# European Forests: Challenges, Functions, and Policy Responses: answers and explanations

Cambridge IELTS 7, Test 3, Reading Passage 3

Source: Passage, questions and answer key from Cambridge IELTS 7, 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 | NOT GIVEN | However, this does not mean that in future they will be ignored. |
| 28 | FALSE | Those confined to particular geographical areas, such as countries bordering the Mediterranean or the Nordic countries therefore had to be discarded. |
| 29 | TRUE | forests provide raw materials for human activities through their constantly renewed production of wood |
| 30 | FALSE | The other aspects have been recognised only for a few centuries |
| 31 | FALSE | there are effectively no remaining 'primary' forests in Europe |
| 32 | FALSE | that it must transcend national frontiers and generations of people |
| 33 | TRUE | it must allow for the inevitable changes that take place in the forests ... The Strasbourg conference was one of the first events on such a scale to reach this conclusion. |
| 34 | J | The first proposes the extension and systematisation of surveillance sites to monitor forest decline. |
| 35 | A | The aim is to reverse the decline in the number of tree species or at least to preserve the 'genetic material' of all of them. |
| 36 | E | the experts to propose as the third resolution that the Strasbourg conference consider the establishment of a European databank on the subject |
| 37 | B | Proposed developments include a preferential research program on mountain forests. |
| 38 | G | Eurosilva should support joint European research on tree diseases |
| 39 | D | This would also involve harmonising activities in individual countries |
| 40 | B | In December 1990, Strasbourg hosted the first Ministerial Conference on the protection of Europe's forests. |

## Why these answers are right

**27. NOT GIVEN.** The statement says Mediterranean problems will be discussed at the next experts' meeting. Paragraph A only says regional problems were set aside and will not be ignored in future; no next meeting or date is mentioned, so this is not given.

**28. FALSE.** The statement blames the European Economic Community for leaving out Nordic problems. Paragraph A says they were dropped because they were confined to particular geographical areas, while the meeting wanted problems shared by many countries, so the stated reason is wrong.

**29. TRUE.** The statement calls forests a renewable source of raw material. Paragraph C says forests provide raw materials for human activities through their constantly renewed production of wood, and constantly renewed is what renewable means, so the statement is true.

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