IELTS Reading: gap-fill summary

Read the following passage about the discovery of penicillin.

The discovery of penicillin is attributed to Scottish scientist Alexander Fleming. Fleming recounted that the date of his breakthrough was on the morning of September 28, 1928. It was a lucky accident: in his laboratory in the basement of St. Mary's Hospital in London, Fleming noticed a petri dish containing Staphylococcus culture that he had mistakenly left open. The culture had become contaminated by blue-green mould, and there was a halo of inhibited bacterial growth around the mould. Fleming concluded that the mould was releasing a substance that was repressing the growth of the bacteria. He grew a pure culture and discovered that it was a Penicillium mould, now known to be Penicillium notatum. Fleming coined the term "penicillin" to describe the filtrate of a broth culture of the Penicillium mould.

Fill the gaps in the summary below using words from the passage.

Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin by ______ on September 28, 1928. He found that the growth of bacteria on a petri dish was ______ by a blue-green mould that had contaminated the culture. He realised that the mould was producing a substance that was responsible for ______ bacterial growth.

Comments

[Mia]

accident
repressed
repressed

That's weird

[LEO]

accident
inhabited
repressing

[ASD]

accident
inhibited
repressing

[Emily]

accident
inhibited
repressing

[princess K]

accident
inhibited
pure

[CENET]

recunting his breakthrough
contaminated
repressing

[ziaul huda]

accident
inhibited
repressing
Similar words in passage--
IT WAS AN ACCIDENT
THERE WAS HALLO OF INHIBITED GROWTH OF BACTERIA
FLEMING CONCLUDED----AND THAT WAS REPRESSING THE GROWTH OF BACTERIA.

[Rukhsar patel]

Hi Simon,
my answers are
1)accident
2)inhibited
3)repressing

thank you

[Bradly]

1-accident
2-inhibited
3-repressing

[raja]

Acccident
Inhibited
Repressing

[Rukhsar patel]

Hi simon,
can you give some useful tips for writing task1 and reading to score 8.I am fairly good in listening,writing task2 and speaking to achieve 8.5,7.5 and 7.It would be of great help

thank you

[Mohammad Kawsar Manik]

1. accident
2. inhibited
3. repressing

[Aleksandra Bucholc]

_accident
-inhibited
-repressing

[Sevil]

Hi Simon,

I like your examples very much. I think you gave this before.

I am waiting for new and a bit lon ones.

Thanks.

[Samah]

Hi simon,
my answers are:
1. accident
2. inhibited
3. repressing

[Alfi]

accident
inhibited
repressing

[semenchu]

accident, inhibited, repressing

[Huong]

Hi Simon,
here are my answers
1. accident
2. inhibited
3. repressing
Thanks for your lesson!

[erdogan]

accident
inhabited
repressing

[Hien]

1. a lucky accident.
2. inhibited.
3. repressing.

:)

[M.S]

Hi Simon,

Great thanks to your efforts. I'd like to ask you that put those readings that candidates find them more critical of have problems with them. again many thanks to you as I've really have learned a lot and boosted my confidence during all these years I've been involving this site.
The second request I'd like to make is to put more idiom and phrasal verbs in your responses and posts in order to we also learn from them. Thanks again,

[Grace]

accident
inhibited
repressing

[Tereza]

1.accident
2.inhibited
3.repressing

[maher]

Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin by accident______ on September 28, 1928. He found that the growth of bacteria on a petri dish was _inhibited____ by a blue-green mould that had contaminated the culture. He realised that the mould was producing a substance that was responsible for __repressing____ bacterial growth.

[Surrayya]

Hi Simon

can we write YES and NO instead of True and False in these type of questions,and can we use abbreviation like T,F,NG.
Thanks

[Martin]

Just a reminder, in IELTS, spelling mistakes are marked wrong and points will be taken off.

It is hard to believe, but several students still make lots of spelling mistakes even when they are copying or using words from the text/question.

Try to be more careful and attentive, especially when practising and doing homework!!!

[HIBA]

accident
inhibited
repressing

[Nafiseh]

Hi dear all,

1-accident
2-inhibited
3-repressing

[Nafiseh]

Hi Martin,
Yes I do agree with you.I am very good at listening but always make silly spelling mistakes.For example, last time I made the following mistaes:

1-I wrote soup instead of saop
2-boiller instead of boiler
3-safe instead of save
4-I wrote darkroom instead of dark room
so,everybody must be very careful about it.

[Rashida Perveen]

1-Accident
2-Inhibited
3-Repressing

[roshavbg]

Hi Simon,

1. accident;
2. contaminated;
3. pure.

[Simon]

CORRECT ANSWERS FROM SIMON:

accident


inhibited


repressing

[Olimpia]

accident
contaminated
repressing

[rambod]

1)accident
2)inhibited
3)represing

[Angie]

1.chance
2.inhibited
3.suppressing

[Mahsa]

Hi Simon ,
1.accident
2.inhabiting
3.repressing

[SAJIDA]

HI SAIMON I SAW ND READ UR READING MATERIAL THAT HELP ME IN SAOLVING SO MANY PROBLUM PLZ GIV ME SOME TRICKS AND TIPS FOR WRITNG COMPREHENSIV WRITING IN TASK ONE.FOR THE FIRST TIME I AM WRITING IN COMENTS ON ANY TUTER G

[Mystica]

Hi Simon,
this is my answers
1. accident
2. inhibited
3. repressing

[Wind]

I have a qustion: when I hear in tape "sport center". How can I write in answer sheet: "sportcenter" or " sport center"

Thanks

[soude]

1)accident
2)contaminated
3)repressing

[Arm]

lucky accident
inhibited
repressing

[Umair Zafar]

accident
inhabited
repressing

[Inna]

1. a lucky accident
2. inhibited
3. repressing

[edz]

Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin by ACCIDENT on September 28, 1928. He found that the growth of bacteria on a petri dish was INHIBITED by a blue-green mould that had contaminated the culture. He realised that the mould was producing a substance that was responsible for REPRESSING bacterial growth.

[Sheena]

Lucky Accident
Inhibited
Repressing

[Refat Ahmed]

accident
contaminated
inhibited
what are the answers ?

[Ngo Thi Bao Ngoc]

in the first blank ,I think a lucky accident is also right because the question don'i limit the word.

[Burak]

Hi Simon,
For the first gap,
Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin by ______ on September 28, 1928.
Would the answer ''luck'' be accepted?
In the passage, it says,
''It was a lucky accident'' So, I thought he discovered penicillin ''by luck''.
Can we make small alterations when we fill in the gaps, such as ''lucky'' being ''luck''
Thank you in advance.