Cambridge IELTS 20 Academic Reading Test 4

• 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 20 Test 4 closes the Cambridge series with art, climate adaptation and an unexpected use for working dogs. Passage 1 profiles Georgia O'Keeffe, the American painter who remained independent of art trends for seven decades. Passage 2 surveys how nations are already adapting to the inevitable effects of climate change. Passage 3 reports on a new role for livestock guard dogs — protecting wild predators from being shot, not the other way round.

Passage 1 mixes seven note completions and six True/False/Not Given on O'Keeffe's biography. Passage 2 brings four matching information items, five sentence completions and four matching items linking adaptation strategies to regions or experts. Passage 3 closes with five matching information, five matching items linking findings to researchers and a four-gap summary — nineteen matching items across the paper make this the most matching-heavy test in the entire series, so practise grouping question types before reading.

Plan eighteen minutes on O'Keeffe, twenty on climate adaptation, twenty on guard dogs, with two minutes to transfer. O'Keeffe found the abstract forms in nature; find the abstract pattern in each matching task — distinctive name, claim, paragraph.

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