Geoengineering: Carbon Capture & Solar Radiation Management
A high-level gapped-text reading task designed to develop the exact cohesion, logic and argument-tracking skills required in C1 Advanced Reading & Use of English Part 7. This resource explores one of the most challenging and topical global issues now appearing in Cambridge exams: the use of large-scale technological interventions to fight climate change.
 
Students must reconstruct a complex academic article by identifying how ideas, arguments and perspectives connect across paragraphs.
 
What’s inside
✔   A full-length C1-style article on geoengineering
✔   6 missing paragraphs and 1 extra paragraph (A–G) to match into the text
✔   6 exam-style questions (Q41–46)
✔   A detailed answer key explaining cohesion, contrast, and logical flow
✔   Clean, classroom-ready PDF
 
Why this resource works
Part 7 is not about vocabulary alone. It tests whether students can follow how ideas develop across a text.
 
This task trains them to:
recognise cause and consequence
track argument vs counter-argument
identify contrast and clarification
follow ethical and policy-based reasoning
interpret academic discourse markers
These are precisely the skills Cambridge rewards at CEFR-C1 level.
 
Train students to look for:
linking references (this, such, these, it)
contrast markers (however, in contrast, nevertheless)
logical progression (cause → effect → implication)
These are the keys to mastering Part 7 and this text is designed to make them visible.