IELTS Reading Practice Test 05 with Answers – What is a Dinosaur?, Doesn’t that Sound Terribly Yellow to You?
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The IELTS Reading passage, Global Warming, along with the other two IELTS Academic Reading passages – What is a Dinosaur? and Doesn’t that Sound Terribly Yellow to You?, make this a complete IELTS Reading practice test. You will have 60 minutes to complete the whole test, which consists of 40 questions in total.
Here are the question types in this reading test:
- IELTS Reading Multiple Choice Question
- IELTS Reading Yes/No/ Not Given
- IELTS Reading Sentence Completion
- IELTS Reading Matching Headings to Paragraph
- IELTS Reading Matching Features
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Reading Passage 1
Find the practice test with the Global Warming PDF here.
Global Warming
Questions 1-5
Choose the appropriate letters A-D.
Write them next to 1-5 on your answer sheet.
1 The author …
A believes that man is causing global warming
B believes that global warming is a natural process
C is sure what the causes of global warming are
D does not say what he believes the causes of global warming are
2 As to the cause of global warming, the author believes that …
A occasionally the fact depends on who you are talking to
B the facts always depend on who you are talking to
C often the fact depends on which expert you listen to
D you should not speak to experts
3 More than 80% of the top meteorologists in the United States are of the opinion that…
A global warming should make us lose sleep
B global warming is not the result of oil natural cyclical changes, but man-made
C the consequences of global warming will be deviating
D global warming is not man-made, but the result of natural cyclical changes.
4 Our understanding of the weather…
A leads to reliable predictions
B is variable
C cannot be denied
D is not very developed yet
5 Currently, Dr. James Hansen’s beliefs include the fact that …
A. It is nearly impossible to predict weather change using artificial models
B. the consequences of global warming would be disastrous in mankind
C. there is a significant link between the climate now, mid man’s changing of the atmosphere
D. Earth is getting colder
Questions 6-11
Do the statements below agree with the information in Reading Passage 1? In Boxes 6-11, write:
YES, if the statement agrees with the information in the passage
NO, if the statement contradicts the information in the passage
NOT GIVEN, if there is no information about the statement in the passage
| Example: Computer-based weather models have become more sophisticated. Answer: Yes. |
6 At the same time that computer-based weather models have become more sophisticated, weather forecasters have become more expert.
7 Most of the increase in global temperature happened in the second half of the twentieth century.
8 The media wants us to blame ourselves for global warming.
9 The media encourages the public to use environment-friendly vehicles, such as electric cars to combat global warming.
10 Environmentalists are very effective at persuading people to be kind to the environment.
11 Many big businesses are on the side of the sceptics as regards the cause of global warming.
Questions 12 and 13
Complete the sentences below.
Use NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS from the passage for each blank space.
Write your answers in blank spaces next to 12 and 13 on your answer sheet.
12 As well as planting trees and not driving, the environmentalist would like us to choose products that are wrapped________________and can be used more than once.
13 Big businesses would have us believe that we are making too much fuss about global warming because they have the ___________________.
Question 14
Choose the appropriate letter A-D and write it next to 14 on your answer sheet
14 Which of these is the best title for this text?
A Global Warming is for real
B Global warming – media hype or a genuine threat?
C Weather changes over the last 100 years
D Global Warming – the greatest threat to mankind
Reading Passage 2
You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 15-28, which are based on Reading Passage 2 below. Find the practice test with the What is a Dinosaur? PDF here.
What is a dinosaur?
Questions 15-21
Reading Passage 2 has 8 paragraphs (A-H).
Choose the most suitable heading for each paragraph from the list of headings below.
Write the appropriate numbers (i-xiii) in Boxes 15-21 on your answer sheet.
One of the headings has been done for you as an example.
NB. There are more headings than paragraphs, so you will not use all of them.
15 Paragraph A
16 Paragraph B
17 Paragraph C
18 Paragraph D
19 Paragraph E
20 Paragraph F
21 Paragraph G
| Example: Paragraph H,
Answer: x |
List of headings
i. 165 million years
ii. The body plan of archosaurs
iii. Dinosaurs – terrible lizards
iv. Classification according to pelvic anatomy
v. The suborders of Saurischia
vi. Lizards and dinosaurs – two distinct super orders
vii. Unique body plan helps identify dinosaurs from other animals
viii. Herbivore dinosaurs
ix. Lepldosaurs
x. Prills and shelves
xi. The origins of dinosaurs and lizards
xii. bird-hipped dinosaurs
xiii. Skull bones distinguish dinosaurs from other archosaurs
Questions 22-24
Complete the sentences below.
Use NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS from the passage for each blank space.
Write your answers in blank spaces next to 22-24 on your answer sheet.
22 Lizards and dinosaurs arc classified into two different superorders because of the difference in their__________.
23 In the Triassic Period, ________________ evolved into thecodonts, for example, lizards and snakes.
24 Dinosaur skulls differed from those of any other known animals because of the presence of vomers:______________.
Questions 25-28
Choose one phrase (A-H) from the list of features to match with the Dinosaurs listed below.
Write the appropriate letters (A-H) In Boxes 25-28 on your answer sheet.
The information in the completed sentences should be an accurate summary of the points made by the writer.
NB There are more phrases (A-H) than sentences, so you will not need to use them all.
You may use each phrase once only.
Dinosaurs
25 Dinosaurs differed from lizards, because…
26 Saurischian and ornithischian dinosaurs…
27 Unlike theropods, sauropodomorphs…
28 Some dinosaurs used their tails to balance, others…
List of features
A are both divided into two orders.
B the former had a “fully improved gait”.
C was not usually very heavy.
D could walk or run on their back legs.
E their hind limbs sprawled out to the side.
F walked or ran on four legs, rather than two.
G both had a pelvic girdle comprising six bones.
H did not always eat meat.
Reading Passage 3
You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 29-40, which are based on Reading Passage 3 below. Find the practice test with the Doesn’t that sound terribly yellow to you? PDF here.
Doesn’t that sound terribly yellow to you?
Questions 29-32
Do the statements below agree with the information in Reading Passage 3? In Boxes 29-32, write:
YES, if the statement agrees with the Information in the passage
NO, if the statement contradicts the information in the passage
NOT GIVEN, if there is no information about the statement in the passage
|
Example: The writer is colour blind, Answer: No. |
29 Synesthetes experience several senses at the same time.
30 Newspaper articles and TV news reports about synaesthesia arc appearing with monotonous regularity nowadays.
31 Mention of synaesthesia can be traced back to the 17th century.
32 It is strange that many people are sceptical about synaesthesia.
Question 33-36
Choose the appropriate letter A-D.
Write them next to 33-36 on your answer sheet.
33 Sonet Lumiere shows …
A attempted to combine public senses
B were frequent in the 19th century
C were both public and involuntary
D did not reproduce the experiences of synaesthetes
34 Both Alexander Scriabin and Rimsky-Korsakov …
A wanted to have synaesthetic abilities
B created a lot of documents
C linked music to colour
D agreed with Bliss in 1922
35 The Russian artist, Wassily Kandinsky, …
A performed Wagner’s Lohengrin
B found abstract painting
C also composed music
D saw objects
36 At first, “sufferers” of synaesthesia believe that …
A other people have similar experiences or there is something wrong with them
B they are a revelation
C they are psychologically or mentally superior
D they are unique
Questions 37-40
According to the reading passage.
Write the appropriate letters in Boxes 37-40 on your answer sheet.
Which of the following statements are true about synaesthetes?
A Some synaesthetes are disoriented by their abilities.
B Unusually, some synaesthetes hove great creativity.
C Memory is heightened by synaesthesia.
D Synaesthetes have gilts and drawbacks.
E Some synaesthetes use their ability to help themselves.
F Their ability can be an obstacle to them.
G Some synaesthetes write in colour.
37…………………
38…………………
39…………………
40…………………
Answers
Now it’s time to check the answers to the above questions from the passages in the reading section of IELTS Academic and get an idea of how you need to improve for a high IELTS Reading band score.
Reading Passage 1
1. Answer: D
Question Type: Multiple Choice Questions
Answer location: Paragraph A, line 1 & 3
Answer explanation: If you read clearly, it is mentioned that “day after day, we hear about how anthropogenic development is causing global warming.” Also, “it seems – as so often is the ease – that it depends on which expert you listen to, or which statistics you study.” Here, the author does not say what he believes. Therefore, option A and B are incorrect, because the writer says; … we hear about…; not that he believes it one way or the other. Nor does the text state whether he is sure or not as in, therefore option C is also incorrect. The answer is in the last sentence of the first paragraph. The key phrase is the idea of global warming depends on which expert you listen to, or which statistics you study.
2. Answer: C
Question Type: Multiple Choice Questions
Answer location: Paragraph A, last line
Answer explanation: The answer is in paragraph A, it says, “it seems – as so often is the ease – that it depends on which expert you listen to, or which statistics you study.” From this information, we can deduce that author believes that individuals’ beliefs are based on which expert they follow (listen to).
3. Answer: D
Question Type: Multiple Choice Questions
Answer location: Paragraph B, last line
Answer explanation: In the said paragraph, you can refer to, “an analysis of the views of major meteorologists in the United States showed that less than 20% of them believed that any change in temperature over the last hundred years was our own fault – the rest attributed it to natural cyclical changes.” From the given information we can infer that 20% and fewer top meteorologists in the United States argued that any change in atmosphere in last 100 years is because of human faults. Also, the rest attributed it to natural cyclical changes, which implies 80% of the top meteorologists believed that global warming is not man-made, but the result of natural cyclical changes.
4. Answer: D
Question Type: Multiple Choice Questions
Answer location: Paragraph C, line 1
Answer explanation: The opening line of paragraph C suggests that “there is, of course, no denying that we are still at a very early stage in understanding weather.” Here, the author is providing the information that we are still at a very early stage in understanding weather. If we are still in the early stage of understanding the weather, we can imply that our understanding of weather is not very developed yet.
5. Answer: C
Question Type: Multiple Choice Questions
Answer location: Paragraph C, line 1
Answer explanation: If you observe, in the said paragraph Dr James Hansen, “in 19BH, was predicting that the likely effects of global warming would be a raising of the world temperature which would have disastrous consequences for mankind: “a strong cause arid effect relationship between the current climate and human alteration of the atmosphere”.” He predicts that rising world temperature (climate) would have a devastating effect on humans and this change in atmosphere is due to the relationship between the current climate and human alteration of the atmosphere.
6. Answer: NOT GIVEN
Question Type: Yes/No/Not Given Questions
Answer location: N/A
Answer explanation: None of the passages confirms or denies that at the same time that computer-based weather models have become more sophisticated, weather forecasters have become more expert.
7. Answer: NO
Question Type: Yes/No/Not Given Questions
Answer location: Paragraph B, line 1
Answer explanation: If you read thoroughly, there’s a line in the said paragraph that describes “yes, it is true that there is a mass of evidence to indicate that the world is getting warmer, with one of the world’s leading weather predictors stating that air temperatures have frown an increase of just under half a degree Celsius since the beginning of the twentieth century.” Thus, most of the temperature rise ( greater percentage of temperature rise) occurred in the beginning (1st half) of the twentieth century.
8. Answer: YES
Question Type: Yes/No/Not Given Questions
Answer location: Paragraph E, line 1
Answer explanation: A line in the paragraph denotes “so should we pay any attention to those stories that scream out at us from billboards and television news headlines, claiming that man, with his inexhaustible dependence on oil-based machinery and ever more sophisticated forms of transport is creating a nightmare level of greenhouse gas emissions, poisoning his environment and ripping open the ozone layer?” Here, stories that scream out at us from billboards and television news headlines presented by media, claiming that man, with his inexhaustible dependence on oil-based machinery and evermore, (for causing greenhouse gas emissions, poisoning the environment, and ripping open the ozone layer) is to be blamed for global warming –
9. Answer: NOT GIVEN
Question Type: Yes/No/Not Given Questions
Answer location: N/A
Answer explanation: None of the passages confirms or denies that the media encourages the public to use environment-friendly vehicles, such as electric cars to combat global warming.
10. Answer: NOT GIVEN
Question Type: Yes/No/Not Given Questions
Answer location: N/A
Answer explanation: None of the passages confirms or denies that environmentalists are very effective at persuading people to be kind to the environment.
11. Answer: YES
Question Type: Yes/No/Not Given Questions
Answer location: Paragraph E, 2nd last line
Answer explanation: A line in the passage mentions that “Or the sceptics, including, of course, a lot of big businesses who have most to lose, when they tell us that we are making a mountain out of a molehill? And my own opinion? The jury’s still out as for as I am concerned!” This information confirms that many big businesses are on the side of the sceptics because they have most to lose.
12. Answer: in recycled paper
Question Type: Sentence Completion
Answer location: Paragraph E, line 3
Answer explanation: In the said paragraph, you can point out that “who, then, to believe: the environmentalist exhorting us to leave the car at home, to buy re-usable products packaged in recycled paper and to plant trees in our back yard?” The term plant trees have been paraphrased to planting trees and leaving a car at home has been paraphrased to not driving. Also, the environmentalist would like us to choose products that are wrapped (packed) in recycled paper.
13. Answer: most to lose
Question Type: Sentence Completion
Answer location: Paragraph E, 2nd last line
Answer explanation: Paragraph E puts forward the information that “or the sceptics, including, of course, a lot of big businesses who have most to lose, when they tell us that we are making a mountain out of a molehill? And my own opinion? The jury’s still out as for as I am concerned!” Big businesses would have us believe that we are making too much fuss about global warming because they have most to lose.
14. Answer: B
Question Type: Multiple choice Questions
Answer location: Complete Paragraph
Answer explanation: The writer wrote the passage to show that the issue of global warming is often exaggerated by the press. The other titles refer to only parts of the text. You would be wise to leave this question until you have answered all the other questions so that you have a better feel for the text.
What is a Dinosaur Reading Answers (Passage 2)
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15. Answer: vi
Question Type: Matching Headings
Answer location: Paragraph A, line 3
Answer explanation: The answer is clearly mentioned in the said paragraph and line. In the passage, it is said that “however, at the next level of classification, within reptiles, significant differences in the skeletal anatomy of lizards and dinosaurs have led scientists to place these groups of animals into two different superorders: Lepidosauria, or lepidosaurs, and Archosauria, or archosaurs.” This passage discusses two distinct superorders of reptiles – lizards and dinosaurs.
16. Answer: xi
Question Type: Matching Headings
Answer location: Paragraph B, line 3
Answer explanation: Paragraph B suggests that “Palaeontologists believe that both dinosaurs and crocodiles evolved, in the later years of the Triassic Period (c, 248-208 million years ago), front creatures tailed pseudosuchian thecodonts. Lizards, snakes and different types of thecodont are believed to have evolved earlier in the Triadic Period from reptiles known as Eosuchians.” This passage discusses how dinosaurs and crocodiles evolved from 248-208 million years ago. And Lizards, snakes and different types of thecodont evolved earlier from reptiles known as Eosuchians. Hence, we can infer that this passage discusses the origin of dinosaurs and lizards.
17. Answer: xiii
Question Type: Matching Headings
Answer location: Paragraph C, line
Answer explanation: A few lines in said paragraph discuss that “the most important skeletal differences between dinosaurs and other archosaurs are in the bones of the skull, pelvis, and limbs.” This passage focuses on how to identify dinosaurs and archosaurs based on their skull-bones differences.
18. Answer: vii
Question Type: Matching Headings
Answer location: Paragraph D, line 2
Answer explanation: If you read thoroughly, the author in the given paragraph mentions that “identification of this plan makes it possible to differentiate dinosaurs from any other types of animal, even other archosaurs.” Also, “This unique combination of features gave dinosaurs what is known as a “fully improved gait”. Evolution of this highly efficient method of walking also developed in mammals, but among reptiles, it occurred only in dinosaurs.” Hence, we can infer that a unique body plan helps identify dinosaurs from other animals, even other archosaurs.
19. Answer: iv
Question Type: Matching Headings
Answer location: Paragraph E, line 1
Answer explanation: In the reference paragraph, the author mentions that “for the purpose of further classification, dinosaurs are divided into two orders: Saurischia, or saurischian dinosaurs, and Ornithischia, or ornithischian dinosaurs. This division is made on the basis of their pelvic anatomy.” The term division has been paraphrased to classification. Hence, we can infer that further classification is made on the basis (according) to pelvic anatomy.
20. Answer: v
Question Type: Matching Headings
Answer location: Paragraph F, line 1
Answer explanation: Paragraph F puts forward the information that “of the two orders of dinosaurs, the Saurischia was the larger and the first to evolve. It is divided into two suborders: Therapoda, or therapods, and Sauropodomorpha, or sauropodomorphs.” The term suborder infers a division. Thus, the two orders (suborders) of dinosaurs, the Saurischia.
21. Answer: viii
Question Type: Matching Headings
Answer location: Paragraph G, line
Answer explanation: In the said paragraph, you can find out that “ornithischian dinosaurs were bipedal or quadrupedal herbivores.” Thus, we can deduce that this passage discusses herbivore dinosaurs.
22. Answer: skeletal anatomy
Question Type: Sentence Completion
Answer location: Paragraph A, last line
Answer explanation: According to the last line of paragraph A, “at the next level of classification, within reptiles, significant differences in the skeletal anatomy of lizards and dinosaurs have led scientists to place these groups of animals into two different superorders: Lepidosauria, or lepidosaurs, and Archosauria, or archosaurs.” Term classification has been paraphrased to a different order in question. There are two different superorders because of the difference in their skeletal anatomy.
23. Answer: eosuchians
Question Type: Sentence Completion
Answer location: Paragraph B, last line
Answer explanation: In the reference paragraph, the author mentions that “lizards, snakes and different types of thecodont are believed to have evolved earlier in the Triassic Period from reptiles known as eosuchians.” In Triassic Period eosuchians reptiles evolved into different types of thecodont, like, lizards, snakes.
24. Answer: two long bones
Question Type: Sentence Completion
Answer location: Paragraph C, line 3
Answer explanation: In the said paragraph, you can find out that “however, unlike the skulls of any other known animals, the skulls of dinosaurs had two long bones known as vomers.” Thus, we can state that the dinosaur skull is different from other animals because dinosaurs have two long bones.
25. Answer: B
Question Type: Matching features
Answer location: Paragraph D, last line
Answer explanation: At the end of paragraph E it is given that “this unique combination of features gave dinosaurs what is known as a “fully improved gait“. Evolution of this highly efficient method of walking also developed in mammals, but among reptiles, it occurred only in dinosaurs.” Hence, dinosaurs are different from lizards because they have a fully improved gait.
26. Answer: G
Question Type: Matching features
Answer location: Paragraph E, line 3
Answer explanation: If you read thoroughly, a line in the said paragraph discusses that “all dinosaurs had a pelvic girdle with each side comprised of three bones: the pubis, ilium, and ischium.“ As all dinosaurs had a pelvic girdle, we can deduce that Saurischian and ornithischian dinosaurs also have pelvic girdles.
27. Answer: H
Question Type: Matching features
Answer location: Paragraph F, line 6
Answer explanation: The answer is clearly mentioned in the said paragraph and line. In the passage, it is said that “the therapods, or “beast feet”, were bipedal, predatory carnivores. Some sauropodomorphs were carnivorous or omnivorous but later species were typically herbivorous.” Since it is mentioned that sauropodomorphs were carnivorous (who eat meat) and later developed as herbivorous (who eat plants), we can conclude that unlike therapods, sauropodomorphs dinosaurs did not always eat meat.
28. Answer: F
Question Type: Matching features
Answer location: Paragraph G, line 3
Answer explanation: The answer is clearly mentioned in the said paragraph and line “the ornithopods, or “bird feet”, both large and small, could walk or run on their long hind legs, balancing their body by holding their tails stiffly off the ground behind them.” This line confirms that some dinosaurs used their tails to balance, and walked or ran on their long hind legs.
Doesn’t that Sound Terribly Yellow to You Reading Answers (Passage 3)
29. Answer: YES
Question Type: Yes/No/Not Given Questions
Answer location: Paragraph B, last line
Answer explanation: If you read clearly, it is given that “Son et lumière shows in the 19th century were an attempt at combining the senses in a public display, but such displays were not capable of conveying the sensations experienced by involuntary synaesthesia, as the ability which a synaesthete’s experience is called.” Hence, we can infer that synaesthetes experience many different senses at the same time (such as some people confuses between colour and words) because each individual has a different perception when it comes to involuntary synaesthesia.
30. Answer: NOT GIVEN
Question Type: Yes/No/Not Given Questions
Answer location: N/A
Answer explanation: None of the passages confirms or denies that newspaper articles and TV news reports about synaesthesia are appearing with monotonous regularity nowadays.
31. Answer: YES
Question Type: Yes/No/Not Given Questions
Answer location: Paragraph C, line 1 and Paragraph B, line 1
Answer explanation: The opening line of paragraph C suggests that “there has been a number of well-documented synaesthetes. Alexander Scriabin, the Russian composer, (1871-1915) tried to express his own synaesthetic abilities in his symphony Prometheus, the Poem of Fire (1922).” Also, “in 1690, John Locke, the philosopher, wrote of a blind man with synaesthetic capabilities.” Hence, synaesthesia can be traced back to the 17th century through John Locke’s work in 1690 (17th century).
32. Answer: NO
Question Type: Yes/No/Not Given Questions
Answer location: Paragraph D, line 4
Answer explanation: In the said paragraph, you can refer to, “for many people with synaesthesia, knowing that what they have been experiencing has both a name and a history and that they are among a number of notable sufferers is a revelation, Initially, they often feel that there is something wrong psychologically or mentally, or that everyone feds that way.” Therefore, we can imply that synaesthesia is understandably met with a certain degree of scepticism since it is something beyond the ken of the vast majority of people.
33. Answer: A
Question Type: Multiple Choice Questions
Answer location: Paragraph B, last line
Answer explanation: The answer is in paragraph B, where it is given that “Son et lumière shows in the 19th century were an attempt at combining the senses in a public display, but such displays were not capable of conveying the sensations experienced by involuntary synaesthesia, as the ability which a synaesthete’s experience is called.” Hence, it is true that Sonet Lumiere shows attempted to combine the senses in a public display.
34. Answer: C
Question Type: Multiple Choice Questions
Answer location: Paragraph C, line 2
Answer explanation: You can note the paraphrasing here. In the passage, it states that “Alexander Scriabin, the Russian composer, (1871-1915) tried to express his own synaesthetic abilities in his symphony Prometheus, the Poem of Fire (1922). And another Russian, Rlmsky-Korsakov, noted the colour associations musical keys possessed. For example, Scriabin saw C major as red, while to Rimsky-Korsakov it was white. ” Synaesthetic abilities mean the subjective sensation of a sense other than the one being stimulated, such as, being able to associate words with colours. Thus, we can deduce that Alexander Scriabin and Rlmsky-Korsakov, the Russian composers linked (associated) music keys with colours.
35. Answer: B
Question Type: Multiple Choice Questions
Answer location: Paragraph C, last line
Answer explanation: If you read thoroughly, there’s a line in the said paragraph that describes “in the field of the visual arts, probably the best-known artist with synaesthetic capabilities is the Russian artist, Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944), credited with being the founder of abstract painting.” Since it is mentioned that they credited him as founder of abstract paining we can deduce that he found abstract painting.
36. Answer: A
Question Type: Multiple Choice Questions
Answer location: Paragraph D, line 4
Answer explanation: A line in the paragraph denotes “for many people with synaesthesia, knowing that what they have been experiencing has both a name and a history and that they are among a number of notable sufferers is a revelation, Initially, they often feel that there is something wrong psychologically or mentally, or that everyone feds that way.” Hence, we can infer that sufferers of synaesthesia believe that other people have similar experiences or there is something wrong with them (often feel that there is something wrong psychologically or mentally).
37. Answer: A (A, C, E, F : in any order)
Question Type: Multiple Choice Questions
Answer location: Paragraph E, line 1
Answer explanation: Paragraph E puts forward the information that “while the condition of synaesthesia may hamper many people because of its disorienting effects.” Hence, one of the traits of synaesthetes is that people who are suffering from these conditions often have disorienting effects on their abilities.
38. Answer: C (A, C, E, F : in any order)
Question Type: Multiple Choice Questions
Answer location: Paragraph E, line 2
Answer explanation: Paragraph E also suggests that “it can also open up a range of new skills, it is not unusual for people who have synaesthesia to be creative and imaginative, as many studies have shown, memory is based to some extent on the association. Synacsthctes find they are able to remember certain things with great ease.” Thus, people who have synaesthesia often associate their memory with creative imagination and this association gives them with a good memory
39. Answer: E (A, C, E, F : in any order)
Question Type: Multiple Choice Questions
Answer location: Paragraph E, line 4
Answer explanation: If you read thoroughly there is a passage that claims ” It can also open up a range of new skills, it is not unusual for people who have synaesthesia to be creative and imaginative, as many studies have shown, memory is based to some extent on the association. Synacsthctes find they are able to remember certain things with great ease. The person who associates the shape of a word with colour is quite often able to remember a long sequence of words, and the same goes for other areas where memory needs to be used.” From this information, we can deduce that due to their ability to be creative sysnasthetes often have a range of new skills.
40. Answer: F (A, C, E, F : in any order)
Question Type: Multiple Choice Questions
Answer location: Paragraph E, last line
Answer explanation: The author in the last part of paragraph E claims that “beautiful though such a reading experience may be, synaesthesia can cause problems with both reading and writing, Reading can take longer because one has to wade through all the colours, as well as the words! And, because the colour sequences, as well as the words, have to fit together writing is then equally difficult.” Hence, their ability can become an obstacle to them because this condition causes them problems with both reading and writing. Writing is difficult because they write in colour.
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