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IELTS Reading Practice Test: A Workaholic Economy
Practice your IELTS reading skills with this comprehensive 13-question test. Time limit: 20 minutes.
Reading Passage Content Summary
## A Workaholic Economy As a result of the Industrial Revolution, or for the first century, increased productivity led to reduced working hours. Employees who worked 12 hours a day, six days a week, found working hours of 10 hours a day, and then, finally, eight hours, five days a week. A generati...
Question Types Included
- yes-no-not-given (5 questions)
- multiple-choice (4 questions)
- matching-features (4 questions)
Test Information
- Total Questions: 13
- Time Limit: 20 minutes
- Level: Intermediate to Advanced
- Format: IELTS Academic Reading
Reading Comprehension Questions
Questions 1–5: YES/NO/NOT GIVEN
Do the following statements agree with the claims of the writer in the Reading Passage?
Write YES if the statement agrees with the claims of the writer
Write NO if the statement contradicts the claims of the writer
Write NOT GIVEN if it is impossible to say what the writer thinks about this
1 Decreased productivity led to increased working hours, for the first century.
2 A generation ago only social planners were worried about what people would do with this new free time.
3 Full-time workers spend as much time at work as they did at the end of World War II.
4 Expanding rest time will help both working families.
5 Many factors push employers to hire more workers to work for longer hours.
Questions 6–9: Multiple Choice
Choose the correct letter A, B, C or D.
6. It is the same for a company whether they spend 35 hours a week or 70 hours,
7. Hourly employees also receive advantages such as pension contributions and
8. Employees complain about long hours, they also have causes not to trade money
9. Lotte Bailyn says many corporate managers find it difficult to measure the contribution of their footnotes to a
Questions 10–13: Matching Sentence Endings
Complete each sentence with the correct ending, A–G, below.
Write the correct letter, A–G, as your answer to each question.
Endings:
- A. financial and cultural structures
- B. exhausted from stressful work
- C. to test flexible work arrangements
- D. to change the culture
- E. it does not agree with the facts
- F. high earnings and long hours
- G. the company
10. Bailey says that, although the image of the good employee belongs to
11. Part-time workers are less likely to become
12. Positive experiences with lessened times are beginning
13. Successful trading of money for greater productivity and leisure can take more than changes in the
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A Workaholic Economy
Reading Passage Content
This page contains IELTS reading practice materials with comprehensive questions and explanations.
Reading Comprehension Questions
Questions 1–5: YES/NO/NOT GIVEN
Do the following statements agree with the claims of the writer in the Reading Passage?
Write YES if the statement agrees with the claims of the writer
Write NO if the statement contradicts the claims of the writer
Write NOT GIVEN if it is impossible to say what the writer thinks about this
1 Decreased productivity led to increased working hours, for the first century.
2 A generation ago only social planners were worried about what people would do with this new free time.
3 Full-time workers spend as much time at work as they did at the end of World War II.
4 Expanding rest time will help both working families.
5 Many factors push employers to hire more workers to work for longer hours.
Questions 6–9: Multiple Choice
Choose the correct letter A, B, C or D.
6. It is the same for a company whether they spend 35 hours a week or 70 hours,
7. Hourly employees also receive advantages such as pension contributions and
8. Employees complain about long hours, they also have causes not to trade money
9. Lotte Bailyn says many corporate managers find it difficult to measure the contribution of their footnotes to a
Questions 10–13: Matching Sentence Endings
Complete each sentence with the correct ending, A–G, below.
Write the correct letter, A–G, as your answer to each question.
Endings:
- A. financial and cultural structures
- B. exhausted from stressful work
- C. to test flexible work arrangements
- D. to change the culture
- E. it does not agree with the facts
- F. high earnings and long hours
- G. the company
10. Bailey says that, although the image of the good employee belongs to
11. Part-time workers are less likely to become
12. Positive experiences with lessened times are beginning
13. Successful trading of money for greater productivity and leisure can take more than changes in the
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Click to begin your 20-minute reading test
20 min
13 questions