The Grand Banks – IELTS Reading Answers

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Updated On Apr 17, 2021

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You should spend 20 minutes on questions 14-26 based on the given reading passage.

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The answers to questions 14-26 are given below along with their explanations.

Question Number	Answer	Keywords	Locations of Keywords
14	C	Based upon, foreign policy agreements Newfoundland had, prior to, the Canadian Confederation	Para C, lines 4-6
15	D	late 1980’s, dwindling catches of Atlantic cod, reported throughout Newfoundland, eastern Canada	Para D, lines 9-10
16	F	earthquake, iceberg activity, potential ecological disaster, devastate the fishing grounds, only now starting to recover	Para F, last 3 lines
17	A	mixing of these waters, shape of the ocean, lifts nutrients to the surface, created one of the richest fishing grounds	Para A, lines 5-6
18	D	EEZ was very well received by fishermen in eastern Canada	Para D, lines 4-5
19	E	cod stocks, still, approximately ten percent, 1960’s levels	Para E, lines 6-7
20	B	The French pioneered ‘wet’, ‘green’ fishery, around 1550, heavily salting the cod on board, immediately returning home	Para B, last 3 lines
21	C	based upon reports, received from earlier Viking voyages to Newfoundland	Para B, lines 2-3
22	B	John Cabot noted, waters’ abundance of sea life, existence, fishing grounds, widely known in Europe	Para B, lines 6-7
23	A	noticed, foreign fleets, pushed out, areas of the Grand Banks off Newfoundland outside the Canadian EEZ	Para D, lines 8-9
24	FALSE	Over the last ten years, noted, cod, returning to the Grand Banks, small numbers	Para E, first 2 lines
25	TRUE	Hibernia, proven to be, most prolific oil well, Canada	Para F, lines 6-7
26	NOT GIVEN		Para

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