Crop Circles IELTS Reading Answers

Janice Thompson

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Updated On Jan 12, 2024

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Crop Circles is a real Reading test passage that appeared in the IELTS.

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In this Academic Reading passage, we have three types of questions:

Yes/No/Not Given
Summary Completion (without suggested options)
Matching Information

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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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Janice Thompson

Soon after graduating with a Master’s in Literature from Southern Arkansas University, she joined an institute as an English language trainer. She has had innumerous student interactions and has produced a couple of research papers on English language teaching. She soon found that non-native speakers struggled to meet the English language requirements set by foreign universities. It was when she decided to jump ship into IELTS training. From then on, she has been mentoring IELTS aspirants. She joined IELTSMaterial about a year ago, and her contributions have been exceptional. Her essay ideas and vocabulary have taken many students to a band 9.