# Could urban engineers learn from dance?: answers and explanations

Cambridge IELTS 15, Test 2, Reading Passage 1

Source: Passage, questions and answer key from Cambridge IELTS 15, Test 2, 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 | B | That is not to suggest everyone should dance their way to work, however healthy and happy it might make us |
| 2 | C | Whereas medieval builders improvised and adapted construction through their intimate knowledge of materials |
| 3 | F | it shares with engineering the aim of designing patterns of movement within limitations of space |
| 4 | D | purpose-built street cafes could not operate in the hot sun without the protective awnings common in older buildings |
| 5 | E | As a result, many are now being removed, causing disruption, cost, and waste. |
| 6 | A | The ways we travel affect our physical and mental health, our social lives, our access to work and culture |
| 7 | safety | were an engineering solution to pedestrian safety based on models that prioritise the smooth flow of traffic. |
| 8 | traffic | were an engineering solution to pedestrian safety based on models that prioritise the smooth flow of traffic. |
| 9 | carriageway | one for each carriageway. |
| 10 | mobile | introducing psychological barriers greatly impacting those that are the least mobile |
| 11 | dangerous | and encouraging others to make dangerous crossings to get around the guard rails. |
| 12 | communities | they divide communities |
| 13 | healthy | decrease opportunities for healthy transport |

## Why these answers are right

**1. B.** Paragraph B raises the idea of people dancing their way to work and admits it might make us healthy and happy, which is the appealing side. But the writer says 'That is not to suggest' it, so this is an attractive use of dance he is clearly not proposing.

**2. C.** Paragraph C opens with 'Whereas', setting medieval builders, who improvised on site using their knowledge of materials, against today's designers, whose plans are stored in media technologies. That past-versus-present comparison of building methods is exactly what the prompt describes.

**3. F.** In paragraph F the writer says choreography 'shares with engineering the aim of designing patterns of movement'. 'Shares' signals something common to both, and 'aim' is a direct synonym for objective, so the shared goal of dance and engineering is in paragraph F.

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