
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QUESTIONS 21-30
Questions 21—
23
Complete the information below.
Write N O M ORE THAN TW O WORDS fo r each answer.
How to get academic credit for work experience
First, read the 2 1 _____________ Find courses that match your work
experience. Then write 2 2 ____________ of your work experience. Submit
that together with a letter from your 2 3 ____________ to the university
admissions office.
Questions 2 4 -2 8
Where can the items listed below be found?
Write the correct letter, A
, 
B, or C, next to questions 24—28.
A 
admissions office
B 
counseling center1
C 
library
. ^ _ .... 
^ ^ 
... ....... j
24 university catalog2
25 application for admission form
26 requirements list
27 recommendation forms
28 job listings
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Choose the correct letters, A, B, or C.
29 What are full-time students eligible for?
A Discounted books 
B The work-study program1 
C A free bus pass
30 How can a student get financial assistance?
A Speak with a counselor2 
B Apply to the admissions office 
C Make arrangements with a bank
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QUESTIONS 31-40
Questions 3 1 -3 5
Complete the chart with information about the black bear. 
Write N O M O R E TH A N TW O W O RD S for each answer.
Range 
Lives in 
31 __________________
of North America
Diet 
Ninety percent of diet consists of 
32 ------ --------------------.
Also eats 
3 3 ____________
Cubs 
Baby bear cubs are born in 
3 4 __________ ---------------
Life span 
Black bears live for about 
3 5 ______ _ 
in the wild.
Questions 3 6 -4 0
Which characteristics f it black bears and which fit grizzly bearsf
Write A i f it is a characteristic o f black bears. Write B i f it is a characteristic o f
grizzly bears.
36 Has a patch of light fur on its chest 
____________
37 Weighs 225 kilos 
____________
38 Has a shoulder hump 
____________
39 Has pointed ears 
____________
40 Has shorter claws 
____________
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Practice Test 4
Candidate Name and Number:
INTERNATIONAL ENGLISH LANGUAGE 
TESTING SYSTEM
ACADEMIC READING
TIME 1 HOUR
Instructions to Candidates
Do not open this booklet until you are told to do so.
Write your name and candidate number in the space at the top of this page.
Start at the beginning of the test and work through it.
You should answer all questions.
If you cannot do a particular question, leave it and go on to the next. You can return 
to it later.
All answers must be written on the Answer Sheet. (The answer sheet can be 
found on page 144.)
Do not remove the booklet from the examination room.
Information for Candidates
There are 40 questions on this question paper.
The test is divided as follows:
Reading Passage 1
Questions 1-13
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Reading Passage 2
Questions 14-27
Reading Passage 3
Questions 28-40
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READING PASSAGE 1
You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1—13, which are based on 
Reading Passage 1 below.
The Gulf Stream and Global Warming
Labrador and London lie at about the same latitude, but Labrador is frigid and 
has only 30 miles of paved roads while London is one of the major centers1 of 
civilization.2 Why do two places, equidistant from the Arctic Circle, have such 
disparate climates? The Gulf Stream that flows by the British Isles makes all the 
difference: Its warm waters make northwestern Europe so abundant with life that 
palm trees can actually grow on the southern shores of England.
This life-giving Gulf Stream is warm, salty water, which travels along the sur­
face of the Atlantic Ocean from the Caribbean, along the east coast of the United 
States, and then veers toward Europe. In the tropics, this water is warmed by the 
sun and becomes saltier because of the higher rate of evaporation in the heat. The 
Gulf Stream divides as it travels, but the majority of the stream moves north and 
east. As it travels past Europe, the Gulf Stream warms the atmosphere, and the 
prevailing westerly winds bring the warmed air to all of northwestern Europe, 
making the area suitable for intense agriculture. The Gulf Stream makes it pos­
sible for Europe to feed an increasingly large population.
After the Gulf Stream reaches southeast Greenland and western Iceland, 
much of the heat of the stream is gone, and the colder, denser water then sinks. 
The bulk of the Gulf Stream is carried down toward the ocean floor into as 
many as seven large vortices, called chimneys. They suck the Gulf Stream waters 
down over a mile deep, where the water is then drawn into another dynamic 
ocean current. Almost 2 miles below the surface, this cold water current flows 
in reverse, from the north southward. When this cold water nears the equator, 
it is again pulled up from the bottom of the ocean as the surface water is heated 
and starts its journey north. This upwelling brings with it minerals and food 
from the detritus at the bottom of the ocean to refresh food supplies for fish and 
other marine creatures.
This stream of water— the warm water traveling3 north along the surface and 
the cold water traveling south along the floor—has become known as the Great 
Ocean Conveyor Belt. This flow of ocean currents has been extremely important 
in regulating the temperature of the globe and in making life possible. These cur­
rents in the North Atlantic are part of the Great Conveyor Belt that flows 
through all the oceans of the world. The least stable section of this global current 
is in the North Atlantic. The Gulf Stream is the most unstable of all.
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Predictions of the effects of global warming on the G ulf Stream are based on 
computer models, which differ to some extent. But several important facts are 
known. South of Greenland, there used to be as many as seven chimneys that 
pulled water from the G ulf Stream down toward the ocean floor. In the last sev­
eral years, only one remained, and then, in 2007, that one disappeared. The 
causes for the demise of the chimneys may include the increase in fresh water 
from glacial melt. In recent winters, glacial melt has released record amounts of 
fresh water into the oceans. As the North Atlantic waters, including fresh water 
from rivers as well as the increased amount of glacial melt, mix with the Gulf 
Stream, the salt water is diluted. Because fresh water is not as dense as salt water, 
it does not sink, which impairs the natural mechanism for forming the chimneys. 
As the chimneys have disappeared, the Gulf Stream has slowed. About 30 per­
cent of the water from the Gulf Stream that used to reach Europe travels else­
where or is lost in the disintegration of the current, a loss o f over six million tons 
of water flow every second. W ithout a strong Gulf Stream, the slow, cold water 
of the lower part of the conveyor belt fails to rise, which reduces the circulation 
of nutrients for marine life. The problem of warming then worsens: As less sur­
face water, which is full of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, siphons into the 
depths of the ocean, less carbon dioxide is removed from the atmosphere, thus 
increasing global warming.
Ocean sediments and glacial cores show that there have been global swings in 
temperature in the past. The last Ice Age, when much of N orth America and 
northern Europe were covered in glaciers 2 miles thick, occurred when the aver­
age temperature dropped about 5 degrees Celsius. That ice age ended about
20,000 years ago. The last “Little Ice Age,” when the average temperature 
dropped only 1 to 2 degrees Celsius, occurred in the sixteenth and seventeenth 
centuries, hitting Europe hardest. At that time, the Gulf Stream had slowed to 
about half its usual rate.
Core samples also show that the changes in temperature have been abrupt, 
not gradual. There would be little time to prepare for the devastating changes 
resulting from the weakening of the Gulf Stream. The good news is that in the 
winters of 2008 and 2009, one of the chimneys off southeastern Greenland sud­
denly burst into action again, bringing the Gulf Stream waters down deep 
enough to be caught in the conveyor and to keep the ocean currents in the 
N orth Atlantic flowing.
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