DOGS – A LOVE STORY- IELTS Reading Answers

Reading Passage

DOGS – A LOVE STORY

Questions 28-31

28 Which paragraph explains how dogs became different in appearance from wolves?

29 Which paragraph describes the classification of dogs into many different types?

30 Which paragraph states the basic similarity between wolves and dogs?

31 Which paragraph gives examples of greater human concern for animals than for people?

Questions 32-35

A In a typical camp, there were many more wolves than humans.

B Neither the wolves nor the humans lived in one place for long.

C Some wolves learned to obey human leaders,

D Humans chose the most dangerous wolves to help them hunt.

E There was very little for early humans to eat.

F Wolves got food from early humans.

G Wolves started living with humans when agriculture began.

H Early humans especially liked very young wolves.

Questions 36-40

Used by

A the Greeks

B the French

C the Egyptians

D the Romans

E the English

F the Native Americans

36 in war

37 as a source of energy

38 as food

39 to hunt other animals

40 to work with farm animals

Reading Answers 

28 Answer: F

Question type: Matching information

Answer location: Paragraph F, first four lines

Answer explanation: “Over the millennia, admission of certain wolves and proto-dogs into human camps and exclusion of larger, more threatening ones led to the development of people-friendly breeds distinguishable from wolves by size, shape, coat, ears, and markings. Dogs were generally smaller than wolves, their snouts proportionally reduced.” This clearly explains how dogs started evolving from the wolves and how their appearance changed.

29 Answer: J

Question type: Matching information

Answer location: Paragraph J, lines 1-5

Answer explanation: “By the late nineteenth century the passion for breeding led to the creation of private registries to protect prized bloodlines. The Kennel Club was formed in England in 1873, and eleven years later the American Kennel Club (AKC) was formed across the Atlantic. “Today the AKC registers 150 breeds, the Kennel Club lists 196, and the Europe—based Fédération Cynologique Internationale recognizes many more.” This suggests the classification of dogs into various breeds.

30 Answer: A

Question type: Matching information

Answer location: Paragraph A, lines 1-3

Answer explanation: “Genetic studies show that dogs evolved from wolves and remain as similar to the creatures from which they came as humans with different physical characteristics are to each Other, which is to say not much different at all.” This clearly shows that there is a close similarity between dogs and wolves.

31 Answer: I

Question type: Matching information

Answer location: Paragraph I, lines 4-7

Answer explanation: “‘Unnecessary’ dogs meanwhile gained status among English royalty. King James I was said to love his dogs more than his subjects. Charles II was famous for playing with his dog at the Council table, and his brother Lames had dogs at sea in 1682 when his ship was caught in a storm. As sailors drowned, he allegedly cried out, ‘Save the dogs and Colonel Churchill?” This suggests how dogs were loved and cared for more than humans by the English royals.

32 Answer: B

Question type: Matching information

Answer location: Paragraph B, lines 2-7

Answer explanation: “Wolf and early human fossils have been found close together from as far back as 400,000 years ago, but dog and human fossils date back only about 14,000 years, all of which puts wolves and/or dogs in the company of a man or his progenitors before the development of farming and permanent human settlements, at a time when both species survived on what they could scratch out hunting or scavenging.” This suggests that the humans didn’t have a permanent settlement and hence, both the wolves and the humans had to roam around various places to scout for the food.

33 Answer: C

Question type: Matching information

Answer location: Paragraph E, lines 3-6

Answer explanation: “Through those pores slipped smaller or less threatening wolves, which from living in packs where alpha bosses reigned would know the tricks of subservience and could adapt to humans in charge.” This suggests how wolves adapted to be subservient and obedient to the commands of humans.

34 Answer: F

Question type: Matching information

Answer location: Paragraph D, lines 1-6

Answer explanation: “Certain wolves or proto-dogs may have worked their way close to the fire ring after smelling something good to eat, then into early human gatherings by proving helpful or unthreatening. As wandering packs of twenty-five or thirty wolves and clans of like numbered nomadic humans roamed the landscape in tandem, hunting big game, the animals hung around campsites scavenging leftovers, and the humans might have used the wolves’ superior scenting ability and speed to locate and track prospective kills.” This shows that the wolves used to cooperate with humans as they used to get food from them and in return, humans benefited from the wolves/proto dogs in various ways as well.

35 Answer: H

Question type: Matching information

Answer location: Paragraph E, lines 6-7

Answer explanation: “Puppies, in particular, would be hard to resist, as they are today. This was a union born and a process of domestication began.” This shows that puppies were greatly adored by the humans.

36 Answer: D

Question type: Matching features

Answer location: Paragraph H, lines 2-5

Answer explanation: “Three hundred years later, Roman warriors trained large dogs for battle. The brutes could knock an armed man from his horse and dismember him.” This states the Romans used and exploited the dogs for wars and battles.

37 Answer: E

Question type: Matching features

Answer location: Paragraph I, lines 1-3

Answer explanation: “In seventeenth-century England, dogs still worked, pulling carts, sleds, and plows, herding livestock or working as turn-spits, powering wheels that turned beef and venison over open fires.” This implies that the English used to put dogs into use as a source of energy to pull the carts and sleds, etc.

38 Answer: F

Question type: Matching features

Answer location: Paragraph F, last line

Answer explanation: “Native Americans among others ate puppies, and in some societies, it remains accepted practice.” This suggests that the Native Americans used to feast on the dogs, especially puppies.

39 Answer: A

Question type: Matching features

Answer location: Paragraph H, lines 1-2

Answer explanation: “In ancient Greece, 350 years before Christ, Aristotle described three types of domesticated dogs, including speedy Laconians used by the rich to chase and kill rabbits and deer.” This suggests that Greece used dogs to hunt animals such as rabbits and deers.

40 Answer: E

Question type: Matching features

Answer location: Paragraph I, lines 1-3

Answer explanation: “In seventeenth-century England, dogs still worked, pulling carts, sleds, and plows, herding livestock or working as turn-spits, powering wheels that turned beef and venison over open fires.” This suggests that the English used them to rear livestock and for taking care of farm animals.

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