# Children's Ideas About Rainforests: answers and explanations

Cambridge IELTS 4, Test 1, Reading Passage 1

Source: Passage, questions and answer key from Cambridge IELTS 4, Test 1, Reading Passage 1. © Cambridge University Press & Assessment. Used for educational practice. Explanations and evidence notes are written by Testmigo.

## Answer key

| Q | Answer | Proof |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | FALSE | In the face of the frequent and often vivid media coverage ... Despite the extensive coverage in the popular media of the destruction of rainforests |
| 2 | FALSE | independent of any formal tuition ... These ideas may be developed by children absorbing ideas through the popular media. |
| 3 | TRUE | Many studies have shown that children harbor misconceptions about 'pure', curriculum science. |
| 4 | TRUE | making it and the component ideas, some of which are erroneous, more robust but also accessible to modification |
| 5 | FALSE | Secondary school children were asked to complete a questionnaire containing five open-form questions. |
| 6 | NOT GIVEN | More girls (70%) than boys (60%) raised the idea of rainforest as animal habitats. |
| 7 | TRUE | These observations are generally consistent with our previous studies of pupils' views about the use and conservation of rainforests |
| 8 | NOT GIVEN | The study surveys children's scientific knowledge and attitudes to rainforests. |
| 9 | M | Africa (given by 43% of children), South America (30%), Brazil (25%) |
| 10 | E | The dominant idea, raised by 64% of the pupils, was that rainforests provide animals with habitats. |
| 11 | G | it is human activities which are destroying rainforests |
| 12 | P | the majority of children simply said that we need rainforests to survive. |
| 13 | J | Only a few of the pupils (6%) mentioned that rainforest destruction may contribute to global warming. |
| 14 | B | to help teachers design their educational strategies to build upon correct ideas and to displace misconceptions |

## Why these answers are right

**1. FALSE.** The statement claims the media have largely ignored the rainforests. The writer speaks of frequent and often vivid media coverage and later of extensive coverage in the popular media, which says the opposite, so the statement is false.

**2. FALSE.** The statement says children accept only ideas met in class. The writer says children form ideas about rainforests independent of any formal tuition and pick up ideas through the popular media, so their views also come from outside school. That contradicts only.

**3. TRUE.** This asks whether children are said to hold wrong ideas about school science. The writer states that many studies have shown children harbor misconceptions about pure, curriculum science. Misconceptions are mistaken views, and curriculum science is what school teaches, so it is true.

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