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latest ielts reading practice test with answers welcome to your latest ielts reading practice! in this document, you will find two contemporary practice tests designed to challenge and enhance your reading abilities. these tests encompass a wide range of question types commonly encountered in the ielts exam, ensuring a comprehensive assessment of your reading skills. let's embark on this learning journey together and make the most of these practice tests to excel in your ielts reading section. good luck! practice test 1 reading passage 1 you should spend about 20 minutes on questions 1-14 which are based on the reading passage below. the role of accidents in business in 1894 dr. john kellogg and his brother. will was supervising a hospital and health spa in michigan. the patients were on a restricted diet. one day, the brothers left cooked wheat intended for more than 24 hours. when they returned, they …
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s of mercury from a shattered thermometer produced a photographic image. the microwave was discovered when peroy spender, a scientist with raytheon, was testing a new vacuum tube and discovered that the sweet in his pocket had melted. the artificial sweetener, saccharin, was the unintentional result of a medical scientist’s work on a chemical treatment for gastric ulcers. while working for the firm 3m, researcher art fry had no idea he was taking the first steps towards post-it notes when he used bits of adhesive office paper that could be easily lifted off the page to replace the scrap paper bookmarks that kept falling out of his hymn book. breakthrough and disruptive innovation are rarely driven by orderly processes. usually, they come out of a chaotic, haphazard mess, which is why big companies, full of managers schooled in business programs designed to eliminate random variation and mistakes, struggle with them. …
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occurring. according to their catalog of accidents, not all false steps and mishaps are equal. accidents, they say, come from unlikely mental associations such as memories and vague connections, looking for something and finding it in an unexpected way, looking for one thing and finding something else, and not looking for anything but finding something valuable. accident-prone innovation, they say, requires companies to get outside the ‘cone of expectation’. it means throwing together groups from diverse backgrounds and combining ideas in unpredictable ways, other strategies also include having systems that watch out for accidents and examine them for value, generating them when they do not happen often enough, seizing oil the useful ones, capturing their valuable features, and building on them to add value and give the potential for useful accidents. all this, however, requires thinking that is often counterintuitive to the way businesses operate. in other words, it is …
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re blonde, is now ranked as australia’s fifth-largest beer brand. unlike empire lager, there has been almost no promotion, and its sales are generated more by word of mouth. other companies are taking similar steps to study their own slip-ups. intuit, the company behind financial tools such as quicken, holds regular ‘when learning hurts’ sessions. but this sort of transformation is never easy. in a market that focuses on the short-term, convincing employees and shareholders to tolerate failure and not play it safe is a big thing to ask. questions 1-5 do the following statements agree with the claims of the writer in reading passage? in boxes 1-5 on your answer sheet, write yes if the statement agrees with the claims of the writer no if the statement contradicts the claims of the writer notgiven if it is impossible to say what the writer thinks about this 1. the delay …
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d write the correct letter in boxes 10-14 on your answer sheet. 10. how do austin and devin advise companies to get out of the ‘cone of expectation’? a. by decreasing the number of company systems b. by forming teams of different types of people c. by hiring new and creative people d. by holding regular brainstorming meetings 11. in recommending ‘counter-intuitive’ thinking, what do austin and devin imply? a. that failing at business is bad for staff morale b. that innovation cannot be planned for c. that most businesses should be devoted to avoiding mistakes d. that the cost of mistakes is an important consideration 12. thewriter describes the empire lager disaster in order to show that a. success can come out of a business failure b. the majority of companies now value risk-taking. c. tv advertising works better on older people d. young beer drinkers do not like …

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latest ielts reading practice test with answers welcome to your latest ielts reading practice! in this document, you will find two contemporary practice tests designed to challenge and enhance your reading abilities. these tests encompass a wide range of question types commonly encountered in the ielts exam, ensuring a comprehensive assessment of your reading skills. let's embark on this learning journey together and make the most of these practice tests to excel in your ielts reading section. good luck! practice test 1 reading passage 1 you should spend about 20 minutes on questions 1-14 which are based on the reading passage below. the role of accidents in business in 1894 dr. john kellogg and his brother. will was supervising a …

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