IELTS Academic Reading ‘Stress of Workplace’ Answers
The IELTS Academic Reading: Cambridge Reading Sample; ‘Stress of Workplace’ with answers. The post will discuss the answers to questions 14-27.
Stress of Workplace
Answers
The answers with explanations are given below
| Question Number | Answers | Keywords | Location of Keywords |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14. | A | Jan Elsnera, Melbourne psychologist who specialises in executive coaching, says thriving on a demanding workload is typical of senior executives and other high-potential business people. | Paragraph D, First 4 lines |
| 15. | D | His peers coach each other with business problems. “Just a fresh pair of eyes over an issue can help,” | Paragraph B, Last 2 lines |
| 16. | B | Stoykov has to concentrate on short-term stress relief – weekends in the mountains, the occasional “mental health” day – rather than delegating more work. She says: “We’re hiring more people, but you need to train them, teach them about the culture and the clients, so it’s actually more work rather than less. | Paragraph C, Last 6 lines |
| 17. | D | Neil Plumridge, stress is caused by our setting unrealistic expectations of ourselves. | Paragraph F, First 3 lines |
| 18. | C | people always believe they will be less busy in the future than now | Paragraph G, First 3 lines |
| 19. | B | Neil Plumridge says he makes it a priority to work out what has to change; | Paragraph B, Line 19 |
| 20. | D | That might mean allocating extra resources to a job, allowing more time or changing expectations. | Paragraph B; Lines 20 – 23 |
| 21. | A | That’s not going to give us an indicator of what their experience of stress is | Paragraph D, Last 3 lines |
| 22. | Workplace injury | National workers’ compensation figures show stress causes the most lost time of any workplace injury. | Paragraph B, Lines 11-13 |
| 23. | 16.6 weeks | Employees suffering stress are off work an average of 16.6 weeks. | Paragraph B, Lines 13-14 |
| 24. | 7% | claims for psychological injury accounted for 7% | Paragraph B, Lines 16 |
| 25. | golf | not to focus on relief – a game of golf or a massage | Paragraph B, Line 17 |
| 26. | massage | not to focus on relief – a game of golf or a massage | Paragraph B, Lines 17-18 |
| 27. | workloads | but to reassess workloads. | Paragraph B, Lines 18 |
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