# Book Review: answers and explanations

Cambridge IELTS 13, Test 4, Reading Passage 3

Source: Passage, questions and answer key from Cambridge IELTS 13, Test 4, 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 | D | since they are by education and intellectual conviction illiterate in the history of ideas |
| 28 | A | For Bentham it was obvious that the human good consists of pleasure and the absence of pain. ... The Greek philosopher Aristotle may have identified happiness with self-realisation in the 4th century BC |
| 29 | B | set the stage for the entangling of psychological research and capitalism that would shape the business practices of the twentieth century |
| 30 | F | suggesting that the departments of government be linked together through a set of 'conversation tubes' |
| 31 | B | a design for a printing device that could produce unforgeable banknotes |
| 32 | G | He drew up plans for a 'frigidarium' to keep provisions such as meat, fish, fruit and vegetables fresh. |
| 33 | E | in which prisoners would be kept in solitary confinement while being visible at all times to the guards |
| 34 | A | If happiness is to be regarded as a science, it has to be measured, and Bentham suggested two ways in which this might be done. |
| 35 | YES | We learn much that is interesting about how economic problems are being redefined and treated as psychological maladies. |
| 36 | NOT GIVEN | the belief that inner states of pleasure and displeasure can be objectively measured has informed management studies and advertising. |
| 37 | NO | he 'had never even studied a single human being': his research had been confined to experiments on white rats. |
| 38 | NOT GIVEN | in Britain, a 'Behaviour Insights Team' has been established by the government |
| 39 | YES | Modern industrial societies appear to need the possibility of ever-increasing happiness to motivate them in their labours. |
| 40 | NO | the idea that governments should be responsible for promoting happiness is always a threat to human freedom. |

## Why these answers are right

**27. D.** The question asks how the reviewer sees positive psychology advocates. He says they are oblivious to the philosophical literature on happiness and illiterate in the history of ideas, so they ignore what they should be considering, which is D.

**28. A.** The question asks why Aristotle is mentioned. The reviewer contrasts Bentham's view that the human good is pleasure and the absence of pain with Aristotle linking happiness to self-realization, showing happiness may be more than pleasure without pain, so A is right.

**29. B.** The question asks why Bentham's price idea mattered to Davies. Davies says linking money to inner experience set the stage for entangling psychological research with capitalism and later business practices, a link between work and psychology, so B fits.

The why and the trap for questions 30 onwards are free with an account on the [answers page](https://testmigo.com/ielts/reading/book-review/answers).

[Practice Book Review](https://testmigo.com/ielts/reading/book-review)