Architecture – Reaching For The Sky IELTS Reading Answers
Architecture – Reaching For The Sky IELTS Reading Answers
The Academic passage ‘Architecture – Reaching For The Sky’ is a reading passage that appeared in an IELTS Test. Read the passage below and answer questions 1 – 12. Beyond the questions, you will find the answers along with the location of the answers in the passage and the keywords that help you find out the answers.
Architecture – Reaching For The Sky
Answers
| Question number | Answer | Keywords | Location of keywords |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Timber and stone | Instead of using timber, stone and traditional building techniques | Paragraph C;
Line 1 |
| 2 | modernism | By the 1920s architects throughout Europe were reacting against the conditions created by industrialisation. It was made possible by new materials and construction techniques and was known as Modernism. | Paragraph D;
First and Last line |
| 3 | International style | By the 1930s many buildings emerging from this movement were designed in the International Style. | Paragraph E;
Line 1 |
| 4 | multi-storey housing | every large British city built multi-storey housing estates in the 1960s | Paragraph H;
Line 1 |
| 5 | preservation | By the 1970s, a new respect for the place of buildings within the existing townscape arose. Preserving historic buildings or keeping only their facades (or fronts) grew common. | Paragraph I;
Lines 1 – 2 |
| 6 | High-Tech | The architectural style usually referred to as High Tech was also emerging. | Paragraph I;
Line 4 |
| 7 | co-existence of styles/different styles together/styles mixed | By the 1980s the coexistence of different styles of architecture in the same building became known as Post Modern. | Paragraph J;
Line 2 |
| 8 | G | Such rapid and uncontrolled growth helped to turn parts of cities into slums. | Paragraph C;
Last line |
| 9 | F | These were stripped of unnecessary decoration that would detract from their primary purpose — to be used or lived in. | Paragraph E;
Last line |
| 10 | H | But the economic depression of the 1930s and the second world war (1939-45) prevented their ideas from being widely realised until the economic conditions improved and war-torn cities had to be rebuilt. | Paragraph F;
Line 2 |
| 11 | C | Many of these buildings were poorly designed and constructed and have since been demolished. | Paragraph H;
Last line |
| 12 | D | They have been made possible by the development of light steel frames and safe passenger lifts. | Paragraph K;
Line 2 |
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