Summary completion: IELTS reading practice

The United States has a little more than one million Arabic speakers within its borders.

Millions of people speak Arabic in many different countries.

Arabic is a beautiful language that has been spoken for more than a thousand years.

Many British students only study a foreign language for 3 years, because it is easier to get good grades in other subjects.

Students in the UK do not like studying a foreign language because they are lazy and only want to speak English.

The British government is now looking at different ways to improve language learning at school.

The idea of universal grammar influenced work in linguistics, psychology and cognitive science.

Many people think that languages are similar to each other because babies all sound the same.

A famous scientist said that languages are not that different from each other because they all have the same common rules.

You should read and understand every single word in the text to complete the summary

You should focus on the summary and the list of missing words / options to choose from

If there are 5 gaps in the summary, you will get 5 words to choose from.

If there are 5 gaps in the summary, you will have more than 5 words to choose from, so you will not use all the words.

I complete the easy sentences first and try to fit some of the remaining words into the more difficult sentences.

I choose the most difficult sentence to complete first. I do not know the answer so I start panicking, spend the next twenty minutes trying to find the answer and do not have time left for any other questions.

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