There are some kinds of questions that force you
to look at the passage for several times. You need to do it as there are some
options provided regarding the information that you should grab. So, there is
no way out accept looking back at the passage again, and again. Have a look at
the example question.
Questions 4-7
In “Building houses out of earth”, the writer
mentions several reasons why some people prefer earth houses. Read the list of
reasons below and choose FOUR that are referred to in the passage.
Write your answer in boxes 4-7 on your answer
sheet.
A. Cost of construction
B. Resistance of earthquakes
C. Stability of earth
D. Heat storage capacity
E. Availability of materials
F. Construction technology
G. Appearance and character
You should read carefully then find which options
are existed in the passage. Remember that there are only four correct answers.
It means that you should omit three wrong answers from the above list.
Check it from the reading passage below.
From the passage above, you can apply ‘skimming
strategy’ to grab the answer. If you can remember the main idea of each
paragraph that you have read, it will be better. But if you have a quite low
memory, then skim the paragraph by looking at the options provided one by one.
Option A for example, you can get the same topic of discussion between
statement A and paragraph 5. The similar thing happens in paragraph 4. This
paragraph is in line with statement D. Therefore, option D is also one of the
answers.
Then, skim again the passage after looking at the
next options. You are going to find that this statement in option E matches the
information given in paragraph 3. This paragraph mainly talks about the
availability of the material as well. For the last answer, option G is the best
one to fill the position as appearance and characteristic are discussed clearly
in paragraph 4.
Reference: IELTS
to Success Preparation Tips and Practice Tests by Erick van Bemmel (Melbourne,
1997)
IELTS Kampung Inggris Pare
IELTS Kampung Inggris Pare
