Cambridge ielts 1-15 series reading answers explained

=> ANSWER: iv
28.SECTION B 
This section mainly indicates the negative effects of bullying on children. To be more specific, it can 
make children “feel unworthy and depressed”, “even lead to suicide”, “experience difficulties with 
interpersonal relationships as adults”, “grow up to be physically violent and convicted of anti-social 
offences” So the correct heading for this section is: “The effect of bullying on the children involved” 
=> ANSWER: vi
29.SECTION C 
This section describes how schools react when being asked about bullying. Some often “deny the 
problem”. “Fortunately more schools are now saying: There is not much bullying here, but when it 
occurs we have a clear policy for dealing with it”. So the correct heading for this section is: “The 
reaction from schools to enquiries about bullying” 
=> ANSWER: v
30.SECTION D 
This paragraph is about “3 factors involved in this change”. “This change” here is the fact that more 
schools admit that bullying is happening at their schools. The three factors include “an awareness of 
the severity of the problem”, the availability of “a number of resources to help tackle bullying” and 

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“evidence that these materials work and that schools can achieve something”. So the correct heading 
for this section is “Developments that have led to a new approach by schools”. 
+ a new approach = a change 
=> ANSWER: vii
QUESTIONS 31 -34: CHOOSE THE CORRECT LETTER 
31.A RECENT SURVEY FOUND THAT IN BRITISH SECONDARY 
SCHOOLS 
Keywords: survey, secondary schools 
In Section A, it is written that “There was less bullying in secondary schools”, and we can understand 
that this means less bullying than in primary schools, because previously the writer mentions the 
situation in primary schools. So the right answer is: “there was less bullying than in primary schools”.