Cambridge ielts 1-15 series reading answers explained

=>ANSWER: TRUE
12
. 
“Missouri” programme children of young, uneducated, single parents scored less highly on the 
tests. 
Keywords
: Missouri, young, uneducated, single, less highly 
In paragraph 10, the writer argues that: “Most important of all, the traditional measures of “risk”, such 
as parent‟s age and education, or whether they were a single parent, bore little or no relationship to the 
measures of achievement and language development. Children in the programme performed equally 
well regardless of socio-economic disadvantages.” 
Children of young, uneducated, single parents are examples of children who have socio-
economic disadvantages. 
+ scored less highly >< performed equally well 
=>ANSWER: FALSE
13
. The richer families in the „Missouri‟ programme had higher stress levels. 
Keywords
: richer, families, Missouri, higher, stress 
Paragraph 10, Section E says that ” The one factor that was found to affect the child‟s development 
was family stress leading to a poor quality of parent-child interaction. That interaction was not 
necessarily bad in poorer families”. This means that both poor and rich families may suffer fr
om 
stress, which will affect the interaction between parents and the child. However, the writer do
es not say that richer families had higher stress levels than poor families. 
=>ANSWER: NOT GIVEN
CAMBRIDGE IELTS 5 – TEST 3 – PASSAGE 1
EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION 

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DISAPPEARING DELTA 
QUESTIONS 14-17: CHOOSE THE CORRECT HEADING 
14
. iv. Interrupting a natural process 
Keywords
: interrupting, natural process 
In paragraph B, the writer describes the loss/changes of the sediment that used to flow down the river 
when the two dams at Aswan were built. “Before the dams were built, the Nile flowed freely
, carrying huge quantities of sediment north from Africa‟s interior to be deposited on the Nile delta. 
This continued for 7,000 years”, …But when the Aswan dams were constructed in the 20 
century to provide electricity and irrigation “. most of the sediment with its natural fertilizer 
accumulated up above the dam in the southern, upstream half of Lake Nasser, instead of passing 
down to the delta.” So, paragraph B describes the natural process of sedimentation and this w
as interrupted by the construction of the two dams, which resulted in serious impacts.