Cambridge IELTS Academic 13 Reading Test 1 Answers with Explanation / IELTS Academic Reading: Case Study: Tourism New Zealand website ,Why being bored is stimulating – and useful , Artificial Artists

READING PASSAGE 1

You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-13, which are based on Reading Passage 1.

Case Study: Tourism New Zealand website

Question	Answer	Keywords	Location	Text
1	update	database, allowed businesses, information, regularly	Para 2, lines 8-9	"In addition, because participating businesses were able to update the details they gave on a regular basis..."
2	environment	database, country-wide evaluation, impact on	Para 2, last line	"As part of this, the effect of each business on the environment was considered."
3	captain	special features, interview, a former sports	Para 3, lines 1-3	"One of the most popular was an interview with former New Zealand All Blacks rugby captain Tana Umaga."
4	films	interactive tour, various locations	Para 3, lines 4-5	".... was an interactive journey through a number of locations chosen for blockbuster films ..."
5	season	driving routes, varied, depending on	Para 3, lines 8-9	"the site catalogued the most popular driving routes in the country, highlighting different routes according to the season ..."
6	accommodation	travel planner, a map, public transport, local	Para 4, line 4	"There were also links to accommodation in the area."
7	blog	'Your Words', travelers, send, link to	Para 4, lines 6-7	"The website also had a ‘Your Words’ section where anyone could submit a blog of their New Zealand travels for possible inclusion on the website."
8	FALSE	the website, aimed, itineraries, travel packages	Para 6, lines 1-2	"The website was set up to allow both individuals and travel organizations to create itineraries and travel packages to suit their own needs and interests."
9	NOT GIVEN	started searching, geographical location	-	-
10	FALSE	26%, visitor satisfaction, accommodation	Para 6, lines 4-6	"This is important as research shows that activities are the key driver of visitor satisfaction, contributing 74% to visitor satisfaction, while transport and accommodation account for the remaining 26%."
11	TRUE	like to, involved, local nature	Para 6, lines 7-9	"It has also been found that visitors enjoy cultural activities most when they are interactive, such as visiting a marae (meeting ground) to learn more about traditional life."
12	NOT GIVEN	like staying, small hotels	-	-
13	TRUE	feel, unlikely, will return, after their visit	Para 7, lines 4-5	"Because of the long-haul flight, most visitors stay for longer (average 20 days) and want to see as much of the country as possible on what is often seen as a once-in-a-lifetime visit."

READING PASSAGE 2

You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 14–26, which are based on Reading Passage 2 .

Why being bored is stimulating – and useful, too

Question	Answer	Keywords	Location	Text
14	iv	Problems with a scientific approach to boredom	Paragraph A, line 3	"But defining boredom so that it can be studied in the lab has proved difficult."
15	vi	Creating a system of classification for feelings of boredom	Paragraph B, lines 1-3	"By asking people about their experiences of boredom, Thomas Goetz and his team at the University of Konstanz in Germany have recently identified five distinct types: indifferent, calibrating, searching, reactant and apathetic."
16	i	The productive outcomes that may result from boredom	Paragraph C, lines 2-3	"Mann has found that being bored makes us more creative."
17	v	A potential danger arising from boredom	Paragraph D, lines 6-7	"But even if boredom has evolved to help us survive, it can still be toxic if allowed to fester."
18	viii	Identifying those most affected by boredom	Paragraph E, first 2-3 lines	"Eastwood’s team is now trying to explore why the ‘attention system’ fails."
19	iii	A new explanation and a new cure for boredom	Paragraph F, first and second lines, lines 4-5	"… that our over-connected lifestyles might even be a new source of boredom." "So instead of seeking yet more mental stimulation, perhaps we should leave our phones alone, and use boredom to motivate us to engage with the world in a more meaningful way."
20	E	Boredom may encourage us to avoid an unpleasant experience	Paragraph A, last lines	"If disgust protects humans from infection, boredom may protect them, from ‘infectious’ social situations."
21	B	One sort of boredom is worse than all the others	Paragraph B, lines 7-8	"Of the five types, the most damaging is ‘reactant’ boredom with its explosive combination of high arousal and negative emotion."
22	D	Trying to cope with boredom can increase its negative effects	Paragraph D, lines 7-9	"For Eastwood, the central feature of boredom is a failure to put our ‘attention system’ into gear."
23	A	The way we live today may encourage boredom	Paragraph F, lines 1-2	"Psychologist Francoise Wemelsfelder speculates that our over-connected lifestyles might even be a new source of boredom."
24	focus	Central feature, people cannot	Paragraph D, line 7	"For Eastwood, the central feature of boredom is a failure to put our ‘attention system’ into gear. This causes an inability to focus on anything."
25	pleasure	Suggests, important aim in life, may have problems	Paragraph E, lines 3-4	"People who are motivated by pleasure seem to suffer particularly badly."
26	curiosity	Characteristic, generally cope with it	Paragraph E, lines 4-5	"Other personality traits (characteristics), such as curiosity, are associated with a high boredom threshold."

READING PASSAGE 3

You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 27–40, which are based on Reading Passage 3 .

 

Artificial Artists

Question Number	Answer	Keywords	Location in Passage (Paragraph & Line)	Text Associated with Answer
27	B	computer-produced works, first paragraph	1st paragraph	"The Painting Fool is one of a growing number of computer programs which, so their makers claim, possess creative talents."
28	C	Geraint Wiggins, worried by computer art	2nd paragraph, lines 5-6	"…. It scares a lot of people. They are worried that it is taking something special away from what it means to be human."
29	C	key difference, Aaron, Painting Fool	4th paragraph, lines 2-5	"only need minimal direction, can come up with its own concepts, runs its own web searches, trawls through social media sites, beginning to display a kind of imagination, creating pictures from scratch."
30	D	fourth paragraph, Simon Colton	4th paragraph, lines 7-8	"….. Colton agrees that such reactions arise from people’s double standards towards software-produced and human-produced art."
31	A	paintings of a chair	4th paragraph, lines 12-14	"Some of the Painting Fool’s paintings of a chair came out in black and white, thanks to a technical glitch. This gives the work an eerie, ghostlike quality."
32	D	Simon Colton, important, long-term view	5th paragraph, lines 1-2	"Researchers like Colton don’t believe it is right to measure machine creativity directly to that of humans who ‘have had millennia to develop our skills.’"
33	A	David Cope’s EMI software, surprised people	5th paragraph, lines 4-5	"Audiences were moved to experts into thinking they were hearing genuine Bach."
34	E	Geraint Wiggins, criticized, Cope	5th paragraph, lines 9-11	"Some, such as Wiggins, have blasted Cope’s work as pseudoscience, and condemned him for his deliberately vague explanation of how the software worked."
35	C	Douglas Hofstadter, claimed, EMI	5th paragraph, lines 11-12	"Meanwhile, Douglas Hofstadter of Indiana University said EMI created replicas which still rely completely on the original artist’s creative impulses."
36	G	Audiences, listened, EMI’s music, angry	5th paragraph, lines 13-14	"When audiences found out the truth, they were often outraged with Cope, and one music lover even tried to punch him."
37	B	participants, David Moffat’s study, assess music without	6th paragraph, lines 3-4	"He asked both expert musicians and non-experts to assess six compositions. The participants weren’t told beforehand whether the tunes were composed by humans or computers."
38	YES	Moffat’s research, help, explain, reactions, EMI	6th paragraph, lines 5-6	"People who thought the composer was a computer tended to dislike the piece more than those who believed it was human. This was true even among the experts,

Question Number	Answer	Keywords	Location in Passage	Associated Text
39	NOT GIVEN	non-experts, Moffat's study, responded, predictable way	Not found in the passage	-
40	NO	Justin Kruger's findings, cast doubt, Paul Bloom's theory	Last paragraph, lines 1-5	"Paul Bloom, a psychology professor at Yale University, suggests that part of the pleasure we get from art stems... Justin Kruger's experiments have shown that people's enjoyment of an artwork increases."