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IELTS Practice Reading: Note/Summary Completion ID: #56760 Medium Tough Sensor
Instructions

Questions 1-5

Below is a table with information about the new gas sensor and the conventional gas sensor. Fill in the missing information.

Questions 6-11

Below is a summary of the passage. Fill in the spaces with a maximum of three words from the passage.

Questions 12-15

The following statements summarize some of the paragraphs of the passage. Write number of the paragraph summarized in the spaces provided. Example: 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5. 

Tap any word for its meaning

Tough Sensor Can Take the Heat

1. A new gas sensor made from a nickel’s worth of materials can endure high temperatures, corrosion, vibrations, and exposure to water, according to its inventors at Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois. The tiny sensor detects a variety of gases.

2. Conventional silicon sensors do not work well at temperatures above 150. But Argonne’s new sensor, made of ceramics and metals, is not affected by high temperatures. “The materials in this sensor behave well through a wide range of temperatures,” says Michael Vogt, a control systems engineer at Argonne.

3. Vogt and his colleagues made the sensor by film-screening layers of ceramic and metal on a ceramic substrate, then firing the sensor in an industrial oven at more than 1,000'C. The Argonne researchers set out to build a sensor that would detect overheating computer components. Before an overheating component fails, and possibly ignites, epoxy in the circuit boards releases a gas. The Argonne sensor can detect this vapour and cut off power to the circuit.

4. The device senses gases by applying a steadily increasing voltage across its electrical leads and monitoring current spikes induced as gases react on the sensor's surface. Each gas reacts at a characteristic voltage, and the size of the current spike indicates the “signature" of several representative organic solvents.

5. The sensor could be used to monitor hydrocarbon emissions from cars; today’s typical sensors only measure oxygen. The sensor could also monitor gases in industrial chemical processes.

15 blanks 2 words max

Temperature at whhich they work wellComponents Uses
New Gas Sensora wide range of temperatures

 and 

monitor hydrogen emission from cars and gases in industrial, chemical process
Conventional Gas Sensor







A new sensor made of ceramics and metals can endure corrosion, vibrations, exposure to water, and  , while not affected by . As each  reacts at a , the device applies a steadily increasing voltage and monitors current spikes induced,  of which indicates the concentration of the gases. Conventional sensors, on the other hand, do not work well at temperatures above 150 and could be used only to .



How the device senses gases? 

A brief introduction to the new gas sensor. 

Other uses of the new gas sensor. 

How the device was designed? 

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