Biofuels IELTS Reading Answers

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Updated On Sep 13, 2023

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Question number	Answer	Keywords	Location of keywords
1	D	Not only do Brazilians drive far less than Europeans and Americans, their fertile land, and favorable climate mean their crop yield is higher	Paragraph D; Last line
2	F	He predicts that a boom in bioethanol would lead to a competition between 800 million people in the world who own automobiles and three billion people who live on less than $2 a day, many of whom are already spending over half their income on food.	Paragraph F; Last line
3	B	Supporters claim they will cut our net greenhouse gas inputs dramatically because the crops soak up carbon dioxide from the atmosphere as they grow.	Paragraph B; Line 1
4	A	Biofuel is an umbrella term used to describe all fuels derived from organic matter.	Paragraph A; Line 3
5	E	a study by David Pimentel at Cornell University in New York concluded that corn ethanol creates more greenhouse gases than burning fossil fuel.	Paragraph E; Lat line
6	C	The controversy may be brand new, but the biofuels themselves are an old idea. The Model T Ford, first produced in 1908, was designed to run on ethanol, and Rudolf Diesel who invented the diesel engine in 1892, ran his demonstration model on peanut oil.	Paragraph C; Lines 1 – 2
7	molecules	Its molecules comprise chains of sugars	Paragraph G; Line 6
8	Cell walls/structural component	Its molecules comprise chains of sugars strong enough to make plant cell walls.	Paragraph G; Line 6
9	ferment	If you could break down these molecules to release the sugars they contain, you could ferment them until ethanol is created	Paragraph G; Line 7
10	switchgrass	Developing such a process could open the door to many non-food materials such as switchgrass – a wild grass that lives on the eastern states and Midwest of the US – straw, crop residues like stalks and hardwood chips.	Paragraph G; Line 8
11	corn	Its supporters say these cellulose materials could deliver twice as much ethanol per hectare as corn,	Paragraph G; Line 9
12	environmentally	do it using land that is today neither economically productive nor environmentally precious.	Paragraph G; Line 9
13	C	If the numbers add up this could be the development that may yet deliver us from our dependence on oil without costing us the Earth in the process.	Paragraph G; Last line

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Janice Thompson

Soon after graduating with a Master’s in Literature from Southern Arkansas University, she joined an institute as an English language trainer. She has had innumerous student interactions and has produced a couple of research papers on English language teaching. She soon found that non-native speakers struggled to meet the English language requirements set by foreign universities. It was when she decided to jump ship into IELTS training. From then on, she has been mentoring IELTS aspirants. She joined IELTSMaterial about a year ago, and her contributions have been exceptional. Her essay ideas and vocabulary have taken many students to a band 9.