# Rewilding: Letting Nature Take Back the Land: answers and explanations

Testmigo Practice Test 5, Reading Passage 3

Source: Written by Testmigo.

## Answer key

| Q | Answer | Proof |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 27 | C | they had overestimated regeneration by a factor of four to seven |
| 28 | B | young aspen were not recovering, even with a large wolf population present |
| 29 | A | a response stronger than 82 per cent of those included in a global analysis of trophic cascades |
| 30 | D | only where both were in place |
| 31 | B | had never been adequately tested |
| 32 | dairy | to sell the dairy herd |
| 33 | meat | sells around 75 tonnes of meat a year |
| 34 | industrial | originally intended for industrial development |
| 35 | shot | had been shot by the state forestry service before they could starve |
| 36 | licence | shooting was permitted only under licence |
| 37 | C | frequently told with more confidence than the evidence can support |
| 38 | C | only partly, and slowly |
| 39 | B | state modestly what they expect, measure carefully what actually happens |
| 40 | B | its projects are experiments and ought to be presented as such |

## Why these answers are right

**27. C.** The third paragraph says Brice, Larsen and MacNulty found that earlier surveys measured only the tallest young aspen and so overestimated regeneration by four to seven times. Choosing the tallest plants is the selection the statement describes, so the answer is C.

**28. B.** Kauffman, Brodie and Jules reported that young aspen were not recovering, even with a large wolf population present. The statement paraphrases a large wolf population as many wolves and not recovering as showing no sign of recovery, so B is correct.

**29. A.** The second paragraph reports that Ripple and four co-authors found a rise of about 1,500 per cent in willow crown volume, stronger than 82 per cent of the cases in a global analysis. Most comparable cases around the world restates that comparison, so the answer is A.

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