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=> Answer: False

Key words: fertilisers needed

In the middle of paragraph 4, “All the food could be grown organically, eliminating theneed for herbicides, pesticides and fertilisers”. So, there is no need for fertilisers to grow crops in vertical farms. The statement contradicts the information in the passage, so the statement is FALSE.

=> fertilisers = artificial chemicals added to the land to make crops grow bigger or more quickly

1. Vertical farming will make plants less likely to be affected by infectious diseases.

=> Answer: True

Key words: less, infectious diseases

In paragraph 4, “The system would greatly reduce the incidence of many infectious diseases that are acquired at the agricultural interface”. The system (vertical farming) would reduce infectious diseases, which makes plants less likely to be affected. So, the statement is TRUE.
=> infectious diseases = diseases that can pass from one plant to another by the wind or by insects

CAMBRIDGE IELTS 11 – TEST 1 – PASSAGE 2

1. The Falkirk wheel has linked the Forth and Clyde Canal with the Union Canal for the first time in

history.

=> Answer: FALSE

Key words: has linked, first time

Based on the question and particularly the key words, we need to find the information about whether the wheel has linked two canals for the first time. According to paragraph 1, “Opened in 2002, it(The Falkirk Wheel) is central to the ambitious £84.5 Millennium LinkProject to restore the navigability across Scotland by reconnecting the historic waterways of the Forth and Clyde and the Union Canals”. This means that the connection between the two canals does not exist at the moment

and the Falkirk wheel is expected to (“is central to”) reconnect them. In paragraph 2, it is confirmed that “Historically, the two canals had been joined near the town of Falkirk…..”, but this connection “….had been dismantled in 1933, thereby breaking the link”. So, that “the F wheel has linked the Forth and Clyde Canal with the Union Canal for the first time” is FALSE.

1. There was some opposition to the design of the Falkirk Wheel at first.