IELTS Academic Reading ‘Life, but not as we know it’ Answers
IELTS Academic Reading ‘Life, but not as we know it’ Answers
The IELTS Academic Reading: Cambridge Reading Sample; ‘Life, but not as we know it.’ with answers. The post will discuss the answers to questions 1-13.
Life, but not as we know it
Answers
The answers with explanations are given below
| Question Number | Answers | Keywords | Location of Keywords |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Size | All organisms on Earth, from the tiniest bacterium to the biggest whales, are constructed according to the same rules. | Paragraph H, First 2 lines |
| 2. | Never | Because this kind of life is all we know, we tend to think that the same rules need to apply everywhere. | Paragraph H, Last 2 lines |
| 3. | Mistake | scientists look at Martian meteorites, they tend to look for the kinds of vital signs that betray earthly organisms when we have absolutely no reason for thinking that life elsewhere should be earthlike, | Paragraph I, First 4 lines |
| 4. | Planet | So, when probes land on Mars, or scientists look at Martian meteorites, they tend to look for the kinds of vital signs that betray earthly organisms when we have absolutely no reason for thinking that life elsewhere should be earthlike, | Paragraph I, First 4 lines |
| 5. | Narrow | or that our definition of life cannot be based more broadly. | Paragraph I, Lines 4 – 5 |
| 6. | Composition | It is a fairly simple matter to come up with a definition of life that is based on what it does, rather than what it is made of. | Paragraph J, First 2 lines |
| 7. | Defining | It is much more difficult, however, to make such a definition stick, preventing the term from becoming so inclusive as to be meaningless. | Paragraph J, Lines 2 – 4 |
| 8. | C | Vital signs that betray earthly organisms, no reason, that life elsewhere should be earthlike | Paragraph I, First 4 lines |
| 9. | A | Manifestation of a fundamental human urge to populate the universe with ‘others’ | Paragraph F, First 3 lines |
| 10. | B | supporting entire civilizations as intestinal parasites, All could be said to constitute life | Paragraph L, Last 3 lines |
| 11. | C | that we cannot help be constrained in our search. | Paragraph G, Last line |
| 12. | A | Astrobiology, the trendiest buzzword in science after genomics. | Paragraph A, First 2 lines |
| 13. | D | Could this mean that astrobiology, the aims of which are universal, is really no more than a parochial exercise? We might never know — perhaps even when we are visited by aliens from the other side of the galaxy | Paragraph M, First 4 lines |
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