Sense of Wearing Reading Answers

Jul 30, 2025

Sense of Wearing Reading Answers is an academic reading answers topic. Sense of Wearing Reading Answers has a total of 14 IELTS questions in total. In the question set given, you have to fill in the blank with no more than two words. In the question set given, you have to state whether the statement is true, false or not given with the information given in the text

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Section 1

SENSE OF WEARING

Cotton is a soft, fluffy staple fiber that grows in a boll, or protective case, around the seeds of the cotton plants of the genus Gossypium in the mallow family Malvaceae. The fiber is almost pure cellulose. Under natural conditions, the cotton bolls will increase the dispersal of the seeds. The plant is a shrub native to tropical and subtropical regions around the world, including the Americas, Africa, Egypt and India. The greatest diversity of wild cotton species is found in

Mexico, followed by Australia and Africa. Cotton was independently domesticated in the Old and New Worlds. The cotton gin is where cotton fiber is separated from the cotton seed. The first Step in the ginning process is when the cotton is vacuumed into tubes that carry it to a dryer to reduce moisture and improve the fiber quality. Then it runs through a cleaning equipment to remove leaf trash, sticks and other foreign matter. Ginning is accomplished by one of two

methods. Cotton varieties with shorter staple or fiber length are ginned with saw gins. This process involves the use of circular saws that grip the fibers and pull them through narrow slots. The seeds are too large to pass through these openings, resulting in the fibers being pulled away from the seed. Long fibercottons must be ginned in a roller gin because saw gins can damage their delicate fibers. The roller gin was invented in India centuries ago and this concept

is still used in modern gins. Long staple cottons, like Pima, separate from the seed more easily than Upland varieties. A roller gin uses a rough roller to grab the fiber and pull it under a rotating bar with gaps too small for the seed to pass through.

The raw fiber, now called lint, makes its way through another series of pipes to a press where it is compressed into bales (lint packaged for market), banded with eight steel straps, sampled for classing, wrapped for protection then loaded onto trucks for shipment to storage yards, textile mills and foreign countries. The cotton industry has adopted a standard for a bale of cotton, 55 inches tall, 28 inches wide, and 21 inches thick, weighing approximately 500 pounds. A bale meeting these requirements is called a universal density bale. This is enough cotton to make 325 pairs of denim jeans. Every bale of cotton is classed from a sample taken after its formation. The classing of cotton lint is the process of measuring fiber characteristics against a set of standards (grades). Classing is done by experts, called classers, who use scientific instruments to judge the samples of lint. All standards are established by the U.S. Department

of Agriculture. Once the quality of the cotton bale is determined, pricing parameters are set and the lint may be taken to market. Cotton marketing is the selling and buying of cotton lint. Cotton is priced in cents per pound when sold and the price is negotiated according to the cotton's quality. After baling, the cotton lint is hauled to either storage yards, textile mills, or shipped to foreign countries. The cotton seed is delivered to a seed storage area. Where it will remain until it is loaded into trucks and transported to a cottonseed oil mill or directly for livestock feed.

Textile mills purchase cotton and receive the bales from gin yards or cotton warehouses. These mills start with raw bales of cotton and process them in stages until they produce yarn (fibers twisted into threads used in weaving or knitting) or cloth (fabric or material constructed from weaving or knitting). The first stage is in the opening room. Here, bales are opened and laid in a line on the floor, side by side, near a cotton opening machine. This machine travels along

the line of opened bales, pulling fibers to be sent to a mixing machine and then on to the carding system. Carding is the process of pulling the fibers into parallel alignment to form a thin web. A high speed electronic equipment with wire toothed rollers performs this task. The web of fibers is eventually condensed into a continuous, untwisted, rope-like strand called a sliver, (pronounced slyver). These slivers then continue to a combing machine. Here, the fibers shorter

than half-inch and impurities are removed from the cotton. This process makes the sliver smoother so more uniform yarns can be produced. The drawing or pulling of this sliver is next.

The sliver is drawn out to a thinner strand and given a slight twist to improve strength. Then wound on bobbins (spools wound with the thread-like product for storage). Having completed this process, it is now called roving. The roving bobbins are now ready for the spinning process. Spinning is the last process in yarn manufacturing. Today's mills draw and twist the roving into yarn and place it on bobbins, They do this quite efficiently, A large, modern mill can produce enough yarn or thread in 30 days to wrap around the earth 2300 times or go to and return from the moon 235 times. With the use of automatic winding, the yarn bobbins are transferred to larger bobbins called cheese cones. These cheese cones can be stored until they are needed in the weaving process. Cotton is used to make a number of textile products. These include terrycloth for highly absorbent bath towels and robes; denim for blue jeans; cambric, popularly used in the manufacture of blue work shirts (from which we get the term "blue-collar"); and corduroy, seersucker, and cotton twill. In addition to the textile industry, cotton is used in fishing nets, coffee filters, tents, explosives manufacture (see nitrocellulose), cotton paper, and in bookbinding. The cottonseed, which remains after the cotton is ginned, is used to produce cottonseed Oil, which, after refining, can be consumed by humans like any other vegetable Oil. The cottonseed meal that is left generally is fed to ruminant livestock; the gossypol remaining in the meal is toxic to monogastric animals. Cottonseed hulls can be added to dairy cattle rations for roughage. Cotton linters are fine, silky fibers which adhere to the seeds of the cotton plant after ginning. These curly fibers typically are less than ID8 inch (3.2 mm) long. The term also may apply to the longer textile fiber staple lint as well as the shorter fuzzy fibers from some upland species. Linters are traditionally used in the manufacture of paper and as a raw material in the manufacture of cellulose. Cotton has revolutionized our sense of wearing and I dare to say, you are wearing one item of cotton now.

Questions 27-35

Choose NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS.

GINNING

— Vacuum curbs 27……………….and improves resilience of the fibers.

Answer: MOISTURE

Supporting statement: “The first Step in the ginning process is when the cotton is vacuumed into tubes that carry it to a dryer to reduce moisture and improve the fiber quality.”

Keywords: vacuumed, dryer, reduce moisture

Keyword Location: Para 1, Lines 8-10

Explanation: The text states that vacuuming and drying reduce “moisture” to improve fiber quality. “Resilience” is a synonym for quality in this context, or at least a positive attribute linked to quality.

— Cleaning removes other material.

— 28………….short fibers through slots in shorter lengths.

Answer: SAW

Supporting statement: “Cotton varieties with shorter staple or fiber length are ginned with saw gins. This process involves the use of circular saws that grip the fibers and pull them through narrow slots.”

Keywords: staple, ginned, circular saws, narrow Slots

Keyword Location: Para 1, Lines 12-14

Explanation: The description refers to the method for ginning shorter fibers. The text states that "Cotton varieties with shorter staple or fiber length are ginned with saw gins” and that these “pull them through narrow slots.” The missing word is “saw” as in “saw gins.”

— 29…………..fibers can be obtained from roller gin.

Answer: LONG

Supporting statement: “Long fiber cottons must be ginned in a roller gin because saw gins can damage their delicate fibers.”

Keywords: Long fiber, roller gin

Keyword Location: Para 1, Line 16

Explanation: The passage states that “Long fiber cottons must be ginned in a roller gin,” indicating that long fibers are obtained using this method.

— 30………… are shipped.

Answer: BALES

Supporting statement: “The raw fiber, now called lint, makes its way through another series of pipes to a press where it is compressed into bales …………then loaded onto trucks for shipment to storage yards, textile mills and foreign countries.”

Keywords: lint, bales, shipment

Keyword Location: Para 2, Lines 1-5

Explanation: The passage describes that after being compressed into “bales,” these are “loaded onto trucks for shipment,” directly answering what is shipped.

— Cotton is 31…………….. on the basis of quality checks.

Answer: CLASSED

Supporting statement: “Every bale of cotton is classed from a sample taken after its formation. The classing of cotton lint is the process of measuring fiber characteristics against a set of standards (grades).”

Keywords: classed, classing, quality, standards, grades

Keyword Location: Para 2, Lines 7-9

Explanation: The text clearly states that “Every bale of cotton is classed from a sample” and defines “classing” as “measuring fiber characteristics against a set of standards (grades),” which are quality checks.

— 32………….is stored for oil Mills.

Answer: COTTON SEED

Supporting statement: “The cotton seed is delivered to a seed storage area where it will remain until it is loaded into trucks and transported to a cottonseed oil mill...”

Keywords: cottonseed, seed storage area, oil mill

Keyword Location: Para 2, Lines 15-16

Explanation: The passage clearly states that cotton seeds are separated during ginning and then stored before being sent to oil mills

— Carding systems starts the first step to process the Cotton to 33………….

Answer: YARN

Supporting statement: “These mills start with raw bales of cotton and process them in stages until they produce yarn...”

Keywords: mills, cotton, yarn

Keyword Location: Para 3, Line 2

Explanation: The mills begin processing cotton into yarn through stages like opening, carding, and spinning. Carding is an early step in this chain.

— The rope of fibers in this process is called 34……………..

Answer: SLIVER

Supporting statement: “The web of fibers is eventually condensed into a continuous, untwisted, rope-like strand called a sliver...”

Keywords: web of fibers, sliver

Keyword Location: Para 3, Lines 8-9

Explanation: The description of a sliver as a rope-like fiber strand confirms it as the correct term according to the passage.

— They are then spooled through 35…………….

Answer: BOBBINS

Supporting statement: “The sliver is drawn out to a thinner strand and given a slight twist to improve strength. Then wound on bobbins (spools wound with the thread-like product for storage).”

Keywords: wound, bobbins, storage

Keyword Location: Para 4, Lines 2-3

Explanation: According to the text, after the cotton is twisted into a finer strand, it is stored on bobbins.

Questions 36-40

Do the following statements agree with the information given in the text?

In the boxes 36-40 on your answer sheet write

TRUE if the statement agrees with the information

FALSE if the statement contradicts the information

NOT GIVEN if there is no information on this

36. Cotton is an absolute cellulose product.

Answer: FALSE

Supporting statement: “The fiber is almost pure cellulose.”

Keywords: almost pure cellulose

Keyword Location: Para 1, Line 3

Explanation: The statement says cotton is an absolute cellulose product. However, the passage explicitly states that the fiber is “almost pure cellulose.” “Absolute” implies 100%, while “almost pure” indicates it's not entirely so, contradicting the statement.

37. Seeds are thrown away after processing.

Answer: FALSE

Supporting statement: “The cotton seed is delivered to a seed storage area. Where it will remain until it is loaded into trucks and transported to a cottonseed oil mill or directly for livestock feed.”

Keywords: cottonseed, storage area

Keyword Location: Para 2, Lines 15-16

Explanation: The passage clearly states that cottonseed is used to produce oil and that the remaining meal and hulls are used for livestock feed, directly contradicting the idea that they are “thrown away.”

38. Bales are not directly sold after making.

Answer: TRUE

Supporting statement: “Every bale of cotton is classed from a sample taken after its formation… Once the quality of the cotton bale is determined, pricing parameters are set and the lint may be taken to market.”

Keywords: classed, pricing parameters, taken to market

Keyword Location: Para 2, Lines 7-9

Explanation: The passage describes several steps that occur after baling but before the lint is “ to market” (sold), including sampling for classing, wrapping, and shipment to storage. This implies they are not directly sold immediately after being made into bales.

39. Cotton is also combustible in nature.

Answer: TRUE

Supporting statement: “In addition to the textile industry, cotton is used in fishing nets, coffee filters, tents, explosives manufacture (see nitrocellulose), cotton paper, and in bookbinding.”

Keywords: explosives manufacture, nitrocellulose

Keyword Location: Para 4, Lines 12-13

Explanation: The mention of “explosives manufacture (see nitrocellulose)” strongly indicates that cotton, or derivatives of it, can be used in the creation of explosives. Nitrocellulose is a highly flammable and explosive compound, directly implying that cotton, in some forms, is combustible.

40. Linters are being replaced in modern period.

Answer: NOT GIVEN

Explanation: The passage describes what linters are and their traditional uses. It does not provide any information about whether they are currently being replaced or are becoming obsolete in the modern period.

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