Cambridge IELTS 6 · Academic · Test 1 · Passage 3
Climate Change And The Inuit — IELTS Reading Answers
All 14 answers for Climate Change And The Inuit, Cambridge IELTS 6 Academic Reading Test 1 Passage 3, with the passage evidence and an explanation for each.
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Climate Change And The Inuit answer key at a glance
Questions 27–40. Tap an answer to see the evidence.
What this passage tests
This passage is tested with Matching Headings (Q27–32), Summary Completion (Q33–40). Each section below gives the strategy for that question type, the answers, and the sentence that proves them.
Questions 27–32: Matching Headings
Strategy: Read the paragraph first and summarise its main idea in five words. Choose the heading that matches the whole paragraph, not a repeated keyword.
Paragraph B
“Nobody knows the Arctic as well as the locals, which is why they are not content simply to stand back and let outside experts tell them what's happening. In Canada, where the Inuit people are jealously guarding their hard-won autonomy in the country's newest territory, Nunavut,”
Paragraph B says the Inuit are 'not content simply to stand back', combining 'ancestral knowledge with the best of modern science' — heading i.
Paragraph C
“The Canadian Arctic is a vast, treeless polar desert that's covered with snow for most of the year. Venture into this terrain and you get some idea of the hardships facing anyone who calls this home”
Paragraph C depicts the Canadian Arctic as 'a vast, treeless polar desert' covered with snow most of the year, stressing the hardship of living there — heading vi.
Paragraph D
“they still rely heavily on nature to provide food and clothing. Provisions available in local shops have to be flown into Nunavut on one of the most costly air networks in the world, or brought by supply ship during the few ice-free weeks of summer”
Paragraph D explains that imported food must be flown in or shipped during ice-free weeks, while people still rely on nature for food and clothing — heading iii.
Paragraph E
“While the Inuit may not actually starve if hunting and trapping are curtailed by climate change, there has certainly been an impact on people's health. Obesity, heart disease and diabetes are beginning to appear in a people for whom these have never before been problems.”
Paragraph E lists the health and social consequences — obesity, diabetes, lost hunting skills and depression — of climate change's impact on the Inuit — heading vii.
Paragraph F
“'In the early days scientists ignored us when they came up here to study anything. They just figured these people don't know very much so we won't ask them,' says John Amagoalik, an Inuit leader and politician. 'But in recent years IQ has had much more credibility and weight.'”
Paragraph F contrasts scientists once ignoring Inuit knowledge with its recent 'credibility and weight', reflecting a changed attitude — heading iv.
Paragraph G
“There are still huge gaps in our environmental knowledge, and despite the scientific onslaught, many predictions are no more than best guesses”
Paragraph G admits 'huge gaps in our environmental knowledge' and says predictions remain 'best guesses', stressing scientific uncertainty — heading ii.
Questions 33–40: Summary Completion
Strategy: Read the summary as a paragraph first to establish the logic, then locate the missing idea in the passage. With a lettered list, confirm the grammar fits.
“Farming is out of the question and nature offers meagre pickings”
The gap needs the activity impossible in the Arctic: 'Farming is out of the question and nature offers meagre pickings'.
“Humans first settled in the Arctic a mere 4,500 years ago, surviving by exploiting sea mammals and fish”
The summary needs what the first Arctic settlers exploited: humans survived 'by exploiting sea mammals and fish', with sea mammals filling the first gap.
“Humans first settled in the Arctic a mere 4,500 years ago, surviving by exploiting sea mammals and fish”
The same sentence pairs 'sea mammals and fish', so the second gap requires fish as the other exploited resource.
“But around a thousand years ago, one group emerged that was uniquely well adapted to cope with the Arctic environment. These Thule people moved in from Alaska, bringing kayaks, sleds, dogs, pottery and iron tools”
The gap needs the group's name: 'These Thule people moved in from Alaska, bringing kayaks, sleds, dogs, pottery and iron tools'.
“Nunavut is 1.9 million square kilometres of rock and ice, and a handful of islands around the North Pole”
Nunavut is described as '1.9 million square kilometres of rock and ice, and a handful of islands around the North Pole'.
“Over the past 40 years, most have abandoned their nomadic ways and settled in the territory's 28 isolated communities, but they still rely heavily on nature to provide food and clothing”
The gap needs the lifestyle abandoned: 'most have abandoned their nomadic ways and settled in the territory's 28 isolated communities'.
“Over the past 40 years, most have abandoned their nomadic ways and settled in the territory's 28 isolated communities, but they still rely heavily on nature to provide food and clothing”
The gap needs the source of food and clothing: despite settling, the Inuit 'still rely heavily on nature to provide food and clothing'.
“It would cost a family around £7,000 a year to replace meat they obtained themselves through hunting with imported meat”
The gap needs the adjective for shop-bought meat: replacing hunted meat with 'imported meat' would cost a family around £7,000 a year.
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Where does the Climate Change And The Inuit passage come from?
It is Passage 3 of Cambridge IELTS 6 Academic Reading Test 1, and it covers Questions 27–40.
What question types appear in Climate Change And The Inuit?
The passage is tested with Matching Headings, Summary Completion. Each type is explained on this page, alongside the answers.
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