IELTS Reading Recent Actual Test in 2018 with Answers – Topic: Tickling and Laughter, The Farmer! parade of history, John Franklin: “the discovery of the slowness”

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‘IELTS Reading Recent Actual Tests in 2018 with Answers’ aims to develop your test-taking skills and language proficiency to help you achieve a high band in IELTS Reading. Each test contains three reading passages which cover various topics and give a lot of practice for a wide range of question types used in the IELTS Exam such as multiple-choice questions, short-answers, sentence completion, summary completion, classification, matching lists/phrases, matching paragraph headings, identification of information, True/False/Not Given and so on. When studying IELTS with this ebook, you will get an idea of how difficult the IELTS Reading section is and what the topmost commonly asked questions are.

Section 1

Tickling and Laughter

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Question 1-7

1 Location of a brain section essential to the recognition of jokes

2 Laughter enhances immunity

3 Individual differences and the appreciation of humour

4 Parts of the brain responsible for tickling reflex

5 Neuropsychological mechanisms by which humour and laughter work

6 The connection between tickling and nerve fibres

7 Patients with emotional disorders

Questions 8-11

A The surprise factor, combined with the anticipation of pleasure, cause laughter when tickled.

B Laughing caused by tickling is a built-in reflex even babies have.

C People also laugh when tickled by a machine if they are not aware of it.

D People have different tastes for jokes and humour.

E Jokes and funny cartoons activate the frontal lobes.

F Tickling sensations involve more than nerve fibres.

8 Darwin

9  Christenfeld and Harris

10 Yngve Zotterman

11 Peter Derks

Questions 12-14

Researchers believe three brain components to be involved in the processing of humour and laughter. Results from one study using brain 12……………indicate that parts of the brain responsible for 13……….. movement and pleasure are involved through a sophisticated pathway. Test subjects who suffered from frontal lobes damages had greater chances of picking 14……..of jokes or did not respond to funny cartoons or jokes.

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Section 2

The Farmer! parade of history

Questions 15-18

15 The innovation of offer made by the head of the company.

16 Fashion was not its strong point.

17 A romantic event on the roof of farmers.

18 Farmers were sold to a privately owned company.

Questions 19-23

19 Farmers was first founded as a____________in Auckland by Mr. Laidlaw.

20 Farmers developed fast and bought one____________then.

21 During oversea expansion, Farmers set up____________in cities such as London.

22 Farmers held a______________once a year for the well-known parrot.

23 In the opinion of Lincoln Laidlaw, Farmers are like a ______for employees, not just for themselves but for the whole country.

Questions 24-26

A Lincoln Laidlaw

B Rod McDermott

C Ian Hunter

1. The product became worse as the wrong aspect focused.
2. An unprecedented statement made by Farmers in New Zealand.
3. The character of the company was changed.

Section 3

John Franklin: “the discovery of the slowness”

Questions 27-32

27 What was Sir John Franklin’s occupation before he went on a career in Arctic exploration?

28 A story John Franklin reacted strangely when he met bullies by other children.

29 Reason of popularity for the book The Discovery of Slowness

30 A depiction that Sten Nadolny’s biography on John Franklin is not much based on facts.

31 The particular career Sir John Franklin took after his expedition unmatched before.

32 what is the central scheme and environment conveyed by the book The Discovery of Slowness

Questions 33-36

Summary

In his personal correspondence to and in his published memoirs by Sten Nadolny, John Franklin was depicted as a man dedicated to the exploration, and the word of “slowness” was used to define his 33…….when Franklin was in his childhood, his determination to the 34………of the schoolboys was too slow for him to fall into step. And Franklin was said to be a boy dreaming finding in a place he could enjoy the 35………in the Arctic. Later in 20^th, His biography of the discovery of slowness has been adopted as a 36______ as for the movement such as sustainable development, or management science, motoring policy.

Questions 37-40

37 Why does the author mention “the ice is slow in the geological arctic”, to demonstrate the idea

A of the difficulties Franklin conquered

B that Franklin had a dream since his childhood

C of fascination with the Arctic exploration

D that explorer-like Franklin should possess the quality of being patient

38 When Franklin was on board with sailors, how did he speak to his fellow sailors

A he spoke in a way mocking his followers

B he spoke a bric-a-brac language to show he languish attitude

C he spoke in the words and phrases he previously memorized

D he spoke in a rhythmical tune to save chatting time

39 His effort to overcome his slowness in marine time life had finally won the

A understanding of his personality better

B capacity for coping with boredom

C respect for him as he insisted to overcome his difficulties

D the valuable time he can use to finish a report

40 Why is the book The Discovery of Slowness sold more than a million copies

A it contains aspects of the life people would like to enjoy

B it contains the information for the flag language applied in ships

C it induces a debate about speed limits German

D it contains the technique for symposia German churches

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