Disappearing Delta Reading Answers
The Academic passage ‘Disappearing Delta’ is a reading passage that appeared in an IELTS Test. Read the passage below and answer questions 14-26. 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.
Disappearing Delta
Answers
| Question Number | Answers | Keywords | Location of Keywords |
| 14 | iv | Blamed the loss, two large dams, Aswan, Nile flowed freely, fertilizers, Lake Nasser | Paragraph B |
| 15 | i | Irrigation canals, small proportion, slow-moving, freshwater lagoons | Paragraph D |
| 16 | v | sediment, rest in the fields and lagoons, municipal, industrial, agricultural waste, Cairo region | Paragraph E; lines 2-3 |
| 17 | viii | Erosion, mediterranean coastal ecosystem, artificial floods, desalination, growing population | Paragraph F |
| 18 | YES | Annual flooding, nutrient-rich soil, the delta region, replacing, washed away by the sea | Paragraph B; lines 5-7 |
| 19 | NOT GIVEN | ||
| 20 | NO | Aswan dams, constructed, 20th century to provide electricity, irrigation, protect, Cairo, annual flooding, drought | Paragraph B; lines 7-10 |
| 21 | YES | Stanley, levels of sediment, river water, Cairo | Paragraph C; lines 3-6 |
| 22 | NOT GIVEN | ||
| 23 | YES | Sediment, bottom of the canals, is added to fields by farmers or pumped with the water, fresh-water lagoons, located, outer edges, delta | Paragraph D; lines 4-6 |
| 24 | (F) pollutants | municipal, industrial and agricultural waste, Cairo region, 40 million people. Pollutants, building up | Paragraph E; last 2 lines |
| 25 | (A) artificial floods | Immediate future, Stanley, one solution, artificial floods | Paragraph F; lines 4-5 |
| 26 | (B) desalination | long term, alternative process, desalination | Paragraph F; line 7 |
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