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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
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| 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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