Cambridge ielts 1-15 series reading answers explained

=>ANSWER: NOT GIVEN
CAMBRIDGE IELTS 6 – TEST 2 – PASSAGE 3
NUMERATION 
CAMBRIDGE IELTS 6 READING – TEST 3 – 
ANSWERS 
THE POWER OF THE BIG SCREEN
QUESTIONS 1-5: WHICH PARAGRAPH CONTAINS THE 
FOLLOWING INFORMATION? 

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1. THE LOCATION OF THE FIRST CINEMA 
Keywords: location, first cinema 
In paragraph A, the writer refers to a cinema called “Cinematographe” together with its locati
on: “at 14 
Boulevard des Capucines in Paris” as well as its early time of formation which is “on Decem
ber 8, 1895” 
=>ANSWER: A
2.HOW CINEMA CAME TO FOCUS ON STORIES 
Keywords: how, stories 
In paragraph I, it is stated that “…it (refers to cinema) became, overwhelmingly, a medium for telling 
stories.” 
=>ANSWER: I
3.THE SPEED WITH WHICH CINEMA HAS CHANGED 
Keywords: speed, changed 
The change taking place in the cinema is clearly the main idea of paragraph 
J: “And it has all happened so quickly…it is a mere 100 years since……” 
=>ANSWER: J
4.HOW CINEMA TEACHES US ABOUT OTHER CULTURES. 
Keywords: teaches, cultures 
In paragraph E, the writer says that: “One effect of this realism was to educate the world about 
itself…….Long before people travelled to America or anywhere else, they knew what other places 
look like; they knew how other people worked and lived…” 
+ to teach = to educate 
How other places look like, how other people worked and lived ~ other cultures 
=>ANSWER: E
5.THE ATTRACTION OF ACTORS IN FILMS 
Keywords: attraction, actors 
The actor who holds attraction for audiences, or “star”, is mentioned in paragraph G: ” The „star‟ was 
another natural consequence of cinema….Film personalities have such an immediate presence that, 
inevitably, they become super-real”. 
+ actors~stars~film personalities 
=>ANSWER: G
QUESTIONS 6-9: YES/NO/NOT GIVEN 

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6.IT IS IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND HOW THE FIRST AUDIENCE 
REACTED TO THE CINEMA. 
Keywords: first audience, understand, reacted. 
In paragraph B, the writer says that “…But it is worth trying, for to understand the initial shock of 
those images is to understand the extraordinary power and magic of cinema…” 
“The initial shock of those images” refers to “how the first audience reacted to the cinema”.
So the given statement agrees with the view of the writer. 
+ important = worth trying 
+first = initial 
=>ANSWER: YES
7.THE LUMIERE BROTHERS‟ FILM ABOUT THE TRAIN WAS ONE OF 
THE GREATEST FILMS EVER MADE 
Keywords: Lumiere Brothers‟ film, train, greatest films 
Scan the keyword in capitals “Lumiere Brothers” then find it in paragraph C: “One of the Lumiere 
Brothers‟ earliest films was a 30 second piece which showed a section of a railway platform flooded 
with sunshine. 
A train appears …. Yet the Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky, one of the greatest of all film 
artists described the film as a „work of genius‟.” The writer only says the director Andrei Tarkovsky 
is one of the greatest of all film artists. Only the opinion of this director is mentioned, so we are not 
told if this film was one of the greatest films ever made.