IELTS, Reading
IELTS Reading Matching Headings
You choose the best heading for each paragraph from a list.
Format and scoring
| Skill | Reading |
|---|---|
| How it's scored | One mark per correct heading. |
| Weight (estimate) | About 15% of your reading score |
How to answer Reading Matching Headings
- 1Read each paragraph's first and last sentence for its main idea.
- 2Match the main idea, not a detail.
- 3Do easy paragraphs first.
Common mistakes
- Matching a heading to a single word in the paragraph.
Sample question
Can vertical farms feed cities?
A In a converted warehouse on the edge of a city, lettuces grow in trays stacked twelve levels high, lit by pink LEDs and fed by a nutrient solution rather than soil. No sunlight reaches them and no pesticides are needed, because insects cannot get in. Advocates of vertical farming claim that facilities like this could one day feed cities from within, cutting the distance food travels, protecting harvests from extreme weather and freeing farmland to be returned to forest. B The greatest obstacle is energy. A field of wheat receives its light for nothing; a vertical farm must pay for every unit of it. Lighting and climate control can account for more than half of a facility's running costs, and when electricity prices surged in 2022, several well-funded companies in Europe and North America went out of business. Even with the most efficient LEDs now available, electricity remains the l…
Paragraph A