The persistence and peril of misinformation — reading answers
Answers for all fourteen questions on Cambridge IELTS 19 Test 1 Passage 3, grouped by question type, with notes on the traps in the summary and YES / NO / NOT GIVEN blocks.
Questions 27-40 · 14 marks · 3 question blocks
Questions 27-30
Each question points at one named part of the passage, so locate the reference first and read only that stretch. Two of the four answers are D, so there is no last-option decoy pattern to lean on here; elimination beats picking whichever option reuses the most words from the text.
| Question | Answer | Also accepted |
|---|---|---|
| 27 | D | — |
| 28 | A | — |
| 29 | C | — |
| 30 | D | — |
Questions 31-36
Six gaps drawn from ten phrases, so four options are pure distractors. Work grammatically first by deciding what each gap needs, then match meaning. Letters are never reused in this set, so every letter you commit removes an option from the gaps that follow.
| Question | Answer | Also accepted |
|---|---|---|
| 31 | G | — |
| 32 | J | — |
| 33 | H | — |
| 34 | B | — |
| 35 | E | — |
| 36 | C | — |
Questions 37-40
This block asks about the writer's claims rather than about facts, so you are matching opinion to opinion. Half the block is NOT GIVEN: if the passage discusses the topic but never commits to the specific claim, that is NOT GIVEN, not NO.
| Question | Answer | Also accepted |
|---|---|---|
| 37 | YES | — |
| 38 | NOT GIVEN | — |
| 39 | NO | — |
| 40 | NOT GIVEN | — |
What your score on this passage actually tells you
One passage is 14 of the 40 marks in the paper, so it is a sample, not a band score. What it is good for is diagnosis: look at which of the question types above you lost marks in and whether the same type has hurt you before.
If your errors cluster in one question type, that is a technique problem and it is fixable in a week. If they are spread evenly, it is usually speed — you are running out of time and guessing the last few, which shows up as scattered wrong answers rather than a bad block.
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