A Remarkable Beetle – IELTS Reading Answers
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The question types found in this passage are:
Yes/No/ Not Given
The Yes/No/Not Given type of questions in the IELTS reading test are similar to the True/False/Not Given type questions. A set of assertions will be given, and the test-taker must assess whether the presented statement agrees or disagrees with the information in the reading passage. If the assertion agrees with the information in the passage, write yes. If the statement contradicts or disagrees with the information in the statement, write No. If there is no reference to the assertion in the passage, write Not Given. As a result, the test-taker should attentively read the section and write the answer.
Diagram Completion
The diagram completion questions in the IELTS reading test requires the test-taker to label the diagram of either a process or an object or a structure or a machine. The test-taker should either fill in the missing labels or complete notes within the diagram. The diagram completion assesses the test-taker’s ability to understand a detailed description and relate it to information presented in the form of a diagram.
Table Completion
The table completion questions in the IELTS reading test will be presented as an incomplete table of information, which either summaries or paraphrases information given in the reading passage. The test-taker is required to locate specific information in the passage, choose the appropriate words, and understand the details of the text. The words used in the blank spaces of the table shouldn’t exceed more than the number of words specified in the instruction.
A Remarkable Beetle
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1 Answer: Not Given
Question type: Yes/ No/ Not Given
Answer location: Paragraph 2, Line 2
Answer explanation: In the second sentence of paragraph 2, it is stated that ‘Australia’s native dung beetles are scrub and woodland dwellers’ which specialise in coarse marsupial droppings and avoiding the soft cattle dung in which ‘bush flies’ and ‘buffalo flies’ breed. There is no reference to the fact that bush flies are easier to control than buffalo flies. Hence, the answer is ‘NOT GIVEN’.
2 Answer: No
Question type: Yes/ No/ Not Given
Answer location: Paragraph 3
Answer explanation: In paragraph 3, it is mentioned that in the early 1960s, ‘George Bornemissza’, then a scientist ‘at the Australian Government’s premier research organisation, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)’, suggested that ‘dung beetles should be introduced to Australia’ to control dung-breeding flies. It is further added that between 1968 and 1982, the CSIRO ‘imported’ (initially brought) insects from about ‘50 different species of dung beetle’, from Asia, Europe and Africa, aiming to match them ‘to different climatic zones in Australia’. As the statement contradicts the claims of the writer,the answer is ‘NO’.
3 Answer: Yes
Question type: Yes/ No/ Not Given
Answer location: Paragraph 3
Answer explanation: Paragraph 3 specified that ‘between 1968 and 1982’ (14 years), the ‘CSIRO’ ‘imported’ (brought) insects from about ‘50 different species of dung beetle’, from Asia, Europe and Africa, aiming to match them to different climatic zones in ‘Australia’. As the statement reflects the claims of the writer, the answer is ‘YES’.
4 Answer: Yes
Question type: Yes/ No/ Not Given
Answer location: Paragraph 3
Answer explanation: Paragraph 3 informs that of the ‘26 species’ (of dung beetles) that are known to have become ‘successfully integrated’ (established) into the ‘local environment’ (of Australia), only one, an African species released in northern Australia, has reached its natural boundary. As the statement reflects the claims of the writer, the answer is ‘YES’.
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5 Answer: No
Question type: Yes/ No/ Not Given
Answer location: Paragraph 4
Answer explanation: In paragraph 4, the writer tells us that ‘introducing dung beetles into a pasture’ is a simple process when approximately 1,500 beetles are released in the cow pasture. The beetles immediately disappear beneath the pats digging and tunneling and soon become a permanent, self-sustaining part of the local ecology. ‘In time they multiply’ and ‘within three or four years the benefits to the pasture are obvious’. So, immediate improvement to the quality of a cow pasture does not take place; it takes time. As the statement contradicts the claims of the writer,the answer is ‘NO’.
6 Answer: South African
Question type: Diagram Completion
Answer location: Paragraph 5
Answer explanation: Paragraph 5 discusses that dung beetles work from the inside of the pat so they are sheltered from predators such as birds and foxes. Most species burrow into the soil and bury dung in tunnels directly underneath the pats, which are hollowed out from within. ‘South African beetles’ dig ‘narrow tunnels’ of ‘approximately 20 cm below the surface of the pat’ (as shown in the diagram). Hence, the answer is ‘South African’.
7 Answer: French
Question type: Diagram Completion
Answer location: Paragraph 5
Answer explanation: Paragraph 5 mentions that dung beetles work from the inside of the pat so they are sheltered from predators such as birds and foxes. Most species burrow into the soil and bury dung in tunnels directly underneath the pats, which are hollowed out from within. Some ‘large species originating from France’ (French) excavate ‘tunnels to a depth of approximately 30 cm below the dung pat’ (as shown in the diagram). These beetles make ‘sausage-shaped brood chambers along the tunnels’ . Hence, the answer is ‘French’.
8 Answer: Spanish
Question type: Diagram Completion
Answer location: Paragraph 5
Answer explanation: Paragraph 5 refers to the fact that dung beetles work from the inside of the pat so they are sheltered from predators such as birds and foxes. Most species burrow into the soil and bury dung in tunnels directly underneath the pats, which are hollowed out from within. The ‘shallowest tunnels’ belong to a ‘much smaller Spanish species’ that ‘buries dung in chambers that hang like fruit from the branches of a pear tree’ (as shown in the diagram). Hence, the answer is ‘Spanish’.
9 Answer: Temperature
Question type: Table Completion
Answer location: Paragraph 6
Answer explanation: Paragraph 6 brings out the fact that in the cooler environments of the state of Victoria, the large French species (2.5 cm long) is matched with smaller (half this size), ‘temperate-climate Spanish species’. Hence, the answer is ‘Temperate’.
10 Answer: Early spring
Question type: Table Completion
Answer location: Paragraph 6
Answer explanation: Paragraph 6 states that in the cooler environments of the state of Victoria, the large French species (2.5 cm long) is matched with smaller (half this size), temperate-climate ‘Spanish species’. The latter, which ‘multiply rapidly in early spring’, produce two to five generations annually. Hence, the answer is ‘early spring’.
11 Answer: 2 – 5
Question type: Table Completion
Answer location: Paragraph 6, Line 6 – 7
Answer explanation: In paragraph 6, it is made known that in the cooler environments of the state of Victoria, the large French species (2.5 cm long) is matched with smaller (half this size), temperate-climate ‘Spanish species’. The ‘latter’ (Spanish species), which multiply rapidly in early spring, ‘produce two to five generations annually’. Hence, the answer is ‘2-5’.
12 Answer: Subtropical
Question type: Table Completion
Answer location: Paragraph 6, Line 7
Answer explanation: Paragraph 6 points out that the ‘South African ball-rolling species’, being ‘a subtropical beetle’, prefers the climate of northern and coastal New South Wales. Hence, the answer is ‘subtropical’.
13 Answer: South African tunneling/ tunnelling
Question type: Table Completion
Answer location: Paragraph 6, Line 7 – 9
Answer explanation: Paragraph 6 specifies that the ‘South African ball-rolling species’ prefers the climate of northern and coastal New South Wales where it ‘commonly works with the South African tunneling species’. Hence, the answer is ‘South African tunnelling/tunneling’.
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