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IELTS · Part 2 · Cambridge 17 — Test 4

Does education fuel economic growth?: Reading answers

Answers to questions 14–26 (13 in all), each with why it is right.

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A Over the last decade, a huge database about the lives of southwest German villagers between 1600 and 1900 has been compiled by a team led by Professor Sheilagh Ogilvie at Cambridge University's Faculty of Economics.It includes court records, guild ledgers, parish registers, village censuses, tax lists and - the most recent addition - 9,000 handwritten inventories listing over a million personal possessions belonging to ordinary women and men across three centuries.Ogilvie, who discovered the inventories in the archives of two German communities 30 years ago, believes they may hold the answer to a conundrum that has long puzzled economists: the lack of evidence for a causal link between…

Answers 14–26

  1. 14

    an explanation of the need for research to focus on individuals with a fairly consistent income

    E Matching information

  2. 15

    examples of the sources the database has been compiled from

    A Matching information

  3. 16

    an account of one individual's refusal to obey an order

    D Matching information

  4. 17

    a reference to a region being particularly suited to research into the link between education and economic growth

    F Matching information

  5. 18

    examples of the items included in a list of personal possessions

    C Matching information

  6. 19

    descendants Note completion

  7. 20

    sermon Note completion

  8. 21

    fine Note completion

  9. 22

    innovation Note completion

  10. 23

    B: Literacy rates in Germany between 1600 and 1900 were very good. Multiple answer

  11. 24

    E: Economic growth can help to improve literacy rates. Multiple answer

  12. 25

    B: They were opposed to people moving to an area for work. Multiple answer

  13. 26

    D: They opposed practices that threatened their control over a trade. Multiple answer

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