Cambridge ielts 5 Reading

=>ANSWER: TRUE
1. “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
1. 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 from stress, which will

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affect the interaction between parents and the child. However, the writer
does not say that richer families had higher stress levels than poor families. 
=>ANSWER: NOT GIVEN
CAMBRIDGE IELTS 5 – TEST 3 – PASSAGE 2
Questions 14-17: Choose the correct heading 
1. 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 ¼. 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 was interrupted by the 
construction of the two dams, which resulted in serious impacts.