Worldly Wealth IELTS Reading Answers
The Academic passage ‘Worldly Wealth’ is a reading passage that appeared in an IELTS Test. Read the passage below and answer questions 1 – 14. 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.
Worldly Wealth
Answers
Question number | Answer | Keywords | Location of keywords |
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1 | NOT GIVEN | – | – |
2 | YES | there may be political or social barriers to achieving a rich world | Paragraph B;
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3 | NO | In thinking about the future of civilization, we ought to start by asking what people want. | Paragraph B;
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4 | YES | Increasing productivity that results in decreasing costs for such goods has been responsible for the greatest gains in the standard of living, and there is every reason to believe that this will continue. | Paragraph C;
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5 | NOT GIVEN | – | – |
6 | YES | And long before all fossil fuels are exhausted, their rising prices may compel industrial society not only to become more energy efficient but also to find alternative energy sources | Paragraph D;
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7 | agriculture / farms / farmland | in fact the increasing amount of land consumed by agriculture is a far greater danger than urban sprawl. | Paragraph E;
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8 | parks | Since 1950 more land in the US has been set aside in parks than has been occupied by urban and suburban growth. | Paragraph E;
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9 | productivity | Taking the best Iowa maize growers as the norm for world food productivity, it has been calculated that less than a tenth of present cropland could support a population of 10 billion. | Paragraph E;
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10 | protein | food produced by industrial techniques, people in underdeveloped countries can have adequate supplies of animal protein for the first time.’ | Paragraph F;
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11 | DNA | Once their DNA has been extracted to create cow less steaks and chicken less drumsticks | Paragraph G;
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12 | Game | game such as wild deer, rabbits and wild ducks will be ever more abundant | Paragraph G;
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13 | A | rising expectations of mobility. This is another luxury of today’s rich that could become a necessity of tomorrow’s global population – particularly if its members choose to live widely dispersed in a post-agrarian wilderness. | Paragraph H;
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14 | D | But before long our aircraft and cars will be piloted by computers which are never tired or stressed. | Paragraph I;
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