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11 CUE CARDS IN 1 JUMBO CUE CARD STORY


LIST OF CUE CARDS COVERED

- Describe a person you know who has chosen a career in the medical field (Rahul as a neurologist)

- Describe a person who likes to read a lot (Rahul’s room filled with books)

- Describe an occasion when you helped a family member/relative (Helping Rahul after his accident)

- Describe a person who likes to make things by hand (Rahul making wooden toys)

- Describe a time that you showed something new to others (Rahul showing how to make toys)

- Describe a person who has strong opinions (Rahul's views in conversations)

- Describe someone else’s room you enjoy spending time in (Rahul’s room with books and music)

- Describe a person who thinks music is important (Rahul enjoying music to relax)

- Describe a person who likes to buy goods with low prices (Rahul buying a stethoscope on sale)

- Describe a picture/photograph of you that you like (School event photo with Rahul)

- Describe a person who inspired you to do something interesting (Rahul inspiring personal milestones)

 

JUMBO SAMPLE ANSWER

 

Sample Answer:

There’s someone I know who’s had a significant impact on my life—my childhood friend Rahul. He’s not only chosen a career in the medical field as a neurologist, but he’s also a person who inspires everyone around him with his passion and creativity. He’s the kind of person who is always full of interesting ideas and strong opinions about things, which I find really engaging.

 

One particular memory I have is when I helped Rahul after he met with an accident during his final year of medical school. He was unable to complete his assignments, so I stepped in to assist him. It was a stressful time, but I was happy to help him with his research and writing, knowing how much it meant for his career. He’s always been determined, and seeing him graduate and become a doctor made me incredibly proud. In fact, this experience encouraged me to pursue my own goals, as his encouragement was invaluable.

 

Aside from his dedication to medicine, Rahul has an artistic side as well. He loves to make things by hand, especially wooden toys, which he learned from his father, who is a skilled carpenter. I remember visiting his workshop once, and he showed me how to make a miniature wooden truck, which was fascinating. He has a way of introducing others to new hobbies and ideas, and I’ve always admired that about him.

 

When I think about Rahul, I also recall the times we spent together at his house. His room is a place where I feel really comfortable. It's filled with books, music, and art—things that reflect his eclectic personality. In fact, he’s also a music lover and believes that music is essential for relaxation. Whenever I visit him, we usually listen to his favorite tracks while discussing everything from medicine to politics. He always has these strong opinions that make our conversations engaging and insightful.

 

Interestingly, Rahul is also quite savvy when it comes to shopping. He’s the type of person who enjoys finding good deals and buying things at low prices. I remember him sharing with me the news that he bought a high-end stethoscope on sale, and he was thrilled with his purchase. It’s one of those things that shows how practical he is, even when it comes to personal items.

 

Finally, I must mention that there’s a photograph of the two of us from one of our school events that I really like. It reminds me of how much we’ve grown since those days—he’s now a successful doctor, and I’ve achieved my own milestones, thanks in part to his inspiration and encouragement. He’s not just a friend; he’s someone who pushes me to be the best version of myself.

 

 Vocabulary:

1. Influence – the capacity to have an effect on the behavior or character of someone.

2. Admire – to regard with respect or warm approval.

3. Go-to person – a reliable source for advice or help.

4. Strong opinions – firm and assertive beliefs or judgments.

5. Valuable insights – important and useful understanding or knowledge.

6. Guidance – advice or information to solve problems or make decisions.

7. Health issues – medical conditions affecting well-being.

8. Avid reader – someone who reads a lot with enthusiasm.

9. Cozy – comfortable and warm, often used to describe spaces.

10. Ideal – considered perfect or most suitable.

11. Atmosphere – the mood or feeling of a place.

12. Serenity – the state of being calm, peaceful, and untroubled.

13. Unwind – to relax after a period of work or tension.

14. Hustle and bustle – busy and noisy activity.

15. Classical music – a traditional form of music, often relaxing and calming.

16. Perseverance – continued effort to achieve something despite difficulties.

17. Contributing to society – offering help, work, or ideas that benefit the community.

18. Inspired – to be motivated or influenced by someone or something.

19. Determination – firmness of purpose; resolve.

 

 Phrases:

1. Look up to – to admire or respect someone.

2. Go through – to experience something, especially difficult situations.

3. Set up – to arrange or organize something.

4. Appreciative of the help – grateful for assistance.

5. Flip through – to look quickly through pages of a book.

6. Go-to place – a location you frequently visit or prefer.

7. Keep pursuing your passions – continue following your interests with determination.

8. Step in to help – to intervene to provide assistance.

 

 

 

The Pioneer Anomaly | ielts reading passage | 05 October ielts exam | 05 October ielts reading passage | 05 October ielts exam prediction | 5 October ielts reading prediction

The Pioneer Anomaly

READING PASSAGE 

You should spend about 20 minutes on Question 14-28 which are based on Reading Passage 2 below.

The Pioneer Anomaly

A

It's been more than four decades of incessant theorising and perplexed head-scratching for scientists, engineers and astronomy fans across the globe, but thanks to a recent study published in the journal Physical Review Letter, we finally have some answers to what has been causing the deceleration of NASA's Pioneer 10 and 11 spacecraft-otherwise known as the "Pioneer Anomaly".

B

Pioneer 10 and 11 were launched in 1972 and 1973 respectively and were the first spacecraft to travel beyond the solar system's main asteroid belt. Their claim to fame, however, changed the moment they skirted past Jupiter and began their journey towards Saturn, as it was at that point-by then already the early 1980sthat scientists and navigators discovered something had gone terribly awry: the two spacecraft seemed to be slowing down.

C

As Bruce Betts of The Planetary Society explains, the scientists involved in the project had anticipated most of the slowing down due to "the gravitational pull of the Sun and other massive objects in the solar system". In fact, when the deceleration was first observed, it was so small that it was dismissed as an insignificant, temporary phenomenon, and attributed to the effect of dribbles of leftover propellant still in the fuel lines after controllers had cut off the propellant. It would take until 1998 for a group of scientists led by John Anderson of Jet Propulsion Laboratory 0PL) to confirm that, even at 13 kilometres from the sun, the two Pioneer spacecraft were still losing speed at a rate of approximately 300 inches per day squared (0.9 nanometres per second squared). The first theories of what might be the cause followed soon thereafter.

D

The late 1990s were an important time for the field of astrophysics, with the Hubble Space Telescope observations of distant supernovae having only in 1998 confirmed that the universe is expanding at an accelerating rate. Anderson et al's confirmation of the Pioneer Anomaly the same year seemed to offer a demonstration of the very same phenomenon of expansion within our own solar system-a theory that plenty of scientists quickly embraced. Others yet ascribed the deceleration to dark matter, while some suggested the spacecraft, as Toth and Turyshev put it, might've "unearthed the first evidence of extra dimensions". The possibility that a new law of physics directly contradicting Einstein's general theory of relativity might be to blame was also considered.

E

In 2004, Turyshev decided to get to the bottom of the Pioneer anomaly. Since the two spacecraft had stopped communicating with earth (Pioneer 11 first in 1995, and Pioneer 10 less than a decade later in 2003), all he could depend on were old communications and data; so, with the monetary aid of the Planetary Society and its eager, dedicated members, he began to gather the data from a number of different sources. There were two types of data that he needed to procure for his research: the "housekeeping data" engineers had used in order to monitor spacecraft operation, and Doppler data.

F

The data came in all sorts of forms: some were in digitised files offered by JPL navigators (a lucky find, as punch cards were still the preferred method of data storage back in the 1970s), while others were in magnetic tapes accidentally discovered under a staircase in JPL. All in all, there were more than 43 gigabytes of data-an admirable result, considering that at the time the two Pioneer spacecraft were launched there had been no formal requirement that NASA archive any of the records collected, and it had only been due to sheer luck and a former Pioneer team member's diligence that any telemetry data had been saved at all.

G

Once all the data had been collected, the formidable task of going through the volumes of information began. It was neither quick nor easy, and it required the assistance of a variety of people, including JPL engineers and retired TRW engineers who had worked on the Pioneer project, who had to consult with each other in order to interpret old blueprints and reconstruct the probes' 3D structure. In the end, however, the team's perseverance paid off, and Turyshev's suspicions-which had initiated the study-were confirmed: it was the electrical subsystems and the decay of plutonium in the Pioneer power sources that were to blame for the spacecraft's bizarre trajectory-more specifically the heat they emitted. This was corroborated by the discovery that other spacecraft with different designs had not been affected in the way Pioneer 10 and 11 had.

As Turyshev said, speaking of the study, "the story is finding its conclusion because it turns out that standard physics prevail. While of course, it would've been exciting to discover a new kind of physics, we did solve a mystery."

Questions 14-20

The reading passage has seven sections, A-G.

Which section contains the following information?

Write the correct letter A-G, in boxes 14-20 on your answer sheet.

14 The contemporary context of John Anderson's study

15 How Turyshev's study was conducted

16 A description of the journey of the Pioneer aircraft

17 How data was normally cached at the time of the Pioneer launch

18 Why Turyshev's study couldn't rely on new information

19 The name of a scientific publication

20 The original theories for the Pioneer anomaly

Questions 21-25

Complete each sentence with the correct ending A-H below.

Write the correct letter, A-H, in boxes 21-25 on your answer sheet.

A played a pivotal role in Turyshev's study.

B coincided with another scientific breakthrough in its field.

C leftover propellant had been expected to cause issues.

D contradicted contemporary theories about the Pioneer spacecraft.

E ceased communication later than its predecessor.

F was inspected by former TRW engineers to confirm its authenticity.

G exceeded all expectations in terms of quantity.

H external factors had been taken into account in the planning stage.

21 NASA's Pioneer 10 spacecraft

22 The Planetary Society

23 Some of the spacecraft's deceleration was not a surprise because

24 John Anderson's study

25 The data Turyshev used in his study

Questions 26-28

Choose THREE letters A-H.

Write your answers in boxes 26-28 on your answer sheet.

NB Your answers may be given in any order.

Which THREE of the following statements are true of Turshev's study?

A Former Pioneer team members were recruited to help to understand the data.

B It was an initiative by the Planetary Society that instigated it.

C It provided us with the first proof of extra dimensions.

D It identified calefaction caused by the Pioneer design as the culprit behind the anomaly.

E Parts of the Pioneer spacecraft were recreated to help with the study.

F The analysis stage of the study was particularly time-consuming.

G It proved that spacecraft with a design similar to the Pioneer 10 and 11 faced similar issues.

H Turyshev was unhappy with the result of his investigation.

ANSWER

14. D

15. G

16. B

17. F

18. E

19. A

20. C

21. E

22. A

23. H

24. B

25. G

26. A

27. D

28. F

Company Innovation | ielts reading passage | 05 October ielts exam | 05 October ielts reading passage | 05 October ielts exam prediction | 5 October ielts reading prediction

READING PASSAGE 3

You should spend about 20 minutes on Question 28-40 which are based on Reading Passage 3 below.

Company Innovation

A

In a shabby office in downtown Manhattan, a group of 30 AI (artificial intelligence) programmers from Umagic are attempting to mimic the brains of a famous sexologist, a celebrated dietitian, a popular fitness coach and a bunch of other specialists, Umagic Systems is an up-and-coming firm, which sets up websites that enable their clients to seek advice from the virtual versions of those figures. The users put in all the information regarding themselves and their objectives; then it’s Umagic’s job to give advice, that a star expert would give. Even though the neuroses of American consumers have always been a marketing focus, the future of Umagic is difficult to predict (who knows what it’ll be like in ten years? Asking a computer about your sex life might be either normal or crazy). However, companies such, as Umagic1 are starting .to intimidate major American firms, because these young companies regard the half-crazy ‘creative’ ideas as the portal lo their triumph m the future.

B

Innovation has established itself as the catchword of American business management Enterprises have realised that they are running out of things that can be outsourced or re-engineered (worryingly, by their competitors too) Winners of today’s American business tend to be companies with innovative powers such as Dell, Amazon and Wal-Mart, which have come up with concepts or goods that have reshaped their industries.

C

According to a new book by two consultants from Arthur D. Little, during the last 15 years, the top 20% of firms in Fortune magazine’s annual innovation survey have attained twice as much the shareholder returns as their peers. The desperate search for new ideas is the hormone for a large part of today’s merger boom. The same goes for the money spent on licensing and purchasing others’ intellectual property. Based on the statistics from Pasadena-based Patent & Licence Exchange, trade volume in intangible assets in America has gone up from $15 billion in 1990 to $100 billion in 1998, with small firms and individuals taking up an increasing share of the rewards.

D

And that terrifies big companies: it appears that innovation works incompatible with them. Some major famous companies that are always known for ‘innovative ideas’, such as 3M, Procter & Gamble, and Rubbermaid, have recently had dry spells. Peter Chernin, who runs the Fox TV and film empire for News Corporation, points out that ‘In the management of creativity, size is your enemy.’ It’s impossible for someone who’s managing 20 movies to be as involved as someone doing 5. Therefore, he has tried to divide the studio into smaller parts, disregarding the risk of higher expenses.

E

Nowadays, ideas are more likely to prosper outside big companies. In the old days, when a brilliant scientist came up with an idea and wanted to make money out of it, he would take it to a big company first. But now, with all these cheap venture capital around, he would probably want to commercialise it by himself. So far, Umagic has already raised $5m and is on its way to another $25m. Even in the case of capital-intensive businesses like pharmaceuticals, entrepreneurs have the option to conduct early-stage research and sell out to the big firms when they’re faced with costly, risky clinical trials. Approximately 1/3 of drug firms’ total revenue is now from licensed-in technology.

F

Some of the major enterprises such as General Electric and Cisco have been impressively triumphant when it comes to snatching and incorporating small companies’ scores. However, other grants are concerned about the money they have to spend and the way to keep those geniuses who generated the idea. It is the dream of everyone to develop more ideas within their organisations Procter & Gamble is currently switching their entire business focus from countries to products; one of the goals is to get the whole company to accept the innovations. In other places, the craving for innovation has caused a frenzy lor intrapreneurship’ transferring power and establishing internal idea-workshops and tracking inventory so that the talents will stay.

G

Some people don't believe that this kind of restructuring is sufficient. Clayton Christensen argues in new book that big firms’ many advantages, such as taking care of their existing customers, can get in the way of innovative behaviour that is necessary for handling disruptive technologies That’s why there’s been the trend of cannibalisation, which brings about businesses that will confront and jeopardise the existing ones. For example, Bank One has set up Wingspan, which is an online bank that in fact compete, with its actual branches.

H

There’s no denying that innovation is a big deal. However, do major firms have to be this pessimistic? According to a recent survey of the to 50 innovations in America by Industry Week, ide as are equally likely to come from both big and small companies. Big companies can adopt new ideas when they are mature enough and the risks and rewards have become more quantifiable.

Questions 28-33

Reading Passage 3 has nine paragraphs, A-I.

Which paragraph contains the following information?

Write the correct letter, A-I, in boxes 28-33 on your answer sheet.

NB You may use any letter more than once.

28 an approach to retain the best employees

29 safeguarding expenses on innovative ideas

30 a certain counter-effect produced by integrating outside firms

31 an example of three famous American companies’ innovation

32 an example of one company changing its focus

33 an example of a company resolving financial difficulties itself

Questions 34-37

Do the following statements agree with the information given in Reading Passage 3?

In boxes 34-37 on your answer sheet, write

TRUE if the statement is true

FALSE if the statement is false

NOT GIVEN if the information is not given in the passage

34 Umagic is the most successful innovative company in this new field.

35 Amazon and Wal-Mart exchanged their innovation experience.

36 New ideas’ holders had already been known to take it to small companies in the past.

37 IBM failed to understand Umagic’s proposal of a new idea.

Questions 38-40

Choose the correct letter, A, B, C or D.

Write the correct letter in boxes 38-40 on your answer sheet.

38 What is the author’s opinion on innovation in paragraph C?

A It only works for big companies.

B Fortune magazine has a globally huge influence.

C It is becoming increasingly important.

D Its effects on American companies are more evident.

39 What is Peter Chernin’s point of view on innovation?

A Small companies are more innovative than big ones.

B Film industry needs more innovation than other industries.

C We need to cut the cost when risks occur.

D New ideas are more likely going to big companies.

40 What is the author’s opinion on innovation at the end of this passage?

A Umagic success lies on the accidental ‘virtual expert’.

B Innovation is easy and straightforward.

C IBM sets a good example on innovation.

D The author’s attitude is uncertain on innovation.

ANSWER

28. F

29. C

30. G

31. B

32. F

33. E

34. FALSE

35. NOT GIVEN

36. FALSE

37. TRUE

38. C

39. A

40. D

European Heat Wave | ielts reading passage | 05 October ielts exam | 05 October ielts reading passage | 05 October ielts exam prediction | 5 October ielts reading prediction

 European Heat Wave

A

IT WAS the summer, scientists now realise, when felt. We knew that summer 2003 was remarkable; global warming at last made itself unmistakably Britain experienced its record high temperature and continental Europe saw forest fires raging out of control, great rivers drying of a trickle and thousands of heat-related deaths. But just how remarkable is only now becoming clean.

B

The three months of June, July and August were the warmest ever recorded in western and central Europe, with record national highs in Portugal, Germany and Switzerland as well as Britain. And they were the warmest by a very long way Over a great rectangular block of the earth stretching from west of Paris to northern Italy, taking in Switzerland and southern Germany, the average temperature for the summer months was 3.78°C above the long-term norm, said the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia in Norwich, which is one of the world’s lending institutions for the monitoring and analysis of temperature records.

C

That excess might not seem a lot until you are aware of the context – but then you realise it is enormous. There is nothing like this in previous data, anywhere. It is considered so exceptional that Professor Phil Jones, the CRU’s director, is prepared to say openly – in a way few scientists have done before – that the 2003 extreme may be directly attributed, not to natural climate variability, but to global warming caused by human actions.

D

Meteorologists have hitherto contented themselves with the formula that recent high temperatures are consistent with predictions of climate. For the great block of the map – that stretching between 35-50N and 0-20E – the CRU has reliable temperature records dating back to 1781. Using as a baseline the average summer temperature recorded between 1961 and 1990, departures from the temperature norm, or ‘anomalies’: over the area as a whole can easily be plotted. As the graph shows, such as the variability of our climate that over the past 200 years, there have been at least half a dozen anomalies, in terms of excess temperature – the peaks on the graph denoting very hot years – approaching, or even exceeding, 20°C. But there has been nothing remotely like 2003, when the anomaly is nearly four degrees.

E

“This is quite remarkable,” Professor Jones told The Independent. “It’s very unusual in a statistical sense. If this series had a normal statistical distribution, you wouldn’t get this number. There turn period “how often it could be expected to recur” would be something like one in a thou-sand years. If we look at an excess above the average of nearly four degrees, then perhaps nearly three degrees of that is natural variability, because we’ve seen that in past summers. But the final degree of it is likely to be due to global warming, caused by human actions.

F

The summer of 2003 has, in a sense, been one that climate scientists have long been expecting. Until now, the warming has been manifesting itself mainly in winters that have been less cold than in summers that have been much hotter. Last week, the United Nations predicted that winters were warming so quickly that winter sports would die out in Europe’s lower-level ski resorts. But sooner or later the unprecedented hot summer was bound to come, and this year it did.

G

One of the most dramatic features of the summer was the hot nights, especially in the first half of August. In Paris, the temperature never dropped below 230°C (73.40°F) at all between 7 and 14 August, and the city recorded its warmest-ever night on 11-12 August, when the mercury did not drop below 25.50°C (77.90°F). Germany recorded its warmest-ever night at Weinbiet in the Rhine valley with a lowest figure of 27.60°C (80.60°F) on 13 August, and similar record-breaking night-time temperatures were recorded in Switzerland and Italy.

H

The 15,000 excess deaths in France during August, compared with previous years, have been related to the high night-time temperatures. The number gradually increased during the first 12 days of the month, peaking at about 2,000 per day on the night of 12-13 August, the fell off dramatically after 14 August when the minimum temperatures fell by about 50C. The elderly were most affected, with a 70 per cent increase in mortality rate in those aged 75-94.

I

For Britain, the year as a whole is likely to be the warmest ever recorded, but despite the high temperature record on 10 August, the summer itself – defined as the June, July and August period – still comes behind 1976 and 1955, when there were longer periods of intense heat. At the moment, the year is on course to be the third-hottest ever in the global temperature record, which goes back to 1856, behind 1988 and 2002 but when all the records for October, November and December are collated, it might move into second place, Professor Jones said. The 10 hottest years in the record have all now occurred since 1990. Professor Jones is in no doubt about the astonishing nature of European summer of 2003. “The temperatures recorded were out of all proportion to the previous record,” he said. “It was the warmest summer in the past 500 years and probably way beyond that it was enormously exceptional.”

J

His colleagues at the University of East Anglia’s Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research are now planning a special study of it. “It was a summer that has not: been experienced before, either in terms of the temperature extremes that were reached, or the range and diversity of the impacts of the extreme heat,” said the centre’s executive director, Professor Mike Hulme. “It will certainly have left its mark on a number of countries, as to how they think and plan for climate change in the future, much as the 2000 floods have revolutionised the way the Government is thinking about flooding in the UK. “The 2003 heat wave will have similar repercussions across Europe.”

Questions 14-19

Do the following statements agree with the information given in Reading Passage 2?

In boxes 14-19 on your answer sheet, write

TRUE if the statement is true

FALSE if the statement is false

NOT GIVEN if the information is not given in the passage

14 The average summer temperature in 2003 is approximately four degrees higher than that of the past.

15 Jones believes the temperature statistic is within the normal range.

16 Human factor is one of the reasons that caused hot summer.

17 In large city, people usually measure temperature twice a day.

18 Global warming has obvious effect of warmer winter instead of hotter summer before 2003.

19 New ski resorts are to be built on a high-altitude spot.

Questions 20-21

Answer the questions below using NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS AND/OR NUMBERS from the passage for each answer.

Write your answers in boxes 20-21 on your answer sheet.

20 What are the two hottest years in Britain besides 2003?

21 What will affect UK government policies besides climate change according to Hulme?

Questions 22-26

Complete the summary below using NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS from the passage.

Write your answers in boxes 22-26 on your answer sheet

In the summer of 2003, thousands of extra death occurred in the country of 22…………………….. Moreover, world-widely, the third record of hottest summer date from 23…………………………., after the year of 24 ………………………….. According to Jones, all the 10 hottest years happened from 25 ……………………….. However, summer of 2003 was at the peak of previous 26………………………… years, perhaps even more.

Question 27

Choose the correct letter A, B, C or D

Write your answer in box 27 on your answer sheet.

Which one can be best served as the title of this passage in the following options?

A Global Warming effect

B Global Warming in Europe

C The Effects of hot temperature

D Hottest summer in Europe

ANSWER

14. TRUE

15. FALSE

16. TRUE

17. NOT GIVEN

18. TRUE

19. NOT GIVEN

20. 1976 and 1995

21. 2000 floods

22. France

23. 1856

24. 1998 and 2002

25. 1990

26. 500

27. D