This page carries the Cambridge IELTS 20 Academic Reading Test 4 Answers in full. The test comes from Cambridge IELTS 20, Academic Test 4 — all 40 answers below are the official ones, word for word as published. The complete 40-answer table covers all three passages, and each passage has its own dedicated walkthrough linked from this page for line-by-line study.

You will move from the painter Georgia O’Keeffe to the world’s efforts to adapt to a changing climate, and finish among the dogs guarding livestock from predators. Answer everything under a strict sixty-minute clock before you check a single answer, then review without mercy — and if the fine detail of Passage 1 got away from you, the Georgia O’Keeffe walkthrough picks up every dropped mark, one question at a time.

Cambridge IELTS 20 Academic Reading Test 4 Reading Answers

Questions and Answers

Passage Walkthroughs

Georgia O’Keeffe walkthrough

Passage 1 follows Georgia O’Keeffe from the classroom to the desert that became her home and her subject. Questions 1–13 pair a seven-gap one-word completion with six True/False/Not Given statements. See the full Georgia O’Keeffe answer key for every one of them.

Adapting to the effects of climate change Reading Answers

Passage 2 looks at adaptation already under way: managing water, rethinking farming and protecting cities as conditions shift. Questions 14–26 combine two lettered matching sets with a five-gap one-word summary in between. The adapting to climate change walkthrough clears up every question.

A new role for livestock guard dogs IELTS Reading Answers

Passage 3 introduces the guard dogs now protecting herds from wild predators, and what that means for farmers and wildlife alike. Questions 27–40 put a ten-item lettered matching set above a four-gap one-word completion. The livestock guard dogs walkthrough holds the passage evidence for all fourteen.

Study Tips

Hold yourself to twenty minutes per passage — start the clock the moment Passage 1 begins and move on when it ends, finished or not. The one-word completion tasks (Questions 1–7, 18–22 and 37–40) are the quickest marks on this paper, so clear them before sinking time into the ten-item matching set in Passage 3. The reading time management guide breaks the hour down question by question.

Review what you got wrong a day later, cold: re-read the passage, find the sentence that proves the official answer, and note what sent you the other way. Then check the band your score earns with the reading band score calculator, and if the True/False/Not Given statements (Questions 8–13) were the problem, the True/False/Not Given strategy piece sets out the rules in plain terms.

Refresh every task format before test day with the question types overview lesson, then take full-length timed mocks from the free exams library.

Practice More Cambridge Tests

Score boldly: all forty answers here are the official Cambridge key. Simply IELTS built a free IELTS reading course to turn a marked paper like this into a study plan, and the True/False/Not Given strategy post will tighten the skills Passage 1 tested.