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英澳留学直通车水平测试 英澳留学直通车水平测试 PAGE PAGEPAGE 5 ? UCLES 2009. This material may be photocopied (without alteration) and distributed for classroom use provided no charge is made. For further information see our Terms of Use at 英澳留学直通车水平测试 IELTS Listening – Sentence Completion Questions 1 – 4 Complete the sentences below. Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS for each answer. 1 Studying with the Open University demanded a great deal of …………………. 2 Studying and working at the same time improved Rachel’s ……………… skills. 3 It was helpful that the course was structured in …………….. 4 She enjoyed meeting other students at ……………. . IELTS Listening – Summary Questions 5 – 10 Complete the summary below. Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer. The people who are going to 5_________________ listen to the talk in the 6_________________. At the beginning, John Parker talks about the best ways of making 7_________________ because it might be difficult to meet people in a foreign country. The first thing he recommends to do is to get involved in 8_________________. There are theatre groups, 9_________________ and a group for people who are interested in local history. 10_________________ and the public library are the best places to get information concerning different groups. IELTS Read The Risks of Cigarette Smoke Discovered in the early 1800s and named ‘nicotianine’, the oily essence now called nicotine is the main active ingredient of tobacco. Nicotine, however, is only a small component of cigarette smoke, which contains more than 4,700 chemical compounds, including 43 cancercausing substances. In recent times, scientific research has been providing evidence that years of cigarette smoking vastly increases the risk of developing fatal medical conditions. In addition to being responsible for more than 85 per cent of lung cancers, smoking is associated with cancers of, amongst others, the mouth, stomach and kidneys, and is thought to cause about 14 per cent of leukaemia and c