Cambridge IELTS 13 · General Training · Test 1 · Section 2
Border Crossing For Commercial Vehicles & Appendix: Dealing With Absence In The Workplace — IELTS Reading Answers
All 13 answers for Border Crossing For Commercial Vehicles & Appendix: Dealing With Absence In The Workplace, Cambridge IELTS 13 General Training Reading Test 1 Section 2, with the passage evidence and an explanation for each.
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Questions 15–27. Tap an answer to see the evidence.
What this section tests
This section is tested with Flow Chart Completion (Q15–20), Note Completion (Q21–27). Each section below gives the strategy for that question type, the answers, and the sentence that proves them.
Questions 15–20: Flow Chart Completion
Strategy: Follow the arrows in order. Each stage usually maps to one sentence or one clause in the passage.
“When using this you need to provide information about your shipment”
After 'information about your', a singular noun is needed; drivers must provide details of 'your shipment'.
“You'll need a photo ID in addition to your birth certificate or passport”
Alongside a birth certificate or passport, the document required is 'a photo ID', a noun phrase naming identification.
“drivers must also turn on interior cab lights”
The instruction is to 'turn on interior cab lights', so the plural noun lights completes the note about cab illumination.
“Drivers must also turn on interior cab lights and open all interior drapes or blinds to sleeper areas for easy inspection”
Drivers must 'open all interior drapes or blinds to sleeper areas', so the plural noun phrase sleeper areas names what is exposed.
“Drivers who clear customs at Primary Inspection will be instructed to report to Immigration to fill out the I-94 card and receive verbal clearance from a US official to proceed into the United States”
After 'report to', a place or department fits; drivers clear customs then report to 'Immigration' for the I-94 card.
“The charge for the I-94 card is $6”
Following 'The', the noun charge names the cost: 'The charge for the I-94 card is $6'.
Questions 21–27: Note Completion
Strategy: Predict the word class from the note, find the paraphrase of the note's keyword in the passage, then copy the answer exactly within the word limit.
“the employer should consider what reasonable adjustments could be made in the workplace to help the employee. This might be something as simple as supplying an appropriate chair for the use of the employee”
'Supplying an appropriate chair for the use of the employee' is the simple adjustment, so the noun chair fits.
“In cases where an employee suffers from an allergy caused by something in the workplace, the employer should consider remedial action or a transfer to alternative work”
A singular noun after 'suffers from an' is needed; the text names 'an allergy caused by something in the workplace'.
“If the absence is because of temporary difficulties relating to dependants, the employee may be entitled to have time off under the provisions of the Employment Rights Act 1996”
Time off for 'temporary difficulties relating to dependants' gives the plural noun dependents needed after 'relating to'.
“employees have the right to request flexible ways of working, such as job-sharing”
The adjective before 'ways of working' is 'flexible', describing options such as job-sharing.
“In order to show both the employee concerned and other employees that absence is regarded as a serious matter and may result in dismissal”
Repeated absence may 'result in dismissal', the noun expressing loss of the job.
“If the employer wishes to contact the employee's doctor for more information about a medical condition, he or she must notify the employee in writing that they intend to make such an application and they must secure the employee's consent in writing”
If medical information is needed, the employer contacts 'the employee's doctor', so the noun doctor fits.
“Consideration should be given to introducing measures to help employees, regardless of status or seniority, who may be suffering from stress”
Measures should help staff 'who may be suffering from stress', supplying the uncountable noun stress.
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Frequently asked questions
Where does the Border Crossing For Commercial Vehicles & Appendix: Dealing With Absence In The Workplace passage come from?
It is Section 2 of Cambridge IELTS 13 General Training Reading Test 1, and it covers Questions 15–27.
What question types appear in Border Crossing For Commercial Vehicles & Appendix: Dealing With Absence In The Workplace?
The section is tested with Flow Chart Completion, Note Completion. Each type is explained on this page, alongside the answers.
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