Cambridge Practice Tests for ielts

PART 3
Questions 30-36
Suggested approach
• Read the task rubric carefully.. You have to
complete the summary by filling in the spaces
with words from the passage. The words must
fit in meaning and also be grammatically
correct.
• Read the summary to familiarise yourself with
it. It may be possible to find words without
reading the original text, but if you do this you
may pick words which are not in the text, in
which case your answer will be incorrect. So
you must look for a word within the passage
which has the right meaning and which is the
correct part of speech for the space.
• Read the first item in the summary.
• Look at the text and see if you can find the
same information there. For item 30, the first
sentence discusses the qualities of paper that
make it different from other waste products.
The text states that paper comes from a
“sustamable resource”. So “sustamable” is a
correct answer.
• Sometimes there are alternative answers that
are correct in this type of question. For item 30,
“replaceable” is also a possible answer because
it says a little further on in the text, “trees are
replaceable”.
• Note however that “renewable” is not an
acceptable answer because although it is a
synonym and makes sense, it is not in the
original text.
Questions 37-41
Question
30
Location of answer in text
“Paper … comes from a
sustamable resource …”
Answer
sustamable//
replaceable
31
“Paper is also
biodegradable, so it does
not pose as much threat to
the environment when it is
discarded.”
biodegradable
32
“… the rest comes directly
from virgin fibre …”
virgin fibre/
pulp
33
“Governments have
encouraged waste paper
collection and sorting
schemes …”
governments
//the
government