Crop-growing Skyscrapers, The Falkirk Wheel, Reducing The Effects Of Climate Change – Reading Answers

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In the Academic Reading practice test, “Crop-growing Skyscrapers, The Falkirk Wheel, Reducing The Effects Of Climate Change” there are 40 questions of various question types. We at IELTSMaterial.com would urge every IELTS aspirant to time this test as in the real exam and find the answers without looking at the key. If you have scored 40/40, then we wish you all the best. If you haven’t, then we would earnestly advise you to take one of our IELTS reading practice tests. 

Here are question types in this reading test

Reading Passage 1 ( Crop-growing Skyscrapers)

• Sentence completion
• True or False / Not Given

Reading Passage 2 ( The Falkirk Wheel)

• True or False / Not Given
• Diagram completion

Reading Passage 3 (Reducing The Effects Of Climate Change)

• Matching information
• Table completion
• Matching features

3 Reading Passages extracted from Test 1 – Cambridge IELTS Practice Test 11 – the latest edition of Cambridge IELTS Series.

You can also find below the explanation for each answer for Reading Practice Test 09.

Reading Passage 1

Crop-growing skyscrapers

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Questions 1-7

Indoor farming

1 Some food plants, including…………., are already grown indoors.

2 Vertical farms would be located in…………., meaning that there would be less need to take them long distances to customers

3 Vertical farms could use methane from plants and animals to produce…………..

4 The consumption of………… would be cut because agricultural vehicles would be unnecessary

5 The fact that vertical farms would need…………. light is a disadvantage

6 One form of vertical farming involves planting in………… which are not fixed.

7 The most probable development is that food will be grown on………… in towns and cities.

Questions 8-13

8 Methods for predicting the Earth’s population have recently changed

9 Human beings are responsible for some of the destruction of food-producing land

10 The crops produced in vertical farms will depend on the season

11 Some damage to food crops is caused by climate change

12 Fertilizers will be needed for certain crops in vertical farms.

13 Vertical filing will make plants less likely to be affected by infectious diseases.

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Reading Passage 2

The Falkirk Wheel

A unique engineering achievement

Questions 14-19

14 The Falkirk Wheel has linked the Forth & Clyde Canal with the Union Canal for the first time in their history.

15 There was some opposition to the design of the Falkirk Wheel at first.

16 The Falkirk Wheel was initially put together at the location where its components were manufactured.

17 The Falkirk Wheel is the only boat lift in the world which has steel sections bolted together by hand.

18 The weight of the gondolas varies according to the size of the boat being carried.

19 The construction of the Falkirk Wheel site took into account the presence of a nearby ancient monument.

Questions 20-26

How a boat is lifted on the Falkirk Wheel

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Reading Passage 3

Reducing the Effects of Climate Change

Questions 27-29

27 mention of a geoengineering project based on an earlier natural phenomenon

28 an example of the successful use of geo-engineering

29 a common definition of geo-engineering

Questions 30-36

Geo-Engineering Projects

Questions 37-40

37 The effects of geoengineering may not be long-lasting

38 Geoengineering is a topic worth exploring.

39 It may be necessary to limit the effectiveness of geoengineering projects.

40 Research into non-fossil-based fuels cannot be replaced by geo-engineering.

Answers

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