Crop Circles IELTS Reading Answers
Crop Circles IELTS Reading Answers
The Academic passage ‘Crop Circles’ is a reading passage that appeared in an IELTS Test. Read the passage below and answer questions 15 – 27. 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.
Crop Circles
Answers
| Question number | Answer | Keywords | Location of keywords |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | NO | Crop circles have appeared all over the world. | Paragraph B;
Line 1 |
| 16 | NOT GIVEN | – | – |
| 17 | YES | The total grew to an outstanding 1,000 newly – formed circles in 1990. | Paragraph B;
Line 10 |
| 18 | YES | But over the years, crop circles have become much more geometrically intricate. | Paragraph C;
Line 3 |
| 19 | NO | It is irrational to believe that all crop circles are fake for publicity or other reasons. | Paragraph F;
Line 9 |
| 20 | (Southern) England | The best documented and largest modern spread of crop circles
began in southern England during the summer of 1980. |
Paragraph B;
Line 7 |
| 21 | (high-pitched, warbling)
noises/sound |
High-pitched, warbling, noises have been recorded at the site of some crop circles. | Paragraph C;
Line 6 |
| 22 | animals/insects/wild creatures | While the causal energies do not seem to harm animals, or even insects as far as we can tell, | Paragraph C;
Line 9 |
| 23 | avoid | wild creatures tend to avoid the circles. Flocks of birds have been seen to split apart and fly around the perimeter rather than go directly over a crop circle formation | Paragraph C;
Line 9 – end |
| 24 | C | Michael Chorost of Duke University found occasions of short-lived radionuclides in the top layer of soil in some of the formations. | Paragraph E;
Line 7 |
| 25 | B | Seeds front the circle plants often show accelerated growth rates when they are sown, and in some instances, quite different-looking plants result. | Paragraph E;
Line 3 |
| 26 | A | Developed by Dr. Terence Mearden it theorizes that electrified air (plasma), on the side of hills, becomes mini-tornadoes and screws down onto the ground, creating the circles. | Paragraph F;
Line 3 |
| 27 | B | Dr. W. C. Levengood of BLT Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has analyzed many grain samples and confirmed, time after time, significant changes at the cellular level of crop circle plants. | Paragraph E;
Line 1 |
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