The Academic passage ‘Green Virtues of Green Sand’ is a reading passage that appeared in an IELTS Test. Read the passage below and answer questions 1-14. 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.
Green Virtues of Green Sand
Answers
The answers to these questions are given below with their explanations.
| Question Number | Answer | Keywords | Location of Keywords |
| 1 | D | intends to build five or six factories, cities, large quantities of bottles, cut down, transport costs. | Paragraph D; last two lines |
| 2 | E | only problem, foresee, possible contamination, glass, sources other than beverage bottles. | Paragraph E; last two lines |
| 3 | G | already in use, central America, filter water, banana plantations, fruit, washed before, dispatched, European markets | Paragraph G; lines 1-3 |
| 4 | B | green glass, worth only $25 a tonne. Clear glass, melted down, for whisky bottles, export, worth double that amount. | Paragraph B; last 2 lines |
| 5 | D | Current estimates, UK market, filtering drinking water, sewage, industrial water, swimming pools, fish farming, 175.000 to 217.000 tonnes a year | Paragraph D; lines 2-4 |
| 6 | F | Basically, sand is made of glass and Mr Dryden is turning bottles back into sand | Paragraph F; lines 3-4 |
| 7 | A | Backed by $1.6m, European Union, Department for Environment | Paragraph A; lines 4-5 |
| 8 | C | He concedes, given, recycled glass, ‘fancy name’, remove, stigma of what most people would regard as an inferior product | Paragraph C; lines 3-4 |
| 9 | G | here the fruit has to be washed before being dispatched to European markets, legally necessary, European Union, tighter regulations, sewage works | Paragraph G; lines 2-5 |
| 10 | E | Once, providing, ‘regular’ product, drinking water inspectorate, perform tests, approve it, widespread use, water companies | Paragraph E; lines 2-4 |
| 11 | Natural resource | The idea, not only, avoid using up, scarce natural resource | Paragraph B;; line 1 |
| 12 | Recycling industry | solve a crisis, recycling industry | Paragraph B; line 2 |
| 13 | Drinkable liquids/beverages | already contained drinkable liquids, sure, water, filtered, not contaminated | Paragraph C; line 5 |
| 14 | (real) sand | fewer impurities, real sand, performed better, trials | Paragraph C; lines 6-7 |
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