Learning by Examples – IELTS Reading Answers

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The Academic passage ‘Learning by Examples’ is a reading passage that appeared in an IELTS Test.

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Learning by Examples

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The answers to questions 1-13 are given below along with their explanations.

Question Number	Answer	Keywords	Locations of Keywords
1	D	Urban black rats, lack the skill, unable to learn it, infants, urban mothers, acquired the skill	Para D, first 3 lines
2	A	Ivan Pavlov, discovered, principles, animals, learn, 1900s	Para A, first 2 lines
3	C	investigation, directed at, what was eating, pine seeds, how, get them out, cones	Para C, lines 2-4
4	E	The cost, less than 10%, energetic value, cone, acceptable profit margin	Para E, last 2 lines
5	FALSE	directed, finding out, eating, pine seeds, how, get them out of the cones	Para C, lines 3-4
6	TRUE	bite, cone scale, base to tip	Para C, last 2 lines
7	TRUE	rather, photocopier, can work out how to use, someone, shown, how to switch it on	Para D, lines 6-7
8	FALSE	Urban black rats were found to lack the skill	Para D, line 1
9	less	Jay, cache food, less dependent upon this	Para F, line 5
10	social	Jay forages in social groups	Para F, last line
11	watched	while watched, observer bird	Para G, line 4
12	observer	Jay observers, successful, Jay cachers, nutcracker observers, no better	Para G, lines 7-8
13	nutcracker	Jay observers, successful, Jay cachers, nutcracker observers, no better	Para G, lines 7-8

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