The Academic passage ‘The True Cost of Food’ is a reading passage that appeared in an IELTS Test. Read the passage below and answer questions 14-26. Beyond the questions, you will find the answers along with the location of the answers in the passage and the keywords that help you find out the answers.
The True Cost of Food
Answers
The answers to the questions above are given with their explanations:
| Question Number | Answer | Keywords | Location of keywords |
| 14 | E | £23m for the removal, cryptosporidium, drinking water | Paragraph E; lines 2-3 |
| 15 | B | Mechanisation, chemical fertilisers, monocultures | Paragraph B; lines 1-2 |
| 16 | C | externalities | Paragraph C; line 3 |
| 17 | B | Growth of algae in lakes | Paragraph B; last line |
| 18 | YES | Best-loved farmland birds, vanished, countryside | Paragraph B; lines 4-5 |
| 19 | NOT GIVEN | ||
| 20 | NO | The costs, not even appear, financial | Paragraph C; line 4 |
| 21 | YES | £169m from food poisoning | Paragraph E; line 5 |
| 22 | Food bills/costs | our food bills, threefold | Paragraph E; lines 6-7 |
| 23 | (modern) intensive farming | Breaking away from industrial agriculture, damage of intensive farming | Paragraph F; lines 1-3 |
| 24 | Organic farming | organic farming, too big a jump, thinking, practices | Paragraph G; line 2 |
| 25 | Greener Food Standard | immediate introduction, ‘Greener Food Standard’ | Paragraph G; line 4 |
| 26 | Farmers and consumers | shifting consumers, farmers, sustainable system of agriculture | Paragraph G; last 2 lines |
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