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Task 1 · Academic report
The bar chart below shows the percentage of households with internet access in four different countries in 2005, 2010 and 2020. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
Household Internet Access by Country (2005, 2010, 2020)
Source: ITU World Telecommunication Indicators 2021
South KoreaGermanyBrazilNigeria
Write at least 150 words. You should spend about 20 minutes on this task.
Your answer32 words
The bar chart illustrates the share of households with internet access in four countries in 2005, 2010 and 2020. Overall, access rose everywhere, while the gap between the richest and the poorest countries narrowed.
32 words
Academic Reading Test 13 of 40 answered
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Passage 1 · History of technology
The Machine That Changed the Day
For most of human history, time was something read from the sky. The sun told people when to rise, when to eat and when to stop work, and the seasons told them when to plant and when to harvest. Such time was elastic. An hour in June was not the same length as an hour in December, because the daylight was simply divided into twelve parts whatever the season, and nobody found this strange.
The device that broke this arrangement appeared in Europe towards the end of the thirteenth century. Its central component was a mechanism called the verge escapement, which took the steady pull of a falling weight and released it in tiny, regular steps. Nobody knows who invented it, and no drawing of the first one survives.
These early clocks would disappoint anyone expecting to read the time from them. Many had no face and no hands at all. Their purpose was to strike a bell, calling monks to prayer at the proper hours. Nor were they accurate. A large tower clock of this period could gain or lose fifteen minutes in a single day, which meant it had to be corrected constantly against a sundial.
Questions 1–13
Complete the notes below. Choose ONE WORD ONLY from the passage for each answer.
How the mechanical clock developed
1.Before mechanical clocks, the length of an hour changed with the .
2.The part that released the weight in regular steps was called the escapement.
3.The earliest machines were built to sound a rather than show the time.
4.Early tower clocks had to be reset by comparing them with a .
5.The first mechanical clocks had both a face and hands.
6.The inventor of the verge escapement is unknown.
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Speaking Test 1 · Part 2Part 2
Read the card, prepare for one minute, then talk for one to two minutes.
Describe a photograph that is special to you.
You should say:
what the photograph shows
when and where it was taken
who took it
and explain why this photograph is special to you
Preparation time
Make notes if you wish. Recording starts when the minute is up.
1:00
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