IELTS Academic Reading ‘A spark, a flint: How fire leapt to life’ Answers
The IELTS Academic Reading: Cambridge Reading Sample; ‘A spark, a flint: How fire leapt to life’ with answers. The post will discuss the answers to questions 1-15.
A spark, a flint: How fire leapt to life
Answers
The answers with explanations are given below
Question Number | Answers | Keywords | Location of Keywords |
---|---|---|---|
1. | preserve | Probably stored fire, keeping slow-burning logs alight | Paragraph 1, Lines 3-4 |
2. | unaware | Unable to make flame for themselves | Paragraph 1, Lines 2-3 |
3. | chance | Accidentally made during tool-making operations | Paragraph 2, Lines 2-3 |
4. | friction | primitive societies, making fire was through friction | Paragraph 2, Lines 4-5 |
5. | rotating | Rotate it, between their palms | Paragraph 2, Lines 6-7 |
6. | percussion | Percussion methods of fire-lighting | Paragraph 4, First 2 lines |
7. | Eskimos | Eskimos, a slow-burning spark | Paragraph 4, Line 5 |
8. | despite | Remained the main method of fire lighting, phosphorus, were expensive. | Paragraph 4 Last 2 lines & 5 Last 2 lines |
9. | F | Lundstrom’s safety matches were safe, red phosphorus was non-toxic | Paragraph 9, Lines 4-5 |
10. | D | Was copied, who marketed his product as Lucifers. | Paragraph 8, First 2 lines |
11. | E | “strike-anywhere” match, since white phosphorus is a deadly poison, from 1845 match-makers ,a disease that eats away jaw-bones. | Paragraph 8, Lines 4-7 |
12. | C | The first matches resembling those used today, military rocket-maker called Congreve. | Paragraph 7, First 3 lines |
13. | G | The Americans, in match technology and marketing, pioneered book matches. | Paragraph 11, First 3 lines |
14. | A | Ethereal Match, sealed glass tube containing a twist of paper tipped with phosphorus. | Paragraph 6, First 4 lines |
15. | C | The first matches resembling those used today, a military rocket-maker called Congreve. | Paragraph 7, First 3 lines |
Also check :