IELTS Reading Collin: Unit 2 Health

Exercise 2 (page 19). Scan the passage below about vulnerable people in society (i.e. those people who are in more danger of being harmed, physically or emotionally, than others). Then complete the

table with notes.

Care for vulnerable people

State responsibility:

Support from the church:

Answer explanation

State responsibility:

• community provision in some societies, e.g. in Israeli kibbutzim

• in England, some involvement in caring for the poor since Elizabethan times: 1601 Poor Law (money

was collected from each household and given to the needy)

Support from the church: provided charitable support when the state didn't

Exercise 3 (Page 20). Look at the passage in Exercise 2. Write a sentence for each of the three paragraphs, summarising what its function is. The first one has been done for you.

​ (a)   : This gives examples of how and by whom vulnerable people are supported in different societies and discusses attitudes to the vulnerable. ​

(b)   : This discusses the support given to the vulnerable in England since the seventeenth century.

• Paragraph 2
• Paragraph 3

Exercise 4 (Page 20). Imagine that you need to find information in the passage in Exercise 2 about the topics 1-4 below. Do not read the text again but use the summaries you wrote in Exercise 3 to decide in which paragraph you should look for the answer.

1 What do people think of 'vulnerable' people? Paragraph ​ (a)  

2 What does 'vulnerable' mean? Paragraph ​ (b)  

3 What support was provided in the twentieth century in England? Paragraph ​ (c)  

4 Who is responsible for the care of vulnerable people? Paragraph ​ (d)  

• 2
• 1
• 3

Answer explanation

Exercise 4

1 Paragraph 2 (In some societies, the care of the vulnerable is seen as the responsibility of the family

or the village and Attitudes to the vulnerable vary.)

2 Paragraph 1 (In all societies there are groups of people who are potentially vulnerable. These include

children, older people, people with disabilities, and the poor, for example.)

3 Paragraph 3 (Not until the opening years of the twentieth century did the state begin to take a

proactive role in the care and welfare of its citizens.)

4 Paragraph 2 (In some societies, the care of the vulnerable is seen as the responsibility of the family

or the village. In others, it is principally the responsibility of the state, through community provision.)

Exercise 1 (Page 18). Scan the passage below to find information about the topics 1-7 in the table. There are clues to help you find the information. The first one has been done for you. Question 1

(a)  

Exercise 1 (Page 18). Scan the passage below to find information about the topics 1-7 in the table. There are clues to help you find the information. The first one has been done for you. Question 2

(a)  

Exercise 1 (Page 18). Scan the passage below to find information about the topics 1-7 in the table. There are clues to help you find the information. The first one has been done for you. Question 3

(a)  

Exercise 1 (Page 18). Scan the passage below to find information about the topics 1-7 in the table. There are clues to help you find the information. The first one has been done for you. Question 4 (1 word)

(a)  

Exercise 1 (Page 18). Scan the passage below to find information about the topics 1-7 in the table. There are clues to help you find the information. The first one has been done for you. 6 What is 'Squalor'? (9 words)

(a)  

Exercise 1 (Page 18). Scan the passage below to find information about the topics 1-7 in the table. There are clues to help you find the information. The first one has been done for you. 7 Why was the report commissioned? (5 words)

(a)  

Exercise 5. Scan the passage below and complete the diagram with the missing information. Write NO MORE THAN FOUR WORDS in each box. 1 (1 word)

(a)