Daydreaming IELTS Reading Answers

Updated On Apr 17, 2021

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The Academic passage ‘Daydreaming’ 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.

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Question number	Answer	Keywords	Location of keywords
1	FALSE	Everyone daydreams sometimes. We sit or lie down, close our eyes and use our imagination to think about something that might happen in the future or could have happened in the past.	Paragraph A; Line 1
2	FALSE	Daydreams are not dreams, because we can only daydream if we are awake.	Paragraph B; Line 1
3	TRUE	With these, our daydreams often help us to work out what we want to do, or how to do it to get the best results. So, these daydreams are helpful.	Paragraph B; Lines 6 – 7
4	TRUE	It also showed that over 75% of workers in so-called ‘boring jobs’, such as lorry drivers and security guards, spend a lot of time daydreaming in order to make their time at work more interesting.	Paragraph D; Line 2
5	NOT GIVEN	–	–
6	TRUE	Daydreams can help people to be creative.	Paragraph C; Line 1
7	NOT GIVEN	–	–
8	FALSE	Escapist people spend a lot of time living in a dream world in which they are successful and popular, instead of trying to deal with the problems they face in the real world. Such people often seem to be unhappy and are unable or unwilling to improve their daily lives.	Paragraph F; Lines 2 – 3
9	Develop new ideas	People in creative or artistic careers, such as composers, novelists and filmmakers, develop new ideas through daydreaming.	Paragraph C; Line 2
10	problem-solving	Experiments with MRI brain scans show that the parts of the brain linked with complex problem-solving are more active during daydreaming.	Paragraph D; Line 4
11	C	Everyone daydreams sometimes. We sit or lie down, close our eyes and use our imagination to think about something that might happen in the future or could have happened in the past.	Paragraph A; Line 1
12	B	In the 19th century, for example, people who daydreamed a lot were judged to be lazy.	Paragraph E; Line 3
13	D	Indeed, recent studies show that people who often daydream have fewer close friends than other people. In fact, they often do not have any close friends at all.	Paragraph F; Lines 4 – end

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