The True Cost of Food Reading Answers

Updated On Apr 15, 2021

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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

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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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