[Exam Questions] 2014.08.09

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[Exam Questions] 2014.08.09

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Finally it is here,

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[IELTS Exam 2014.08.09 LR]

If you remember some of the questions and answers of this exam, please contribute by commenting.

---- Listening APAC ----
1. Enrolling into an arts and craft course
• morning (... time)
• French (... cooking class)
• first (the ... Tuesday of every month)
• ingredient (bring money for food ...)
• painting (... class)
• golf (... club)
• brushes (bring own ...)
• 15 June (date of the first class) // 15 May
• J52 (Location: room number ...)
• station (Parking: next to the ...)

2. Around the world trip via wooden ships // Introduction to Canon
• A: carved by a log (changes to ships in 1901)
• B: global travel (eventual plan)
• A: loss of instrument (problem encountered in a certain year)
• visited by more people (purpose of stopping in London)
• C: taken to Victoria Harbour (final destination of the boat)
• steer the boat (first boat, Tiny something)
• see marine animals (second boat)
• see wild birds (third boat)
• bring own vehicle onboard (fourth boat)
• learn about maritime history (fifth boat)

3. A discussion of a project about a furniture company called Willows
• specialized in one product (what the company does)
• the owner read an article by the head of research department (how the company and the department got into contact with each other)
• check the account (research methodology)
• less disturbance (why the students will do face-to-face interviews)
• average (the supervisor's view on the design of their questionnaire

• newly employed more workers (one impact of the new software)
• cut labour cost (another impact of the new software)
• get more involved in the design (customer's response to the new software)
• save more time (customer's other response to the new software)

4. Study of Australian crocodiles using technologies
• satellite (this research is special because of the use of ...)
• radio (previous studies were done using ...)
• signals (problem: always losing ...)
• people (crocodiles are not easily capture, as they avoid ... following them)
• direct (first one waited a whole week, then they follow the ... route home)
• head (tracking devices are set in the ... of the crocodiles)
• navigate (research on how crocodiles can easily ...)
• helicopter (relocate/transfer crocodiles to different places by using a ...)
• sun (crocodiles find their direction/orientation by the ...)
• birds (this is the same system used by ...)

---- Reading APAC ----
1. History of Roads in New Zealand
• beach
• scientist
• funeral
• recreation
• hunters
• huts
• F (the plan for the tunnel was started in 1976, but didn't begin right away)
• NG (only a part of the tunnel was opened to experienced walkers)
• F (parts of xxx are open to the public)
• F (avoid urban areas)
• NG (the department of conservation was involved in 1990)
• T (New Zealand intend to construct a similar roadway)

2. The influence of Art on people
• Paragraph F (Art and children's relationship)
• rates
• attire
• recognition

3. Hearing and Vision - Research on the brain is affected by the first few months of a newborn
• intelligence (which was not discussed)
• different lines and angles affect sight (what animal studies attempted to explain)
• cortex does not yet work (why children appears mindless)
• human's development is similar to animals in this area (the purpose of another experiment)
• speech sound
• heart beat
• eye movements
• physical response
• dialect
• Y (the experiment by Japanese researchers is conclusive)
• Y (some babies can identify all phonemes
• NG (adults can catch phonemes, but their brains need a long time to process the information
• N (these two people had expected to find babies between 8-12 months old who can identify phonemes
• Y (children who grew up in bilingual families tend to become bilingual)

---- Writing APAC ----
Academic WT1
• (Table) 2001 and 2006's data on the proportion of people living in 3 different types of dwelling in 3 parts of Australia.

(Thanks to Tanya NH Ta's initial data, I was able to to find detailed data)

Academic WT2
• Some people think that governments should ban dangerous sports, while others think people should have freedom to do any sports or activity. Discuss both views and give your own opinion.

---- Writing MEI/EU ----
Academic WT1
• no info yet

Academic WT2
• Some people say supermarkets and manufacturers are responsible for reducing products with high amount of packaging, while other people say it is the consumer's responsibility to avoid buying products with high amount of packaging. Discuss both views and give your own opinion.
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Great work as always, Jimmy.

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Ryan wrote:Great work as always, Jimmy.

Guys, don't forget to "Like" Jimmy's Facebook page to receive realtime updates as he is compiling future IELTS info: https://www.facebook.com/ielts.jimmy
Thank you Ryan~

keep sharing people. I'm just an organizer, who will actually be useless, unless you, the students, share what you have.

So, share whatever you can and I'll put everything together afterwards.

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Ryan wrote:Great work as always, Jimmy.

Guys, don't forget to "Like" Jimmy's Facebook page to receive realtime updates as he is compiling future IELTS info: https://www.facebook.com/ielts.jimmy

thanks for note ryan ,,, kindly if any useful ilets resources to get high score
I appreciate :)
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