Academic/General Training Module by Adam Smith First Published in 2015

 IELTS
 JOURNAL 
 
121 
Exercise 62: Paragraph heading 
Choose the correct heading for the paragraph from the list below.
A) The environmental impact of estuaries 
B) The human impact on certain coastal areas 
C) Why estuaries will disappear 
An estuary is a partly enclosed coastal body of water with one or more rivers or 
streams flowing into it, and with a free connection to the open sea. Estuaries are 
amongst the most heavily populated areas throughout the world, with about 
60% of the world’s population living along estuaries and the coast. As a result, 
estuaries are suffering degradation by many factors, including overgrazing and 
other poor farming practices; overfishing; drainage and filling of wetlands; 
pollutants from sewage inputs; and diking or damming for flood control or water 
diversion. 
Exercise 63: Multiple choice 
Read the following text and answer the multiple choice questions below.
In linguistics, a corpus (plural corpora) is a large and structured set of texts (now 
usually electronically stored and processed). A corpus may be used to help 
linguists to analyse a language, or for the purpose of dictionary writing or 
language teaching. The British National Corpus (BNC) is a 100-million-word text 
corpus of samples of written and spoken English from a wide range of sources. 
The corpus covers British English of the late twentieth century from a wide 
variety of genres with the intention that it be a representative sample of spoken 
and written British English of that time. 
1. What is a corpus?
A) A type of large dictionary. 
B) A single written text. 
C) A tool for language analysis. 
2. Why was the BNC compiled?
A) For the purpose of language teaching. 
B) To document written and spoken English from a particular period in time. 
C) To document the history of the English language.