Cambridge IELTS Academic 1 Reading Test 1 Answers with Explanation / IELTS Reading - A Spark, a flint how fire leapt to life , Zoo conservation programmes , Architecture Reaching for the Sky

READING PASSAGE 1

You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-13, which are based on Reading Passage 1.

A Spark, a flint how fire leapt to life

ANSWER	KEYWORDS	LOCATION	EXPLANATION
1. preserve	burning logs	Paragraph 1; line 12	Unable to make flame for themselves………carrying charcols in pots. “stored fire= preserve”
2. unaware	fire themselves	Paragraph 1; line 8	Unable to make flame for themselves………………..charcoal in the pots. “flame for themselves = fire themselves, unable to make= unaware of the process”
3. chance	flames ; produed	paragraphs 2 ; line 1	How and where man learnt how……………….with wood or stone. “accidentally made= by chance”
4. friction	very first	paragraphs 2; line 5	Studies of primitive societies ……………..was through friction. “very first= earliest, was through friction =involved the creation by friction”
5. rotating	round hole	paragraphs 2; line 7	European peasants would insert a ………………..palms. “rotate it briskly= rapidly rotating”
6. percussion	persistent chipping	paragraphs 4 line 1	Percussion methods of fire-lighting ……………”this method remained the main method of fire lighting in Europe according to the last sentence of para 4.”
7. Eskimos	Other peoples	paragraphs 4; line 15	…………..in Artic North America, the Ekimos produced a ……… “Ekimos= tyes of people in North America”
8. despite	Phosphorus	paragraphs 4 and 5; last sentence	Paragraph 4: In Europe, the combination of .untill the mid 19 th century. Paragraph 5: Impressed by the ….used it to manufacture fire. “5th paragraph says the use of phosphorus from the 17th century, 4th says splint, lint and tinder remained untill mid 19th century which means although phosphorus existed earlier, other methods were more popular, so we need a word that gives a sense of opposite relation i.e although, despite……..”
9. F	poisonous, phosphorus	paragraph 9; line 6	Lundstrom’s safety matches were safe because the red phosphorus was non-toxic…… “non-toxic is similar to less poisonous”
10. D	identical	paragraphs 8; line 1	Walker never patented his invention………………..his product as lucifers. “it was copied by samuel Jones= identical to previous type, identical= copy”
11. E	deadly illness	paragraphs 8; line 6	About the same time ……………..in the walker formula. However, since white white phosphorus is deadly poison…………. that eats away jaw-bones. “eats away jaw-bones= character of the illness”
12. C	look like modern	Paragraph 7; line 1	The first matches ………………….called congreve. “resembling= look alike, those used today= modern”
13. G	advertising	paragraphs 11; line 1	The Americans, however, ………………….technology and marketing.In 1982 the Diamond…………….book matches. “advertising= marketing”
14. A	glass container	paragraph 6, line 1	The quest for practical match…………………..tipped with phosphorus. “sealed glass tube= airtight glass container”
15.	army design	paragraph 7 ; 1st sentence	The first match resembling today…………….congreve. “borrowed the formula from military= help with the army design”

 

READING PASSAGE 2

You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 15–26, which are based on Reading Passage 2 .

zoo conservation programmes

Answer	Keywords	Location	Explanation
16. Y	advertisements, dishonest	Paragraph 1; line 1	One of London Zoo’s recent advertisements caused me some irritation, so patently did it distort reality. “distort reality= dishonest”
17. Y	conservation, 30 years	Paragraph 2; line 1	Zoos were originally created as places ………….. international meeting on the subject. “insignificant contribution= involvement with conservation did not seriously arise”
18. Not Given	WZCS, eastern europe	paragraphs 2 and 3	There is nothing mentioned about the documentation in Eastern Europe.
19. No	carefully inspected	Paragraph 4; line 2	One would assume that the ……………. member of a zoo federation or association. “the list were carefully inspected is just an assumption, inspected= examined “
20. No	Robin Hill Adventure Park	Paragraph 4; line 11	Occasionally had members that have been roundly censured in the national press. These include Robin Hill Adventure Park on the Isle of Wight which many considered……….. “which many considered the notorious collection of animals= many knew about it”
21. Not Given	Colin Tudge	Paragraph 5; line 5	It does not tell if he was satisfied or dissatisfied with the treatment of animals at London Zoo
22. Yes	Zoo Conservation Programme	Paragraph 6; line 4	Beyond that, about a further 20 species …………………. ago, this is pretty slow progress, and a long way off Tudge’s target of 2,000. “Among the target of 2000 only 16 have been saved so it can be said that it is unsatisfactory”
23. b	objective, wzcs	Paragraph 3; line 1	The WZCS estimates that there………… in coordinated conservation programmes. “clearly states that its core purpose was to identifying zoos that are suitable for conservation practice”
24. C	refer, Robin Hill Adventure Park	paragraphs 4; line 11	The second flaw in the reasoning of the WZCS document is the naive faith it places……………….These include Robin Hill Adventure Park on the Isle ………….. “writer mentions the Robin Hill Adventure Park to give an example of a weakness in the WZCS document.”
25. A	Colin Tudge’s prediction	paragraphs 5; line 5	if the world”s zoos worked together in co-operative breeding programmes, then even without further expansion they could save around 2,000 species of endangered land vertebrates “in the last sentence writer says, “”where are the facts to support such optimism?” which means his predictions are disbelieving”

READING PASSAGE 3

You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 27–40, which are based on Reading Passage 3 .

Architecture Reaching for the Sky

ANSWER	KEYWORDS	LOCATION	EXPLANATION
29. timber and stone	18th century	Paragraph 3; line 1	Instead of using timber, stone and……………..reinforced concrete. “after 18th century latest technology and materials were used …..here instead means before 18th century—-instead of using timber, stone….”
30. modernism	1920	paragraphs 4 ; line 11	A new style of architecture emerged………….known as modernism. “new style = latest technology”
31. International Style	geometric, 1930s	paragraphs 5; line 4	By the 1930s………International style. This was ………………like pillars. “this= International style”
32. badly designed buildings//multi-storey housing//mass-produced, low-cost high-rises	1960, pre-fabricated section	paragraphs 4; line 5	Influenced by Le Corbusier’s ideas on town planning ……..inner-city population.
33. preservation	end of modernist era	paragraphs 9; line 4	By the 1970s, a new respect for the place of buildings ……….preserving historic buildings……. “new respect arose= modernist era ended”
34. High-Tech	sophisticated techniques	Paragraph 9; line 13	The architectural style usually referred to as……………….used in construction.
35. co-existence of styles	Post modernism	paragraph 10; line 10	By the 1980s the coexistance…………….known as post modernism. “coexistance of different styles should be shortened to just -coexistance of styles- because of the word limit of three we ignore different”
36. G	technological advances	paragraph 3; line 10	Technological advances ……………..new factories.Such rapid and………….. parts of cities into slums. “The first sentence is the cause and the second is effect”
37. F	Simple , functional	paragraphs 5; line 6	This was largely characterised by……….like pillars. These were strippedof……………lived in. “First sentence = cause, second sentence = effect, stripped of unnecessary decoration= decoration removed”
38. H	economic depression	paragraph 6; line 9	But the economic deoression of 1930s ….. By the 1950S the international style had developed into a universal approach….. “prevented their ideas from being widely realised= cannot be put into practice, by 1950s this style developed into universal= by the second half of the century the idea became popular”
39. C	Multi-storey housing	paragraph 8; sentence 1 and last	Influenced by Le Corbusier ideas ……………. inner city population. Many of these buildings were poorly designed ……been demolished. “cause= multi storey housing, effect= needed to be demolished, demolished= knocked down”
40. D	less land	paragraph 11; line 11	They origanated in the US over ……economic use of land. “They= Architecture that has light steel frames and lifts as siad in the fourth line. less land= economic use of land”