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IELTS Academic Reading — Test 2, Passage 2

Translating: a key to international understanding?

Questions 14–26 of Reading Test 2. Do it online and every answer is marked the moment you finish, with your band score and the exact line of the passage each answer came from.

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Do the passage here and every answer is marked the moment you finish — the correct answer beside each one you got wrong, your raw score out of 13, and your band. It takes about 20 minutes. Vertex does not post a bare list of answers, because a list tells you nothing about why you missed a question, which is the only part that changes your score.

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Questions 14–26 — 13 questions, in these types: Matching Features, Matching Information, Multiple Answers, Summary Completion.

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How the passage begins

The term 'translation' is used for all cases where the meaning of expressions in one language (the 'source' language) is turned into the meaning in another (the target language), whether the medium is spoken, written, or signed. In specific professional contexts, however, a distinction is…

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