Copyright 1996

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Copyright ©1996 
School of Language and Literacy Education, University of South Australia 
This publication is copyright. Except as expressly provided in the Copyright Act 
1968 and 
subsequent amendments, no part of this publication may be reproduced by any 
means (including 
electronic, mechanical, microcopying, photocopying, recording or otherwise) 
without prior 
written permission of the copyright owner. 
ISBN 086803 142 9 
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 
The authors and publisher would like to express their gratitude to Stephen Slater 
their editor and 
to Frank Packenham for page layout, typesetting, visuals and editing assistance. 
Thanks to: all 
teachers and students at CALUSA who helped to trial the test practice materials, 
in particular 
Steve Cook, Joan Tobella and Barbara Reichert; to the students of ELP, 
Universitas Islam Indonesia 
for their assistance with trialling materials; the following people for their 
assistance with the 
recording of Listening and Speaking Test material—Pehr Abrahamsson, Kirill 
Pogorelov, Maria 
Mahamood, Rachael Kirkham, Rosemary Pimlott, Peter Forward, Alison Banks, 
Mandy Rego, 
Graham Ross, Neil Low, Peter Cowling and Shane McCarthy. Finally, thanks to 
copyright owners 
for permission to reproduce copyright material. 
Cover design by Caroline Rannersberger. 
Line drawings on pages 18,19,24, 29, 31,32 by Midori Nakamura and page 93 by 
Peter Forward. 
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japtinted by Printing and Publications Unit, University of South Australia. 

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Contents 
Themes ....................................................................................................................2 
The IELTS Test.......................................................................................................4 
Using this Book.......................................................................................................6 
Helpful Hints................................................................................................... : .....8 
Listening Practice Tests ..............................................................: ........................ 13 
Test 1 ............................................................................................................ 15 
Test 2 ............................................................................................................24 
Test3 ............................................................. ...............................................31 
Reading PracticeTests ..... .....................................................................................37 
Test 1 ............................................................................................................39 
Test 2 ............................................................................................................49 
Test 3 ............................................................................................................59 
Test 4 ............................................................................................................68 
Test 5 ............................................................................................................78 
Test 6 ............................................................................................................ 87 
Test 7 ............................................................................................................96 
Test 8 .......................................................................................................... 104 
Test 9 ...................   ...... ..............................................................................111 
Writing Practice Tests ........................................................................................121 
Test 1 .......................................................................................................... 123 
Test 2 .......................................................................................................... 124 
Test 3 .......................................................................................................... 125 
Test 4 ..........................................................................................................126 
Test 5 ..........................................................................................................127 
Test 6 ..........................................................................................................128 
Test 7 ..........................................................................................................129 
Test 8 ..........................................................................................................130 
Test 9 .......................................................................................................... 131 
Self-Rating Guide.......................................................................................135 
Speaking Tests .................................................................................................... 137 
Test 1 .......................................................................................................... 138 
Test 2 ..........................................................................................................147 
Transcriptions .....................................................................................................159 
Answer Key ........................................................................................................177 
Sources ...............................................................................................................182 

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Themes - Reading Tests
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Title  
Theme
Test l    
1  
Finding the lost freedom
Reducing city traffic
2  
Rising seas  
The warming of the Earth's oceai 
3  
New rules for the paper game  
Pollution-free paper making  
Test 2   
1  
How to raise a bright child
Theories of childhood education  
2  
The value of driver training
Do driver training programs wor  
3  
Human powered pumps for  
Primary technology in Africa  
 
African farmers  
Test 3   
1 
Traditional Vietnamese medical
Natural food as medicine
theory
2 
3  
The new supersonic boom 
Building the new Concorde 
Co-housing  
Sharing domestic living space  
Test 4   
1  
That Monday morning feeling
Monday morning is a health risk  
2  
Domestic division of labour
How husbands and wives share  
household tasks
3  
The Great Barrier Reef  
A fragile ecology at risk  
Test 5   
  
Wrap up your visit with the
Gift giving in various countries  
perfect gift
2  
Earthquakes  
Causes and effects of 
3  
Why we can't afford to let Asia
A new look at food production  
 
starve 
and distribution
Test 6   
 
1  
Intellectual disability  
Social responses to intellectual  
 
 
disability
2  
Fuel cells: 21st century electricity
Efficient energy use in the 
3  
The new Ice Age  
Living in the Antarctic  
Test 7   
1  
Tools for tomorrow's  
Telecommunications
 
communications  
2  
Characteristics of open and
Studying without going to schoo  
distance learning
3  
Associations provide therapy for
The benefits of belonging to
 
society
groups
Test 8   
1  
Sustainable production  
Recycling
2  
Searching the skies  
Looking for extra-terrestrial life  
3  
The problems of mature job
Age discrimination in the job
hunters
market
Test 9   
1  
A different taste of things to come
Food preferences
2   ,   Fire tests  
Discovering how fires start
3   •   Some misconceptions about
Examining new findings about  
 
Aboriginal Australia  
Aboriginal history  

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Themes - Writing Tests 
 
 
Title  
Theme
Test 1  
 
 
1  
Causes of injury  
 
Types of injury among different age  
 
 
groups   
2  
Vegetarianism  
A meatless diet for godd health   
Test 2  
 
 
1  
Population growth  
 
Comparison between cities over a  
 
 
25 year period.
2  
Training for safe driving   The best way to reduce traffic accidents  
Test 3  
 
1  
A waste disposal unit  
 
Description of the unjft and how it
works
2  
Forests: the lungs of the   Impact of the destruction of forests  
 
earth  
life forms
Test 4  
 
 
 
1  
Leisure at home  
How people spend their free time  
 
 
at home
2  
Safety standards for  
Government role in enforcing safety  
 
building construction  
standards  
Test 5 
1  
Work time to buy  
 
Changing amount of work needed.  
 
 
to purchase consumer items 
2  
Children learn best by  
How children learn
 
observing adults  
 
Test 6  
 
 
 
1  
Spending on civilian 
Comparison of spending between
 
applications world wide   countries
2  
Zoos  
The value of keeping animals in zoos  
Test 7  
 
 
1  
One person households  
The rise in one person households  
during a 10 year period
2  
Compulsory education  
Education is vital for the future  
Test 8  
 
 
 
1  
Women today  
The status of women around the
world
2  
Tourism  
Tourism as an important source of
 
 
national revenue
Test 9 
1  
Sports injuries  
 
Emergency treatment for unjuries 
from different sports    
2  
Water  
Sufficient clean water for the future  

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