IELTS Academic Reading ‘Life, but not as we know it’ Answers

Updated On Apr 17, 2021

IELTS Academic Reading ‘Life, but not as we know it’ Answers

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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

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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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