IELTS academic reading locating information skill building exercise 1

Answer questions 1- 5 which are based on the reading passage below.

Effects of population growth

A Since Thomas Malthus's essay 'An Essay the Principle of Population,' originally
published in 1798, the world has changed tremendously. Malthus believed that by
the mid-1800s, the unfettered expansion of humanity would overrun the
agricultural area available to feed humanity with food. Over 150 years have gone
by since this mythical milestone, yet mankind is still expanding and will continue
to do so, albeit in a more congested form.
The consequences of unchecked population growth are obvious to everybody. In
B their search for a better living, more people are migrating from rural areas to large
cities around the world, such as Tokyo, Mexico City, and Mumbai. Megacities,
defined as conurbations with a population of more than 10 million people, are
growing up across the globe. They are ravenous for one increasingly important
resource, land, which is now teeming with population.
While advances in agricultural technology assure that humanity will be able to
feed the people migrating to these enormous cities, the human race's expansion is
fueling an unprecedented hunger for real estate. As we enter the twenty-first
C century, space, whether for personal or public use, corporate or national, human
or flora/fauna, is in short supply. More land is needed not only for housing but
also for a variety of infrastructure needs. Roads within and between towns must
be built or renovated to create highways; green fields must be converted into
airports, and virgin forests must be logged to provide food and firewood. This
newly exposed land becomes desert in impoverished locations, completing the
devastation cycle.
Previously, the most frequent strategy for utilizing expensive space for living and
working was to build upwards; thus, the desire for ever higher buildings, both
 apartment, and commercial, in major cities such as New York, Shanghai, and
Singapore, all striving for the highest skyscrapers. There has also been a tradition
of building underground, not just for transportation networks, but also for garbage
D storage, book depositories, and other purposes, such as in London, where the
British Library, which houses millions of books, is mostly subterranean.
In recent years, there have been more innovative construction projects all around
the world. Many countries, including Holland and the United Kingdom, have
reclaimed marshes and floodplains from the sea in the past. Housing complexes
and even airports have now been built off-shore, with astonishing results, similar
to the city of Venice in Italy. Kansai International Airport in Japan was erected at
great expense off-shore on a man-made island, and a very inventive and
expensive housing complex in the shape of a palm tree is being developed just off
E the coast on land produced by a construction company in Dubai. These and other
advancements, however, are threatened by increasing sea levels as a result of
global warming.

Questions 1- 5
This reading passage has five paragraphs, A–E.
Which paragraph contains the following information?
Write the correct letter, A-E, as your answer to each question.
Note: You may use any letter more than once.

1. To build highways, roads within and between cities must be built or upgraded. C
2. The uncontrolled expansion of mankind will occupy the agricultural area available to
feed mankind. A
3. Like the city of Venice in Italy, housing complexes and even airports have now been
constructed off-shore, with great results. E
4. More and more people are migrating from the countryside to major cities around the
world. B
5. The most common strategy for using expensive space for living and working is to
create upwards. D