Cambridge IELTS 18 Academic Reading Test 1

• Read each passage carefully. You can highlight text by selecting and right-clicking.
• Answer all 40 questions. Move freely between parts using the question palette.
• Submit before time runs out — auto-submit at 60:00.

Cambridge 18 Test 1 covers urban food production, woodland management and orbital pollution. Passage 1 visits a soil-free urban farm on a Paris exhibition hall rooftop. Passage 2 explains how managing low-quality wood for bioenergy can support sustainable forestry in Pennsylvania. Passage 3, Conquering Earth's space junk problem, surveys the engineering responses to satellite debris in low-Earth orbit.

Passage 1 mixes three sentence completions, a four-row table completion and six True/False/Not Given — the table is the anchor, since each row maps to one of the urban farm's stages. Passage 2 brings five matching information items, three matching items linking statements to researchers and five sentence completions. Passage 3 closes with a five-item classifying task on debris solutions, a four-gap summary and five matching items linking technologies to engineers.

Spend seventeen minutes on urban farming, twenty on forest management, twenty-three on space junk, with no slack. The Paris rooftop project reuses every drop of water — try to reuse the time you save on easier completions for the heavier matching tasks at the end of the paper, where every second helps.

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