Cambridge IELTS 5 · General Training · Test 2 · Section 1
Walk For Charity & The Week’s Best — IELTS Reading Answers
All 14 answers for Walk For Charity & The Week’s Best, Cambridge IELTS 5 General Training Reading Test 2 Section 1, with the passage evidence and an explanation for each.
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Walk For Charity & The Week’s Best answer key at a glance
Questions 1–14. Tap an answer to see the evidence.
What this section tests
This section is tested with Short Answers (Q1–7), Matching Features (Q8–14). Each section below gives the strategy for that question type, the answers, and the sentence that proves them.
Questions 1–7: Short Answers
Strategy: Use the question word to predict the answer type, locate the relevant sentence, and copy no more words than the limit allows.
What is the starting point for the 30 km walk?
“Starting in Weldown, you and your friends can choose a delightful 10, 20 or 30 kilometre route”
The route description begins 'Starting in Weldown', the single start point shared by the 10, 20 and 30 kilometre options.
What is the latest start time for the 20 km walk?
“20 km: 8 – 10.30 am”
The timetable lists '20 km: 8 - 10.30 am', so 10.30 a.m. is the latest departure for the 20 kilometre walk.
Regarding footwear, what are you warned against wearing?
“It is better to wear shoes that have been worn in, rather than ones that are new”
Walkers should wear shoes 'that have been worn in, rather than ones that are new', so new shoes are what the warning targets.
What are the officials who help participants on the route called?
“If you need help along the route, please inform one of the marshals”
The text says to 'inform one of the marshals' if help is needed along the route, naming the officials as marshals.
Where does the 20 km walk finish?
“For the 10 and 20 km routes, a bus will be waiting at Fenton to take walkers back to Weldown”
'A bus will be waiting at Fenton to take walkers back to Weldown' after the 10 and 20 km routes, so Fenton is the 20 km finish.
What is the frequency of the Fenton to Weldown bus?
“The bus will leave every half-hour starting at midday”
'The bus will leave every half-hour starting at midday' gives the frequency as every half hour.
Which walk does not pass through Lower Brene?
“Starting in Weldown, you and your friends can choose a delightful 10, 20 or 30 kilometre route”
The route notes place Lower Brene on the longer 20 km and 30 km walks, leaving the 10 kilometre route as the one that avoids it.
Questions 8–14: 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.
This programme is in the form of a personal interview.
“Tonight she drinks coffee in a tent and tells her story to Janet Street-Porter before she sets off for the Pyrenees mountains”
Programme D has the traveller telling 'her story to Janet Street-Porter', an interview format rather than a narrated documentary.
This programme is a documentary about technological developments.
“This popular half-hour science magazine continues into its twenty-ninth year, proving itself to be a hardy survivor in the television world. Tonight it is presented by Carol Vorderman who introduces five reports, which include computer-driven cars and in-flight ten-pin bowling”
Programme F, the science magazine, includes reports on 'computer-driven cars and in-flight ten-pin bowling', both technological developments.
These TWO programmes are about time travel.
“They meet a strange old lady who tells them of the mystical powers of the house and how previous owners have been able to travel back through the centuries to meet their ancestors It has impressive special effects and a strong, believable cast of characters who travel to the twenty-third century”
C travels 'back through the centuries to meet their ancestors' and E goes forward 'to the twenty-third century', so both involve time travel.
This programme is taken from a book.
“Based on his own novel, the progress of his journey on the railways of Europe and Asia (Victoria station, Paris, Istanbul ) acts as a fascinating travelogue as the inhabitants gradually shift from the West to the East”
Programme G is 'Based on his own novel', meaning it is adapted from a book rather than written for television.
This film is the introduction to a set of programmes.
“This is a TV film being used to launch a new science fiction series”
Programme E is 'a TV film being used to launch a new science fiction series', exactly an introduction to a run of programmes.
These TWO programmes are about present-day travellers.
“Ffyona Campbell is nearly there. All she has to do now is walk the length of France and Britain and she has succeeded in walking around the world Paul Theroux's account of his recent journey from London to Japan and back makes ideal material for this evening's travel slot”
D follows Ffyona Campbell still walking around the world and G follows Theroux's 'recent journey from London to Japan', both present-day travellers.
This programme is about investigating a possible crime.
“This TV drama is about a young private detective employed by a team of New York businessmen who send her to Brazil to look into a series of hotel robberies”
Programme A features a private detective sent to Brazil 'to look into a series of hotel robberies', an investigation into suspected crime.
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Frequently asked questions
Where does the Walk For Charity & The Week’s Best passage come from?
It is Section 1 of Cambridge IELTS 5 General Training Reading Test 2, and it covers Questions 1–14.
What question types appear in Walk For Charity & The Week’s Best?
The section is tested with Short Answers, Matching Features. Each type is explained on this page, alongside the answers.
Are these reading answers reliable?
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