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Plans To Protect The Forests Of Europe — IELTS Reading Answers
All 14 answers for Plans To Protect The Forests Of Europe, Cambridge IELTS 7 Academic Reading Test 3 Passage 3, with the passage evidence and an explanation for each.
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Questions 27–40. Tap an answer to see the evidence.
What this passage tests
This passage is tested with True / False / Not Given (Q27–33), Matching Features (Q34–39), One Choice (Q40–40). Each section below gives the strategy for that question type, the answers, and the sentence that proves them.
Questions 27–33: 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.
Forest problems of Mediterranean countries are to be discussed at the next meeting of experts.
“Those confined to particular geographical areas, such as countries bordering the Mediterranean or the Nordic countries therefore had to be discarded. However, this does not mean that in future they will be ignored”
Mediterranean problems were excluded from joint action but 'in future... will [not] be ignored'; the passage never mentions a next meeting of experts or its agenda.
Problems in Nordic countries were excluded because they are outside the European Economic Community.
“Their initial task was to decide which of the many forest problems of concern to Europe involved the largest number of countries and might be the subject of joint action. Those confined to particular geographical areas, such as countries bordering the Mediterranean or the Nordic countries therefore had to be discarded”
Nordic problems were discarded because they were confined to a particular area and involved too few countries for joint action, not because of EEC membership — a different reason.
Forests are a renewable source of raw material.
“At the same time, forests provide raw materials for human activities through their constantly renewed production of wood”
'Constantly renewed production of wood' is exactly a renewable raw material, so the statement matches the text.
The biological functions of forests were recognised only in the twentieth century.
“The other aspects have been recognised only for a few centuries but they are becoming more and more important”
Biological functions were 'recognised only for a few centuries', meaning several hundred years rather than the twentieth century alone. 'Only in the twentieth century' is contradicted.
Natural forests still exist in parts of Europe.
“The myth of the 'natural' forest has survived, yet there are effectively no remaining 'primary' forests in Europe. All European forests are artificial, having been adapted and exploited by man for thousands of years”
The text is explicit that there are 'effectively no remaining primary forests in Europe' and 'all European forests are artificial', so natural forest surviving anywhere is denied.
Forest policy should be limited by national boundaries.
“This means that a forest policy is vital, that it must transcend national frontiers and generations of people, and that it must allow for the inevitable changes that take place in the forests, in needs, and hence in policy”
'Must transcend national frontiers' means policy should cross borders, the opposite of being limited by them. Hence FALSE.
The Strasbourg conference decided that a forest policy must allow for the possibility of change.
“This means that a forest policy is vital, that it must transcend national frontiers and generations of people, and that it must allow for the inevitable changes that take place in the forests, in needs, and hence in policy. The Strasbourg conference was one of the first events on such a scale to reach this conclusion”
The conclusion that policy 'must allow for the inevitable changes' is one the Strasbourg conference was among the first to reach, so the claim is confirmed.
Questions 34–39: Matching Features
Strategy: Match the statement to the named person or thing. Names can repeat, so check each option against what that person actually says.
Options for Questions 34–39
- AAll kinds of species of trees should be preserved.
- BFragile mountain forests should be given priority in research programs.
- CThe surviving natural forests of Europe do not need priority treatment.
- DResearch is to be better co-ordinated throughout Europe.
- EInformation on forest fires should be collected and shared.
- FLoss of leaves from trees should be more extensively and carefully monitored.
- GResources should be allocated to research into tree diseases.
- HSkiing should be encouraged in thinly populated areas.
- ISoil imbalances such as acidification should be treated with compounds of nitrogen and sulphur.
- JInformation is to be systematically gathered on any decline in the condition of forests.
Resolution 1
“The first proposes the extension and systematisation of surveillance sites to monitor forest decline”
Resolution 1 proposes 'extension and systematisation of surveillance sites to monitor forest decline' — precisely heading J's systematic gathering of information on any decline.
Resolution 2
“The second resolution concentrates on the need to preserve the genetic diversity of European forests. The aim is to reverse the decline in the number of tree species or at least to preserve the 'genetic material' of all of them”
Resolution 2 aims to reverse the decline in tree species numbers and preserve the genetic material of 'all of them', matching A's call to preserve all kinds of tree species.
Resolution 3
“Although forest fires do not affect all of Europe to the same extent, the amount of damage caused the experts to propose as the third resolution that the Strasbourg conference consider the establishment of a European databank on the subject.”
Resolution 3 proposes a European databank so all information on forest fire damage becomes 'generally available' — heading E's collection and sharing of fire information.
Resolution 4
“The subject of the fourth resolution discussed by the ministers was mountain forests. In Europe, it is undoubtedly the mountain ecosystem which has changed most rapidly and is most at risk.”
Resolution 4 treats mountain ecosystems as 'most at risk' and proposes a 'preferential research program' on mountain forests, which is B's priority for fragile mountain forests.
Resolution 5
“The fifth resolution relaunched the European research network on the physiology of trees, called Eurosilva. Eurosilva should support joint European research on tree diseases and their physiological and biochemical aspects.”
Resolution 5 backs joint European research on tree diseases and asks countries to fund scholarships and projects, matching G's allocation of resources to tree-disease research.
Resolution 6
“Finally, the conference established the framework for a European research network on forest ecosystems. This would also involve harmonising activities in individual countries as well as identifying a number of priority research topics relating to the protection of forests”
Resolution 6 sets up a European research network and harmonises activities in individual countries, which is D's call for research to be better coordinated across Europe.
Questions 40–40: One Choice
Strategy: Read the question stem and predict the answer before looking at the options. Wrong options often repeat passage words while the correct one paraphrases them.
What is the best title for Reading Passage 3?
- AThe biological, economic and recreational role of forests
- BPlans to protect the forests of Europecorrect
- CThe priority of European research into ecosystems
- DProposals for a world-wide policy on forest management
“In December 1990, Strasbourg hosted the first Ministerial Conference on the protection of Europe's forests That general declaration was accompanied by six detailed resolutions to assist national policy-making”
The text reports the Strasbourg conference on protecting Europe's forests and its six resolutions for national policy, so B — plans to protect Europe's forests — best covers it.
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It is Passage 3 of Cambridge IELTS 7 Academic Reading Test 3, and it covers Questions 27–40.
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