COMPLETE IELTS 5-6.5 UNIT 4 READING AND LISTENING

1. FALSE
"That was the bland title of a document written in March 1989 by a then-little-known computer scientist called Tim Berners-Lee."
2. TRUE
"In fact, the Web was invented to deal with a specific problem... ‘Yes, but how will we ever keep track of such a large project?’"
3. NOT GIVEN
4. TRUE
"It has permitted professional scientists to recruit thousands of amateurs to give them a hand."
5. FALSE
This project...was so successful that a successor has now been launched, to classify the brightest quarter of a million of them in finer detail."
6. NOT GIVEN
This will allow them to track the changes in the distribution of species in response to climate change.

QUESTION 1-6

7. Sizes
Evidence: The passage mentions, "Social scientists use it to run online behavioural experiments...including data from Facebook."

8. Messages
Evidence: The text states, "The majority of the messages were directed at a few specific friends."

9. Laws
Evidence: The text mentions, "Dr Huberman has also helped uncover several laws of web surfing."

10. Attention
Evidence: The text explains, "...whereby a few sites on a given subject attract most of the attention, and the rest get very little."

QUESTION 7-10

11. Bloggers
The text states, "Indeed, many bloggers develop and refine their essays as a result of those comments."
12. Scientific research
"Yet although people have tried to have scientific research reviewed in the same way, most researchers only accept reviews from a few anonymous experts."
13. Nature
"When Nature, one of the world’s most respected scientific journals, experimented with open peer review in 2006..."

QUESTION 11-13

LISTENING

ANSWER

​1. photo/photograph, 2. organisation, 3. letter, 4. local issue, 5. advertising

6. pyramid, 7. quotes/quotations, 8. figures, 9. conclusion, 10. headline