For many students timing is a problem. They find it difficult to leave a question that they cannot answer. This is understandable, but in the IELTS it is disastrous. While you are not answering a difficult question you could be answering rwo or three, or even more] easier ones. Then you can come back to those you have left blank afterwards. | IELTS Reading Tests H. And much to the chagrin of traditionalists toys have now come on the market which teach children to speak and which children can then communicate with. The novelty apart this is a rather sinister turn of events. It is bad enough for adults to talk to cars and computers. But this development is much more disturbing. Children may develop certain linguistic skills from the robotic toy but will lose out on the necessary social and emotional interaction. Social de-skilling of this kind will lead to untold social problems. .or just a dream too far I. Yet not all the developments are bad. The advances taking place in medicine herald a new dawn for the human race. Disease will become an irritation rather than the bane it is now. Humans will replace body parts as they wear out with specially grown prostheses or electronic parts whatever is in vogue at the time. Certain diseases which required huge resources and expenditure will be treated by gene therapy. Paralysis will become a thing of the past. By 2020 the life expectancy for new babies will be well over 100 years and more. Recently the immortality gene was located so soon the world may be full of Methuselahs. J. A nightmare scenario perhaps. Not half as nightmarish as the future possibility of downloading the human mind before the body dies. But I for one do not wish to live out eternity as some sort of digital collectable item. Against the hum of machines who will hear my screams Or yours Questions 17-24 Reading Passage 2 has 10 paragraphs A-J . Choose rhe most suitable heading for each paragraph from the List of headings below. Write the appropriate numbers i-xvii in Boxes 17-24 on your answer sheet. Two of the headings have been done for you as examples. NB. There are more headings than paragraphs so you will not use all of them. Example Paragrajplii A Ataswer xvii. - 17. Paragraph B 18. Paragraph C 19. Paragraph D 20. Paragraph E 21. Paragraph F 22. Paragraph G 23. Paragraph H 24. Paragraph I
