IELTS Reading- Fill in the blanks

Lets fill the blanks in the following sentences by reading the above passage(Marie Curie)

Now, when solving fill in the blanks, follow the following steps:

1.read the question carefully and try and understand the meaning of the whole sentence.

2.Try to guess what kind of word may come in the blank.Usually 3 kinds of words are left blank:

a.Nouns(You can identify them if there is an article before the blank.Like in ques 12.But there could be a noun without an articles too.Like in ques 7,8,9,10,11,13. you see that here in these ques ,all have nouns in the blank.So most of the banks in IELTS reading will be nouns)

b.Verbs (We can identify if there subject and objects at both sides and in the middle there will a verb)

c.Adjectives (We can identify an adjective, if immediately after the blank there is a noun.As adjectives generally come before the nouns)

3.You also need to identify words in the question, which has an alternative words in the para.It is because in most of the question , you will not find the exact word in the para but a synonym)

Take 7th ques:Para 4 line 4 "this was true for.." means the same as "had the same property"

4 When you feel that you have found the answer then always fit the answer in the sentence and see if the whole sentence is meaningful or not.

Never guess an answer,always be doubly sure of what you are doing.

The answers:

7.Thorium

8.Pitchblende

9.Radium

10.Soldiers

11.Illness

12.Neutron

13.Leukemia

Read the following passage and answer the fill in the blank ques:

Answers:

24.Mirror

25.Communication

26.Ownership