IELTS Academic Reading 4 - Passage 2

Questions 13 -18 The Reading Passage has six paragraphs A-F. Choose the correct heading for each paragraph from the list of headings below. 13. Paragraph A - [blank_start]Egypt's disappearing coastline[blank_end] 14. Paragraph B - [blank_start]Interrupting a natural process[blank_end] 15. Paragraph C - [blank_start]Less valuable sediment than before[blank_end] 16. Paragraph D - [blank_start]Effects of irrigation on sedimentation[blank_end] 17. Paragraph E - [blank_start]The threat to food production[blank_end] 18. Paragraph F - [blank_start]Looking at the long-term impact[blank_end]

Questions 19-24 Do the following statements agree with the information given in the Reading Passage? In boxes 18-23 on your answer sheet, write YES if the statement agrees with the writer's claims NO if the statement contradicts the writer's claims NOT GIVEN if there is impossible to say what the writer thinks about this 19. Coastal erosion occurred along Egypt's Mediterranean coast before the building of the Aswan dams. [blank_start]YES[blank_end] 20. Some people predicted that the Aswan dams would cause land loss before they were built. [blank_start]NOT GIVEN[blank_end] 21. The Aswan dams were built to increase the fertility of the Nile delta. [blank_start]NO[blank_end] 22. Stanley found that the levels of sediment in the river water in Cairo were relatively high. [blank_start]YES[blank_end] 23. Sediment in the irrigation canals on the Nile delta causes flooding. [blank_start]NOT GIVEN[blank_end] 24. Water is pumped from the irrigation canals into the lagoons. [blank_start]YES[blank_end]

Questions 25-27 Complete the following summary of paragraphs E and F. In addition to the problem of coastal erosion, there has been a marked increase in the level of [blank_start]pollutants[blank_end] contained in the silt deposited in the Nile delta. To deal with this, Stanley suggests the use of [blank_start]artificial floods[blank_end] in the short term, and increasing the amount of water available through [blank_start]desalination[blank_end] in the longer term.