IELTS Academic Reading ‘A song on the brain’ Answers

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IELTS Academic Reading ‘A song on the brain’ Answers

The Academic passage ‘A song on the brain’ is a reading passage that appeared in an IELTS Test.

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A song on the brain

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Question Number Answers Keywords Location of Keywords
1. B The brain is better at holding onto information, at knowing what information is important. Paragraph B, Lines 2-3
2. A Superficial, repetitive pop tunes, more likely to stick than something more inventive. Paragraph C, Last 2 lines
3. D Asked volunteers to replay, theme from the TV show Dallas in their heads.  Paragraph D, Lines 4-6
4. E Students who heard a history text set as the lyrics to a catchy song, remembered the words better  Paragraph H, Lines 3-5
5. D ‘Chunking’, people remember musical phrases as a single unit of memory Paragraph G, First 3 lines
6. F May even explain the origin of music, people memorised it in songs Paragraph I, First 3 lines
7. B But it can become fatigued or depressing, most commonly suffer from song-in-head syndrome  Paragraph E, First 5 lines
8. I To unite society and to standardise the thought processes of people in society.’  Paragraph I, Last 2 lines
9. G A phenomenon called ‘chunking’, the tunes of pop music than by those of a classical composer  Paragraph G
10. E ‘The more you try to suppress a thought, the more you get it,’ the pink elephant phenomenon.  Paragraph E, Last 4 lines
11. D Playback probably originates in the auditory cortex,  front of the brain Paragraph D, First 2 lines
12. A A pop song on the radio, read the song’s title and it haunts you for hours Paragraph A, First 3 lines
13. F Those not severely afflicted, avoiding certain kinds of music can help Paragraph F, First 4 lines

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