How did Writing Begin – IELTS Reading Answers
How did Writing Begin – IELTS Reading Answers
You should spend 20 minutes on questions 27-40 based on the given reading passage.
How did Writing Begin
Answers
The answers to questions 27-40 are given below along with their explanations.
| Question Number | Answer | Keywords | Locations of Keywords |
|---|---|---|---|
| 27 | A | Writing, began, separate, communication, later merged, spoken language. | Para 1, last 2 lines |
| 28 | D | Sumerians, Mesopotamia, now southern Iraq, understand writing’s transforming function | Para 2, first 2 lines |
| 29 | C | scholars acknowledged, no, answers, how, why writing developed | Para 3, first 2 lines |
| 30 | B | Schmandt-Besserat, defended, pictures, beginning of writing | Para 8, first 2 lines |
| 31 | C | designs, pottery, beginning, writing, show, single sign of writing, trace, pot, doesn’t exist | Para 8, lines 3-4 |
| 32 | B | development, writing, attains, considerable, independence, flexibility, adapt, characteristics, sounds, language, represented | Para 5, lines 3-5 |
| 33 | D | but, became, new instrument, power | Para 9, line 4 |
| 34 | B | structures, earliest writing did not, match, structure, spoken language | Para 5, lines 7-8 |
| 35 | A | Dr Pittman, argument, evidence, link between tokens, signs | Para 7, line 4 |
| 36 | C | accountants, clay tokens, oil,er of grain, particular, livestock, eventually, token, replaced, inscribed signs, writing, invented. | Para 6, line 2-7 |
| 37 | H(Mesopotamia) | The Sumerians, ancient people, Middle East, story explaining, invention, writing, 5,000 years, lived in Mesopotamia | Para 1, line 1; Para 2, line 1 |
| 38 | L(clay tablets) | cuneiform, script written by, sharpened stick, wet clay | Para 4, lines 5-6 |
| 39 | A(cuneiform) | cuneiform, script written by, sharpened stick, wet clay | Para 4, lines 5-6 |
| 40 | I(abstract) | Sumerian script, evolved, pictorial, abstract | Para 4, last 2 lines |
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