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This reading practice simulates one part of the IELTS General Reading test. You should spend about twenty minutes on it. Read the passage and answer questions 14-26.

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A second attempt at domesticating the tomato A Humans needed at least 3,000 years to turn the wild tomato into a crop that could be grown for food, yet two separate research groups in Brazil and China have repeated that process in under three years. In some respects, they have improved on the origin...
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Questions 14-18
The reading passage has six paragraphs labelled A-F.

Which paragraph contains the following information?

Write the correct letter A-F in boxes 14-18 on your answer sheet.

NB You may use any letter more than once.

14. a reference to a type of tomato that can resist a serious infection

15. an explanation of how problems can arise from focusing only on a particular type of tomato plant.

16. a number of examples of plants that are not cultivated currently but could be useful as food sources

17. a contrast between the early domestication of the tomato and more recent research

18. a personal reaction to the flavour of a tomato that has been in genetic terms edited

Choose paragraph C because this paragraph contains the information requested in "a reference to a type of tomato that can resist a serious infection". The supporting sentence is: "In this way, they created a strain resistant to bacterial spot race, a common disease that can devastate yields.". This sentence matches the meaning of the prompt, so paragraph C is the best location.

Associated Text:
In this way, they created a strain resistant to bacterial spot race, a common disease that can devastate yields.

Choose paragraph B because this paragraph contains the information requested in "an explanation of how problems can arise from focusing only on a particular type of tomato plant.". The supporting sentence is: "However, when breeders choose a single mutated plant from a wider population, much genetic diversity disappears.". This sentence matches the meaning of the prompt, so paragraph B is the best location.

Associated Text:
However, when breeders choose a single mutated plant from a wider population, much genetic diversity disappears.

Choose paragraph E because this paragraph contains the information requested in "a number of examples of plants that are not cultivated currently but could be useful as food sources". The supporting sentence is: "The three teams are already considering other plants that could be catapulted into the mainstream, including foxtail, oat-grass and cowpea.". This sentence matches the meaning of the prompt, so paragraph E is the best location.

Associated Text:
The three teams are already considering other plants that could be catapulted into the mainstream, including foxtail, oat-grass and cowpea.

Choose paragraph A because this paragraph contains the information requested in "a contrast between the early domestication of the tomato and more recent research". The supporting sentence is: "A second attempt at domesticating the tomato A Humans needed at least 3,000 years to turn the wild tomato into a crop that could be grown for food, yet two separate research groups in Brazil and China have repeated that process in under three years.". This sentence matches the meaning of the prompt, so paragraph A is the best location.

Associated Text:
A second attempt at domesticating the tomato A Humans needed at least 3,000 years to turn the wild tomato into a crop that could be grown for food, yet two separate research groups in Brazil and China have repeated that process in under three years.

Choose paragraph C because this paragraph contains the information requested in "a personal reaction to the flavour of a tomato that has been in genetic terms edited". The supporting sentence is: ""They are quite tasty," Kudla says.". This sentence matches the meaning of the prompt, so paragraph C is the best location.

Associated Text:
"They are quite tasty," Kudla says.

Questions 19-23
Look at the following Statements (Questions 19-23) and List of researchers below below.

Look at the following statements (Questions 19-23) and the list of researchers below.

Write the correct number A-D in boxes Questions 19-23 on your answer sheet.

NB You may use any letter more than once.
List of researchers below
  1. Jorg Kudla
  2. Caixia Gao
  3. Joyce Van Eck
  4. Jonathan Jones

19. Domestication of particular plants could allow them to adapt to future environmental challenges.

20. The notion of growing and eating unusual plants may not be accepted on a large scale.

21. It is not wise for the future direction of certain research to be made public.

22. Current efforts to domesticate one wild fruit are limited by the costs involved.

23. Humans only make use of a small proportion of the plant food available on this planet.

Choose B because the passage connects this feature or person with the information in the question. The supporting evidence is: "Gao argues that choosing wild plants able to tolerate drought or heat could create crops that thrive as the planet warms.". This evidence identifies the correct match and rules out choices that are not linked to this detail.

Associated Text:
Gao argues that choosing wild plants able to tolerate drought or heat could create crops that thrive as the planet warms.

Choose D because the passage connects this feature or person with the information in the question. The supporting evidence is: "However, he doubts that unfamiliar foods will easily become popular enough with farmers and consumers to become staple crops.". This evidence identifies the correct match and rules out choices that are not linked to this detail.

Associated Text:
However, he doubts that unfamiliar foods will easily become popular enough with farmers and consumers to become staple crops.

Choose A because the passage connects this feature or person with the information in the question. The supporting evidence is: "Kudla would not identify the species his team may work on next, because CRISPR has made the procedure so straightforward.". This evidence identifies the correct match and rules out choices that are not linked to this detail.

Associated Text:
Kudla would not identify the species his team may work on next, because CRISPR has made the procedure so straightforward.

Choose C because the passage connects this feature or person with the information in the question. The supporting evidence is: "Van Eck says the crop has commercial potential, but further progress would be costly because researchers would need a CRISPR licence and regulatory approval. E Jonathan Jones of the Sainsbury Lab in the United Kingdom says the approach could increase the use of many obscure plants.". This evidence identifies the correct match and rules out choices that are not linked to this detail.

Associated Text:
Van Eck says the crop has commercial potential, but further progress would be costly because researchers would need a CRISPR licence and regulatory approval. E Jonathan Jones of the Sainsbury Lab in the United Kingdom says the approach could increase the use of many obscure plants.

Choose A because the passage connects this feature or person with the information in the question. The supporting evidence is: "He points out that there are 50,000 edible plants in the world, but 90 percent of human energy comes from just 15 crops.". This evidence identifies the correct match and rules out choices that are not linked to this detail.

Associated Text:
He points out that there are 50,000 edible plants in the world, but 90 percent of human energy comes from just 15 crops.

Questions 24-26
Complete the sentences below.

Choose ONE WORD ONLY from the passage for each answer from the passage for each answer.

Write your answers in 24-26 on your answer sheet.

An undesirable trait such as loss of (24). may be caused by a mutation in a tomato gene.

By editing one tomato gene, researchers made the fruit three times its original (25)

A tomato strain with resistance to (26) and high vitamin C was produced by a team of researchers in China.

Use "Falvour/ flavor" because the passage states that this quality was lost in some tomato strains. The supporting sentence says: "For example, tomato strains bred for supermarkets have lost much of their flavour, or flavor."

Associated Text:
For example, tomato strains bred for supermarkets have lost much of their flavour, or flavor.

Use "Size" because the passage says the edited gene made the fruit three times larger. The supporting sentence says: "They tripled fruit size by editing a gene called FRUIT WEIGHT, and they increased the number of tomatoes on each truss by altering another gene, MULTIFLORA."

Associated Text:
C Kudla's group introduced six changes in total. They tripled fruit size by editing a gene called FRUIT WEIGHT, and they increased the number of tomatoes on each truss by altering another gene, MULTIFLORA.

Use "Salt" because the passage says the Chinese team produced a tomato strain tolerant of it and rich in vitamin C. The supporting sentence says: "They also produced another strain that is more salt tolerant and has higher levels of vitamin C."

Associated Text:
They also produced another strain that is more salt tolerant and has higher levels of vitamin C.

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Multiple Choice
Matching Sentence Endings
Note Completion
Table Completion
Flow Chart Completion
Summary Completion
Multiple Selection
Short Answer
Matching Headings
Matching Features
Matching Information
Identifying Information
Identifying Viewer Claims
Sentence Completion
Diagram Labelling
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Tips to improve your reading speed
To get a high score on the IELTS reading section, you need to have a fast reading speed. To have a fast reading speed, you need to improve your vocabulary and practice dissecting sentences. One strategy to dissect a sentence is to look for the subject and verb of the sentence. Finding the subject and verb will help you better understand the main idea of said sentence. Keep in mind, a common feature of a IELTS reading passage is to join strings of ideas to form long compound sentences. This produces large chunks that students have a hard time absorbing. Do not get overwhelmed by its length, just look for the subject and verb, the rest of the ideas will flow.

Keep in mind, having a slow reading speed makes skimming or scanning a reading passage more difficult. The process of quickly skimming through a reading passage for specific keywords or main ideas is a requirement for you to employ successful reading strategies to improve your IELTS reading score. In other words, skimming and scanning are critical skills to ensure you complete all questions in the allotted time frame.
IELTS Reading Strategies
Once you can read and comprehend a passage with a rate of, at least, 220 words per minute, you'll be ready to start implementing our strategies. All too often, students spend too much time reading the passages and not enough time answering the questions. Here is a step by step guide for tackling the reading section.

  1. Step 1: Read questions first

    One of the most common mistakes that candidates make when approaching the reading exam is reading every single word of the passages. Although you can practice for the exam by reading for pleasure, "reading blindly" (reading without any sense of what the questions will ask) will not do you any favors in the exam. Instead, it will hurt your chances for effectively managing your time and getting the best score.

    The main reason to read the questions first is because the type of question may determine what you read in the passage or how you read it. For example, some question types will call for the "skimming" technique, while others may call for the "scanning" technique.

    It is important to answer a set of questions that are of the same question type. You'll need to determine which question type you want to tackle first. A good strategy would be to start with the easier question type and move on to more difficult question types later. The Easiest question types are the ones where you spend less time reading. For example, the Matching Heading question type is an easier one because you only need to find the heading that best describes the main idea of a paragraph. An example of a difficult question type would be Identifying Information. For this question type, you'll need to read each paragraph to find out if each statement is TRUE, FALSE, or NOT GIVEN according to the passage.

    Here is a table that lists the difficulty levels for each question type. Use this table as a reference when choosing which question type you want to tackle first.

    Difficulty level Question Type
    Easy Sentence Completion
    Short answer
    Medium Matching Features
    Multiple choice
    Matching Headings
    Summary, Table, Flow-Chart Completion
    Difficult Matching Sentence Endings
    Matching Information
    Identifying Information (TRUE/FALSE/NOT GIVEN)
    Identifying Viewer's claims (YES/NO/NOT GIVEN)

  2. Step 2: Read for an objective

    After you've read the questions for the passage, you will be able to read for an objective. What does this mean? For example, if you come across a question that includes the year "1896", you can make a note of when this year comes up in the text, using it to answer the question later on. There are two reading techniques that will help you stay on track with reading for an objective. The first one, skimming, is best defined as reading fast in order to get the "gist", or general idea, or a passage. With this technique, you are not stopping for any unfamiliar words or looking for specific details. The second technique, scanning, is best defined as reading for specific information. With this technique, you are not reading for the overall gist, but rather, specific information. Notice how each of these techniques has a specific objective in mind. This will help you find information more quickly.

  3. Step 3: Take notes

    As you're reading for an objective, you should also be making notes on the margins of the passage, placing stars next to key information, or underlining things that you believe will help you answer the various questions. This will make it easier for you to check back when you are asked certain things in the questions. Choose whichever note-taking system is right for you - just make sure you do it!

  4. Step 4: Answer wisely

    After you've read the questions, read the passage, and have taken any appropriate notes, you you should have located the part of the text where you where you need to read carefully. Then just read carefully and think critically to determine the correct answer.

IELTS Reading Question Types

The IELTS reading test contains many different question types:

Matching HeadingsIELTS Reading Lesson: Matching Headings
Matching InformationIELTS Reading Lesson: Matching Information
Matching FeaturesIELTS Reading Lesson: Matching Features
Summary CompletionIELTS Reading Lesson: Summary Completion
Identifying InformationIELTS Reading Lesson: Identifying Information
Identifying Writer's claimsIELTS Reading Lesson: Identifying Writer's claims
Multiple ChoiceIELTS Reading Lesson: Multiple Choice
Short AnswerIELTS Reading Lesson: Short Answer
Match Sentence EndingIELTS Reading Lesson: Match Sentence Ending
Sentence CompletionIELTS Reading Lesson: Sentence Completion
Table CompletionIELTS Reading Lesson: Table Completion
 
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