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Đề đọc IELTS Reading “Scent of Success” – Hương thơm của thành công. Gồm 13 câu (đoạn chứa thông tin, nối thông tin, trắc nghiệm), 43 từ vựng, đáp án chi…

IELTS Academic Reading 13 câu hỏi

Cách làm bài

Đoạn nào chứa thông tin (which paragraph)

  • Đây là câu tìm thông tin cụ thể — KHÔNG theo thứ tự đoạn, nên phải quét toàn bài.
  • Một đoạn có thể là đáp án cho nhiều câu; hãy dựa vào nội dung, đừng loại đoạn quá sớm.
  • Định vị bằng từ khóa/từ đồng nghĩa của câu hỏi thay vì đọc kỹ tuần tự từng chữ.

Nối (matching)

  • Đọc kỹ vế/đề đã cho, tìm trong bài đoạn nói cùng nội dung — đáp án thường được diễn đạt lại bằng từ đồng nghĩa.
  • Với nối phần kết câu: ghép sao cho câu hoàn chỉnh vừa đúng NGHĨA vừa đúng NGỮ PHÁP.
  • Loại trừ dần các lựa chọn đã dùng; đọc lướt cả danh sách trước khi quyết định để tránh chọn trùng.

Trắc nghiệm A/B/C/D

  • Đọc kỹ câu hỏi trước, xác định nó hỏi ý chính hay chi tiết, rồi quay lại đúng đoạn.
  • Đọc HẾT bốn phương án; loại dần phương án sai để tăng xác suất đúng.
  • Bẫy thường gặp: phương án dùng đúng từ trong bài nhưng sai ý, hoặc đúng một nửa. Đáp án đúng thường là cách diễn đạt lại (paraphrase).

Chung

  • Không đọc kỹ toàn bài trước — đọc lướt lấy ý, rồi dùng câu hỏi dẫn đường (scan/skim).
  • Quản lý thời gian: mỗi bài đọc ~20 phút. Câu khó thì đánh dấu, làm tiếp rồi quay lại.

Scent of Success

A. Innovation and entrepreneurship, in the right mix, can bring spectacular results and propel a business ahead of the pack. Across a diverse range of commercial successes, from the Hills Hoist clothes line to the Cochlear ear implant, it is hard to generalize beyond saying the creators tapped into something consumers could not wait to get their hands on. However, most ideas never make it to the market. Some ideas that innovators are spruiking to potential investors include new water-saving shower heads, a keyless locking system, ping-pong balls that keep pollution out of rainwater tanks, making teeth grow from stem cells inserted in the gum, and technology to stop LPG tanks from exploding. Grant Kearney, chief executive of the Innovation Xchange, which connects businesses to innovation networks, says he hears of great business ideas that he knows will never get on the market. “Ideas by themselves are absolutely useless,” he says. “An idea only becomes innovation when it is connected to the right resources and capabilities.”

B. One of Australia’s latest innovation successes stems from a lemon-scented bathroom cleaner called Shower Power, the formula for which was concocted in a factory in Yatala, Queensland. In 1995, Tom Quinn and John Heron bought a struggling cleaning products business, OzKleen, for $250,000. It was selling 100 different kinds of cleaning products, mainly in bulk. The business was in bad shape, the cleaning formulas were ineffective and environmentally harsh, and there were few regular clients. Now Shower Power is claimed to be the top-selling bathroom cleaning product in the country. In the past 12 months, almost four million bottles of OzKleen’s Power products have been sold and the company forecasts 2004 sales of 10 million bottles. The company’s sales in 2003 reached $11 million, with $700k of business being exports. In particular, Shower Power is making big inroads on the British market.

C. OzKleen’s turnaround began when Quinn and Heron hired an industrial chemist to revitalize the product line. Market research showed that people were looking for a better cleaner for the bathroom, universally regarded as the hardest room in the home to clean. The company also wanted to make the product formulas more environmentally friendly. One of Tom Quinn’s sons, Peter, aged 24 at the time, began working with the chemist on the formulas, looking at the potential for citrus-based cleaning products. He detested all the chlorine-based cleaning products that dominated the market. “We didn’t want to use chlorine, simple as that,” he says. “It offers bad working conditions and there’s no money in it.” Peter looked at citrus ingredients, such as orange peel, to replace the petroleum by-products in cleaners. He is credited with finding the Shower Power formula. “The recipe is in a vault somewhere and in my head,” he says. The company is the sole owner of the intellectual property.

D. To begin with, Shower Power was sold only in commercial quantities but Tom Quinn decided to sell it in 750ml bottles after the constant “raves” from customers at their retail store at Beenleigh, near Brisbane. Customers were traveling long distances to buy supplies. Others began writing to OzKleen to say how good Shower Power was. “We did a dummy label and went to see Woolworths,” Tom Quinn says. The Woolworths buyer took a bottle home and was able to remove a stain from her basin that had been impossible to shift. From that point on, she championed the product and OzKleen had its first supermarket order, for a palette of Shower Power worth $3000. “We were over the moon,” says OzKleen’s financial controller, Belinda McDonnell.

E. Shower Power was released in Australian supermarkets in 1997 and became the top-selling product in its category within six months. It was all hands on deck at the factory, labeling and bottling Shower Power to keep up with demand. OzKleen ditched all other products and rebuilt the business around Shower Power. This stage, recalls McDonnell, was very tough. “It was hand-to-mouth, cashflow was very difficult,” she says. OzKleen had to pay new-line fees to supermarket chains, which also squeezed margins.

F. OzKleen’s next big break came when the daughter of a Coles Myer executive used the product while on holidays in Queensland and convinced her father that Shower Power should be in Coles supermarkets. Despite the product’s success, Peter Quinn says the company was wary of how long the sales would last and hesitant to spend money on upgrading the manufacturing process. As a result, he remembers long periods of working around the clock to keep up with orders. Small tanks were still being used so batches were small and bottles were labeled and filled manually. The privately owned OzKleen relied on cash flow to expand. “The equipment could not keep up with demand,” Peter Quinn says. Eventually a new bottling machine was bought for $50,000 in the hope of streamlining production, but he says: “We got ripped off.” Since then he has been developing a new automated bottling machine that can control the amount of foam produced in the liquid, so that bottles can be filled more effectively—“I love coming up with new ideas.” The machine is being patented.

G. Peter Quinn says Ozkleen’s approach to research and development is open slather. “If I need it, I get it. It is about doing something simple that no one else is doing. Most of these things are just sitting in front of people. It’s just seeing the opportunities.” With a tried and tested product, Ozkleen is expanding overseas and developing more Power-brand household products. Tom Quinn, who previously ran a real estate agency, says: “We are competing with the same market all over the world, the (cleaning) products are sold everywhere.” Shower Power, known as Bath Power in Britain, was launched four years ago with the help of an export development grant from the Federal Government. “We wanted to do it straight away because we realized we had the same opportunities worldwide.” Ozkleen is already number three in the British market, and the next stop is France. The Power range includes cleaning products for carpets, kitchens and pre-wash stain removal. The Quinn and Heron families are still involved. Ozkleen has been approached with offers to buy the company, but Tom Quinn says he is happy with things as they are. “We’re having too much fun.”

Questions 1–7

Reading Passage 1 has seven paragraphs, A–G. Which paragraph contains the following information? Write the correct letter A–G in boxes 1–7 on your answer sheet.

1

Description of one family member persuading another of selling cleaning products

2

An account of the cooperation of all factory staff to cope with sales increase

3

An account of the creation of the formula of Shower Power

4

An account of buying the original OzKleen company

5

Description of Shower Power’s international expansion

6

The reason of changing the packaging size of Shower Power

7

An example of some innovative ideas

Questions 8–11

Look at the following people and the list of statements below. Match each person with the correct statement. Write the correct letter A–E in boxes 8–11 on your answer sheet.

A. Described his story of selling his product to a chain store B. Explained there was a shortage of money when sales suddenly increased C. Believe innovations need support to succeed D. Believes new products like Shower Power may incur risks E. Says business won’t succeed with innovations
8

Grant Kearney

9

Tom Quinn

10

Peter Quinn

11

Belinda McDonnell

Questions 12–13

Choose the correct letter A, B, C or D. Write your answers in boxes 12–13 on your answer sheet.

12

Tom Quinn changed the bottle size to 750ml to make Shower Power

13

Why did Tom Quinn decide not to sell OzKleen?

Từ vựng 43 từ

  • /ˌɪn.əˈveɪ.ʃən/
    Sự đổi mới
  • /ˌɒn.trə.prəˈnɜː.ʃɪp/
    Tinh thần kinh doanh
  • Thương hiệu dây phơi quần áo nổi tiếng ở Úc
  • /ˈkɒk.li.ər ɪər ɪmˈplɑːnt/
    Ốc tai điện tử cấy ghép
  • /pəˈten.ʃəl ɪnˈves.tərz/
    Nhà đầu tư tiềm năng
  • Ngăn ô nhiễm cho bồn nước mưa
  • /stem selz/
    Tế bào gốc
  • /ˌel.piːˈdʒiː tæŋks/
    Bình ga hóa lỏng
  • /ˌkeɪ.pəˈbɪl.ə.tiz/
    Khả năng, năng lực
  • /ɒzˈkliːn/
    Tên công ty
  • /ʃaʊər ˈpaʊ.ər/
    Tên sản phẩm chất tẩy rửa nhà tắm
  • /ɪn bæd ʃeɪp/
    Tình trạng tồi tệ
  • /ɪn.vaɪ.rənˈmen.təl.i hɑːʃ/
    Gây hại môi trường
  • /ˈɪn.rəʊdz/
    Thâm nhập thị trường, xâm nhập
  • /ˈmɑː.kɪt rɪˈsɜːtʃ/
    Nghiên cứu thị trường
  • /ˈklɔː.riːn beɪst ˈkliː.nɪŋ ˈprɒd.ʌkts/
    Sản phẩm tẩy rửa gốc Clo
  • /ˈsɪt.rəs beɪst/
    Thành phần từ họ cam quýt
  • /pəˈtrəʊ.li.əm baɪ ˈprɒd.ʌkts/
    Sản phẩm phụ từ dầu mỏ
  • /ˌɪn.təlˈek.tʃu.əl ˈprɒp.ə.ti/
    Sở hữu trí tuệ
  • /ˈriː.teɪl stɔːr/
    Cửa hàng bán lẻ
  • /ˈdʌm.i ˈleɪ.bəl/
    Nhãn mẫu
  • /ˈwʊl.wɜːθs/
    Chuỗi siêu thị Woolworths
  • /ˈsuː.pəˌmɑː.kɪt ˈɔː.dər/
    Đơn hàng từ siêu thị
  • /ˈəʊ.vər ðə muːn/
    Rất hạnh phúc, sung sướng
  • /faɪˈnæn.ʃəl kənˈtrəʊ.lər/
    Quản lý tài chính
  • /rɪˈliːst ɪn ɒˈstreɪ.li.ən ˈsuː.pə.mɑː.kɪts/
    Tung ra thị trường siêu thị Úc
  • /ɔːl hændz ɒn dek/
    Tất cả mọi người cùng chung tay
  • /ˈleɪ.bəl.ɪŋ ænd ˈbɒt.lɪŋ/
    Dán nhãn và đóng chai
  • /dɪtʃt ɔːl ˈʌð.ər ˈprɒd.ʌkts/
    Bỏ hết các sản phẩm khác
  • /ˈkæʃ.fləʊ wɒz ˈver.i ˈdɪf.ɪ.kəlt/
    Dòng tiền rất khó khăn
  • /peɪ njuː laɪn fiːz/
    Trả phí cho dòng sản phẩm mới
  • /kəʊlz ˈmaɪ.ər ɪɡˈzek.jə.tɪv/
    Giám đốc điều hành Coles Myer
  • /ˈʌp.ɡreɪ.dɪŋ ði ˌmæn.jəˈfæk.tʃər.ɪŋ ˈprəʊ.ses/
    Nâng cấp quy trình sản xuất
  • /ˈbɒt.lɪŋ məˈʃiːn/
    Máy đóng chai
  • Streamline production /ˈstriːm.laɪn prəˈdʌk.ʃən/ mở rộng
    Đơn giản hóa sản xuất
  • /ˈpeɪ.təntɪd/
    Được cấp bằng sáng chế
  • Open slather approach /ˈəʊ.pən ˈslæð.ər əˈprəʊtʃ/ mở rộng
    Phương pháp tự do, không hạn chế
  • /bɑːθ ˈpaʊ.ər ɪn ˈbrɪt.ən/
    Tên gọi ở thị trường Anh
  • /ˈek.spɔːt dɪˈvel.əp.mənt ɡrɑːnt/
    Khoản trợ cấp phát triển xuất khẩu
  • /nekst stɒp ɪz frɑːns/
    Thị trường tiếp theo là Pháp
  • Power range includes carpets, kitchens, pre-wash stain removal mở rộng
    Dòng sản phẩm Power bao gồm thảm, bếp, tẩy vết bẩn trước khi giặt
  • /əˈprəʊtʃt wɪð ˈɒf.əz tuː baɪ ðə ˈkʌm.pə.ni/
    Được đề nghị mua lại công ty
  • /wɪər ˈhæv.ɪŋ tuː mʌtʃ fʌn/
    Chúng tôi đang rất vui vẻ với tình hình hiện tại

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