IELTS Academic Reading ‘Fun for the Masses’ Answers

Updated On Apr 17, 2021

IELTS Academic Reading ‘Fun for the Masses’ Answers

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The IELTS Academic Reading: Cambridge Reading Sample; ‘Fun for the Masses’ with answers. The post will discuss the answers to questions 15-27.

Fun for the Masses

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Question Number	Answers	Keywords	Location of Keywords
15.	x	Better off than you used to be, after six years of sustained economic growth	Paragraph A
16.	iv	Looks at the living-standards debate, unusual direction	Paragraph B
17.	i	Family’s budget that was spent on having fun rose sharply with its income	Paragraph C
18.	viii	Share of the family budget spent on leisure, rises much less sharply with income	Paragraph D
19.	ix	Public investment in sports complexes, parks and golf courses, technological innovation.	Paragraph F
20.	vi	Pointing accusing fingers at technology, widening inequality in the wages of skilled and unskilled workers	Paragraph G
21.	ii	Findings are not water-tight, depend heavily upon what exactly is classed as a recreational expenditure	Paragraph H
22.	income levels	How much people earn is relatively easy, compared with measuring how well they live.	Paragraph A, Last 2 lines
23.	non-luxury spending	Leisure has steadily become less of a luxury, by 1991, all income levels, more of their money on having fun	Paragraph D, First 2 lines & Last 2 lines
24.	holiday time	Rising incomes are responsible, Americans have more time off than they used to.	Paragraph E, Lines 4-7
25.	computer technology	Accusing fingers at technology, widening inequality in the wages,	Paragraph G, First 5 lines
26.	recreational activities	Findings are not water-tight, what exactly is classed as a recreational expenditure.	Paragraph H, First 3 lines
27.	D	Nonetheless, broad conclusion seems fair.	Paragraph I, Last 3 lines

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