Cambridge IELTS Academic 1 Reading Test 2 Answers with Explanation / IELTS Reading - Right and left handedness in humans , MIGRATORY BEEKEEPING , TOURISM

READING PASSAGE 1

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

Right and left handedness in humans

ANSWERS	KEYWORDS	LOCATION	EXPLANATION
1 B	Broca	Paragraph 3; line 5	Dr paul Broca made a remarkable ……………….half of their body.
2 D	Charles Moore	Paragraph 7; line 8	Subliminally he says ………………..or even sinister. “he= Charles Moore, people consider anything on the left to be sinister= prejudice, Prejudice= opinion without facts”
3 C	Geschwind and Galaburda	Paragraph 6; line 16	S0, if something happens to the brain……involved is the left. “male= boys, hemisphere more likely to be involved is the left= likely to be left-handed”
4 B	Brinkman	Paragraph 4 line 1= Brinkman, line= 14	She has observed that………….the recovery is better. “brain-damaged= stroke, often better= quick”
5 A	Dr Broca	paragraphs 3; line 5	Dr paul Broca, made the ……………..must have been in the brain left hemisphere. “lost power of speech is by stroke causes the right body part to paralise, right body is controlled is left brain which means “
6 C	Geschwind and Galaburda	Paragraph 6; line 1	Two American Researchers, …………exists before birth. “asymmetry= not similar/ different”
7 E	Professor Turner	Paragraph 1 line 9- Turner, line 13- answer	He noted that …………..itself systematic. “itself systematic= common feature”
8 15-20%	One right and one left	Paragraph 2; line 11	With one right and one ……….left handed.
9 40%	parents left handed	Paragrapoh 2; line 9	However, among …………….left handed
10 6%	Parents right handed	Paragraph 2; line 6	In fact about 6………………will be left handed.
11 D	monkeys	Paragraph 5; line 11	Since monkeys have not acquired the art of speech………….in the human brain. “claims to have discovered a trend in monkeys towards the asymmetry= monkeys brain are asymmetry”
12 B	Left handed people	Paragraph 12; line 1	The result of this survey…….right-handed people. “centuries lived= years, consolation= disappointment/ grief/ hardship”

 

READING PASSAGE 2

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

MIGRATORY BEEKEEPING

ANSWERS	KEYWORDS	LOCATION	EXPLANATIONS
13 prepare	March	Paragraph 5; line 1	By early March it is time to move the bees. It can take up to seven nights to pack the 4,000 or so hives … These are not moved in the middle of the day … But at night, the hives are stacked onto wooden pallets, back-to-back in sets of four, and lifted onto a truck… “The gist of the paragraph justifies the preparation phase for the migration of the hives”.
14) full	night	paragraph 5; line 6	But at night, ……….lifted into the truck. “stacked= pack, mass, pile up/ full”
15) smoke	case	paragraph 5, line	Just in case some are still lively, bees can be pacified with a few puffs of smoke blown into each hive’s narrow entrance.
16) charge	orange groves	paragraph 6; line 3	In their new location, the beekeeper will pay the farmer to allow his bees to feed in such places as orange groves. (Beekeepers pay farmers. = Farmers charge beekeepers.)
17) machines	warehouse	paragraph 7; line 8	The supers are taken to a warehouse…the frames are lifted out and lowered into an ‘uncapper’ where rotating blades shave away the wax…The carousel is filled to capacity … A switch is flipped… centrifugal force ……. “warehouse + frames + rotating blades + switch= machine”
18) combs	honey	paragraphs 7; line 18	A switch is flipped and … centrifugal force throws the honey out of the combs.
19) split	double hives	paragraph 5, line 6	To create new colonies, a healthy double hive, teeming with bees, can be separated into two boxes.. “separate into two= split”
20) (hexagonal) cells//comb		paragraphs 6, line 10	… the beekeepers open the hives and stack extra boxes called supers on top. These temporary hive extensions contain frames of empty comb …
21) frames (of comb)		Paragraph 6; line 10	… the beekeepers open the hives and stack extra boxes called supers on top. These temporary hive extensions contain frames of empty comb …
22) screen		paragraph 6; line 11	In the brood chamber below … a screen can be inserted between the brood chamber and the supers.
23) brood chamber		paragraph 6; line 11	In the brood chamber below, the bees will stash honey to eat later. To prevent the queen from crawling up to the top … a screen can be inserted between the brood chamber and the supers.
24) NOT GIVEN		paragraph 3; line 2	The ancient Egyptians moved clay hives, probably on rafts, down the Nile to follow the bloom and nectar flow as it moved toward Cairo (The hives were transported down the Nile, which does not mean they were kept on the bank of the Nile. There is no information.)
25) YES	migratory bee keeping	paragraph 3; line 7	In the 1880s North American beekeepers experimented with the same idea …but their lighter, wooden hives kept falling into the water. Other keepers tried the railroad and horse-drawn wagons, but that didn’t prove practical. Not until the 1920s … did migratory beekeeping begin to catch on. “they succeed only after road transport, migratory beekeeping= moving bees”
26) YES	keep honey	paragraph 6; line 12	In the brood chamber below, the bees will stash honey to eat later. “stash= store/ keep, below= bottom”
27) NO	honey, spun	paragraph 7, last sentence	Finally the honey is poured into barrels for shipment. “honey is not spun but Poured into barrels”

READING PASSAGE 3

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

TOURISM

ANSWERS	KEYWORDS	LOCATION	EXPLANATION
28 iii			Subject for a book………….., study of deviance…………, this involves………, assumptions= justification given for the study of tourism
29 v			…………..one of the defining characteristic of modern tourism……., this involves………….., “qualities and characteristic of the modern tourism is explained”
30 iv			…………..in order to cope with the mass character of the gazes………..opposed to the individual character of travel places…. “this paragraph is showing the difference between travel and tourism”
31 vii			…..pseudoevents isolated from host environment……….., ……disregarding the real world “This para is all about the artificial environment and events to attract tourists”
32 viii			The role of the professional, therefore……….., “This paragraph gives an insight on the professional in the service of tourism industry which means tour guides”
33 NO	trivial subject	Paragraph 1 ; line 5	on the face of it ………
34 YES	deviance	paragraph 1, line 18	The assumption is that……applied to tourism. “similar analysis can be applied to tourism= deviance can act as a model”
35 NOT GIVEN	Overseas		No such information is given.
36 YES	home	paragraph line 12	People linger over these sights……………reproduced and recaptured. “not normally do in their home environment = than those at home”
37 NOT GIVEN	tourist operators, cheat		No such information.
38 D	concept, tourism	paragraph 2; line 3	It is one manifestation of how work and leisure are organised as separate spheres. “concept= manifestation, separate= distinction”
39 B	media	paragraph 3; line 13	such anticipation is constructed………………reinforce this daydreaming. “films, TV literature magazines= media, construct and reinforce daydreaming= meeting expectations”
40 F	landscapes	paragraph 4; line 9	The viewing of these tourist sights ………normally found in everyday life. “”
41 H	group	paragraph 5; line 8	……………mass tourist travels in guided groups and finds pleasure in unauthentic contrived attractions gullibly enjoying the ……… “contrived attractions= created attractions/ designed attractions”