Welcome to your Cambridge 18 Academic Reading Test 1
Reading Passage 1
Questions 1-3
Complete the sentences below.
Choose NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS ANDIOR A NUMBER from the passage for each answer.
Write your answers in boxes 1-3 on your answer sheet.
Urban Farming in Paris
1 Vertical tubes are used to grow strawberries, , and herbs.
2 There will eventually be a daily harvest of as much as in weight of fruit and vegetables.
3 It may be possible that the farm’s produce will account for as much as 10% of the city’s overall.
Questions 4-7
Complete the table below.
Choose ONE WORD ONLY from the passage for each answer.
Write your answers in boxes 4-7 on your answer sheet.
Intensive farming versus aeroponic urban farming |
| Growth | Selection | Sale |
Intensive farming | ● wide range of 4 used ● techniques pollute air | ● quality not good ● varieties of fruit and vegetables chosen that can survive long 5 | ● 6 receive very little of overall income |
Aeroponic urban farming | ● no soil used ● nutrients added to water, which is recycled | ● produce chosen because of its 7 | |
It would be helpful to receive explanations of wrong answers.
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