Antarctica: in from the cold? – IELTS Reading Answers

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Antarctica: in from the cold? – IELTS Reading Answers

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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 14-26, which are based on the reading passage below.

Antarctica: in from the cold?

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The answers to questions 14-26 are given below along with their explanations.

Question Number	Answer	Keywords	Locations of Keywords
14	D	temperature, ocean, better predictor, rainfall, Australia than, pressure difference, Darwin and Tahiti CSIRO, developing, prototype forecasting	Para D, lines 5-7 Para D, lines 10-11
15	F	reoxygenates and revitalises the ocean	Para F, line 11
16	E	Antarctic krill, staple diet, baleen whales, penguins, seals, sea birds, fish, breed well, sea ice is extensive, poorly when it is not	Para E, lines 5-8
17	C	-89.2deg C, icy blast, katabatic wind, 300 km/hr	Para C, last 2 lines
18	A	image of remoteness, hardship, bleakness and isolation	Para A, lines 3-4
19	D	Antarctica’s great mass, low temperature, influence, climate	Para B, lines 7-8
20	A	Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC), that flowed, west to east	Para C, lines 3-4
21	C	temperature, ocean, predictor, rainfall, Australia, pressure difference, Darwin, Tahiti, Southern Oscillation Index	Para D, lines 5-7
22	C	Antarctica’s great mass, low temperature, climate, ocean circulation	Para B, lines 7-8
23	A	limit their losses	Para D, line 9
24	C	baleen whales, sea birds migrate between, hemispheres, when, krill, less abundant	Para E, last 2 lines
25	C	katabatics sometimes scour the ice off patches of the sea’s surface	Para F, lines 5-6
26	A	water that remains becomes, salty and dense	Para F, line 9

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