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IELTS · Part 1 · Cambridge 13 — Test 3

The coconut palm: Reading answers

Answers to questions 1–13 (13 in all), each with why it is right.

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For millennia, the coconut has been central to the lives of Polynesian and Asian peoples. In the western world, on the other hand, coconuts have always been exotic and unusual, sometimes rare. The Italian merchant traveller Marco Polo apparently saw coconuts in South Asia in the late 13th century, and among the mid-14th-century travel writings of Sir John Mandeville there is mention of 'great Notes of Ynde' (great Nuts of India). Today, images of palm-fringed tropical beaches are cliches in the west to sell holidays, chocolate bars, fizzy drinks and even romance. Typically, we envisage coconuts as brown cannonballs that, when opened, provide sweet white flesh. But we see only part of the…

Answers 1–13

  1. 1

    furniture Table completion

  2. 2

    sugar Table completion

  3. 3

    ropes Table completion

  4. 4

    charcoal Table completion

  5. 5

    bowls Table completion

  6. 6

    hormones Table completion

  7. 7

    cosmetics Table completion

  8. 8

    dynamite Table completion

  9. 9

    Coconut seeds need shade in order to germinate.

    FALSE True / False / Not Given

  10. 10

    Coconuts were probably transported to Asia from America in the 16th century.

    FALSE True / False / Not Given

  11. 11

    Coconuts found on the west coast of America were a different type from those found on the east coast.

    NOT GIVEN True / False / Not Given

  12. 12

    All the coconuts found in Asia are cultivated varieties.

    TRUE True / False / Not Given

  13. 13

    Coconuts are cultivated in different ways in America and the Pacific.

    NOT GIVEN True / False / Not Given

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