Cambridge IELTS 9 – Reading Test 1

ACADEMIC READING

Reading Passage 1, Questions 1-13

1 FALSE

2 NOT GIVEN

3 FALSE

4 TRUE

5 NOT GIVEN

6 TRUE

7 NOT GIVEN

8 (the/only)rich

9 commercial (possibilities)

10 mauve (was/is)

11 (Robert) Pullar

12 (in) France

13 malaria (is)

Reading Passage 2, Questions 14-26

14 iv

15 vii

16 i

17 ii

18 several billion years

19 radio (waves/signals)

20 1000(stars)

21 YES

22 YES

23 NOT GIVEN

24 NO

25 NOT GIVEN

26 NO

Reading Passage 3, Questions 27-40

27 plants

28 IN EITHER ORDER; BOTH REQUIRED FOR ONE MARK

breathing

reproduction

29 gills

30 dolphins

31 NOT GIVEN

32 FALSE

33 TRUE

34 3 measurements

35 (triangular) graph

36 cluster

37 amphibious

38 half way

39 dry-land tortoises

40 D