IELTS Academic Reading ‘Saving The Soil’ Answers

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Updated On Aug 14, 2024

Saving The Soil
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The Academic passage ‘Saving The Soil’ is a reading passage that appeared in an IELTS Test.

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Saving The Soil

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Question Number	Answers	Keywords	Location of Keywords
14.	minerals	microorganisms, viruses and fungi, living amid decomposing plants	Paragraph B, Lines 6-7
15.	carbon	Digest dead animals and plants, they lock in their carbon content, holding three times the amount	Paragraph B, Lines 10-13
16.	water	Preventing flood damage, damage to buildings, roads, and bridges	Paragraph B, Last 3 lines
17.	agriculture	Agriculture, the biggest problem, the soil gradually becomes less fertile.	Paragraph C, Lines 6-11
18.	C	Not to return unused parts of harvested crops, the soil gradually becomes less fertile.	Paragraph C, Lines 9-11
19.	E	Chemical fertilizers can release polluting nitrous oxide into the atmosphere, indiscriminate use of fertilizers hurts the soil itself, and degrading the soil	Paragraph D
20.	A	When they applied Floris’s mix to the desert-like test plots, a good crop of plants emerged	Paragraph E, Lines 9-11
21.	D	We need ways of presenting the problem that brings it home to governments and the wider public, have proposed a goal of ‘zero net land degradation	Paragraph G, First 7 lines
22.	E	One of the people, is Pius Floris, who started out running a tree-care business	Paragraph E
23.	C	In the wild, plants grow, remove nutrients from the soil, when the plants die, these nutrients are returned directly to the soil.	Paragraph C
24.	F	Create a map linked to a database, be fed measurements from field surveys, drone surveys, satellite imagery, lab analyses	Paragraph F
25.	G	Proposed a goal, ‘zero net land degradation’.	Paragraph G
26.	F	An accurate picture of, types of soil, and the problems they face. That’s not easy.	Paragraph F

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