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202 Useful Exercises for IELTS
ii.
iii.
iv.
v.
What is the main point of the first paragraph?
a) Almost everyone has heard of the c) You need a modem and an address
Information Superhighway
to use the Internet
b) The Internet will revolutionise the d) No-one knows where the Information
way people communicate
Superhighway is headed
Which is the topic sentence of the second paragraph?
a) Sentence number one c) The last sentence
b) Sentence number two d) none of the above
What would the next paragraph to follow the passage probably be about?
a) The future of the Internet c) Abuse of the Internet by youth
b) Advertising on the World Wide Web d) The cost of using the Internet
To what do the following pronouns in the passage refer?
a) it (line 9) c) this (line 17)
b) Which (line 10) d) it (line 28)
3.6 GAPFILL: The following is a summary of the passage in Exercise 3.3.
Choose words from the box below and refer to the passage to fill the gaps:
The Internet is the best (0
of the technological revolution known as the
Information Superhighway. Linked by computer through global (2)
can (3)
lines, users
obtain information by connecting to the World Wide Web. Before the
'Web', only (4) information could be flashed upon the computer (5) ,
but thanks to a process called (6) , visual images can easily be (7)
by (8) through a maze of connected (9) on Web sites all over the world.
The Internet is not independently (10) which ensures freedom of access to
information.
communicate
speedily
visual
computer
advertise
owned
example
hypertext
telephone
exemplified
screen
link
modem
travelling
textual
information
accessed
click
access
criticised
mouse
typewriter
only
pages
3.7 WORDS & PHRASES WITH SIMILAR MEANINGS: Refer to
the passage in Exercise 3.3, and see page 126 for advice on recognising
pattern types. Circle the appropriate pattern type in each case.
1.
ii.
iii.
joined by
telephone links
large group -> (para. 2)
( Pattern Type: 1
( Pattern Type: 1
( Pattern Type: 1
2
2
2
3)
3)
3)
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