Children’s Literature IELTS Reading Answers
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The Academic passage ‘Children’s Literature’ is a reading passage that appeared in an IELTS Test. Read the passage below and answer questions 1 – 13. Beyond the questions, you will find the answers along with the location of the answers in the passage and the keywords that help you find out the answers.
Children’s Literature
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| Question number | Answer | Keywords | Location of keywords |
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| 1 | rhymes, stories / stories, rhymes | Its contents – rhymes, stories, children’s games plus a free gift (‘A ball and a pincushion’)—— in many ways anticipated the similar lucky-dip contents of children’s annuals this century. | Paragraph B;
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| 2 | America | It is a tribute to Newbery’s flair that he hit upon a winning formula quite so quickly, to be pirated almost immediately in America. | Paragraph B;
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| 3 | folklore | the greatest blow to the improving children’s book was to come from an unlikely source indeed: early 19th century interest in folklore | Paragraph D;
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| 4 | fairy-tales/fairy-stories | collection of fairy-stories by the scholarly Grimm brothers, swiftly translated into English in 1823,soon rocket to popularity with the young, quickly leading to new editions, each one more child-centered than the last. | Paragraph D;
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| 5 | adventures | In Britain novelist such as Enid Blyton and Richmal Crompton described children who were always free to have the most unlikely adventures, secure in the knowledge that nothing bad could ever happen to them in the end. | Paragraph F;
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| 6 | C | a London merchant named Thomas Boreham produced Cajanus, The Swedish Giant in 1742, | Paragraph B;
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| 7 | A | Mrs. Sarah Trimmer, whose magazine The Guardian of Education (1802) carried the first regular reviews of children’s books. | Paragraph C;
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| 8 | E | fairy-stories by the scholarly Grimm brothers, swiftly translated into English in 1823 | Paragraph D;
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| 9 | FALSE | there were stories in print before 1700 that children often seized on when they had the chance | Paragraph A;
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| 10 | TRUE | It was she who condemned fairy-tales for their violence and general absurdity; her own stories, Fabulous Histories (1786) described talking animals who were always models of sense and decorum. | Paragraph C;
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| 11 | NOT GIVEN | – | – |
| 12 | TRUE | the greatest blow to the improving children’s book was to come from an unlikely source indeed: early 19th century interest in folklore | Paragraph D;
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| 13 | TRUE | That writers of these works are now often recommended to the attentions of adult as well as child readers | Paragraph G;
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