Health In The Wild Reading Answers

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Health In The Wild is a real Reading test passage that appeared in the IELTS.

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The question types found in this passage are:

True/False/Not Given Questions

The True/False/Not given question consists of several statements such as if the statement is present in the article as it is then you need to mark it as true. If the statement is found to be the opposite of the sentence which is there then it should be marked as false. If the statement given in the question is not at all present in the article then it should be marked as not given. Do not spend a lot of time finding the sentence which is not there.

Note Completion

In the Note Completion Question, you will be asked to complete a set of notes based on the information given in the text. Sometimes the question will be to write a short answer and sometimes you’ll have to choose from the list of answers given. Usually, these kinds of questions will only be based on one part of the passage, so you won’t have to read the whole passage to fill in the important information.

Summary Completion

In Summary Completion Questions, you will be provided with a summary of information from a text, and there will be a few gaps. You will either get a list of words to be filled in the gaps or you could be asked to find answers from the reading passage. You will have to insert a few words from the text into the gaps. All of the information in the summary will also be available in the reading text. However, they will be using paraphrasing and synonyms. Thus, you cannot expect to find the exact words.

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

1 Answer: TRUE

Question type: True/False/Not Given Questions

Answer location: Paragraph A, line 1

Answer explanation: In the said paragraph, there is a line “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” which confirms that Dr. Engel was working on the wild animal medication from past 10 years. The term “decade” has been paraphrased to 10 years.

2 Answer: NOT GIVEN

Question type: True/False/Not Given Questions

Answer location: N/A

Answer explanation: None of the passages confirms or denies that in order to find the plant for medications animals needs to take a long walk.

3 Answer: TRUE

Question type: True/False/Not Given Questions

Answer location: Paragraph D, line 4

Answer explanation: If you read thoroughly there is a line in the said paragraph, that claims that “in the wild, the birds are frequently seen perched on eroding riverbanks eating clay.” Since the birds in Macaw are seen eating clay, it signifies that it’s part of their diet.

4 Answer: FALSE

Question type: True/False/Not Given Questions

Answer location: Paragraph I, line 1

Answer explanation: If you read thoroughly, this entire paragraph further discusses the point of Dr. Engel about animal health. It is also clear from the line, “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. ” Here, the doctor is opining that the obtained knowledge can help  improve the health of animals, and not that animal self-medication can be helpful in inventing new medications.

5 Answer: pith

Question type: Note Completion

Answer location: Paragraph B, line 2

Answer explanation: The answer is clearly mentioned in the said paragraph and line, it is said that “local chimpanzees suffering from intestinal worms would dose themselves with the pith of a plant called Veronia.” Here, the term ‘dose themselves’ means eat which in turn refers to the food they eat. Hence, it signifies that chimpanzees eat these plants to fight intestinal worms.

6 Answer: terpenes

Question type: Note Completion

Answer location: Paragraph B, line 2

Answer explanation: The answer is clearly mentioned in the said paragraph and line, it is said that “this plant produces poisonous chemicals called terpenes. Its pith contains a strong enough concentration to kill gut parasites.” Hence, its evident that plant contains poisonous chemicals known as terpenes.

7 Answer: alkaloids

Question type: Note Completion

Answer location: Paragraph D, line 3

Answer explanation: In the said paragraph, you can refer to, “Macaws eat seeds containing alkaloids, a group of chemicals that has some notoriously toxic members, such as strychnine.” Here, the given line confirms that  Macaws eat seeds which contain alkaloids.

8 Answer: detoxify

Question type: Note Completion

Answer location: Paragraph D, line 2

Answer explanation: A line in the said paragraph, “Evidence for the detoxifying nature of clay came in 1999” confirms that there is evidence which proves that clay can detoxify poisonous content in food.

9 Answer: hooks

Question type: Note Completion

Answer location: Paragraph H, line 4

Answer explanation: In the said paragraph, you can refer to, “the factor common to all 19 species of leaves swallowed by the chimps was that they were covered with microscopic hooks.” Hence, it confirms that information has been paraphrased in the question that leaves with tiny hooks on the surface was swallowed by chimpanzees.

10 Answer: G

Question type: Summary Completion

Answer location: Paragraph C, line 2

Answer explanation:  A line in the said paragraph, “Many species, for example, consume dirt a behaviour known as geophagy” confirms that the self-medicating behavior of animals or  behaviour of consuming dirt is known as geophagy.

11 Answer: D

Question type: Summary Completion

Answer location: Paragraph D, line 1

Answer explanation: The answer is clearly mentioned in the said paragraph and line, it is said that “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.” Hence, this statement confirms that clay can help to neutralize toxins.

12 Answer: E

Question type: Summary Completion

Answer location: Paragraph I, last line

Answer explanation: In the said paragraph, there is a line “the medical stalls in African markets frequently sell tablets made of different sorts of clays, appropriate to different medical conditions.” Hence, the term “African markets sell tablets made of clay” has been paraphrased to “humans in Africa purchase clay tablets.”

13 Answer: C

Question type: Summary Completion

Answer location: Paragraph F, line 4

Answer explanation: A line in the said paragraph, “Some of the chimps were noticed wrinkling their noses as they swallowed these leaves, suggesting the experience was unpleasant” confirms that chimps experience unpleasant taste when they swallow leaves.

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