Ielts Pro 02 - Official
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T E S T 02
LISTENING
Section 1 Questions 1-10
Questions 1-10
Complete the table below.
Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS
AND/OR A NUMBER for each answer.
Three kinds:
Waste Recyclable garbage (blue or green bin)
sorting Unrecyclable garbage (yellow bin)
Toxic waste (red bin)
21. The research topic should come from one of the headings in the ________
22. At least one reference needs to be from _______
23. The data Julie found on past experiments is in ______
24. Ricky has pointed out that aside from journals, he can also use _____ about
scientific experiments.
Questions 25-30
Complete the table below
Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER for each answer.
Questions 39-40
Choose the correct letter, A, B, or C.
A inadequate
B nearly adequate
C admirable
A caused a concern.
B is unreliable.
C is inconclusive
1 Domestic clocks
The domestic clock was not exactly invented; it was probably a spin-
off from the scientific activities of churchmen, astrologers and mechanics
of the Middle Ages interested in increasing their knowledge of the stars or
improving discipline in religious communities. Perhaps some 13th-century
king or bishop first had a clock in his house as a symbol of prestige or
wealth, or perhaps from interest, or to call him to prayer. Certainly, the
church assistant needed to know when to warn the watchman to ring the
bell in the watchtower to warn the local people about some communal
activity such as digging a ditch, preparing to defend themselves against
raiders, or gathering to help put a fire out.
So possibly it was the watchman’s clock on the wall that became the
domestic iron clock of the medieval household. It was a valuable
possession, and when the family moved it went with them, just as did any
glass windows they had. Iron clocks and lantern clocks, hanging on the
wall from a hook, were the first general domestic clocks. The weights that
powered them hung below them and generally had to be pulled up twice a
day. In some countries, it became fashionable to fit ornate wooden cases
around them and mount these clocks on wooden brackets.
Although the weight-driven clock was not originally designed for
domestic use, the spring-driven one undoubtedly was. The use of a coiled
spring instead of a weight to provide power made possible first the portable
clock and subsequently the smaller, personal clock, which was later called
a watch. Spring clocks were first made in France in the 1400s,
Fusees were used from the 1400s to the early 1900s. This relatively
simple device to improve timekeeping by equalising the uneven pull of the
mainspring achieved its purpose effectively. Granville Baillie, a leading
clockmaker and watchmaker in the 1900s, said of the fusee, ‘Perhaps no
problem in mechanics has ever been solved so simply and so perfectly.’
Questions 6-10
Complete the notes below.
Choose NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS from the passage for each
answer.
Write your answers in boxes 6-10 on your answer sheet.
Early domestic clocks
Weight-driven clocks
Made of 6 ………………………………
Decorated clock cases fixed to the wall with 7……………………………
Spring-driven clocks
Location where first produced: 8………………………………
Problems keeping 9………………………………even
Questions 10-13
Answer the questions below.
Choose NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS from the passage for each
answer.
Write your answers in boxes 10-13 on your answer sheet.
10. What does a fusee look like?
11. What is connected to the spiral groove on a fusee?
12. What object is required to wind the spring on the fusee?
13. What does the gradual reduction of the fusee groove ensure?
Trash trackers 1
A So you carefully separate your cardboard from your used glass containers,
wash your empty tins and tear the staples off scrap paper. You fill your
various bins and put them out to be taken away with the remains of the
week’s meals and domestic rubbish. And then, safe in the knowledge that
you have done your bit for the environment, you forget all about it.
B In fact, the life story of your weekly garbage is just beginning. An aluminium
can, for instance, could have a variety of fates. It might be crushed and
sent back to the canning factory to be turned into new cans. Or it could end
up in the nearest landfill site or get shipped off overseas to be either
recycled or dumped. The truth is that nobody can be sure where an
individual piece of rubbish will end up or how the junk in the landfill got
there.
C New research is planning to find out. In a pilot project, a team from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) together with members of the
New Scientist journal tracked 60 pieces of trash in Seattle in the United
States. The next phase of the experiment will begin - 1,000 more pieces of
garbage will be electronically tagged and thrown away in New York, Seattle
and London, and tracked for two months.
1
Do animals think like humans?
A Some pet owners believe that their animals understand them when they speak,
but how much do animals really understand of what we say? To what extent
is their thinking a reflection of ours? Recent experiments have begun to throw
light on the matter. An Austrian dog - researchers call her Betsy - has a
vocabulary of more than 300 words. ‘Even our closest relatives, the great apes,
can’t do what Betsy can do - hear a word only once or twice and know that the
acoustic pattern stands for something,’ says cognitive psychologist Juliane
Kaminski. 'Dogs’ understanding of human forms of communication is
something new that has evolved,’ she says, ‘something that’s developed in
them because of their long association with humans.’ Scientists think that dogs
were domesticated about 15,000 years ago, a relatively short time in which to
develop language skills.
But how similar are these skills to those of humans? For abstract thinking, we
employ symbols, letting one thing stand for another. Betsy, in an experiment,
was shown a picture of a Frisbee, a picture she had never seen before, and
told to find it. She brought the Frisbee from among other toys in another room.
B Other animals also have skills similar to those of humans. ‘People were
surprised to discover that chimpanzees make tools,’ said Alex Kacelnik, a
behavioural ecologist at Oxford University, referring to the straws and sticks
chimpanzees use to pull termites out of their nests. ‘But people also thought
“Well, they share our ancestry - of course they’re smart." Now we’re finding
C Kacelnik and his colleagues are studying one of these smart species, the New
Caledonian crow, which lives in the forests of the Pacific island of the same
name. New Caledonian crows are among the most skilled of tool - making and
tool - using birds, forming probes and hooks from sticks and leaf stems to poke
into the palm trees where fat grubs hide. Since these birds, like chimpanzees,
make and use tools, researchers can look for similarities in the evolutionary
processes that shaped their brains. Something about the environment of both
species favored the evolution of tool-making neural powers. But is their use of
tools rigid and limited, or can they be inventive? Do they have what researchers
call mental flexibility? Chimpanzees certainly do. In the wild, a chimpanzee may
use four sticks of different sizes to extract the honey from a bee’s nest. And in
captivity, they can figure out how to position several boxes so they can retrieve a
banana hanging from a rope.
D Answering that question for New Caledonian crows - extremely shy birds - wasn’t
easy. Even after years of monitoring them in the wild, researchers couldn’t
determine if the birds’ ability was innate, or if they learned to make and use their
tools by watching one another. If it was a genetically inherited skill, could they,
like the chimps, use their talent in different, creative ways?
To find out, Kacelnik and his students brought 23 crows of varying ages (all but
one caught in the wild) to the aviary in his Oxford laboratory. Four hatchlings were
raised in captivity, and all were carefully kept away from the adults, so they had
no opportunity to be taught about tools. Yet soon after they fledged, all picked up
sticks to probe busily into cracks and shaped different materials into tools.
E Birds can cheat too. Other studies by the same researcher show that western
scrub jays can know another bird’s intentions and act on that knowledge. A jay
that has stolen food itself, for example, knows that if another jay watches it hide a
nut, there’s a chance the nut will be stolen. So the first jay will return to move the
nut when the other jay is gone. Such deceptive acts require a complicated form of
thinking, since you must be able to attribute intentions to the other individual and
predict that individual’s behavior.
F One school of thought argues that human intelligence evolved partly because of
the pressure of living in a complex society of calculating beings.
Chimpanzees, orangutans, gorillas and bonobos share this capacity with us. In
the wild, primatologists have seen apes hide food from the alpha male or steal his
females. Kacelnik’s study is the first to show the kind of ecological pressures,
such as the need to hide food for winter use that would lead to the evolution of
such mental abilities. Most provocatively, his research demonstrates that some
birds possess what is often another uniquely human skill: the ability to recall a
specific past event.