The Impact of the Potato, Life-Casting and Art, Honey bees in trouble – IELTS Reading Answers

Section 1

The Impact of the Potato

Jeff Chapman relates the story of history the most important vegetable

Questions 1-5

1 The early Spanish called potato as the Incan name ‘Chuchu

2. The purposes of Spanish coming to Peru were to find out potatoes.

3 The Spanish believed that the potato has the same nutrients as other vegetables.

4 Peasants at that time did not like to eat potatoes because they were ugly.

5 The popularity of potatoes in the UK was due to food shortages during the war.

Questions 6-13

6 In France，people started to overcome their disgusting about potatoes because the King put a potato ___________________  in his button hole.

7 Frederick realized the potential of potato but he had to handle the ______________________ against potatoes from ordinary people.

8 The King of Prussia adopted some _________________________ psychology to make people accept potatoes.

9 Before 1800，the English people preferred eating _____________________________ with bread, butter and cheese.

10 The obvious way to deal with England food problems were high yielding potato ______________________

11 The Irish _____________________________and climate suited potatoes well.

12 Between 1780 and 1841，based on the ___________________________ of the potatoes, the

Irish population doubled to eight million.

13 The potato’s high yields help the poorest farmers to produce more healthy food almost without _____________________

Section 2

Life-Casting and Art

Questions 14-18

14 an example of a craftsman’s unsuccessful claim to ownership of his work

15 an example of how trends in the art can change attitudes to an earlier work

16 the original function of a particular type of art

17 ways of assessing whether or not an object is an art

18 how artists deal with the less interesting aspects of their work

Questions 19-24

19 Nineteenth-century sculptors admired the speed and realism of life-casting.

20 Rodin believed the quality of the life-casting would improve if a slower process were used.

21 The importance of painting has decreased with the development of colour photography.

22 Life-casting requires more skill than sculpture does.

23 New art encourages us to look at earlier work in a fresh way.

24 The intended meaning of a work of art can get lost over time.

Questions 25-26

25 The most noticeable contrast in the cast of the giants hand is between the

A dirt and decoration

B size and realism

C choice and arrangement

D balance and texture

26 According to the writer, the importance of any artistic object lies in

A the artist’s intentions

B the artist’s beliefs

C the relevance it has to modem life

D the way we respond to it

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Section 3

Honey bees in trouble

Can native pollinators fill the gap?

Questions 27-30

27 In the United States, farmers use honeybees on a large scale over the past few years.

28 Cleaning farming practices would be harmful to farmers’

29 The blue orchard bee is the most efficient pollinator among native bees for every crop.

30 It is beneficial to other local creatures to protect native bees.

Questions 31-35

31 The example of the ‘Fruitless Fair underlines the writer’s point about

A needs for using pesticides.

B impacts of losing insect pollinators.

C vulnerabilities of native bees.

D benefits in building more pollination industries.

32 Why can honeybees adapt to the modem agricultural system?

A the honeybees can pollinate more crops efficiently

B The bees are semi-domesticated since ancient times.

C Honeybee hives can be protected away from pesticides.

D The ability of wild pollinators using to serve crops declines.

33 The writer mentions factories and assembly lines to illustrate

A one drawback of the industrialised agricultural system.

B a low cost in modem agriculture.

C the role of honeybees in pollination.

D what a high yield of industrial agriculture.

34 In the 6th paragraph，Wlnfree’s experiment proves that

A honeybee can pollinate various crops.

B there are many types of wild bees as the pollinators.

C the wild bees can increase the yield to a higher percentage

D wild bees work more efficiently as a pollinator than honey bees in certain cases

35 What does the writer want to suggest in the last paragraph?

A the importance of honey bees in pollination

B adoption of different bees in various sizes of agricultural system

C the comparison between the intensive and the rarefied agricultural system

D the reason why farmers can rely on native pollinators

Questions 36-40

36 The headline of colony collapse disorder states that

37 Viewpoints of Freitas manifest that

38 Examples of blue orchard bees have shown that

39 Centris tarsata is mentioned to exemplify that

40 One finding of the research in Delaware Valley is that

A native pollinators can survive when a specific plant is supplied.

B it would cause severe consequences both to commerce and agriculture.

C honey bees cannot be bred.

D some agricultural landscapes are favourable in supporting wild bees.

E a large scale of honey bees are needed to pollinate.

F an agricultural system is fragile when relying on a single pollinator

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