Welcome to your IELTS Academic Practice 1 Reading -Passage -2
Questions 14-20 Complete the chart below.
Use NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS from the text for each answer. Write your answers for Q14-20 on Boxes given.
Cause | Effect |
Men used poles and ropes to pull down buildings near a fire. | The fire did not have 14 ................................ |
Thatched-roof houses bum down easily. At the time of the Great Fire of London, the weather was 16 ................................ | 15 ............................... their fires nightly. The fire spread quickly. |
The Mayor of London thought it would be too expensive to 17 ································ | He told people not to pull down buildings in the fire's path. |
The Great Fire destroyed most of London. | People built new buildings out of 18 ................................ |
There had been many 19 ............................... in London over time. | People started to buy insurance to protect their homes. |
Insurance companies did not want to pay for rebuilding clients' houses destroyed by fire. | Insurance companies hired men to 20 ................................ |
Q14 - Questions 21-23 Choose the correct letters, A-C,
Q21. The first fire engines
Q23 . Firemen who worked for the Metropolitan Fire Brigade
Questions 24-26
Do the following statements agree with the information in the reading passage? On lines
24- 26. select dropdown box answer accordingly
YES - if the statement agrees with the views of the writer.
NO- if the statement contradicts the views of the writer.
NOT GIVEN - if it is impossible to say what the writer thinks about this
Q24. Leather hoses for fire fighting were made by machine.Q25. Steam engine fire trucks were used until the early 1900s.
26. Fires caused a great deal of damage in London during World War I.
