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IELTS Mock Test 2021 October

IELTS Mock Test 2021 October

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  • Published on: 29 Oct 2021
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Answer Keys:

Part 1: Question 1 - 13
  • 1 FALSE
  • 2 NOT GIVEN
  • 3 FALSE
  • 4 NOT GIVEN
  • 5 TRUE
  • 6 TRUE
  • 7 bamboo
  • 8 cylinders
  • 9 Piston
  • 10 seven/7
  • 11 1/2 an acre/half an acre
  • 12 corrugated tin
  • 13 $37.5 million/37.5 million dollars
Part 2: Question 14 - 26
  • 14 D
  • 15 A
  • 16 C
  • 17 E
  • 18 FALSE
  • 19 TRUE
  • 20 TRUE
  • 21 FALSE
  • 22 less
  • 23 social
  • 24 watched
  • 25 observer
  • 26 Nutcracker
Part 3: Question 27 - 36
  • 27 B
  • 28 B
  • 29 D
  • 30 D
  • 31 B
  • 27 29 A,C,E
  • 32 ferry
  • 33 bicycle
  • 34 (ceiling) fan
  • 35 air conditioner
  • 36 mosquito(s)

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Review & Explanations:

Part 1: Questions 1-13

Questions 1-6

Questions 7-10

Filling the blanks in diagram of treadle pump’s each parts.

Choose NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER from the passage for each answer.

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  • 7 Answer: bamboo

    Keywords in Questions

    Similar words in Passage

    7. Handles of pump’s material is …

    […] two handle arms made of bamboo.

    + Take a look at the second sentence of paragraph E, the keyword is “handle”, and it’s made of bamboo. Therefore, the answer here should be bamboo.

  • 8 Answer: cylinders

    Keywords in Questions

    Similar words in Passage

    Q8. Two … are made of plastics.

    Each treadle pump has two cylinders which are made of engineering plastic

    + The keyword here is “made of plastics”, which can only be found once in the whole paragraph E, in the description of cylinders. So the answer here is cylinders.

  • 9 Answer: Piston

    Keywords in Questions

    Similar words in Passage

    Q9. Foot valves and … which connects pump mechanism can generate water pulse

    The pump mechanism has piston and foot valve assemblies.

    + The answer here must be in pair with the keyword “foot valve”, so it is piston.

  • 10 Answer: seven/7

    Keywords in Questions

    Similar words in Passage

    Q10. Treadle pump can extract water underneath up to … metre

    The pump is capable of working up to a maximum depth of 7 meters

    + We must look for a number that is followed with the keyword “meters”. It’s the maximum depth that the pump can extract water. Therefore, the answer should be 7.

Questions 11-13

Answer the questions below.

Choose NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER from the passage for each answer.

How large area can a treadle pump irrigate the field at a low level of expense?

11

What is Abdul’s new roof made of?

12

How much did Bangladesh farmers invest by IDE’s stimulation?

$ 13

  • 11 Answer: 1/2 an acre/half an acre

    Keywords in Questions

    Similar words in Passage

    Q11. How large area can a treadle pump irrigate the field at a low level of expense?

    The human-powered pump can irrigate half an acre of vegetables and costs only $25

    Take a look at the first sentence of paragraph F, the area that a “human-powered pump”/”treadle pump” can “irrigate” is half an acre. Therefore, the answer should be half an acre (1/2 acre can also be accepted)

  • 12 Answer: corrugated tin

    Keywords in Questions

    Similar words in Passage

    Q12. What is Abdul’s new roof made of?

    When Polak visited him again in 1984, he […] and replaced the thatched roof on his house with corrugated tin

    Take a look at the last sentence of paragraph F, “roof” is the keyword here, and its material is right next to it: corrugated tin. Therefore, the answer is corrugated tin.

  • 13 Answer: $37.5 million/37.5 million dollars

    Keywords in Questions

    Similar words in Passage

    Q13. How much did Bangladesh farmers invest by IDE’s stimulation?

    The cost of IDE’s market-creation activities was only $12 million, leveraged by the investment of $37.5 million from the farmers themselves.

    Take a look at the third sentence of paragraph G, the keywords are “investment” and “from the farmers” which lead to only one answer: $37.5 million. Therefore, the answer should be 37.5 million dollars/$37.5 million

Part 1

READING PASSAGE 1

You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-13 , which are based on Reading Passage 1 below.

Foot Pedal Irrigation

A Until now, governments and development agencies have tried to tackle the problem through large-scale projects: gigantic dams, sprawling, irrigation canals and vast new fields of high-yield crops introduced during the Green Revolution, the famous campaign to increase grain harvests in developing nations. Traditional irrigation, however, has degraded the soil in many areas, and the reservoirs behind dams can quickly fill up with silt, reducing their storage capacity and depriving downstream farmers of fertile sediments. Furthermore, although the Green Revolution has greatly expanded worldwide farm production since 1950, poverty stubbornly persists in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Continued improvements in the productivity of large farms may play the main role in boosting food supply, but local efforts to provide cheap, individual irrigation systems to small farms may offer a better way to lift people out of poverty.

B The Green Revolution was designed to increase the overall food supply, not to raise the incomes of the rural poor, so it should be no surprise that it did not eradicate poverty or hunger. India, for example, has been self-sufficient in food for 15 years, and its granaries are full, but more than 200 million Indians – one fifth of the country’s population – are malnourished because they cannot afford the food they need and because the country’s safety nets are deficient. In 2000, 189 nations committed to the Millennium Development Goals, which called for cutting world poverty in half by 2015. With business as usual, however, we have little hope of achieving most of the Millennium goals, no matter how much money rich countries contribute to poor ones.

C The supply-driven strategies of the Green Revolution, however, may not help subsistence farmers, who must play to their strengths to compete in the global marketplace. The average size of a family farm is less than four acres in India, 1.8 acres in Bangladesh and about half an acre in China. Combines and other modern farming tools are too expensive to be used on such small areas. An Indian farmer selling surplus wheat grown on his one-acre plot could not possibly compete with the highly efficient and subsidized Canadian wheat farms that typically stretch over thousands of acres. Instead subsistence farmers should exploit the fact that their labor costs are the lowest in the world, giving them a comparative advantage in growing and selling high-value, intensely farmed crops.

D Paul Polak saw firsthand the need for a small-scale strategy in 1981 when he met Abdul Rahman, a farmer in the Noakhali district of Bangladesh. From his three quarter-acre plots of rain-fed rice fields, Abdul could grow only 700 kilograms of rice each year – 300 kilograms less than what he needed to feed his family. During the three months before the October rice harvest came in, Abdul and his wife had to watch silently while their three children survived on one meal a day or less. As Polak walked with him through the scattered fields he had inherited from his father, Polak asked what he needed to move out of poverty. “Control of water for my crops,” he said, “at a price I can afford.”

E Soon Polak learned about a simple device that could help Abdul achieve his goal: the treadle pump. Developed in the late 1970s by Norwegian engineer Gunnar Barnes, the pump is operated by a person walking in place on a pair of treadles and two handle arms made of bamboo. Properly adjusted and maintained, it can be operated several hours a day without tiring the users. Each treadle pump has two cylinders which are made of engineering plastic. The diameter of a cylinder is 100.5mm and the height is 280mm. The pump is capable of working up to a maximum depth of 7 meters. Operation beyond 7 meters is not recommended to preserve the integrity of the rubber components. The pump mechanism has piston and foot valve assemblies. The treadle action creates alternate strokes in the two pistons that lift the water in pulses.

F The human-powered pump can irrigate half an acre of vegetables and costs only $25 (including the expense of drilling a tube well down to the groundwater). Abdul heard about the treadle pump from a cousin and was one of the first farmers in Bangladesh to buy one. He borrowed the $25 from an uncle and easily repaid the loan four months later. During the five-month dry season, when Bangladeshis typically farm very little, Abdul used the treadle pump to grow a quarter-acre of chili peppers, tomatoes, cabbage and eggplants. He also improved the yield of one of his rice plots by irrigating it. His family ate some of the vegetables and sold the rest at the village market, earning a net profit of $100. With his new income, Abdul was able to buy rice for his family to eat, keep his two sons in school until they were 16 and set aside a little money for his daughter’s dowry. When Polak visited him again in 1984, he had doubled the size of his vegetable plot and replaced the thatched roof on his house with corrugated tin. His family was raising a calf and some chickens. He told me that the treadle pump was a gift from God.

G Bangladesh is particularly well suited for the treadle pump because a huge reservoir of groundwater lies just a few meters below the farmers’ feet. In the early 1980s IDE initiated a campaign to market the pump, encouraging 75 small private-sector companies to manufacture the devices and several thousand village dealers and tube-well drillers to sell and install them. Over the next 12 years one and a half million farm families purchased treadle pumps, which increased the farmers’ net income by a total of $150 million a year. The cost of IDE’s market-creation activities was only $12 million, leveraged by the investment of $37.5 million from the farmers themselves. In contrast, the expense of building a conventional dam and canal system to irrigate an equivalent area of farmland would be in the range of $2,000 per acre, or $1.5 billion.

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