A Bad Image Not Justified – IELTS Reading Answers
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A Bad Image Not Justified
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The answers to questions 1-16 are given below along with their explanations.
Question Number | Answer | Keywords | Locations of Keywords |
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1 | Redeeming features | possess no redeeming features whatsoever | Para 2, line 1 |
2 | They overreact | we generally tend to overreact | Para 2, line 3 |
3 | A bad name | The problem, two, three species give the rest, bad name | Para 3, line 1 |
4 | Redress the balance | necessary to redress the balance | Para 4 |
5 | order/insect order | bees, ants, wasps form, insect order hymenoptera | Para 5, line 1 |
6 | problem(s) | The former need not concern us, cause us no problems | Para 5, lines 2-3 |
7 | Pest control | employed in natural pest control operations | Para 5, lines 4-5 |
8 | queen/single queen | they form large colonies, infertile female ‘workers’, single queen | Para 5, lines 5-6 |
9 | aggressive | no more aggressive | Para 6, line 5 |
10 | defensive | sting, social wasps, defensive | Para 6, line 6 |
11 | emerge | when queens emerge from hibernation | Para 7, first 2 lines |
12 | grubs/eggs | up to thirty thousand eggs, grubs hatch | Para 7, line 5 |
13 | larvae | infertile daughters, build, expanding nest, feed, larvae. | Para 7, line 7 |
14 | mate | Males, seen, autumn mating, young queens | Para 7, lines 9-10 |
15 | perishes/dies | old queen perishes | Para 7, lines 11-12 |
16 | hibernation | impregnated queens seek out, spot for hibernation | Para 7, line 15 |
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