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IELTS GENERAL READING TEST 474 – PASSAGE – 2
IELTS GENERAL READING TEST – 474
READING PASSAGE – 2
How is Chocolate Made?
The process of making chocolate is quite simple. Chocolate is such a pure, natural food that it does not require much processing to get it from cocoa bean to chocolate bar. Here is how it is done:
By the time cocoa gets to the chocolate factory the beans have been removed from their pods and fermented in boxes to kill the cocoa bean and start breaking down the shell around it. Then they have been dried in the sun. Both the fermenting and drying processes take place on the farm. The complete process from picking to the end of the drying period takes about three weeks.
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When the cocoa beans arrive in sacks at the chocolate factory, they are washed and roasted and the shells around the beans are crushed and blown away in a process called winnowing. What is left are called nibs. This is the purest form of chocolate, but it is very bitter.
The nibs are then crushed, which releases the oil within them, creating a dark brown liquid called cocoa liquor. Under heat and pressure, much of the oil is removed from the liquor and processed as a secondary product, cocoa butter. The remaining solid is formed into large blocks of cocoa mass and shipped to chocolate manufacturers.
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Chocolate manufacturers crush the blocks and add other ingredients. Dark chocolate is 75 per cent or more chocolate mass with added sugar. Milk chocolate contains 35 per cent chocolate mass with sugar, cocoa butter, and milk power. White chocolate has no cocoa mass, but is a combination of cocoa butter, milk powder and vanilla.
Each mixture is heated and then slowly cooled in a process called tempering, which keeps the sugar evenly distributed in the mixture and stops large sugar crystals from forming. The mixture is then poured into moulds, which are passed along a vibrating conveyor belt to remove any air bubbles. When the chocolate in the moulds has set, it is ready to be removed then packed and sent to be sold.
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Questions 15-21
Choose ONE WORD from the text for each answer.
Chocolate production process
– cocoa pods are picked
– beans are removed from their shells and fermented
– beans then put in sun to be 15………………….
– beans arrive at chocolate factory
– beans are washed and roasted
– beans undergo 16…………………. process to remove shells
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– once the shells are removed, the beans are known as 17………………….
– the beans are crushed to create cocoa liquor
– oil is removed under high temperature and 18…………………. creates cocoa butter
– what is left is cocoa mass, which is shipped in 19…………………. to chocolate manufacturers
– the cocoa mass is crushed
– sugar and other ingredients are added
– the different types of chocolate created are dark, 20…………………. and white
– the mixture is heated and cooled and then put into 21………………….
– when mixture has set, the chocolate is packaged
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Read the text below and answer Questions 22-27.
Mayberry High School Teachers’ Room
A This notice board can be used by teachers to put up their own messages, but please leave the yellow section of the board free for notices that are from the school office, the school board or the head teacher. We ask that you look at the board frequently so you are informed of announcements or upcoming events. The hours of the Teachers’ Room are 8 a.m. to 4.30 p.m. daily. The cleaners arrive at 5 p.m. and the Teachers’ Room must be empty by that time.
B To ensure your privacy, only teachers have access to this room. No students, parents or visitors are allowed in at any time. The teachers’ room has a dual purpose. It is a place for teachers to prepare their lessons but also a place for teachers to relax between lessons. At some times of the day, it does become quite crowded, so we ask that you speak quietly with your colleagues to respect those who are working.
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C All the desks in the teachers’ room are hot desks, which means they are not permanent desks for any member of staff. Each teacher has their own locker and all books and papers are to be kept in the locker, not left on a desk.
D The kitchenette has coffee and tea facilities supplied by the school. Milk can be found in the fridge. We ask that you use your own mug and that it be washed, dried and put into the cupboard above the sink before you leave the school each day.
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E Teachers can use the fridge to store their lunch, but we ask that other food, such as supermarket shopping, not be stored there due to a lack of space. Food is not to be left there overnight. The fridge is emptied by the cleaners daily.
F There is no Wi-Fi available in the Teachers’ Room but there are three computers with Internet access on the long desk next to the kitchenette. Please note that drinks and food are not to be consumed when you are using the school computers. You have been given a code for using the photocopier. Paper and toner is in the stationery cupboard next to the lockers.
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Questions 22-27
The text has six sections, A-F.
Choose the correct heading for each paragraph, A-F, from the list of headings below.
Write the correct number, i-viii, in boxes 22-27 on your answer sheet.
22. Paragraph A
23. Paragraph B
24. Paragraph C
25 Paragraph D
26 Paragraph E
27 Paragraph F
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LIST OF HEADINGS
i Refrigerator
ii Entertainment
iii Refreshments
iv Notices and times
v Students
vi Personal property
vii Equipment
viii Staff only
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ANSWERS
15. DRIED
16. WINNOWING
17. NIBS
18. PRESSURE
19. BLOCKS
20. MILK
21. MOULDS
22. IV
23. VIII
24. VI
25. III
26. I
27. VII
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