Health In The Wild IELTS Reading Answers
Health In The Wild IELTS Reading Answers
The Academic passage ‘Health In The Wild’ 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.
Health In The Wild
Answers
| Question number | Answer | Keywords | Location of keywords |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | TRUE | For the past decade Dr Engel, a lecturer in environmental sciences at Britain’s Open University, has been collating examples of self-medicating behaviour in wild animals. | Paragraph A;
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| 2 | NOT GIVEN | – | – |
| 3 | TRUE | In the wild, the birds are frequently seen perched on eroding riverbanks eating clay. | Paragraph D;
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| 4 | FALSE | Dr Engel is now particularly excited about how knowledge of the way that animals look after themselves could be used to improve the health of livestock. | Paragraph I;
Line 1 |
| 5 | pith | local chimpanzees suffering from intestinal worms would dose themselves with the pith of a plant called Veronia | Paragraph B;
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| 6 | terpenes | This plant produces poisonous chemicals called terpenes. Its pith contains a strong enough concentration to kill gut parasites, | Paragraph B;
Lines 2 – 3 |
| 7 | alkaloids | Macaws eat seeds containing alkaloids, a group of chemicals that has some notoriously toxic members, such as strychnine. | Paragraph D;
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| 8 | detoxify | Evidence for the detoxifying nature of clay came in 1999 | Paragraph D;
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| 9 | hooks | The factor common to all 19 species of leaves swallowed by the chimps was that they were covered with microscopic hooks. | Paragraph H;
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| 10 | G | Many species, for example, consume dirt a behaviour known as geophagy. | Paragraph C;
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| 11 | D | The current belief is that soil—and particularly the clay in it—helps to detoxify the defensive poisons that some plants produce in an attempt to prevent themselves from being eaten. | Paragraph D;
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| 12 | E | The medical stalls in African markets frequently sell tablets made of different sorts of clays, appropriate to different medical conditions. | Paragraph I;
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| 13 | C | Some of the chimps were noticed wrinkling their noses as they swallowed these leaves, suggesting the experience was unpleasant. | Paragraph F;
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