tailieunhanh - Academic Reading for ielts test

The three parts of this practice Reading test are presented over three separate web pages. Make sure you move swiftly from one page to the next so that your practice is as realistic as possible. Time yourself and allow just one hour to complete all three parts. There are 40 questions in this practice paper. Each question carries one mark. If you prefer to work offline, download the test paper and blank answer sheet. | For more details visit ACADEMIC READING FOR IELTS TEST QUESTIONS 1-14 You are advised to spend about 15 minutes on Questions 1-14 which refer to Reading Passage 1 below. READING PASSAGE 1 FINDING THE LOST FREEDOM 1. The private car is assumed to have widened our horizons and increased our mobility. When we consider our children s mobility they can be driven to more places and more distant places than they could visit without access to a motor vehicle. However allowing our cities to be dominated by cars has progressively eroded children s independent mobility. Children have lost much of their freedom to explore their own neighbourhood or city without adult supervision. In recent surveys when parents in some cities were asked about their own childhood experiences the majority remembered having more or far more opportunities for going out on their own compared with their own children today. They had more freedom to explore their own environment. 2. Children s independent access to their local streets may be important for their own personal mental and psychological development. Allowing them to get to know their own neighbourhood and community gives them a sense of place . This depends on active exploration which is not provided for when children are passengers in cars. Such children may see more but they learn less. Not only is it important that children be able to get to local play areas by themselves but walking and cycling journeys to school and to other destinations provide genuine play activities in themselves. 3. There are very significant time and money costs for parents associated with transporting their children to school sport and to other locations. Research in the United Kingdom estimated that this cost in 1990 was between 10 billion and 20 billio n pounds. A I P P G 4. The reduction in children s freedom may also contribute to a weakening of the sense of local community. As fewer children and adults use the streets as pedestrians these .

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