Yes/No/Not Given: Practice Test - 9 | Reading for Academic IELTS PDF Download

Directions: Do the following statements/questions agree with the views of the writer in the Reading Passage? Write:
YES: if the statement agrees with the views of the writer.
NO: if the statement contradicts what the writer thinks.
NOT GIVEN: if it is impossible to know what the writer's point of view is.
Passage: Adults and children are frequently confronted with statements about the alarming rate of loss of tropical rainforests. For example, one graphic illustration to which children might readily relate is the estimate that rainforests are being destroyed at a rate equivalent to one thousand football fields every forty minutes – about the duration of a normal classroom period. In the face of the frequent and often vivid media coverage, it is likely that children will have formed ideas about rainforests – what and where they are, why they are important, what endangers them – independent of any formal tuition. It is also possible that some of these ideas will be mistaken. Many studies have shown that children harbor misconceptions about ‘pure’, curriculum science. These misconceptions do not remain isolated but become incorporated into a multifaceted, but organized, conceptual framework, making it and the component ideas, some of which are erroneous, more robust but also accessible to modification. These ideas may be developed by children absorbing ideas through the popular media. Sometimes this information may be erroneous. It seems schools may not be providing an opportunity for children to re-express their ideas and so have them tested and refined by teachers and their peers.

Q.1.Adults and students aren’t aware of the topics related to the loss of tropical rainforests.
Q.2. According to the passage, the duration of one classroom period is forty minutes which is equivalent to the estimated number of rainforests being destroyed.
Q.3. Children have formed illustrations about the rainforests through vivid media coverage.
Q.4. Ideas developed by the children about the rainforests are always accurate and precise.
Q.5. Students might ask the schools to allow them to re-express their ideas.

Solution of 1:

Adults and students aren’t aware of the topics related to the loss of tropical rainforests – NO.
it is mentioned in the passage that Adults and children are frequently confronted with statements about the alarming rate of loss of tropical rainforests. So, the answer is NO.

Solution of 2:

According to the passage, the duration of one classroom period is forty minutes, equivalent to the estimated number of rainforests being destroyed – YES.
we understand from the passage that rainforests are being destroyed at a rate equivalent to the duration of a regular classroom period. So, the answer is YES.

Solution of 3:

Children have formed illustrations about the rainforests through vivid media coverage – YES.
it is clearly mentioned in the passage; It is likely for the children to have formed ideas about rainforests through vivid media coverage. So, the answer is YES. Here ideas refer to illustrations.

Solution of 4:

Ideas developed by the children about the rainforests are always accurate and precise – NO.
we come to know from the passage that children’s ideas through the media may sometimes be erroneous. So, the answer is NO. Here, erroneous means wrong, accurate means exact, and precise means sharply defined.

Solution of 5:

Students might ask the schools to allow them to re-express their ideas – NOT GIVEN.
it is not mentioned anywhere in the passage that the students have made/ intend to make such a request. So, the answer is NOT GIVEN.