IELTS Sample Reading # Republicans Face Off

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REPUBLICANS FACE OFF

A slightly smaller group of Republican candidates ( a person who applies for a job or is nominated for election)took the stage on November 10, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Fox Business News, which hosted  (act as host at (an event) or for (a television or radio programme)) the event, limited it to eight participants (a person who takes part in something), rather than the 10 allowed in the past. But the smaller (of a size that is less than normal or usual)field did not mean a less lively discussion (the action or process of talking about something in order to reach a decision or to exchange ideas). The debate (a formal discussion on a particular matter in a public meeting or legislative assembly, in which opposing arguments are put forward and which usually ends with a vote), which primarily (for the most part; mainly) covered (put something on top of or in front of (something) in order to protect or conceal it) economic (relating to economics or the economy) issues (an important topic or problem for debate or discussion), allowed (let (someone) have or do something)candidates to share (have a portion of (something) with another or others)their plans for the country. They also spent plenty of time criticizing (indicate the faults of (someone or something) in a disapproving way)one another, President Barack Obama, and Hillary Clinton, who is expected to be the Democratic (relating to or supporting democracy or its principles)nominee (a person who is nominated as a candidate for election or for an honour or award)for president.

Donald Trump, a businessman, and Ben Carson, a retired (having left one’s job and ceased to worksurgeon (a medical practitioner qualified to practise surgery), are ahead in the polls. But Carson has faced questions (a sentence worded or expressed so as to elicit information)lately about whether certain parts of his autobiography (an account of a person’s life written by that person), Gifted Hands, are true. When asked about accusations (a charge or claim that someone has done something illegal or wrong)that he made up some events in the book, he said, “I have no problem being vetted (make a careful and critical examination of (something),” or investigated (carry out a systematic or formal inquiry to discover and examine the facts of (an incident, allegation, etc.) so as to establish the truth). “What I do have a problem with is being lied (say or write something that is not ​true in ​order to ​deceive someone)about.”

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