IELTS Academic Reading
The reading comprehension section
focuses on sentence completion based of a sample paragraph. The passage will be
preceded by a brief context review. Take the time to read the opening review of
the passage before jumping into the passage.
This will help give you the right framework for the passage. Consequently, the questions will make more sense about the
passage.
You do have time to read the passage and not skim over the passage. Test questions distracters are set-up for skimmers. Even slow readers can complete the reading passages and have a good opportunity to answer the passage due to the fact they understand the passage. Five answer choices are presented and only one choice is the correct answer.
Sample
IELTS Test Paragraph Comprehension
Frank
Tower, have you ever heard of him? He is the questionable figure who supposedly
survived three doomed ships in the 1900’s. Some consider him one of the
luckiest men alive. He was touted to be a middle-aged fireman in the engine
room. Some considered him an ordinary, hardworking person, but he had the
ability to avoid dying in some of the most horrendous ocean liner accidents ever
recorded.
He
was said to have once been a crew member on the Titanic
at the time that the ship hit the iceberg. Two years later, he was working
on the Empress of Ireland when she
collided with the Storstad. Over one
thousand people died in that disaster. He was then employed in May of 1915 on
the Lusitania when it was hit by a
U-20 torpedo. He apparently lived through that without a scratch as well. If you
are beginning to doubt this man’s existence, you are probably not to far from
the truth. No records have been found ever listing a man by Frank Towers working
on any of the three ships.
The
legend of Frank Towers seems to be another case of an urban folk tale,
humanity’s desire to see triumph over a tragic situation. Fact or fiction,
Frank Towers is one of the multiple characters that help color the history
books.
Use
Answer choices A-C for all of the following choices:
1.
Frank
Towers legend continues to
2.
The
Lusitania is considered to
3.
The
power of a myth can
Implications:
A.
be considered legendary.
B.
a mighty ship that sank in 1915.
C.
grow as history books develop his tales.