COMPLETE IELTS 5-6.5 UNIT 4 READING AND LISTENING

COMPLETE IELTS 5-6.5 UNIT 4 READING AND LISTNENING

Open Ended

Do you often use social networking websites?

How has the internet changed the way you communicate with people?

Do you think social media is important for young people? Why?

Open Ended

Question 1 -6

1. FALSE
"That was the bland title of a document written in March 1989 by a then-little-known computer scientist called Tim Berners-Lee."
2. TRUE
"In fact, the Web was invented to deal with a specific problem... ‘Yes, but how will we ever keep track of such a large project?’"
3. NOT GIVEN
4. TRUE
"It has permitted professional scientists to recruit thousands of amateurs to give them a hand."
5. FALSE
This project...was so successful that a successor has now been launched, to classify the brightest quarter of a million of them in finer detail."
6. NOT GIVEN
This will allow them to track the changes in the distribution of species in response to climate change.

QUESTION 1-6

Open Ended

Question 7-10

7. Sizes
Evidence: The passage mentions, "Social scientists use it to run online behavioural experiments...including data from Facebook."

8. Messages
Evidence: The text states, "The majority of the messages were directed at a few specific friends."

9. Laws
Evidence: The text mentions, "Dr Huberman has also helped uncover several laws of web surfing."

10. Attention
Evidence: The text explains, "...whereby a few sites on a given subject attract most of the attention, and the rest get very little."

QUESTION 7-10

Open Ended

Question 11-13

11. Bloggers
The text states, "Indeed, many bloggers develop and refine their essays as a result of those comments."
12. Scientific research
"Yet although people have tried to have scientific research reviewed in the same way, most researchers only accept reviews from a few anonymous experts."
13. Nature
"When Nature, one of the world’s most respected scientific journals, experimented with open peer review in 2006..."

QUESTION 11-13

LISTENING

ANSWER

​1. photo/photograph, 2. organisation, 3. letter, 4. local issue, 5. advertising

6. pyramid, 7. quotes/quotations, 8. figures, 9. conclusion, 10. headline