How did Writing Begin – IELTS Reading Answers

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How did Writing Begin – IELTS Reading Answers

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You should spend 20 minutes on questions 27-40 based on the given reading passage.

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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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