Tips and Tricks for Matching Sentence Ending
After a quick run through tips and tricks for matching sentence endings let’s understand what it is. There will be a list of sentences which are missing their endings. You’re required to match each of them with a possible ending given in another list. This is to build up full and correct sentences according to the reading text. The IELTS examiners want to test your comprehension of the way ideas are transferred in given sentences, how they are related to the reading text.
Match the sentence endings with the given list of items. Eventual exposure Being obese at a young age The dangerous circumstances surrounding obesity A. can lead to early death B. are higher when a person’s BMI is immense C. can make it tough for a young person at school D. can lead to children struggling to breathe and other complications E. projects a future of obesity and ongoing serious health issues F. to the health issues caused by obesity can cause a number of diseases |
To understand the process let’s take one passage and a question.
The monkey projects demonstrate that compared with control animals that eat normally. caloric-restricted monkeys have lower body temperatures and levels of the pancreatic hormone insulin, and they retain more youthful levels of certain hormones that tend to fall with age. | Classify the following descriptions as relating to 33 caloric-restricted mimetic 34 control monkeys 35 neither caloric-restricted monkeys nor control monkeys A were less likely to become diabetic. B experienced more chronic disease. C have been shown to experience a longer than average life span. D enjoyed a reduced chance of heart disease. E produced greater quantities of insulin |
Step 1 Read the question and underline the key words. | A caloric-restricted mimetic B control monkeys C neither caloric-restricted monkeys nor control monkeys |
Step 2 Scan for the keywords or/and synonyms in the passage. | The monkey projects demonstrate that compared with control animals that eat normally. caloric-restricted monkeys have lower body temperatures and levels of the pancreatic hormone insulin, and they retain more youthful levels of certain hormones that tend to fall with age. |
Step 3 Read intensively, the sentence which has the keywords to understand the missing part of the sentence. | The monkey projects demonstrate that compared with control animals that eat normally. caloric-restricted monkeys have lower body temperatures and levels of the pancreatic hormone insulin, and they retain more youthful levels of certain hormones that tend to fall with age. Control animals is opposite to caloric restricted caloric-restricted monkeys have lower body temperatures and lower levels of the pancreatic hormone insulin, are more youthful which means Control animals = higher body temperatures and higher levels of the pancreatic hormone insulin, less youthful |
Step 4 Try matching your extracted idea to the idea of the given options | E produced greater quantities of insulin Answer: E |