Reading-r04-mini-p11- matching-which paragraph-AC
نمونه سوال matching & summary completion در ریدینگ آیلتس آکادمیک
Why are there so many cookery books?
There are a great number more cookery books published than is really necessary, and it is their …14… which makes them differ from each other. There are such large numbers because they offer people an escape from their …15... and some give the user the chance to inform themselves about other …16…
Questions 17-21
Reading Passage 2 has nine paragraphs, A-l.
Which paragraph contains the following information?
Write the correct letter, A-l, in boxes 17-21 on your answer sheet.
NB You may use any letter more than once.
17 cookery books providing a sense of stability during periods of unrest
18 details in recipes being altered as they were passed on
19 knowledge which was in danger of disappearing
20 The negative effect on cookery books of a new development
21 a period when there was no need for cookery books to be precise
Questions 22-26
Look at the following statements (Questions 22-26) and list of books (A-E) below.
Match each statement with the correct book, A-E.
Write the correct letter, A-E, in boxes 22-26 on your answer sheet.
22 Its recipes were easy to follow despite the writer’s attention to detail.
23 Its writer may have deliberately avoided passing on details.
24 It appealed to ambitious ideas people have about cooking.
25 Its writer used ideas from other books but added additional related information.
26 It put into print ideas which are still respected today.
List of cookery books
De re coquinara
The Book of Household Management
Le Guide Culinaire
The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book
Mediterranean Food
14 presentation: ‘their presentation varies wildly [= it is their presentation which makes them differ from each other]’
15 (daily) routine: ‘The daily routine can be put to one side and they liberate the user … [= offer people an escape from their daily routine]
16 cultures: ‘provide an opportunity to delve into distant cultures [= give the user the chance to inform themselves about other cultures]’
17 E: ‘Cookbooks thus became a symbol … the revolutions in America and France [= periods of unrest].’
18 D: ‘Recipes were distorted [= altered] through reproduction.’
19 F: ‘Two centuries earlier, an understanding of rural ways had been so widespread that … The growing urban middle class needed details, and Beeton provided them in full.’
20 D: ‘The invention of printing … the reverse was true.’
21 C: ‘But then, they were not written for careful study … Such cooks would have been capable … from the vaguest of instructions.’
22 D: Paragraph H says ‘a collection of recipes … a book of chemistry experiments … her book is reassuringly authoritative … no unnecessary spices’.
23 A: Paragraph B says ‘the author had been obscure on purpose’.
24 E: Paragraph I says ‘David’s books were not so much cooking manuals … wish to eat’.
25 B: Paragraph F says ‘If Beeton’s recipes were not wholly new, though, the way in which she presented them certainly was. She explains …’.
26 C: Paragraph G says ‘many of whom still consider it the definitive reference book’.