A spark, a flint: How fire leapt to life – IELTS Reading Answers

Updated On Jun 29, 2021

A spark, a flint: How fire leapt to life – IELTS Reading Answers

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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

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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

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