# Beyond the blue horizon: answers and explanations

Cambridge IELTS 10, Test 3, Reading Passage 3

Source: Passage, questions and answer key from Cambridge IELTS 10, Test 3, Reading Passage 3. © Cambridge University Press & Assessment. Used for educational practice. Explanations and evidence notes are written by Testmigo.

## Answer key

| Q | Answer | Proof |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 27 | B | An agricultural worker, digging in the grounds of a derelict plantation, scraped open a grave |
| 28 | F | An important archaeological discovery on the island of Efate |
| 29 | I | everything they would need to build new lives - their livestock, taro seedlings and stone tools. |
| 30 | G | Other items included a Lapita burial urn with modeled birds arranged on the rim as though peering down at the human remains sealed inside. |
| 31 | D | for it conclusively identifies the remains as Lapita. |
| 32 | C | Nor do the oral histories and traditions of later Polynesians offer any insights, for they turn into myths long before they reach as far back in time as the Lapita. |
| 33 | A | The real adventure didn't begin, however, until their Lapita descendants sailed out of sight of land, with empty horizons on every side. |
| 34 | D | secure in the knowledge that if they didn't find anything, they could turn about and catch a swift ride back on the trade winds. This is what would have made the whole thing work. |
| 35 | C | the geography of their own archipelagoes would have provided a safety net. |
| 36 | NO | "And there's no proof they could do any such thing," Anderson says. |
| 37 | YES | El Nino, the same climate disruption that affects the Pacific today, may have helped scatter the Lapita |
| 38 | NOT GIVEN | By reversing the regular east-to-west flow of the trade winds for weeks at a time, these 'super El Ninos' might have taken the Lapita on long unplanned voyages. |
| 39 | YES | then called it quits for reasons known only to them. |
| 40 | NOT GIVEN | they encountered hundreds of islands - more than 300 in Fiji alone. |

## Why these answers are right

**27. B.** The summary says the burial ground was found on an abandoned something. The first paragraph says the worker was digging in the grounds of a derelict plantation. Derelict means abandoned, so the missing word is plantation, letter B.

**28. F.** This gap describes the cemetery as a significant something. The passage opens by calling the find an important archaeological discovery on Efate. Important is paraphrased as significant, so the phrase archaeological discovery, F, completes the sentence.

**29. I.** The summary lists what the Lapita took on voyages along with tools. The second paragraph says they carried their livestock, taro seedlings and stone tools. Livestock are farm animals, so the word that fits before and tools is animals, letter I.

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