IELTS Academic Reading ‘A song on the brain’ Answers

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Updated On Aug 14, 2024

A song on the brain
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The Academic passage ‘A song on the brain’ is a reading passage that appeared in an IELTS Test.

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A song on the brain

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Question Number	Answers	Keywords	Location of Keywords
1.	B	The brain is better at holding onto information, at knowing what information is important.	Paragraph B, Lines 2-3
2.	A	Superficial, repetitive pop tunes, more likely to stick than something more inventive.	Paragraph C, Last 2 lines
3.	D	Asked volunteers to replay, theme from the TV show Dallas in their heads.	Paragraph D, Lines 4-6
4.	E	Students who heard a history text set as the lyrics to a catchy song, remembered the words better	Paragraph H, Lines 3-5
5.	D	‘Chunking’, people remember musical phrases as a single unit of memory	Paragraph G, First 3 lines
6.	F	May even explain the origin of music, people memorised it in songs	Paragraph I, First 3 lines
7.	B	But it can become fatigued or depressing, most commonly suffer from song-in-head syndrome	Paragraph E, First 5 lines
8.	I	To unite society and to standardise the thought processes of people in society.’	Paragraph I, Last 2 lines
9.	G	A phenomenon called ‘chunking’, the tunes of pop music than by those of a classical composer	Paragraph G
10.	E	‘The more you try to suppress a thought, the more you get it,’ the pink elephant phenomenon.	Paragraph E, Last 4 lines
11.	D	Playback probably originates in the auditory cortex, front of the brain	Paragraph D, First 2 lines
12.	A	A pop song on the radio, read the song’s title and it haunts you for hours	Paragraph A, First 3 lines
13.	F	Those not severely afflicted, avoiding certain kinds of music can help	Paragraph F, First 4 lines

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