IELTS Academic Reading 2 - Passage 3

Do the following statements agree with the information given in Reading Passage? In boxes 27-32 on your answer sheet, choose 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 27 Environmentalists take a pessimistic view of the world for a number of reasons. [blank_start]YES[blank_end] 28 Data on the Earth's natural resources has only been collected since 1972. [blank_start]NOT GIVEN[blank_end] 29 The number of starving people in the world has increased in recent years. [blank_start]NO[blank_end] 30 Extinct species are being replaced by new species. [blank_start]NOT GIVEN[blank_end] 31 Some pollution problems have been correctly linked to industrialisation. [blank_start]YES[blank_end] 32 It would be best to attempt to slow down economic growth. [blank_start]NO[blank_end]

33 What aspect oh scientific research does the writer express concern about in paragraph 4?

34 The writer quotes from the Worldwide Fund for Nature to illustrate how

35 What is the writer's main point about lobby groups in paragraph 6?

36 The writer suggests that newspapers print items that are intended to

37 What does the writer say about America's waste pcoblem?

Complete the summary with the list of words below. Drag the correct word in boxes 38-40 on your answer sheet. GLOBAL WARMING The writer admits that global warming is a 38) [blank_start]long-term[blank_end] challenge, but says that it will not have a catastrophic impact on our future, if we deal with it in the 39) [blank_start]right[blank_end] way. If we try to reduce the levels of greenhouse gases, he believes that it would only have a minimal impact on rising temperatures. He feels it would be better to spend money on the more 40) [blank_start]urgent[blank_end] health problem of providing the world's population with clean drinking water.