1.4 Four general IELTS reading questions “四大”雅思阅读题型P1-10

P1 Hi everyone! Welcome to Part 2 reading strategies in Module 1.

P2 Let’s look at Section 1.4 “Four general IELTS reading questions”. As amatter of fact, there are ten types of questions in IELTS reading , which is highly challenging to command such a huge amount of question types. Therefore,I simplify those ten types of questions into only four:

1. List of Headings 段落主题句& Matching匹配，which are couples and the most challenging type of questions.

2. Filling  in the blanks 填空, which is the commonest type of question and can be seen both  in CET and TEM tests, etc.

3. Multiple choice 选择, which is the most classic type of question, can be seen both in CET and TEM tests, etc.

4. True/False or Not Given/ Yes/No or Not Given判断,which is the least challenging type of question.

P3 Look at the example for the first type of question — List of Headings

Here Reading Passage 2 hasfive paragraphs, A-E. You are asked to choose the correct headingfor paragraphs B-E（the right answer to paragraph A hasalready been given）from the list of headings below.

P4 Matching, as the couple of List of Headings, hasthree sub-types:

1. 1)     matching features人名匹配理论

2. 2)     matching sentence endings 句子匹配

3. 3)     matching information 段落信息匹配

P5 Let’s look at the example for matching features:

Here you are given five statements (Questions 18-21) and the list of people below. You are asked to match each statementwith the correct person, A, B, C or D.

P6 Here is an example for matching sentence endings. You are asked to complete each sentence with the correct endings, A-F, below.

P7 Let’s look at the example for matinginformation:

Here Reading Passage 2 has seven paragraphs, A-G. You are asked to discern which paragraph contains the following information? This sub-type of question is similar to List of Headings段落主题句.

P8 Let’slook at the second type of question — filling in the blanks（填空）. Here all following types of questions, such as summary completion（概述填空） (both with word bank 带词库 and without word bank 不带词库), short answer questions（简答）, note completion/sentence completion（完成句子）, filling in the blanks（填空）, matching features（人名匹配理论）, table completion（表格）, diagram completion（图表）, flow-chart（流程图）, etc. could be covered under the broader umbrella of filling in the blanks.

P9 The third type of question is multiple and single choice（多选/单选）, which is the most classical type and can be seen both in CET and TEM tests and postgraduate exams, etc.

P10 The fourth type of question is True, Falseor Not Given/Yes, No or Not Given（判断）, which is the least challenging type in IELTS reading. I might suggest that you leave it to the last minute and choose more“Trues” or “Yeses “if you haven’t got enough time to go through every question.

P11 So much for this section. Thankyou. Bye bye!