Learning by Examples – IELTS Reading Answers
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The Academic passage ‘Learning by Examples’ is a reading passage that appeared in an IELTS Test.
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Learning by Examples
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The answers to questions 1-13 are given below along with their explanations.
Question Number | Answer | Keywords | Locations of Keywords |
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1 | D | Urban black rats, lack the skill, unable to learn it, infants, urban mothers, acquired the skill | Para D, first 3 lines |
2 | A | Ivan Pavlov, discovered, principles, animals, learn, 1900s | Para A, first 2 lines |
3 | C | investigation, directed at, what was eating, pine seeds, how, get them out, cones | Para C, lines 2-4 |
4 | E | The cost, less than 10%, energetic value, cone, acceptable profit margin | Para E, last 2 lines |
5 | FALSE | directed, finding out, eating, pine seeds, how, get them out of the cones | Para C, lines 3-4 |
6 | TRUE | bite, cone scale, base to tip | Para C, last 2 lines |
7 | TRUE | rather, photocopier, can work out how to use, someone, shown, how to switch it on | Para D, lines 6-7 |
8 | FALSE | Urban black rats were found to lack the skill | Para D, line 1 |
9 | less | Jay, cache food, less dependent upon this | Para F, line 5 |
10 | social | Jay forages in social groups | Para F, last line |
11 | watched | while watched, observer bird | Para G, line 4 |
12 | observer | Jay observers, successful, Jay cachers, nutcracker observers, no better | Para G, lines 7-8 |
13 | nutcracker | Jay observers, successful, Jay cachers, nutcracker observers, no better | Para G, lines 7-8 |
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Diyora
Posted on Dec 8, 2020
It’s very useful answers with meanings
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