Dirty River But Clean Water, Going Bananas, Blue footed Boobies 2 – IELTS Reading Answers

In the Academic Reading practice test, “Dirty River But Clean Water, Going Bananas, and Blue footed Boobies 2” there are 40 questions of various question types. We at IELTSMaterial.com would urge every IELTS aspirant to time this test as in the real exam and find the answers without looking at the key. If you have scored 40/40, then we wish you all the best. If you haven’t, then we would earnestly advise you to take one of our IELTS reading practice tests. 

Here are question types in this reading test

Reading Passage 1 (Dirty River But Clean Water)

• True or False / Not Given
• Summary completion

Reading Passage 2 ( Going Bananas)

• Sentence completion
• Matching features
• True or False / Not Given

Reading Passage 3 ( Blue footed Boobies 2)

• Matching headings
• True or False / Not Given
• Sumary completion

Reading Passage 1

Dirty River But Clean Water

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Questions 1-7

1 Damage caused by the fire is worse than that caused by the flood.

2 The flood peaks at almost 1500 cubic meters every eight years.

3 Contribution of sediments delivered by tributaries has little impact.

4 The decreasing number of chubs is always caused by introducing of trout since the mid 20th century.

5 It seemed that the artificial flood in 1996 had achieved success partly at the very beginning.

6 In fact, the yield of artificial flood water is smaller than an average natural flood at present.

7 Mighty floods drove fast-moving flows with clean and high-quality water.

Questions 8-13

The eco-impact of the Canyon Dam

Floods are people’s nightmare. In the past, the canyon was raged by flood every year. The snow from far Wyoming would melt in the season of 8…………………… and caused a flood flow peak in Colorado river. In the four decades after people built the Glen Canyon Dam, it only could gather 9…………………… together from tiny, undammed tributaries.

Humpback chub population on reduced, why?

Then, several species disappeared including Colorado pike-minnow, 10…………………… and the round-tail chub. Meanwhile, some moved in such as fathead minnows, channel catfish,> and 11……………………. The non-stopped flow led to the washing away of the sediment out of the canyon, which poses a great threat to the chubs because it has poor 12…………………… away from predators. In addition, the volume of 13…………………… available behind the dam was too low to rebuild the bars and flooding became more serious.

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Reading Passage 2

    Going Bananas

Question 14-16

14 The banana was first eaten as a fruit by humans almost …………………… years ago.

15 The banana was first planted in …………………….

16 Wild banana’s taste is adversely affected by its …………………….

Question 17-23

17 A Pest invasion may seriously damage the banana industry.

18 The effect of fungal infection in the soil is often long-lasting.

19 A commercial manufacturer gave up on breeding bananas for disease-resistant species.

20 The banana disease may develop resistance to chemical sprays.

21 A banana disease has destroyed a large number of banana plantations.

22 Consumers would not accept the genetically altered crop.

23 Lessons can be learned from bananas for other crops.

List of People

A Rodomiro

B David Mclaughlin

C Emile Frison

D Ronald Romero

E Lauder Gasparotto

F Geoff Hawtin

Question 24-26

24 Banana is the oldest known fruit.

25 Gros Michel is still being used as a commercial product.

26 Banana is the main food in some countries.

Reading Passage 3

Questions 27-32

List of Headings

i The unusual way of hatching the chicks

ii Feeding habit of the red-footed booby

iii Folding wings for the purpose

iv Rearing the young

v Classification of boobies

vi Diving for seafood

vii Surviving mechanism during the food shortage period

viii Mating and breeding

ix Origin of the booby’s name

27 Paragraph A

28 Paragraph B

29 Paragraph C

30 Paragraph D

31 Paragraph E

32 Paragraph F
                                                                                         

 Blue-footed Boobies 2

Questions 33-35

Do the following statements agree with the information given in Reading Passage?

33 Boobies are afraid of human approaching.

34 Female boobies eat more than male ones.

35 When there is not sufficient food, the larger chicks will be fed at the expense of the survival of its smaller mates.

Questions 36-39

The courtship of the Blue-footed Booby consists of the male flaunting his blue feet and dancing to impress the female. During the dance, the male will spread his wings and stamp his feet on the ground with his bills37……………………. After mating, the booby’s unusual demeanour continues with ritual 36…………………… that really serves no purpose. When the female Booby lays eggs, the parental boobies incubate the eggs beneath their 38…………………… which contain 39…………………… to transmit the heat, because of the lack of brood patches.

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