Crop Circles IELTS Reading Answers
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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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Kawal Jeet kaoury
Posted on Dec 14, 2021
Very good
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Gurjot singh
Posted on Nov 24, 2021
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