Cambridge ielts 1-15 series reading answers explained

 
33. Answer: D influence the environmental policies of businesses and governments
Key words: fourth, paragraph, ways, public
Paragraph 4 mentions several actions to help the environment, such as suing environmentally harmful 
businesses, buying sustainably harvested products or pressing governments to enforce good 
environmental regulations. Because these are not individual actions directly impacting the environment 
but rather actions imposed on other people, A is incorrect. B is irrelevant because no information about 
learning is given. The same goes for C – specific environmental disasters are mentioned, but this is in 
reference to suing businesses, not raising awareness. The only appropriate answer is D, because the 
actions listed above influence the policies of businesses and governments. 
34. Answer: B A fast-food company forced their meat suppliers to follow the law
Key words: pressure, exerted, business, BSE
By skimming “BSE”, we can find the information we need in paragraph 5. Then, we must find which 
sentence mentions “big business” and what pressure that business exerted. We find that “when a major 
fast-food company then made the same demands […], the meat industry complied within weeks”. 
Here, „the same demands‟ refer to the FDA‟s demand that the meat industry must follow the rules and 
abandon practices associated with the risk of BSE. Thus, it can be understood that a fast-food company 
pressured the meat industry, or meat suppliers, to follow the FDA regulations. 
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big business = major company 
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law = rules 
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Answer: B.
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QUESTIONS 35-39: DO THE FOLLOWING STATEMENTS AGREE 
WITH THE CLAIMS OF THE WRITER IN READING PASSAGE 3? 
35. Answer: YES
Key words: public, fund, environmental, practices
In paragraph 6, the author believes that “the public must accept […] higher prices for products to cover 
the added costs, if any, of sound environmental practices”. 
By saying that the public should pay for the added costs of good practices, the author means that they 
should fund such practices with their money. Thus, this statement agrees with the author‟s opinion. 
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good environmental practices = sound environmental practices 

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