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What Is a Port City? – IELTS Reading Answers
The Academic passage ‘What Is a Port City?‘ is a reading passage that appeared in an IELTS Test. Ideally, you should not spend more than 20 minutes on a passage. Let’s see how easy this passage is for you and if you’re able to make it in 20 minutes. If not, try more IELTS reading practice tests from IELTSMaterial.com What Is a Port City? Answers Unlock Answers Question number Answer Keywords Location of keywords 1 ii They remain different kinds of places from non-port cities and their port functions account for that difference. Paragraph B; Last line 2 i A...
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Bringing Cinnamon to Europe – IELTS Reading Answers
The Academic passage ‘Bringing Cinnamon to Europe’ is a reading passage that appeared in an IELTS Test. It contains some of the IELTS reading question types. If you are interested in familiarising yourself with all the question types, don’t hesitate to take an IELTS reading practice test. Bringing Cinnamon to Europe Answers Unlock Answers The answers with explanations are given below Question Number Answers Keywords Location of Keywords 1. oils Biblical times, mixed with Paragraph 1, Lines 3-5 2. friendship Token indicating, friends Paragraph 1, Lines 5-6 3. funerals Funerals, pleasant scent Paragraph 1, Lines 7-8 4. wealth Spices, sign...
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The Psychology of Innovation – IELTS Reading Answers
The Academic passage ‘The Psychology of Innovation’ is a reading passage that appeared in an IELTS Test. It contains some of the IELTS reading question types. If you are interested in familiarising yourself with all the question types, don’t hesitate to take an IELTS reading practice test. The Psychology of Innovation Answers Unlock Answers The answers with explanations are given below Question Number Answers Keywords Location fo keywords 27. C Quintet, wasn’t inspired Paragraph C 28. A Were aware, weren’t the most intelligent Paragraph F, Last 3 lines 29. D Something as simple, engagement Paragraph H, First 4 lines...
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The Coconut Palm – IELTS Reading Answers
The Academic passage ‘The Coconut Palm’ is a reading passage that appeared in an IELTS Test. It contains some of the IELTS reading question types. If you are interested in familiarising yourself with all the question types, don’t hesitate to take an IELTS reading practice test. The Coconut Palm Answers Unlock Answers The answers to questions 1-13 are given below along with their explanations. Question Number Answer Explanation 1 furniture In paragraph 2, the writer says that: “The coconut palm has a smooth, slender, grey trunk, up to 30 metres tall. This is an important source of timber for building...
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Let’s Go Bats – IELTS Reading Answers
The Academic passage ‘Let’s Go Bats’ is a reading passage that appeared in an IELTS Test. It contains some of the IELTS reading question types. If you are interested in familiarising yourself with all the question types, don’t hesitate to take an IELTS reading practice test. Let’s Go Bats Answers Question number Answer Explanation 1 B In paragraph B, the writer discussed that ‘bats have an engineering problem’: how to ‘find their way and find their prey in the absence of light’. Bats ‘are not the only creatures to face this difficulty’. ‘Deep-sea fish and whales’ have little or no...
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Tidal Power – IELTS Reading Answers
The Academic passage ‘Tidal Power’ is a reading passage that appeared in an IELTS Test. Ideally, you should not spend more than 20 minutes on a passage. Let’s see how easy this passage is for you and if you’re able to make it in 20 minutes. If not, try more IELTS reading practice tests from IELTSMaterial.com Tidal Power Answers Unlock Answers The answers to questions 18-30 are given below along with their explanations. Question Number Answer Explanation 18 A Paragraph A points out that the power in sea turbines, operating on the same principle as wind turbines, comes from tidal...
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The Life and Work of Marie Curie – IELTS Reading Answers
The Academic passage ‘The Life and Work of Marie Curie’ is a reading passage that appeared in an IELTS Test. Ideally, you should not spend more than 20 minutes on a passage. Let’s see how easy this passage is for you and if you’re able to make it in 20 minutes. If not, try more IELTS reading practice tests from IELTSMaterial.com The Life and Work of Marie Curie Answers Unlock Answers Question Number Answer Explanation 1 FALSE In the first paragraph, the writer mentions that Marie Curie shared the 1903 Nobel Prize for Physics with her husband, Pierre Curie, and...
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Implementing The Cycle Of Success: A Case Study IELTS Reading Answers
The Academic passage ‘Implementing The Cycle Of Success: A Case Study ‘ is a reading passage that appeared in an IELTS Test. Try to find the answers to get an idea of the difficulty level of the passages in the actual reading test. If you want more passages to solve, try taking one of our IELTS reading practice tests. Implementing The Cycle Of Success: A Case Study Answers Unlock All Answers Question number Answer Explanation 1 C In paragraph A, it is mentioned that within Australia, Australian Hotels Inc (AHI) operates nine hotels and employs over ‘2000 permanent full-time staff,...
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Volcanoes – Earth Shattering News: IELTS Reading Answers
The Academic passage ‘Volcanoes’ is a reading passage that appeared in an IELTS Test. Try to find the answers to get an idea of the difficulty level of the passages in the actual reading test. If you want more passages to solve, try taking one of our IELTS reading practice tests. Volcanoes – Earth Shattering News Answers Unlock Answers Question number Answer Keywords Location of keywords 1 iii Vulcanism, the name given to volcanic processes, really has shaped the world. Eruptions have rifted continents, raised mountain chains, constructed islands and shaped the topography of the earth. The entire ocean floor...
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Land of the Rising Sun – IELTS Reading Answers
The Academic passage ‘Land of the Rising Sun‘ is a reading passage that appeared in an IELTS Test. Try to find the answers to get an idea of the difficulty level of the passages in the actual reading test. If you want more passages to solve, try taking one of our IELTS reading practice tests. Land of the Rising Sun Answers Unlock Answers Question Number Answers Explanation 1. vii Paragraph B explains the pattern of lower secondary schools (middle-years education) in Japan which cover three school years, from the seventh grade (age 13) to the ninth grade (age 15). During...
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Endless Harvest – IELTS Reading Answers
The IELTS Academic Reading: Cambridge Reading Sample; ‘Endless Harvest’ with answers. The post will discuss the answers to questions 14-26. The headline of the passage is ‘Endless Harvest’ Endless Harvest Answers Unlock Answers Question Number Answers Explanation 14. False Paragraph 1 mentions that Russian explorers and fur hunters landed on the ‘Aleutian Islands’, a volcanic archipelago in the North Pacific. ‘‘The islands’ native inhabitants’ (inhabitants of the Aleutian islands) ‘called this land mass Aleyska, the ‘Great Land’’; today, we know it as Alaska. So, the inhabitants called it Aleyska and today, it is renamed Alaska. As the statement contradicts the...
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Educating Psyche – IELTS Reading Answers
The IELTS Academic Reading: Cambridge Reading Sample; ‘Educating Psyche’ with answers. The post will discuss the answers to questions 27-40. The headline of the passage is ‘Educating Psyche’ Educating Psyche Answers Unlock Answers Question Number Answers Explanation 27. D Paragraph 1 states that ‘Educating Psyche by Bernie Neville’ is a book which ‘looks at’ (mainly concerned) ‘radical’ (not traditional) ‘new approaches’ (new ways) ‘to learning’, describing the effects of emotion, imagination and the unconscious on learning. Hence, the answer is D (ways of learning which are not traditional). 28. A Paragraph 2 points out the fact that Lozanov’s ‘instructional technique’...
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The Rocket from East to West – IELTS Reading Answers
The IELTS Academic Reading: Cambridge Reading Sample; ‘The Rocket from East to West’ with answers. The post will discuss the answers to questions 1-14. The headline of the passage is ‘The Rocket from East to West’ The Rocket from East to West Answers Unlock Answers The answers with explanations are given below Question Number Answers Keywords Location of Keywords 1. iv Artefact, twentieth century Paragraph B, Lines 4-5 2. i Reaction principle, applied Paragraph C, Lines 7-8 3. v Invention of rocket, discovery Paragraph D, First 2 lines 4. vii Rockets, weapons of war Paragraph E, First 2 lines...
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The Nature of Genius – IELTS Reading Answers
The IELTS Academic Reading: Cambridge Reading Sample; ‘The Nature of Genius’ with answers. The post will discuss the answers to questions 14-26. The headline of the passage is ‘The Nature of Genius’ The Nature of Genius Answers Unlock Answers The answers with explanations are given below Question Number Answers Keywords Location of Keywords 14. (B/C/F/H/J in any order) B Prodigies, brightly too soon Paragraph 2, Lines 6 15. (B/C/F/H/J in any order) C Adversity, gift Paragraph 2, Lines 12-13 16. (B/C/F/H/J in any order) F Genius, family Paragraph 2, Lines 8-9 17. (B/C/F/H/J in any order) H Genius, unrecognized Paragraph...
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Nature or Nurture – IELTS Reading Answers
The IELTS Academic Reading: Cambridge Reading Sample; ‘Nature or Nurture’ with answers. The post will discuss the answers to questions 14-26. The headline of the passage is ‘Nature or Nurture’ Nature or Nurture Answers Unlock Answers Question Number Answer Explanation 14 F In paragraph F, it is mentioned in the second-third sentence that an experiment activated some built-in animal aggression instinct and that Milgram’s teacher-subjects were following a genetic need to discharge this pent-up primal urge onto the pupil by administering the electrical shock. Here, the paragraph describes the experiment to administer shock, which explained human aggression. Milgram’s teacher-subjects were...
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Making every drop count – IELTS Reading Answers
The IELTS Academic Reading: Cambridge Reading Sample; ‘Making every drop count’ with answers. The post will discuss the answers to questions 14-26. The headline of the passage is ‘Making every drop count’ Making every drop count Answers Unlock Answers Questions Number Answer Explanation 14 xi Paragraph A mentions the entwinement of the history of human civilization and the history of ways that have been learned to manipulate water resources. The fifth sentence talks about the Roman Empire and the Nine major systems that supplied water to the occupants of Rome with the layout of pipes and well-built sewers. Here, the...
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The Department of Ethnography – IELTS Reading Answers
The Academic passage ‘The Department of Ethnography‘ is a reading passage that appeared in an IELTS Test. Ideally, you should not spend more than 20 minutes on a passage. Let’s see how easy this passage is for you and if you’re able to make it in 20 minutes. If not, try more IELTS reading practice tests from IELTSMaterial.com The question types found in this passage are: True/False/Not Given Questions True/False/Not Given Questions are very tricky. This question consists of several statements – If the statement is present in the article as it is then you need to mark it as...
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The Return of Artificial Intelligence – IELTS Reading Answers
The Academic passage ‘The Return of Artificial Intelligence’ is a reading passage that appeared in an IELTS Test. Since questions get repeated in the IELTS exam, these passages for ideal for practice. If you want more practice, try taking an IELTS reading practice test. The question types found in this passage are: Matching Information Questions In matching information type of question, a list which contains information is taken from the paragraphs. You are asked to find out the paragraph from which the information is taken. Sometimes the question may be tricky because the information given might not be in exact...
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