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IELTS READING
– READING EXPLANATIONS –
FOR CAMBRIDGE IELTS 11
Abbreviations:
TEST 1
Hothouse = indoors
Essential Collocations:
Urgent needs
To scale up technology
To accommodate people
To employ cutting-edge/modern/latest technologies
Essential Collocations:
4 Of Prep + N Noun
To cut = to reduce
A disadvantage = a drawback
Form = variation
7 On + N Noun
9 Sen 5, para 1
True Due to a… changing climate. Massive floods … take their toll each year,
destroying … valuable crops.
12 Sentence 4, para 4
False All the food could be grown organtically, ELIMINATING THE NEED
FOR … FERTILISERS.
13 Sen 5 para 4:
14 Para 1
FALSE To link sth with sth # to reconnect the historic waterways of … and ….
15 Para 2
NOT GIVEN Numerous ideas …., including concepts ranging from … to … was a plan
16 Para 3
17 Para 3
NOT GIVEN The steel sections were bolted rather than welded together. …
18 Sen 3 para 4
FALSE These gondolas always weight the same WHETHER OR NOT they are
carrying boats …. According to ARCHIMEDES’ principle of
displacement.
20 Line 7 para 5
21 Line 10 para 5
CLAMP A + N singular
22 Line 15 para 5
24 Line 12 para 5
25 Sen 3 para 6
WALL Through tunnel beneath Roman ... = via tunnel under wall.
26 Line 3, para 6
… native evergreen pines shade the snow and absorb radiation … in winter
…
29 A common definition …
30 Line 7 para B
31 Line 2 para C
32 Line 2 para C
34 Line 7, 8 para D
SNOW Plantings of …birch trees … Lose leaves in winter = shed leaves in winter
36 Of + N
37 Para B
38 Para E
39 Para G
40 Para H
TEST 2
10 … to prevent Noun
Hydraulic jacks Line 8 part 2 last para
… to prevent … suck into … = the problem of … sucked back … into … to be
overcome by …
12 Into + N N
Liftng cradle Line 20 last para
To be lowered into … = to transfer underwater into …
21 For + N
Farming Line 9 para B
Cut down trees for fuel (= firewood), clear the forest for …
22 The + N
Canoes Line 10 para B
No longer able to build = could no longer construct
23 Island’s + N
Birds Line 10 para B
Use … as a food source = eate …
24 wood Of + N
Line 5 para C
Hauled over (= transport) … required (= needed) … a lot of people (a large number of
people) … a lot of … (= a great number of …)
30 Paitnings of Mondrian
A 5th para
… deceptively simple, but meticulously composed, … simply rorating a piece radically
changes. …to stay longer … flit across a piece more rapidly … less pleasurable …
later rated the work … more carefully than …
31 Emotions
C Line 4 para 1
To play a crucial role in FEELINGS = to have impacts on …
32 Complexity
B 7th para
Too little – too boring >< too much – perceptual overload
Appealing pieces – abstract + representational complexity
33 Images
H Appealing pieces = pleasing works of art – repeated motifs (= image) recurring (occur
frequently) in different sales
34 7th para
NOT GIVEN Too little – too boring >< too much – perceptual overload
Appealing pieces – abstract + representational
There is no motion of CONTRACTION ON PREVIOUS BELIEF
Forsythe, contradict, fractals in art
37
40 Scientific insights into = there are some mentions of scientists from famous
A universities regarding reaction to art.