General Training Reading 2025-05 Test 6 — IELTS General Training Reading Practice Test with Answers

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List of Courses at Canterbury College

Look at the 'List of Courses at Canterbury College' A-H. Which course would you recommend for people with the following career interests?

COURSE A: This course will enable students to experience performing arts and the media at a basic level. It will give them the experience to decide if they wish to pursue an interest in this field and to develop their potential and adaptability for working in a performance company in either a performing or a technical role.

COURSE B: The aim of this course is to provide a thorough grounding in business-related skills and a comprehensive knowledge of business practice. It is for students with a business studies background who can manage a heavy workload that will contain a greater degree of academic study.

COURSE C: This course provides progression to a range of higher levels. Units will include maintaining employment standards, salon management duties, providing facial massage and skin care, instruction on makeup, lash and brow treatments, artificial nail structures and ear piercing.

COURSE D: This course is designed to develop skills used in leisure operations. It covers preparing for and conducting physical activities, maintenance of facility areas, building relationships with participants and colleagues, handling sports equipment and health and safety issues.

COURSE E: This course gives a foundation for a career in caring for children, the elderly or people with special needs. Core units are Numeracy, Communication and Information Technology. Work placements are an important part of the course.

COURSE F: This course is designed to provide a foundation in graphic and visual communication skills. Students complete units in picture composition and photographic processing alongside elements of graphic design, and gain hands-on experience of desktop publishing and presentations.

COURSE G: This course is designed to provide an introduction to the construction industry. Units covered include Heat, Light and Sound, Introduction to the Urban Environment, Communication Processes and Techniques and Properties of Materials. All students complete vocational assignments which are integrated with work experience with reputable companies.

COURSE H: The qualifications gained and the skills developed on this course will provide a good basis for gaining employment in office work. In addition to word processing, the course also covers spreadsheets, computerised accounting, databases and desktop publishing. All students are given chances to develop their confidence, and advice and information are given on job search skills, presentation techniques and personal appearance.

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advertising
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TV production
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architecture
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company management
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working with the disabled
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secretariat tasks
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beauty therapy

Wild Life Library

Do the following statements agree with the information given in the text. TRUE - if the statement is true. FALSE - if the statement is false. NOT GIVEN - if the information is not given in the text.

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British Library of Wildlife Sounds is the only library which has collection of recordings covering all classes of sound-producing animals
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Virtually all recordings are of wild animals in their natural environment, nevertheless the assortment does include recordings of caged and domestic animals as well
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The anthology does not have atmospheric and ecological soundtracks from diverse territories
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The library also has natural older times information videos
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Oral history interviews with naturalists and biologists can be used by anyone for research purpose
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Printed material is also available in the wild life library
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The library is harbouring for more than 10,000 species of birds, mammals, amphibians, reptiles, fish and insects including many rare and threatened species

Road Safety Tips

Complete the sentences below. Choose NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS from the text for each answer.

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Be aware of your location and try to spot 15. _______.
16
Remain calm when dealing with minor issues, such as a 16. _______.
17
You should always exit to the right side of the road, unless it has 17. _______.
18
Since other cars are moving quickly, yours should be easily seen by 18. _______.
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Let others know what happened to your car as soon as you are in 19. _______.
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If your car is stopped in traffic, only use your phone away from the 20. _______.
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_______ believe that it is best to stay inside your car and wait for a police officer.

Recruitment process for personal assistant post

Complete the sentences below. Choose ONE WORD ONLY from the text for each answer.

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Candidates make sure they are suitable for the position by reading the job description and job 22. _______.
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The candidates complete the 23. _______ form in full.
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Short-listed candidates will receive notice via 24. _______.
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A 25. _______ of 3 people will conduct the interviews.
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The chosen candidate will only receive an official 26. _______ after checks.
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The contract will be 27. _______ after discussions about the candidate moving location and carrying out initial training are discussed.

Reading Passage 3 — Night photography in autumn

A November in the northern hemisphere is not the most inspiring of months for the photographer. The days shorten appreciably as winter approaches and the last autumn leaves are blown free by high winds and frequent rain. Nature seems dormant, as many birds have long since flown to warmer climates, fungi break through the earth, and many animal species sleep until spring's warm awakening. It would seem a good time also to put the camera to bed and forget about photography until the first snowfall. Well, not quite. With the days being shorter and daylight less bright, November is an excellent month to turn your attention to what can be found in the long darkness from dusk to dawn. In the nocturnal hours a vast number of life forms still thrive, and provide a completely different set of subjects to those the daylight hours present.

As the most noticeable object in the night sky, the moon is an obvious subject when making your initial attempts at night photography. The timing of an evening moonrise is important to know because, not only does it vary according to the time of year, but the moon always appears largest at this point, when it is closest to the horizon. To capture the moon at its brilliant best, you need a bit of luck too: a time when its brightest phase — a full moon — coincides with the ideal weather forecast of a cloudless night sky. The moon is not a direct light source such as the sun or the stars; instead it is reflecting the light of the sun hitting its surface. On such a night, a full moon will reflect only about ten percent of the sunlight, but that is still enough to illuminate buildings, trees, bridges and other landscape features.

With today's cameras, far greater detail can be rendered. Whole constellations consisting of thousands of points of starlight filling the frame and even galaxies such as our own Milky Way can be captured. This is a type of night photography for which few of us had suitable equipment a decade ago, but now it has become accessible to all photographers, thanks to the much improved, affordable technology. However, photographers choosing to shoot the moon may be less concerned by this, as they tend to prefer to use telephoto lenses to magnify the size of the moon, particularly when it is low in the sky and can be shown in relation to a landmark or recognisable structure within the frame.

Of course, the nocturnal world offers other subjects closer to the ground, some that are even familiar to us by day. As cities and towns spread further into our green spaces, some wild animals move further afield to escape our intrusions, while others adapt to their new urbanised surroundings. In European cities, sightings of foxes at night are increasingly common, as they thrive thanks to the cover of darkness and a ready supply of residents' waste bins, which they use as feeding stations. Deer and wild boar are larger mammals that have also adapted to the urban fringes in recent years, emerging from the cover of parks and nearby forests to forage in residential gardens by night.

Such is the proliferation of urban wildlife that some photographers now specialise in documenting the nocturnal animals that have developed a taste for city nightlife. The improvement in camera technology that has made night sky images more accessible has also extended the creative repertoire of the wildlife photographer. It is now possible to photograph some wild species at night, or soon after dusk, without having to always resort to the use of specialist equipment. More exciting still is how the techniques of astro-photography and the wildlife camera-trap have combined in recent years, to produce images of nocturnal animals against a background of a star-studded night sky. This marriage of two photographic genres has created an innovative style of night photography.

If that all sounds a bit too complex and time-consuming, with too many variables to spoil the hoped-for result, then consider using the fading light of the night sky in the brief time after dusk in a more opportunistic manner. Dusk is the part of the nocturnal phase when the light of the sun is still visible, though the sun itself has disappeared completely. During the earliest phase of dusk there is enough ambient light remaining to enable features in our surroundings to be seen without the aid of artificial light sources such as floodlights or street lamps.

While many of us shoot sunsets, the period of dusk also provides an opportunity to use the ambient light low in the sky as a backdrop to photographing foreground subjects in varying stages of illumination, or even as shadowy outlines against the fading sky. The variety of possible subjects includes ships at sea, flocks of low-flying birds, trees, windmills, skyscrapers and high bridges. These are all well known by day, but against a night sky at dusk they lack colour, so any compositional strength is determined by the graphic appeal of their distinct and recognisable shapes.

Questions 28–34: Matching headings

The text has seven sections, A-G. Choose the correct heading for each section from the list of headings below. Write the correct number, i-viii.

List of Headings

i. How chance contributes to conditions being right

ii. Concern about the changing environment

iii. The process of photographing animals at night is getting easier

iv. How human developments are affecting wildlife

v. Photographing objects that can't be seen in detail

vi. A season that may seem unsuitable for photographers

vii. No longer too expensive

viii. A less ambitious approach

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Section A
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Section B
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Section C
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Section D
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Section E
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Section F
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Section G

Questions 35–40: One word only

Choose ONE WORD ONLY from the text for each answer.

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November is a time when _______ grow.
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The apparent size of the moon depends on its position in relation to the _______.
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Sunlight is reflected by the _______ of the moon.
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When the night sky is clear, many objects in the _______, e.g., buildings, are visible.
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With modern cameras, it is possible to photograph not only constellations but also _______.
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Deer and wild boar may search for food in _______ in towns.

Phiếu trả lời

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Hiện đáp án

1. F
2. A
3. G
4. B
5. E
6. H
7. C
8. NOT GIVEN
9. TRUE
10. FALSE
11. TRUE
12. NOT GIVEN
13. TRUE
14. TRUE
15. lighted areas
16. flat tire
17. islands or separations
18. other drivers
19. a safe location
20. vehicle and road
21. safety experts
22. specification
23. application
24. email
25. panel
26. job offer
27. signed
28. vi
29. i
30. vii
31. iv
32. iii
33. viii
34. v
35. fungi
The passage says, 'fungi break through the earth' in November, showing that fungi grow at this time.
36. horizon
It is stated that 'the moon always appears largest at this point, when it is closest to the horizon,' so the apparent size of the moon depends on its position in relation to the horizon.
37. surface
The passage explains that the moon 'is reflecting the light of the sun hitting its surface,' so sunlight is reflected by the surface of the moon.
38. landscape
It says a full moon can 'illuminate buildings, trees, bridges and other landscape features,' so many objects in the landscape are visible when the night sky is clear.
39. galaxies
The passage mentions that with today's cameras, 'even galaxies such as our own Milky Way can be captured,' so it is possible to photograph galaxies as well as constellations.
40. gardens
It says deer and wild boar 'emerge from the cover of parks and nearby forests to forage in residential gardens by night,' so they may search for food in gardens in towns.

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