IELTS Academic Reading ‘Helium’s Future Up In The Air’ Answers
IELTS Academic Reading ‘Helium’s Future Up In The Air’ Answers
The IELTS Academic Reading: Cambridge Reading Sample; ‘Helium’s Future Up In The Air’ with answers. The post will discuss the answers to questions 27-40.
Helium’s Future Up In The Air
Answers
The answers with explanations are given below
| Question Number | Answers | Keywords | Location of Keywords |
|---|---|---|---|
| 27. | C | airships and blimps, deep-sea diving, where it is blended with nitrogen to mitigate the dangers | Paragraph C |
| 28. | D | Its unique qualities are extraordinarily difficult, if not impossible to duplicate | Paragraph D, First 3 lines |
| 29. | B | The helium is mostly trapped, commercially extracted through a method known as fractional distillation | Paragraph B, Last 3 lines |
| 30. | E | Helium Privatisation Act (HPA), to liquidate its helium assets by 2015 regardless of the market price, Deflated values also mean that natural gas extractors see no reason to capture helium | Paragraph E, Line 1, Lines 7 – 9 |
| 31. | A | odourless, monatomic element known to lay people as the substance that makes balloons float and voices squeak when inhaled | Paragraph A, Last 3 lines |
| 32. | Yes | Helium, derided as a “loner” element since it does not adhere to other molecules | Paragraph D, Lines 6-7 |
| 33. | Not Given | Not Given | Not Given |
| 34. | Not Given | Not Given | Not Given |
| 35. | No | Congress ignorant of its ramifications | Paragraph E, First 5 lines |
| 36. | Prudent practice | This takes long-term vision because present market forces are not sufficient to compel prudent practice”. | Paragraph E, Lines 14-15 |
| 37. | privatisation policy | For Nobel-prize laureate Robert Richardson, the U.S. government must be prevailed upon to repeal its privatisation policy as the country supplies over 80 per cent of global helium, | Paragraph E, Lines 15-18 |
| 38. | incentives | For Richardson, a twenty- to fifty-fold increase in prices would provide incentives to recycle. | Paragraph E, Last 2 lines |
| 39. | permit | helium ought to be conserved and released only by permit, | Paragraph F, Lines 3 |
| 40 | regulatory agency | conservation should be obligatory and enforced by a regulatory agency | Paragraph F, Lines 5-6 |
Also check :
![Cambridge Practice Tests for IELTS Series (1 - 14) Student's Book with Answers with Audio [Latest Update]](https://ieltsmaterial.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/IELTS-General-Training-Writing-Task-2-Sample-Questions-2013-–-2020-Model-Answers-PDF-8-1.jpg "Cambridge Practice Tests for IELTS Series (1 - 14) Student's Book with Answers with Audio [Latest Update] 27")
