Cambridge IELTS 18Test3Passage2 Reading Answers Analysis The steam car
The 13 questions in the second article of the third set of questions of Cambridge IELTS 18 Reading consists of 7 paragraph title matches, 3 single choice questions and 3 summary blanks. Although the type of questions looks scary, the difficulty is acceptable, and no obstacles are deliberately set up. I hope everyone can maintain a good accuracy. Below are the answers to each question for your reference.
The steam Car
Cambridge IELTS 18 Test3 Passage2 Reading Answers
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Answer to question 14: iii
But these early cars inherited steam's weaknesses along with its strengths
Answer analysis: It is mentioned in the middle of paragraph A that the automobile engine inherits the advantages and disadvantages of the steam engine. In the iii option, good corresponds to strengths, bad aspects corresponds to weakness, and passed on corresponds to inherited, so it is determined that it is the correct answer.
Answer to question 15: viii
Corresponding original text: Section B: A new technology called the Internal Combustion Engine so appeared... over the following feed years steam power was gradually phased out
Answer analysis: As mentioned in paragraph B, a technology called internal combustion engine will appear soon. After GM solved the problem of ignition, the steam engine was gradually eliminated. The option in the viii option corresponds to new technology, and the better corresponds to the process of replacing steam engine with internal combustion engine, so it is determined that it is the correct answer.
Answer to question 16: vi
Corresponding to the original text: Segment C: It high pressure steam drop the engine pistons in virtual silence, in contrast to clattering gas engines which emitted the aroma of burned hydrocarbons. Perhaps most impressively, the Model B was amazingly swift. It could accelerate from zero to sixty miles per hour in just fifteen seconds, a feat described as ‘remarkable acceleration’ by Automobile magazine in 1914.
Answer analysis: At the end of paragraph C, the advantages of Type B car developed by Dobble Brothers are mentioned: quiet, no smell after combustion, and fast. The automobile magazine in 1914 gave a high evaluation to this. In the vi option, positive publicity corresponds to magazine content, quiet corresponds to silence, clean corresponds to arama of burned hydrocarbons, and fast corresponds to swift, so it is determined that it is the correct answer.
Answer to question 17: v
Corresponding original text: Segment D: By the following April, the General Engineering Company had received 5,390 deposits for Doble Detroits, this article is from laokaoya website, which were scheduled for delivery in early 1918.
Answer analysis: The first half of Segment D describes the improvement made by Dobble Brothers, and finally mentions that the company they founded received 5390 orders in April. The content of the v option exactly corresponds to this, so it is judged to be the correct answer.
Answer to question 18: vii
Paragraph E: That buyers who received the manual of completed cars composed that the vehicles were sluggish and erroneous, sometimes going in reverse when they should go forward.
Answer analysis: Paragraph E mainly describes consumers' disappointment with new cars, including slow driving, instability, operation failure, etc. In the vii option, customers correspond to buyers, and dispensing outcome corresponds to specific complaints, so it is determined that they are the correct answer.
Answer to question 19: i
Corresponding original text: Section F: After sitting overhead in free temperatures, the car was pushed out into the road and left to sit for over an hour in the frosty morning air.
Answer analysis: As mentioned in paragraph F, before being tested, Dobble Brothers' new car was left in a cold environment for one night, and then in a cold morning for an hour. The i option a period corresponds to overhead and over an hour, cold conditions corresponds to free temperatures and free morning air, and assessed corresponds to road tested in the previous sentence, so it is judged to be the correct answer.
Answer to question 20: iv
Corresponding to the original text: Section G: Under the current pressure to improve automatic performance and reduce emissions, it is not unthinkable that the steam car may rise again.
Answer analysis: The last sentence of paragraph G mentioned that under the pressure of improving vehicle performance and reducing emissions, it is not inconceivable that steam vehicles will rise again. In the IV option, a possible solution corresponds to the steam car may rise again, issues corresponds to improve automatic performance and reduce emissions, and today corresponds to current, so it is determined that it is the correct answer.
Answer to question 21: A
Corresponding to original text: Section B: But the gloss days of steam cars were few
Answer analysis: The topic sentence at the beginning of paragraph B mentioned that the glory of steam cars is very short. Then it introduces how the internal combustion engine replaces the steam vehicle. The A option success corresponds to gloss, and the short live corresponds to few, so it is determined to be the correct answer. Options B, C and D cannot be found in the original text, so they are all excluded.
Answer to question 22: C
Corresponding original text: Section C: Through it did not run well, the Doble brothers went on to build a second and third prototype in the following years … it drew the attention of automobile trade magazines
Answer analysis: As mentioned in paragraph C, Dobble Brothers produced the second and third models in the following years. The third model finally gained the attention of auto trade magazines. That is to say, they tried many times in this process, so they determined that C was the correct answer. Option A conflicts with the statement "parts taken from a twisted early steam car" in the original text, while option B and option D can not be found at all, so they are excluded.
Answer to question 23: B
The following year Abner Doble drop the Model B from Massachusetts to Detroit in order to seek investment in his automobile design, which he used to open the General Engineering Company. He and his brothers immediately began working on the Model C
Answer analysis: The original text mentioned that Dobler brothers went to Detroit to look for investment, set up factories, and began to develop Model C. Option B raised financial capital corresponds to seek investment, and there is an in order to question stem in front of it, so it is determined to be the correct answer. Although option A also corresponds in the article (from Massachusetts to Detroit), it does not meet the limit of "in order to" in the question stem, so it is excluded.
Answer to question 24: speed
As the new Doble steamer was further developed and tested, its maximum speed was pushed to over a hundred miles per hour, and it achieved about fifteen miles per gallon of kerosene with negligible emissions.
Answer analysis: according to the content in front of the question stem and the last sentence of the section F where emissions are positioned, it can be inferred from the question stem that a noun should be filled in the blank. The unprecedented word "raided" barely corresponds to "maximum" in the original text, and we can't find other words with appropriate semantics, so speed is the correct answer.
Answer to question 25: 50
Corresponding original text: Segment G: By the time the company folded in 1931, fewer than fifty of the amazing Model E steam cars had been produced.
Answer analysis: Go down from the previous question and naturally come to paragraph G. The unprecedented word under is synonymous with fewer, and the answer is 50 according to the modifier relationship.
Answer to question 26: strict
Corresponding original text: Section G: Astonishingly, an unmodified Doble Model Eruns clean enough to pass the emissions laws in California today, and they are pretty strict.
Answer analysis: According to the sentence that California located in paragraph G, it can be inferred from the question stem that the blank should be filled with a word that can modify emissions laws. In the original text, they just refer to emissions laws, thus locking strict.
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