Mock question sets are simulated test questions. Use this mock question set to prepare for your Linguaskill General Reading & Listening test.
Question 1:
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How will the man get to the business conference center from the hotel?
Question 2:
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What do the man and woman agree about?
The station's traditional features are enhanced with modern architecture techniques.
The station is a realistic copy of a traditional building that plays with light and shadows.
The station's environmental friendly qualities make it especially impressive.
Question 3:
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A critic is talking about a portrait. What does he admire?
The painter's ability to skillfully use elements of other artwork.
The symbolic items in the painting which show the subject's social status.
The way the painting rises above the historical context in which it was painted.
Question 4:
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What point is the woman trying to make about prizes for negative book reviews?
encourages book reviewers to be more severe than necessary.
allows book reviewers to go against common consensus.
brings attention to the difficulty of creating interest in reviews.
prioritises entertainment over the quality of a book.
In the woman's opinion, an author's reputation can...
make reviewers overly deferential towards their work.
discourage new reviewers from being too critical.
create false assumptions about the quality of a new work.
motivate reviewers to undermine the author's name.
Why did the man bring up the TV series?
to say that experienced critics are the most susceptible.
to show that critics do admit their mistakes.
to explain the pressures faced by critics when they work.
to highlight the potential damage a bad review can cause.
What is the man suggesting about book critics also being writers themselves?
They may not be as good as they are at writing.
They would not be able to write reviews without knowledge in writing.
They tend to be harsher critics compared to non-writers.
They tend to be biased when reviewing their friends' works.
How does the woman react to the man's comments about current book reviews?
She agrees that plot summaries need to be included.
She agrees that reviews are different from advertisements.
She disagrees about the importance of reviewing the writer's style.
She disagrees with the man's opinion about reviews in quality newspapers.
What does the woman say about a negative review for one of her books?
She managed to ignore it because it was written by a newcomer.
She resisted temptation to confront the critic.
She felt it impacted her confidence negatively.
She agreed the bad review was probably warranted.
Question 1:
What is the notice telling you?
The path is presently too dangerous to be walked on.
Walkers can only take this path with a guide.
If walkers choose this path, they need to be extra careful.
Question 2:
Choose the correct answer for the gap.
Most people of the public did not agree with the court's lenient sentence as they believed that all it did was to the seriousness of the crime that has been committed.
Question 3:
Choose the correct answers.
Parenting Practices from Traditional Cultures.
In her latest book, Jenny Taft proposes a radical idea: parents might consider getting rid of most of the toys they’ve purchased for their children. While this might sound extreme at first, Taft’s reasoning makes it seem entirely logical. “Children lived for two hundred thousand years without these things,” she notes. Her thoroughly researched work, 'Hunter, Gatherer, Parenter: What Ancient Cultures Can Teach Us About the Lost Art of Raising Happy, Helpful Little Humans', is filled with moments like this, where conventional child-rearing approaches in the West and many other nations appear, at best, odd and, at worst, potentially harmful.
Taft arrives at these insights through her travels with her then-3-year-old daughter. Together, they visit parents in a Maya village on Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, an Inuit community in Canada’s northern territories, and a group of hunter-gatherers in Tanzania. During these trips, Taft observes children who are calm, cooperative, and freely share with their siblings while pitching in with household tasks unprompted. She takes care to portray these families not as part of a static “museum” of ancient human behavior but as contemporary households that have retained priceless parenting practices likely rooted in tens of thousands of years of tradition.
In the first paragraph, the writer is trying to express...
Taft's persuasiveness when making an argument
How Taft's idea has generated a lot of enthusiasm.
The reasons why many parents would not agree with Taft's idea.
How Taft rejects many elements of Western culture.
What do we learn about Taft's work?
She did not wish to get too emotionally attached to any one community in particular.
She wished to share her child-rearing experiences with those she studied.
She involved her upbringing of her daughter in her research.
She made an effort to treat all her research subjects with respect.
Question 4:
Choose the correct answer for the gap.
With the announcement of this discovery, scientists are on the of understanding how several theorems can be solved.
Question 5:
Choose the correct answer for the gap.
must this entrance be left unattended.
Question 6:
Write the correct answer in the gap.
The shrill ringing of the mobile phone's alarm interrupted my of thought suddenly.
