IELTS Academic Reading ‘Music and the Emotions’ Answers

Updated On Apr 17, 2021

IELTS Academic Reading ‘Music and the Emotions’ Answers

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The IELTS Academic Reading: Cambridge Reading Sample; ‘Music and the Emotions’ with answers. The post will discuss the answers to questions 27-40.

Music and the Emotions

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The answers with explanations are given below

Question Number	Answers	Keywords	Location of Keywords
27.	Dopamine	Music triggers, production	Paragraph B, Last 5 lines
28.	pleasure	Regions, experience of	Paragraph B, Last 2 lines
29.	caudate	Neurons, region of brain	Paragraph C, First 2 lines
30.	Anticipatory phase	Favourite moments, music	Paragraph C, Lines 5-6
31.	food	Anticipating, ‘reward’ stimuli	Paragraph C, First 4 lines
32.	B	Touch us deeply, our body	Paragraph A
33.	C	Research team, Montreal, precise underpinnings	Paragraph B
34.	A	Anticipating, most active, 15 seconds	Paragraph C, First 4 lines
35.	B	This is why composers, to demonstrate this psychological principle, Leonard Meyer, Beethoven	Paragraph D Last 4 lines & E First 3 lines
36.	D	Meyer, in music, unfolding events, music itself.	Paragraph F, Lines 5-6
37.	F	Most active, 15 seconds, favourite moments	Paragraph C, Lines 4-5
38.	B	Dopamine neurons quickly adapt, predictable rewards, don’t get excited.	Paragraph D, Lines 6-8
39.	E	Suggest variations, element of uncertainty, that chord for the end.	Paragraph E, Last 4 lines
40.	C	Earlier theories, images and experiences	Paragraph F, Lines 3-4

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