# The Intersection of Health Sciences and Geography: answers and explanations

Cambridge IELTS 12, Test 3, Reading Passage 2

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## Answer key

| Q | Answer | Proof |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 14 | D | While people will always be prone to illness |
| 15 | C | the massive amounts of smog and pollution that cause asthma, lung problems, eyesight issues and more |
| 16 | F | work to create a clear way of categorising illnesses, diseases and epidemics into local and global scales. |
| 17 | G | there is often a very large discrepancy between the options available to people in different social classes, income brackets, and levels of education. |
| 18 | D | Health geography is the combination of, on the one hand, knowledge regarding geography |
| 19 | B | Malaria is much less of a problem in high-altitude deserts |
| 20 | vaccinations | have been eradicated due to improvements in vaccinations and the availability of healthcare |
| 21 | antibiotics | super-viruses and other infections resistant to antibiotics are becoming more and more common. |
| 22 | mosquitos | a warm and damp environment in which the mosquitos that can give people this disease can grow. |
| 23 | factories | in addition to factories that run on coal power. |
| 24 | forests | has also led to the cutting down of forests to allow for the expansion of big cities |
| 25 | Polio | in a world where diseases like polio are re-emerging |
| 26 | mountain | because there is a mountain between their village and the nearest hospital |

## Why these answers are right

**14. D.** You must find where the writer accepts that some diseases will never be fully removed. Section D says people will always be prone to illness, even though health geography may eradicate certain illnesses. That admission matches the statement, so the answer is D.

**15. C.** The statement needs physical conditions caused by human actions. Section C names asthma, lung problems and eye problems caused by smog, and blames cars and coal-powered factories. Health effects from human activity appear here, so C is correct.

**16. F.** The prompt asks for classifying diseases by how far they reach. Section F says researchers sort illnesses, diseases and epidemics into local and global scales. Local versus global describes geographical extent, so the answer is F.

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