Foot Pedal Irrigation, Learning By Examples, Eco-Resort Management Reading Answers

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Updated On Aug 14, 2024

Reading Passage 1
Foot Pedal Irrigation
Reading Passage 2
Learning By Examples
Reading Passage 3
Eco-Resort Management
Answers

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The IELTS Reading passage, Foot Pedal Irrigation, along with the other two Academic passages – Learning By Examples and Eco-Resort Management makes this a complete Reading practice test.

You will have 60 minutes to complete the whole test, which consists of 40 questions in total.

Here are the question types in this reading test

Reading Passage 1 (Foot Pedal Irrigation)

True or False / Not Given
Diagram completion
Short answer questions

Reading Passage 2 (Learning By Examples)

Matching information
True or False / Not Given
Summary completion

Reading Passage 3 ( Eco-Resort Management)

Multiple Choice Questions
Summary completion

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Reading Passage 1

Foot Pedal Irrigation

You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-13, which are based on the Reading Passage below. Find the practice test with the Foot Pedal Irrigation PDF here.

Questions 1 – 6

Do the following statements agree with the information given in the reading passage?

In boxes 1 – 6 on your answer sheet, write

TRUE	if the statement agrees with the view of the writer
FALSE	if the statement contradicts the view of the writer
NOT GIVEN	if it is impossible to say what the writer thinks about this

1 It is more effective to resolve poverty or food problem in large scale rather than in small scale.

2 Construction of gigantic dams costs more time in developing countries.

3 Green revolution foiled to increase global crop production from the mid of 20th century.

4 Agricultural production in Bangladesh declined in the last decade.

5 Farmer Abdul Rahman knew how to increase production himself.

6 Small pump spread into a big project in Bangladesh in the past decade.

Questions 7 – 10

Filling the blanks in the diagram of treadle pump’s each part.

Choose NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER from the passage for each answer.

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Questions 11 – 13

Answer the questions below.

Choose NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER from the passage for each answer.

11 How large area can a treadle pump irrigate the field at a low level of expense?

12 What is Abdul’s new roof made of?

13 How much did Bangladesh farmers invest by IDE’s stimulation?

Reading Passage 2

Learning By Examples

You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 14-26, which are based on the Reading Passage below. Find the practice test with the Learning By Examples PDF here.

Questions 14 – 17

Reading Passage has seven paragraphs, A – G.

Which paragraph contains the following information?

Write the correct letter, A – G, in boxes 1 – 4 on your answer sheet.

14 a comparison between rats, learning, and human learning.

15 a reference to the earliest study in animal learning.

16 the discovery of who stripped the pine cone.

17 a description of a cost-effectiveness experiment.

Questions 18 – 21

Do the following statements agree with the information given in Reading Passage?

In boxes 18 – 21 on your answer sheet write

TRUE, if the statement agrees with the information

FALSE, if the statement contradicts the information

NOT GIVEN, if there is no information on this

18 The field trip to Israel was to investigate how black rats learn to strip pine cones.

19 The pine cones were stripped from bottom to top by black rats.

20 It can be learned from other relevant experiences to use a photocopier.

21 Stripping the pine cones is an instinct of the black rats.

Questions 22 – 26

Complete the summary below using words from the box.

Write your answers in the blank spaces next to 22 – 26 on your answer sheet.

While the Nutcracker is more able to cache see, the Jay relies 22……………………on upon caching food and is thus less specialized in this ability, but more 23……………………. To study their behaviour of caching and finding their caches, an experiment was designed and carried out to test these two birds for their ability to remember where they hid the seeds.

In the experiment, the cacher bird hid seeds in the ground while the other 24……………………. As a result, the Nutcracker and the Mexican Jay showed different performance in the role of 25…………………… at finding the seeds—the observing 26…………………… didn’t do as well as its counterpart.

A	less	B	more	C	solitary	D	social
E	cacher	F	observer	G	remembered	H	watched
I	Jay	J	Nutcracker

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Reading Passage 3

Eco-Resort Management

You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 27-40, which are based on the Reading Passage below. Find the practice test with the Eco-Resort Management PDF here.

Questions 27 – 31

Choose the correct letter, A, B, C or D.

Write your answers next to 27 -31 on your answers sheet.

27 The Stradbroke became two islands

A by intended destruction of the ship of the Cambus Wallace

B by an explosion of dynamite on a ship and following nature erosion

C by the movement sandhills on Stradbroke Island

D by the volcanic eruption on the island

28 Why are laundry activities for the resort carried out on the mainland?

A In order to obtain its water supply via a bore system

B In order to preserve the water and anti-pollution

C In order to save the cost of installing onerous washing machines

D In order to reduce the level of phosphates in the water around

29 What is the major water supplier in South Stradbroke Island is by?

A desalinizing the seawater

B collecting the rainfall

C transporting from the mainland

D boring groundwater

30 What is applied for heating water on Couran Cove Island Resort?

A the LPG-power

B a diesel-powered plant

C the wind power

D the solar-power

31 What does, as the managers of resorts believe, the prospective future focus on?

A more awards for the resort’s accommodation

B sustainable administration and development in the long run

C Economic and environmental benefits for the tourism enterprise

D successful implementation of the Resort Development Spectrum

Questions 32 – 36

Complete the following summary of the Reading Passage, using NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS from the Reading Passage for each answer.

Write your answers in the blank spaces from 32-36 on your answer sheet.

Being located away from the mainland, tourists can attain the resort only by 32…………………… in regular service. Within the resort, transports include trails for walking or tracks for both 33…………………… and the beach train. The on-island equipment is old-fashioned which is barely working such as the 34…………………… overhead. There is a television, radio, an old 35…………………… and a small fridge. And you can buy the repellant for 36…………………… if you forget to bring some.

Questions 37 – 39

Choose THREE correct letters among, A-E.

Write your answers in boxes 37-39 on your answer sheet.

What is true as to the contemporary situation of Couran Cove Island R in the last paragraph

A Couran Cove Island Resort goes for more eco-friendly practice.

B The accommodation standard only conforms to the Resort Development Spectrum of Phase 3.

C Couran Cove Island Resort should raise the accommodation standard and build more facilities.

D The principal group visiting the resort is international tourists.

E Its carrying capacity will restrict the future business’ expansion.

Answers

Foot Pedal Irrigation Reading Answers (Passage 1)

1	FALSE
2	NOT GIVEN
3	FALSE
4	NOT GIVEN
5	TRUE
6	TRUE
7	bamboo
8	cylinders
9	Piston
10	7
11	half an acre
12	corrugated tin
13	$37.5 million/37.5 million dollars