Reading for IELTS 7.

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SMALL PRACTICE

TRUE | FALSE | NOT GIVEN

Decide if the information in the statement is True, False or Not Given according to the
information in the reading paragraph.

EXCERCISE 01

Students go to universities and other academic institutions to prepare for their future.
We pay tuition and struggle through classes in the hopes that we can find a fulfilling and
exciting career. But the choice of your university has a large influence on your future. How
can you know which university will prepare you the best for your future? Like other academic
institutions, busi¬ness schools are judged by the quality of the research carried out by
their faculties. Professors must both teach students and also produce original research
in their own field. The quality of this research is assessed by academic publications. At
the same time, universities have another responsibility to equip their students for the real
world, however that is defined. Most students learning from professors will not go into
academics themselves—so how do academics best prepare them for their future careers,
whatever that may be? Whether academic research actually produces anything that is
useful to the practice of business, or even whether it is its job to do so, are questions that
can provoke vigorous arguments on campus.

The controversy, which first flared during the 1950s, was reignited in August, when
AACSB Interna¬tional, the most widely recognised global accrediting agency for business
schools, announced it would consider changing the way it evaluates research.

QUESTION:
The debate about the usefulness of academic research for business practices is a
recent one. NG

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EXCERCISE 02

The British grass interrupted brome was said to be extinct, just like the Dodo. Called
interrupted brome because of its gappy seed-head, this unprepossessing grass was found
nowhere else in the world, Gardening experts from the Victorian lira were first to record
it. In the early 20th century, it grew far and wide across southern England. But it quickly
vanished and by 1972 was nowhere to be found. Even the seeds stored at the Cambridge
University Botanic Garden as an insurance policy were dead, having been mistakenly kept
at room temperature. Fans of the glass were devastated.
QUESTION:
The name of interrupted brome came from the unprepossessing grass that disappeared
from places in the world for a period. TRUE

EXCERCISE 03

The Lapita left precious few clues about themselves, but Efate expands the volume
of data available to researchers dramatically. The remains of 62 individuals have been
uncovered so far, and archaeologists were also thrilled to find six complete Lapita pots.
Other items included a Lapita burial urn with modeled birds arranged on the rim as though
peering down at the human remains sealed inside.
QUESTION:
The urn buried in Efate site was plain as it was without any decoration. FALSE

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