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IntelliGene

Published by Inte ll iGene 2001

ISBN 0951 9582 4 0

The contents of thi s book in no way reflect the views of the authors.

No material from this pub lication may be reproduced without the express pennission of the authors.

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Contents

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Reading Test 1 .... ... ...................... ........ ..... ........ ................. .... .... .. ..... .......... .. ... ....... 13

Reading Test 2 ..... .... .. .............. ............. .... ...... ... ............................. ...... .... .. .... ...... .. 23

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Reading Test 3 ........ .. :......... .. ... ........ .. .. .. ....... .. .... .. ................................. .... .. ........ ... 33

Reading Test 4 ............................. .. ...... ...... ... ........ .. .. ....... ....................................... 43

Reading Test 5 ............ ... ...... ................................................ .... ............. .. .... .. .......... 53

Reading Test 6 ..... ... .. ............. ... .. ............................................... ............................. 63

Reading Test 7 ................. .. .. ......... ............................................ .. ............................ 73

Reading Test 8 .... .. .... ...... .. .. .. ......... .. .... .. .. .. .............. ..... ........ ..... .... .. .. ......... .......... .. 83

Reading Test 9 .. ...... ... .. .. ... .... ... ..... .. ............. ............ ........................................ ... .... 93

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Reading Test 10 ................ .... ...................... .................................... ......... :... ... ...... 103

Key ... .... ... ............. .... ...... ............................. ... .. .. ... .. ... ......... ...... ..... .. ....... ............. 115

Appendix ...... ............. ............. .... .......... ..... :..... ... ......... ................. .... ... ...... ..... ...... 146

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Acknowledgements

The authors would like to thank the following colleagues and friends for their help and support during the writing and

production of th is pUblication:

Hilary Finch, Inna Shah and Roger Townsend.

We would like to thank The British Library fo r pemrission to reproduce the extracts which ap pear in Readin g Passage

1 in Test 7 and Reading Passage 1 in Test 8.

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All of the other articles j[l this publication were sp«:cially commissioned for this publication and we would like to thank

the following writers for the ir contributi"ons:

Beatrice Bame, Beata Bart, Anthony Brown, Dr Susan Beckerleg, Lis Bis ranne, Margo Bl ythman, Samantha Carter,

Dr Charles Chandler, Sandra Chandra, Barry Deedes, Beryl Du nne, Doug Foot, John Goldfi nch, Peter Hopes, Dr

Stepan Kuznetzov, Ruth Midgley, Sarah Moore, James Nunn, Polly Rye, Professor Mike Riley. Wendy Riley, Micky

Silver, Dr Maureen Sorrel. Myrna Span, Dr Dave Tench. Areema Weake and Doug Young,

We would also like to thank the Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate for permission to reproduce the Reading

Answer Sheet in the Appen~lix,

We would also like to say a very special thank you to Drs Gill and Bruce Haddock for another sterling piece of work.

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About the Authors

Sam McCarter is a lecturer in academic and medical English at Soulhwark College. where he organises IELTS courses

for overseas doctors and other health personnel, and courses in medical English, including preparation for the OSeE

component of the PLAB.

Sam McCarter is also the creator and organiser of the Nuffield S.elf-access Language Project for Overseas Doctors and

is a free- lance consultant in medical English, specialising in tropical medicine.

Sam McCarter is co-author of A book for IELTS, the author of a book on writing, 'BPP Englisb for PLAB and

Nuffield Stress Tests for PLAB. He has also co-authored several other publications and edited a fange of health

publicati ons.

Judith Ash is a former lecturer in academic and medical English at Southwark College. She now writes freelance and

is working on distance learning programmes for tELTS and a series of tELTS books.

Judith Ash is co-author of A book for fELTS.

Future Publications by IntelliGene:

IntelliGene will be publishing a series of practice books for IELTS by Sam McCarter and Judith Ash. The next [WO

books in the seri es will be on writing and listening.

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IntelliGene will be publishing a major book on communi cation skills in medi cine by Sam McCarter and a new book on

writing skills.

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