IELTS Academic Reading Table Completion

In the IELTS academic reading table completion question you are required to complete a table that summarizes some key points from the reading passage. Table completion is quite similar to the notes and flowchart completion question types. In this article, you will know how to effectively answer table completion questions. 

In the table completion question you will find a reading passage and a table with incomplete information. Your task is to fill the table with words from the passage. This question type tests your scanning and paraphrasing skills. If you write the answer beyond the given word limit it will be marked incorrect even though the information you have written is correct.

As this is a commonly asked IELTS academic reading question type, good preparation is required. In this article,you will find expert proven tips to solve the IELTS academic reading table completion question type. It will help you to score good marks in the IELTS academic reading section.

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Table of Contents

1. IELTS academic reading table completion- Strategies & tips to solve
2. Common problems faced by students in solving table completion
3. Skills Required to solve table completion
4. Table completion Practice exercise 1
5. Table completion Practice exercise 2
6. Table completion Practice exercise 3
7. Table completion Practice exercise 4
8. Table completion Practice exercise 5
9. Table completion Practice exercise 6
10. Answers for Practice exercises
11. Conclusion

IELTS academic reading table completion- Strategies & tips to solve

IELTS academic reading table completion tips and strategies listed below will be helpful for you in solving the question and to score high in the IELTS academic reading section.

• In this task, you are required to complete a table that summarizes some key points from the text.
• Read the instructions carefully so that you do not exceed the word limit.
• Notice the categories or the headings in the table to go to the required location in the passage.
• Information in a table usually follows the sequence. Sometimes, for challenge, the answers may not be in the order of the passage.
• Read the information presented in each cell to understand the meaning.
• Decide what type of word is required for the blank. Focus on dates, names, action words or any other keyword which will help you to locate the correct place in the passage.
• Pick up the word/words that make the information complete and correct according to the passage.
• Take care not to write any word as your answer which is already present in the question statement in reworded form. Also, do not change the word form.
• Visualize the answer first where it is located so that you can find and write the answer in detail
• The simple tip is to never leave an answer sheet blank. Make an educated guess if you don't know the answer. This at least offers you an opportunity to get it correctly. So don't be concerned if you miss a question, it won't influence your ability to answer the next set. Simply make your decision and move on.
• Consider the clues in the table.
• Don’t make things difficult for yourself by attempting to grasp everything. First, read the question and fill in the necessary details.

The aim of these IELTS academic reading table completion tips & strategies  is to help you to find answers quickly and enhance your vocabulary knowledge.

Common problems faced by students in solving table completion

• Reading full passage and wasting time
• Misspelling the words
• Paraphrased information might confuse you.
• Not being able to find the clues in the table 

Skills Required to solve table completion

• Skimming
• Scanning for particular information
• Paraphrasing  
• Finding out the Synonyms

Also, read IELTS academic reading tips

Table completion Practice exercise 1

Answer questions 1-11 which are based on the reading passage below.

Salinity Reading Passage

It has long been recognized that our land uses, including agricultural development, have significantly changed Australia’s landscapes and natural systems. However, we have not always appreciated the magnitude of change in the soil, water, and nutrient balances, the resultant degradation, and the costs to the wider Australian community. The timeframe for these changes is to be slowed or reversed. Changes to the Australian landscape have resulted in the widespread and rapidly growing problem of dryland salinity. Farmers were among the first to be affected, by the salinization of rivers and agricultural land. Biodiversity, as well as regional and urban infrastructure, such as water supply, roads and buildings, are now also at risk. Two broad forms of salinity are recognized in Australia. Primary or naturally occurring salinity is part of the Australian landscape and reflects the development of this landscape over time. Examples are the marine plains found around the coastline of Australia and the salt lakes in central and Western Australia. Salts are distributed widely across Australian landscapes. They originate mainly from depositions of oceanic salt from rain and wind. Salt stored in the soil or groundwater is concentrated through evaporation and transpiration by plants. In a healthy catchment, salt is slowly leached downwards and stored below the root zone, or out of the system. Secondary salinity is the salinization of land and water resources due to land use impacts by people. It includes salinity that results from water table rises from irrigation systems — irrigation salinity, and from dryland management systems — dryland salinity. Both forms of salinity are due to accelerated rising water tables mobilizing salt in the soil. There is no fundamental difference in the hydrologic process. Where the water balance has been altered due to changing land use (e.g. clearing of native vegetation for broadacre farming or grazing), the excess water entering the water table mobilizes salt which then rises to the land surface. The movement of water drives salinization processes and may move the stored salt towards the soil surface or into surface water bodies.

Questions 1–11

Complete the table below.

Choose NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS from the reading passage for each answer.

Two forms of salinity
primary	secondary
Salinity occurs in 1_________	Salinity as a consequence of 7_________
Oceanic salts are deposited by 2_________ and 3_________	it includes 8_________ salinity and 9_________ salinity.
Salt is concentrated via 4_________  and 5_________	More water seeps into 10_________ as farms replace local plants. Causes salt to move to the 11_________
Salt moves downwards below 7___________

Table completion Practice exercise 2

Answer questions 1-4 which are based on the reading passage below.

Changes in Industrial Britain Reading Passage

The spread of railways stimulated communication, and Rowland Hill’s standardisation of postal charges in 1839 saw a boom in mail services. But this was nothing compared to the revolution of the telegraph. If you think the Internet is big then just imagine how much bigger it would seem if you had never before seen a computer or telephone. That’s what the telegraph was to the Victorians. If rail travel shrank the country, the telegraph crushed it. It opened in the 1840s and soon went stratospheric – within ten years exchanging telegrams had become part of everyday life. By the mid-1860s London was connected with New York, and ten years later messages could be exchanged between London and Bombay in minutes.

Questions 1 – 4

Complete the table below.

Choose NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER from the passage for each answer.

Year	Events in Britain
1839	Regulation of 1______ resulted in a delivery  of mail
1840s	The beginning of 2_________
3 _____	Messages could be sent to New york
1870s	A few   4_____ for messages to arrive from  Bombay

Table completion Practice exercise 3

Answer questions 1-4 which are based on the reading passage below.

Barbie around the world Reading Answers

A. Barbie started as a toy, the kind of toy that got whisked off store shelves faster than Mattel, the doll’s first maker. Now, thanks to Barbie, the world’s largest toy manufacturer can restock those shelves. Barbie’s star rose with the post-war U.S. hegemony that made everyone in the world want fast food, appliances, Coca-Cola, and, if you were a woman, blonde hair, big breasts, impossibly long legs, and the latest in sunglasses and sports cars. Barbie never got pregnant, fat, or old. She stood her own in stores as the mute, brassy standard not just of beauty but of lifestyle.

B. Around the world, she became an icon inspired to by both mothers and their daughters; mothers and daughters who, no matter what size, shape, color, language, or culture, identified desperately with the rich, blonde Barbie from that rich, blonde country. With their purchasing power, they voted against their own perceived repulsive shapes, colors, and cultural identity. Barbie the bimbo, Barbie the liberated woman, it didn’t matter. Barbie found herself in the bizarre position of defining culture.

C. While there have been significant and frequent Yankee Go Home uprisings, wars of liberation, and all sorts of anti-imperial hatred spewed and spat at the United States since it first asserted itself as a world power, there has been no corresponding popular movement against the Barbie culture. Book burnings, flag burnings, hostage taking, terrorist bombs, and hijacking, all aimed to force the Yankee home forever. Barbie, however, maintained her hegemony. Barbie has not only survived the flames, but she has also been rescued from them by women everywhere yearning to be free, beautiful, and cosmopolitan – just like Barbie. So tenacious is Barbie’s popularity that government ministries of culture and moody consumer associations have stepped in with strategies to control or alter the appetites of their female citizens.

D. In Malaysia, the Consumers’ Association of Penang has called for Barbie dolls to be banned outright. The doll’s blonde, leggy, and non-Asian appearance promotes the wrong aesthetics, they said. Also, the Barbie doll does not encourage creativity and the use of imagination in children, because dolls are “fixed” and ready-made. The proposal immediately drew strong and angry reactions from the local press and members of the public. Whether this is because of doll demand or of public distaste for bureaucratic intervention in private consumption habits is open for debate.

E. In Iran, the government condemned the forever young and childless-by-choice Barbie (and her long-time boyfriend Ken. No plans for marriage… ever.) as a threat to traditional culture. Barbie doesn’t define herself in relation to children or family as Iranian women supposedly do. Banning the pair hasn’t worked, so the government has come up with a pair of its own, allegedly more suited to Iranian culture. Sara and Dara, who are brother and sister, were designed and marketed by the government-sponsored Amusement Department of the Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults. Meanwhile, Barbie dolls openly sell for $700 in Teheran stores. Even though $700 is seven times the average monthly salary in Iran, the tall, blonde, saucy, freewheeling Barbie sells briskly.

F. During an era when the world is seeking to reclaim its cultures, Mattel has done its entrepreneurial share to churn out multicultural dolls to counter the criticism that Barbie is too one-dimensional in her tall blondeness. After all, if only 15 percent of American women are naturally blonde, how many could there possibly be in the world? Not that Mattel has targeted these brown, black, and yellow Barbies to an international audience reflecting those skin tones; Mattel’s marketing has been to young girls, presumably white girls in suburbs who can now play with Japanese, Mexican, and Indian Barbies, and “learn more about the history and different cultures”.

G. The brilliance of Mattel’s co-optation of criticism is that Mattel retained Barbie’s idealized image of beauty. Yes, consumers can now buy darker-haired, darker-skinned Barbies but without the ethnic features that distinguish the darker-skinned women of the world. The fact that Mexican Barbie is brown maybe even more insidious if Mexican girls think they must grow up to be tall, thin, buxom, and leggy. African-American Barbies have lighter skin than most of the black population, playing into an often-heard complaint of black women that the lighter their skin, the more attractive they are.

H. And Barbie, no matter what her color, continues to be clothed in attire that proclaims her trendy, swinging, Independently wealthy lifestyle. Take, for example, the recent line of Filipino Barbie dolls. She’s called “Philippine Island Barbie”. She’s dark-haired with darker skin tones and dressed in form-fitting gowns with the Maria Clara butterfly sleeves. She lives juxtaposed in a country with an annual per capita income of $US 580.

I. Nor do the best-selling Barbies smile anymore. After all, the toothy-grinned Barbie of yesterday fails to capture the “mystique” of today’s modern woman. No matter what their culture or color, how heavy or slim, women around the world will be laced into the corset of the beauty myth if Barbie is their symbol of freedom. If Barbie seems to be free, maybe it’s because doors open for that certain woman who is impossibly tall, impossibly blonde, who always wears the right outfit, and keeps her mouth shut.

Questions

Questions 1-7

• Complete the table below
• Choose no more than two words and/or a number from the passage for each answer.
• Write your answers in boxes 1-7 on your answer sheet.

America	Barbie has 1_____ hair	Only 2_______ of American women were born blonde
Malaysia	Stops 3______ and 4______	Resulted in 5_______reactiosn from the public
Iran	Threatens 6__________	Barbie can be bought for 7_______

Table completion Practice exercise 4

Answer questions 1-4 which are based on the reading passage below.

The History of the Poster Reading Answers

1. The first posters were known as ‘broadsides’ and were used for public and commercial announcements. Printed on one side only using metal type, they were quickly and crudely produced in large quantities. As they were meant to be read at a distance, they required large lettering.
2. There were a number of negative aspects of large metal type. It was expensive, required a large amount of storage space and was extremely heavy. If a printer did have a collection of large metal type, it was likely that there were not enough letters. So printers did their best by mixing and matching styles.
3. Commercial pressure for large type was answered with the invention of a system for wood type production. In 1827, Darius Wells invented a special wood drill - the lateral router - capable of cutting letters on wood blocks. The router was used in combination with William Leavenworth’s pantograpn (1834) to create decorative wooden letters of all shapes and sizes. The first posters began to appear, but they had little colour and design; often wooden type was mixed with metal type in a conglomeration of styles.
4. A major development in poster design was the application of lithography, invented by Alois Senefelder in 1796, which allowed artists to hand-draw letters, opening the field of type design to endless styles. The method involved drawing with a greasy crayon onto finely surfaced Bavarian limestone and offsetting that image onto paper. This direct process captured the artist's true intention; however, the final printed image was in reverse. The images and lettering needed to be drawn backwards, often reflected in a mirror or traced on transfer paper.
5. As a result of this technical difficulty, the invention of the lithographic process had little impact on posters until the 1860s, when Jules Cheret came up with his ‘three-stone lithographic process’. This gave artists the opportunity to experiment with a wide spectrum of colours.
6. Although the process was difficult, the result was remarkable, with nuances of colour impossible in other media even to this day. The ability to mix words and images in such an attractive and economical format finally made the lithographic poster a powerful innovation.
7. Starting in the 1870s, posters became the main vehicle for advertising prior to the magazine era and the dominant means of mass communication in the rapidly growing cities of Europe and America. Yet in the streets of Paris, Milan and Berlin, these artistic prints were so popular that they were stolen off walls almost as soon as they were hung. Cheret, later known as ‘the father of the modern poster’, organised the first exhibition of posters in 1884 and two years later published the first book on poster art. He quickly took advantage of the public interest by arranging for artists to create posters, at a reduced size, that were suitable for in-home display.
8. Thanks to Cheret. the poster slowly took hold in other countries in the 1890s and came to celebrate each society’s unique cultural institutions: the cafe in France, the opera and fashion in Italy, festivals in Spain, literature in Holland and trade fairs in Germany. The first poster shows were held in Great
9. Britain and Italy in 1894, Germany in 1896 and Russia in 1897. The most important poster show ever, to many observers, was held in Reims, France, in 1896 and featured an unbelievable 1,690 posters arranged by country.
10. In the early 20th century, the poster continued to play a large communication role and to go through a range of styles. By the 1950s, however, it had begun to share the spotlight with other media, mainly radio and print. By this time, most posters were printed using the mass production technique of photo offset, which resulted in the familiar dot pattern seen in newspapers and magazines. In addition, the use of photography in posters, begun in Russia in the twenties, started to become as common as illustration.
11. In the late fifties, a new graphic style that had strong reliance on typographic elements in black and white appeared. The new style came to be known as the International Typographic Style. It made use of a mathematical grid, strict graphic rules and black-and-white photography to provide a clear and logical structure. It became the predominant style in the world in the 1970s and continues to exert its influence today.
12. It was perfectly suited to the increasingly international post-war marketplace, where there was a strong demand for clarity. This meant that the accessibility of words and symbols had to be taken into account. Corporations wanted international identification, and events such as the Olympics called for universal solutions, which the Typographic Style could provide.
13. However, the International Typographic Style began to lose its energy in the late 1970s. Many criticised it for being cold, formal and dogmatic.
14. A young teacher in Basel. Wolfgang Weingart, experimented with the offset printing process to produce posters that appeared complex and chaotic, playful and spontaneous - all in stark contrast to what had gone before. Weingart's liberation of typography was an important foundation for several new styles. These ranged from Memphis and Retro to the advances now being made in computer graphics.

Questions

Questions 1-5

Complete the table below. 
Choose NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS from the passage for each answer.

	Features	Problems
Metal type	• produced large print	•    cost, weight and 1  difficulties •   mixed styles
Wood type	•    Darius's wood drill used in connection with another 2  •    produced a range of letters	•    lacked both 3  •    mixed type
Lithography	•    letters drawn by hand •    design tool - a 4	• had to use a mirror or 5  to achieve correct image

Table completion Practice exercise 5

Answer questions 1-4 which are based on the reading passage below.

Stepwells Reading Answers

A millennium ago, stepwells were fundamental to life in the driest parts of India. Although many have been neglected, recent restoration has returned them to their former glory. Richard Cox travelled to north-western India to document these spectacular monuments from a bygone era.

During the sixth and seventh centuries, the inhabitants of the modern-day states of Gujarat and Rajasthan in North-western India developed a method of gaining access to clean, fresh groundwater during the dry season for drinking, bathing, watering animals, and irrigation. However, the significance of this invention – the stepwell – goes beyond its utilitarian application.

Unique to the region, stepwells are often architecturally complex and vary widely in size and shape. During their heyday, they were places of gathering, of leisure, of relaxation, and worship for villagers of all but the lowest castes. Most stepwells are found dotted around the desert areas of Gujarat (where they are called vav) and Rajasthan (where they are known as baori), while a few also survive in Delhi. Some were located in or near villages as public spaces for the community; others were positioned beside roads as resting places for travellers.

As their name suggests, stepwells comprise a series of stone steps descending from ground level to the water source (normally an underground aquifer) as it recedes following the rains. When the water level was high, the user needed only to descend a few steps to reach it; when it was low, several levels would have to be negotiated.

Some wells are vast, open craters with hundreds of steps paving each sloping side, often in tiers. Others are more elaborate, with long stepped passages leading to the water via several stories built from stone and supported by pillars, they also included pavilions that sheltered visitors from the relentless heat. But perhaps the most impressive features are the intricate decorative sculptures that embellish many stepwells, showing activities from fighting and dancing to everyday acts such as women combing their hair and churning butter.

 Down the centuries, thousands of wells were constructed throughout northwestern India, but the majority have now fallen into disuse; many are derelict and dry, as groundwater has been diverted for industrial use and the wells no longer reach the water table. Their condition hasn’t been helped by recent dry spells: southern Rajasthan suffered an eight-year drought between 1996 and 2004.

However, some important sites in Gujarat have recently undergone major restoration, and the state government announced in June last year that it plans to restore the stepwells throughout the state.

In Patan, the state’s ancient capital, the stepwell of Rani Ki Vav (Queen’s Stepwell) is perhaps the finest current example. It was built by Queen Udayamati during the late 11th century but became silted up following a flood during the 13th century. But the Archaeological Survey of India began restoring it in the 1960s, and today it’s in pristine condition. At 65 meters long, 20 meters wide, and 27 meters deep, Rani Ki Vav features 500 distinct sculptures carved into niches throughout the monument, depicting gods such as Vishnu and Parvati in various incarnations. Incredibly, in January 2001, this ancient structure survived a devastating earthquake that measured 7.6 on the Richter scale.

Another example is the Surya Kund in Modhera, northern Gujarat, next to the Sun Temple, built by King Bhima I in 1026 to honor the sun god Surya. It’s a tank (kund means reservoir or pond) rather than a well, but displays the hallmarks of stepwell architecture, including four sides of steps that descend to the bottom in a stunning geometrical formation. The terraces house 108 small, intricately carved shrines between the sets of steps.

Rajasthan also has a wealth of wells. The ancient city of Bundi, 200 kilometers south of Jaipur, is renowned for its architecture, including its stepwells. One of the larger examples is Raniji Ki Baori, which was built by the queen of the region, Nathavatji, in 1699. At 46 meters deep, 20 meters wide, and 40 meters long, the intricately carved monument is one of 21 baoris commissioned in the Bundi area by Nathavatji.

In the old ruined town of Abhaneri, about 95 kilometers east of Jaipur, is Chand Baori, one of India’s oldest and deepest wells; aesthetically, it’s perhaps one of the most dramatic. Built-in around 850 AD next to the temple of Harshat Mata, the baori comprises hundreds of zigzagging steps that run along three of its sides, steeply descending 11 stories, resulting in a striking geometric pattern when seen from afar. On the fourth side, covered verandas supported by ornate pillars overlook the steps.

Still in public use is Neemrana Ki Baori, located just off the Jaipur–Dehli highway. Constructed in around 1700, it’s nine stories deep, with the last two levels underwater. At ground level, there are 86 colonnaded openings from where the visitor descends 170 steps to the deepest water source.

Today, following years of neglect, many of these monuments to medieval engineering have been saved by the Archaeological Survey of India, which has recognized the importance of preserving them as part of the country’s rich history. Tourists flock to wells in far-flung corners of northwestern India to gaze in wonder at these architectural marvels from 1,000 years ago, which serve as a reminder of both the ingenuity and artistry of ancient civilizations and of the value of water to human existence.

Question 1-5

Complete the table below

Choose ONE WORD AND /OR A NUMBER from the passage for each answer.
Write your answers in boxes 9-13 on your answer sheet.

Stepwells	Date	Features	Other notes
Rani Ki Vav	Late 11th century	As many as 500 sculptures decorate the monument	Restored in the 1990s Excellent condition, despite the 1 …………… of 2001.
Surya Kund	1026	Steps on the 2 …………… produce a geometric pattern Carved shrines.	Looks more like a 3 …………… than a well.
Raniji Ki Baori	1699	Intricately carved monument	One of 21 baoris in the area commissioned by Queen Nathavatji
Chand Baori	850 AD	Steps take you down 11 storeys to the bottom	Old, deep and very dramatic  Has 4 …………… which provide a view to the steps.
Neemrana Ki Baori	1700	Has two 5 …………… levels.	Used by public today

Table completion Practice exercise 6

Answer questions 1-4 which are based on the reading passage below.

London swaying footbridge reading answers 

A. In September 1996 a competition was organized by the Financial Times in association with the London Borough of Southwark to design a new footbridge across the Thames. The competition attracted over 200 entries and was won by a team comprising Arup (engineers), Foster and Partners (architects) and the sculptor Sir Anthony Caro.
B. The bridge opened to the public on 10 June 2000. Up to 100,000 people crossed it that day with up to 2000 people on the bridge at any one time. At first, the bridge was still. Then it began to sway just slightly. Then, almost from one moment to the next, when large groups of people were crossing, the wobble intensified. This movement became sufficiently large for people to stop walking to retain their balance and sometimes to hold onto the hand rails for support. It was decided immediately to limit the number of people on the bridge, but even so the deck movement was sufficient to be uncomfortable and to raise concern for public safety so that on 12 June the bridge was closed until the problem could be solved.
 
C. The embarrassed engineers found the videotape that day which showed the center span swaying about 3 inches side to side every second. The engineers first thought that winds might be exerting excessive force on the many large flags and banners bedecking the bridge for its gala premiere. What’s more, they also discovered that the pedestrians also played a key role. Human activities, such as walking, running, jumping, swaying, etc. could cause horizontal force which in turn could cause excessive dynamic vibration in the lateral direction in the bridge. As the structure began moving, pedestrians adjusted their gait to the same lateral rhythm as the bridge. The adjusted footsteps magnified the motion – just like when four people all stand up in a small boat at the same time. As more pedestrians locked into the same rhythm, the increasing oscillations led to the dramatic swaying captured on film.
D. In order to design a method of reducing the movements, the force exerted by the pedestrians had to be quantified and related to the motion of the bridge. Although there are some descriptions of this phenomenon in existing literature, none of these actually quantifies the force. So there was no quantitative analytical way to design the bridge against this effect. An immediate research program was launched by the bridge’s engineering designers Ove Arup, supported by a number of universities and research organizations.
E. The tests at the University of Southampton involved a person walking ‘on the spot’ on a small shake table. The tests at Imperial College involved persons walking along a specially built, 7.2m-long platform which could be driven laterally at different frequencies (n and amplitudes. Each type of test had its limitations. The Imperial College tests were only able to capture 7-8 footsteps, and the ‘walking on the spot’ tests, although monitoring many footsteps, could not investigate normal forward walking. Neither test could investigate any influence of other people in a crowd on the behavior of the individual being tested.
 
F. The results of the laboratory tests provided information which enabled the initial design of a retro-fit to be progressed. However, the limitations of these tests were clear and it was felt that the only way to replicate properly the precise conditions of the Millennium Bridge was to carry out crowd tests on the bridge deck itself. These tests done by the Arup engineers could incorporate factors not possible in the laboratory tests. The first of these was carried out with 100 people in July 2000. The results of these tests were used to refine the load model for the pedestrians. A second series of crowd tests was carried out on the bridge in December 2000. The purpose of these tests was to further validate the design assumptions and to load test a prototype damper installation. The test was carried out with 275 people.
G. Unless the usage of the bridge was to be greatly restricted, only two generic options to improve its performance were considered feasible. The first was to increase the stiffness of the bridge to move all its lateral natural frequencies out of the range that could be excited by the lateral footfall forces, and the second was to increase the damping of the bridge to reduce the resonant response.

Questions 1-4

• Complete the table below.
• Choose NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS from Reading Passage for each answer.
• Write your answers in boxes 10-13 on your answer sheet.

 Research programs launched by universities and organizations

Universities / People	Activity
Test at 1 ___________	Limited ability to have 7-8 footsteps
‘walking on the spot’ at Southampton	Not enough data on 2____________
Crowd test conducted by 3___________	Aim to verify 4_____________

Answers for Practice exercises

Here you will find the answers for practice exercise 1,2,3,4,5 and 6.

Salinity Reading Answers

(Note: The text in italics is from the reading passage and shows the location from where the answer is taken or inferred. The text in regular font explains the answer in detail.)

1. marine plains/salt lakes

Explanation: Paragraph 3 – Examples are the marine plains found around the coastline of Australia and the salt lakes in central and Western Australia.
A maximum of three words are allowed for each answer, both locations cannot be written. So either of them is an acceptable answer.

2. Rain (h6) 

Explanation: Paragraph 4 – They originate mainly from depositions of oceanic salt from rain and wind.

3. wind

Explanation: Paragraph 4 – They originate mainly from depositions of oceanic salt from rain and wind.

4. evaporation

Explanation: Paragraph 4 – Salt stored in the soil or groundwater is concentrated through evaporation and transpiration by plants.

5. transpiration

Explanation: Paragraph 4 – Salt stored in the soil or groundwater is concentrated through evaporation and transpiration by plants.

6. root zone

Explanation: Paragraph 4 – In a healthy catchment, salt is slowly leached downwards and stored below the root zone, or out of the system.
 7. land use

Explanation: Paragraph 5 – Secondary salinity is the salinization of land and water resources due to land use impacts by people.

8. irrigation

Explanation: Paragraph 5 –  It includes salinity that results from water table rises from irrigation systems — irrigation salinity, and from dryland management systems — dryland salinity.

9. dryland

Explanation: Paragraph 5 –  It includes salinity that results from water table rises from irrigation systems — irrigation salinity, and from dryland management systems — dryland salinity.

10. water tables

Explanation: Paragraph 6 – Where the water balance has been altered due to changing land use (e.g. clearing of native vegetation for broadacre farming or grazing), the excess water entering the water table mobilizes salt …

11. land surface/soil surface/surface water bodies

Explanation: Paragraph 6 – … the excess water entering the water table mobilizes salt which then rises to the land surface. The movement of water drives salinization processes and may move the stored salt towards the soil surface or into surface water bodies.

Changes in Industrial Britain Reading Answers

(Note: The text in italics is from the reading passage and shows the location from where the answer is taken or inferred. The text in regular font explains the answer in detail.)

1. postal charges

Explanation: The spread of railways stimulated communication, and Rowland Hill’s standardization of postal charges in 1839 saw a boom in mail services.

2.  telegraph

Explanation:  If rail travel shrank the country, the telegraph crushed it. It opened in the 1840s and soon went stratospheric ……

3. 1860s / mid-1860s

Explanation:  By the mid-1860s London was connected with New York …

4. minutes

Explanation:  By the mid-1860s London was connected with New York, and ten years later messages could be exchanged between London and Bombay in minutes.

Barbie around the world Reading Answers

(Note: The text in italics is from the reading passage and shows the location from where the answer is taken or inferred. The text in regular font explains the answer in detail.)

1. Answer: Blonde

Explanation: “Barbie is too one-dimensional in her tall blondeness. After all, if only 15 percent of American women are naturally blonde”. This line explains that an barbie has blonde hair. Hence the given answer is located in the 2-4 lines of paragraph F. 

2. Answer: 15 percent 

Explanation: “If only 15 percent of American women are naturally blonde”  from this line it is clear that only 15 percent of American women are born blonde. Hence the given answer is located in the 3-4 lines of paragraph F.

3. Answer: Creativity

Explanation: “Also, the Barbie doll does not encourage creativity and the use of imagination in children, because dolls are “fixed” and ready-made.” From this line it is clear that Barbie dolls do not encourage creativity. Hence the given answer is located in the 3-4 lines of paragraph D. 

4. Answer: Imagination

Explanation: “Also, the Barbie doll does not encourage creativity and the use of imagination in children, because dolls are “fixed” and ready-made.” From this line it is clear that Barbie dolls do not encourage creativity and the use of imagination in children. Hence the given answer is located in the 3-4 lines of paragraph D.   

5. Answer: Angry

Explanation: “The proposal immediately drew strong and angry reactions from the local press and members of the public”. From this line it is clear that the proposal immediately drew strong and angry reactions from the press and public. Hence the given answer is located in the 4-5 lines of paragraph D. 

6. Answer: Traditional culture

Explanation: “In Iran, the government condemned the forever young and childless-by-choice Barbie (and her long-time boyfriend Ken. No plans for marriage… ever.) as a threat to traditional culture”. From this line it is clear that in Iran the government condemned the forever young and childless-by-choice Barbie as a threat to traditional culture. Hence the given answer is located in the first 3 lines of paragraph E.  

7. Answer: $700

Explanation: “Barbie dolls openly sell for $700 in Teheran stores”. From this line it is clear that Barbie dolls are sold for $700 in Teheran stores. Hence the given answer is located in the 8th line of paragraph E. 

The History of The Posters Reading Answers

(Note: The text in italics is from the reading passage and shows the location from where the answer is taken or inferred. The text in regular font explains the answer in detail.)

1. Answer: Storage space

Explanation: In Paragraph 2, There were a number of negative aspects of large metal type. It was expensive, required a large amount of storage space and was extremely heavy, these ines indicates that negative aspect of metal type is their large storage space.

2. Answer: Invention

Explanation: In paragraph 3, Commercial pressure for large type was answered with the invention of a system for wood type production. In 1827, Darius Wells invented a special wood drill - the lateral router - capable of cutting letters on wood blocks, it is clearly understood that Darius wells invented a wood drill.

3. Answer:  Colour and design

Explanation: The first posters began to appear, but they had little colour and design; often wooden type was mixed with metal type in a conglomeration of styles. From these lines it is understood that by little colour and design they meant lack of colour and design. Hence the answer.

4. Answer: Greasy crayon

Explanation:  In paragraph 4, The method involved drawing with a greasy crayon onto finely surfaced Bavarian limestone and offsetting that image onto paper, this lines states that hand-drawn letters can be done using Greasy crayons. Hence the answer.

5. Answer: Transfer paper

Explanation: In paragraph 4,  This direct process captured the artist's true intention; however, the final printed image was in reverse. The images and lettering needed to be drawn backwards, often reflected in a mirror or traced on transfer paper. These lines clearly states that to get the images/letters straight either it should be drawn backwards or traced on a transfer paper. Hence the answer.

Stepwells Reading Answers

(Note: The text in italics is from the reading passage and shows the location from where the answer is taken or inferred. The text in regular font explains the answer in detail.)

1. Earthquake
2. Four sides/ 4 sides
3. Tank
4. Verandas/ Verandahs
5. underwater

London swaying footbridge Reading Answers

(Note: The text in italics is from the reading passage and shows the location from where the answer is taken or inferred. The text in regular font explains the answer in detail.)

10. Answer: Impirical college

Explanation: The Imperial College tests were only able to capture 7-8 footsteps, and the ‘walking on the spot’ tests, although monitoring many footsteps, could not investigate normal forward walking.  The given answer is  located in the 5-7 lines of paragraph E.

11. Answer:Normal forward walking

Explanation: Normal forward walking. Neither test could investigate any influence of other people in a crowd on the behavior of the individual being tested. The given answer is located in the last 3 lines of paragraph E.

12. Answer: Arup engineers

Explanation: These tests done by the Arup engineers could incorporate factors not possible in the laboratory tests. The given answer is located in the 4-6 lines of paragraph F.

13. Answer: Design assumptions

Explanation: The purpose of these tests was to further validate the design assumptions and to load test a prototype damper installation. The test was carried out with 275 people. The given answer is located in the last 3 lines of paragraph F.

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Conclusion

The recommendations and tactics presented in this article will assist you in managing time in answering questions, skill building  as well as understanding the difficulties in the table completion. To excel in the IELTS exam you must have a clear understanding about every question type in each section along with mock test to practice .