reading unit 2

Please, read this text from Unit 2 of the Complete IELTS textbook and answer questions based on the text. Take this task mainly as practice for the English exam - reading often causes students problems mainly because of a lack of experience with these types of questions. 

Please, also focus on any new vocabulary in the text - the definitions, the collocations, the patterns (which word is followed by which preposition etc.). 

I will upload the correct answers here on Monday before the class so you can check them and ask in class if anything is not clear.