IELTS Academic Reading ‘Play Is a Serious Business’ Answers

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Updated On Aug 14, 2024

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The Academic passage ‘Play Is a Serious Business’ is a reading passage that appeared in an IELTS Test.

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Play is a Serious Business

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Question Number	Answers	Keywords	Location of Keywords
27.	H	Activate higher cognitive processes, improved potential for learning	Paragraph H
28.	F	Young animals, devotes to play, its development	Paragraph F
29.	A	Can even cost animals their lives, eighty per cent	Paragraph A
30.	H	Play, activate higher cognitive processes, improved potential for learning	Paragraph H
31.	I	Denied the chance to play, who knows what the result	Paragraph I
32.	B	Among mammals, helps juveniles develop	Paragraph B
33.	(in any order) A	Helps juveniles develop the skills, as adults	Paragraph B, Last 4 lines
34.	(in any order) C	there’s the skills- training hypothesis. At first glance, playing animals do appear to be practising the complex manoeuvres they will need in adulthood.	Paragraph D
35.	(in any order) F	helps juveniles develop the skills they will need to hunt, mate and socialise. young animals to get in shape for adult life by improving their respiratory endurance.	Paragraph B
36.	B	Learning, environmental data, development	Paragraph E, Last 2 lines
37.	G	Complex assessments, greater behavioural flexibility	Paragraph H, First 6 lines
38.	E	Lost by adulthood, doesn’t work like that	Paragraph C
39.	D	Large brains, more play	Paragraph E, Last 4 lines
40.	A	Play, particular chemical	Paragraph H, Last 5 lines

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