Cambridge IELTS 15 · Academic · Test 3 · Passage 1
Henry Moore (1898-1986) — IELTS Reading Answers
All 13 answers for Henry Moore (1898-1986), Cambridge IELTS 15 Academic Reading Test 3 Passage 1, with the passage evidence and an explanation for each.
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Questions 1–13. Tap an answer to see the evidence.
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This passage is tested with True / False / Not Given (Q1–7), Note Completion (Q8–13). Each section below gives the strategy for that question type, the answers, and the sentence that proves them.
Questions 1–7: True / False / Not Given
Strategy: Judge the whole statement against the text. FALSE contradicts the passage; NOT GIVEN means the passage never addresses that specific claim.
On leaving school, Moore did what his father wanted him to do.
“After leaving school, Moore hoped to become a sculptor, but instead he complied with his father’s wish that he train as a schoolteacher”
TRUE: Moore 'complied with his father's wish that he train as a schoolteacher' after leaving school, doing what his father wanted.
Moore began studying sculpture in his first term at the Leeds School of Art.
“After the war, Moore enrolled at the Leeds School of Art, where he studied for two years. In his first year, he spent most of his time drawing”
FALSE: at Leeds 'in his first year, he spent most of his time drawing', so sculpture did not begin in his first term.
When Moore started at the Royal College of Art, its reputation for teaching sculpture was excellent.
“At the end of that year, he passed the sculpture examination and was awarded a scholarship to the Royal College of Art in London.”
NOT GIVEN: Moore won a scholarship to the Royal College of Art, but its reputation for teaching sculpture is never described.
Moore became aware of ancient sculpture as a result of visiting London Museums.
“Moore visited many of the London museums, particularly the British Museum, which had a wide-ranging collection of ancient sculpture. During these visits, he discovered the power and beauty of ancient Egyptian and African sculpture”
TRUE: visiting London museums, 'particularly the British Museum', he 'discovered the power and beauty of ancient Egyptian and African sculpture'.
The Trocadero Museum’s Mayan sculpture attracted a lot of public interest.
“When he visited the Trocadero Museum in Paris, he was impressed by a cast of a Mayan* sculpture of the rain spirit”
NOT GIVEN: he was 'impressed by a cast of a Mayan sculpture' at the Trocadero, but public interest in it is never mentioned.
Moore thought the Mayan sculpture was similar in certain respects to other stone sculptures.
“Moore became fascinated with this stone sculpture, which he thought had a power and originality that no other stone sculpture possessed”
FALSE: he thought the Mayan sculpture 'had a power and originality that no other stone sculpture possessed', the opposite of similarity.
The artists who belonged to Unit One wanted to make modern art and architecture more popular.
“The aim of the group was to convince the English public of the merits of the emerging international movement in modern art and architecture”
TRUE: Unit One aimed 'to convince the English public of the merits of the emerging international movement in modern art and architecture'.
Questions 8–13: 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.
“There were calls for his resignation from the Royal College”
There were 'calls for his resignation from the Royal College', so resignation is the noun required.
“A shortage of materials forced him to focus on drawing”
'A shortage of materials forced him to focus on drawing', so materials is what was scarce.
“In 1942, he returned to Castleford to make a series of sketches of the miners who worked there”
In 1942 he made 'a series of sketches of the miners who worked there', so miners is the subject.
“In 1944, Harlow, a town near London, offered Moore a commission for a sculpture depicting a family”
Harlow commissioned 'a sculpture depicting a family', the subject the note asks for.
“In this way, Moore’s work became available to collectors all over the world”
His work 'became available to collectors all over the world', the group the note names.
“The boost to his income enabled him to take on ambitious projects and start working on the scale he felt his sculpture demanded”
'The boost to his income enabled him to take on ambitious projects', so income is what increased.
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It is Passage 1 of Cambridge IELTS 15 Academic Reading Test 3, and it covers Questions 1–13.
What question types appear in Henry Moore (1898-1986)?
The passage is tested with True / False / Not Given, Note Completion. Each type is explained on this page, alongside the answers.
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