Here are the answers for the IELTS Reading passage "The Kākāpō," which is from Cambridge IELTS 20 Test 1 Passage 1.
### Answers and Explanations
#### Questions 1-6: TRUE / FALSE / NOT GIVEN
1. FALSE - The passage explicitly states the kakapo is "the world's only flightless parrot". This directly contradicts the claim that there are other parrots that share this inability.
2. FALSE - The text says kakapo "breed in summer and autumn, but only in years when food is plentiful," meaning they do not breed every year.
3. FALSE - The passage clearly notes that "Males play no part in incubation or chick-rearing".
4. NOT GIVEN - While the text mentions both Polynesian settlers and the Polynesian rat as threats to the kakapo, it does not compare the severity of these threats.
5. TRUE - The passage states that "predation by feral cats on Rakiura Island led to a rapid decline in kakapo numbers," and as a result, the surviving population was moved to island sanctuaries.
6. TRUE - The text lists "rescuing and hand-raising any failing chicks" as a key part of the successful Recovery Plan.
#### Questions 7-13: Note Completion
7. bulbs - The passage lists the kakapo's diet as including "leaves, roots and bark of trees as well as bulbs, and fern fronds".
8. soil - The eggs "are laid in soil".
9. feathers - The early settlers "used its feathers to make soft cloaks".
10. deer - European colonizers introduced species like "deer [which] depleted the remaining forests of food".
11. 1980 - The year when the presence of female kakapo on Rakiura Island was confirmed.
12. funding - The new Recovery Plan came with "a higher amount of funding".
13. stakeholders - A current goal of the Recovery Plan is to "ensure stakeholders continue to be fully engaged in the preservation of the species".