Attitudes to Language – IELTS Reading Answers

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Updated On Jun 18, 2021

Attitudes to Language – IELTS Reading Answers

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1 Attitudes to Language
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You should spend 20 minutes on answering questions 1-13 based on your reading of the passage below.

Attitudes to Language

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language - 2

language - 3

language - 4

language - 5

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The answers to questions 1-13 are given below along with their explanations.

Question Number	Answer	Keywords	Location of Keywords
1	YES	And when opinions differ, emotions can run high	Para 1, lines 3-4
2	NO	Arguments can start as easily over minor points of usage as over major policies of linguistic education	Para 1, last 2 lines
3	YES	linguistic factors influence, judge, personality, intelligence	Para 2, lines 2-3
4	NOT GIVEN
5	YES	These attitudes, still with us	Para 5, first line
6	YES	not to attempt, halting language change	Para 5, lines 5-6
7	NO	second half, 18th century, already find advocates, this view	Para 5, lines 6-7
8	YES	opposition, ‘descriptivists’, ‘prescriptivists’, become extreme, unreal pictures of the other	Para 6, first two lines
9	H	prescriptivism, one variety of language, inherently higher value than others	Para 3, first 2 lines
10	F	authoritarian nature, best characterized by, reliance on ‘rules’ of grammar	Para 4, lines 6-7
11	A	already find advocates, view, Joseph Priestley	Para 5, lines 6-7
12	C	the custom of speaking, original, just standard, language	Para 5, lines 8-9
13	B	–	whole passage

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