Cambridge ielts 1-15 series reading answers explained

1. Answer: B
Key words: way of using dance, not proposing
By using the skimming and scanning technique, we would find that before going into details about 
how engineers can learn from dance, the author first briefly mentions ways of using dance in 
paragraph B. The writer says: “That is 
not
to suggest everyone should dance their way to work, …” to 
state his point that instead, we could learn from “the techniques used by choreographers”. Although 
dancing your way to work might be appealing, because it might make us “healthy and happy”, this is 
not the writer‟s suggestion. Therefore, B is the answer. 
 
2. Answer: C
Key words: contrast, past and present, building
In the passage, we should look for keywords that refer to the “past and present”, which are the time 
milestones of building approaches. These are found in paragraph C, where we find “medieval” and 
“now” in the same sentence; “medieval” describes those approaches of the “past”, and “now” refers to 
the “present”. Therefore, while builders in the past carried out construction through intimate 
knowledge and personal experience, building designers at present rely on media technologies, 
unfortunately detaching themselves from physical and social realities. Thus, C is the answer for this 
question. 
past = medieval 
present = now 
 
3. Answer: F
Key words: objective, both, dance and engineering
By scanning, we could find that dance and engineering are both mentioned in paragraph F, so we 
would look here. It was stated that: “Yet it shares with engineering the aim of designing patterns of 
movement within limitations of space”, where “it” refers to “choreography” in the preceding sentence, 
and “aim” has the same meaning as “objective”. Therefore, it could be understood that both dance and 
engineering have the objective of “designing patterns of movement within limitations of space”, 
suggesting F as the answer for this question. 
objective = aim