Owl Secrets – IELTS Reading Answers
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The Academic passage ‘Owl Secrets’ is a reading passage that appeared in an IELTS Test.
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The answers to questions 27-40 are given below along with their explanations.
Question Number | Answer | Keywords | Locations of Keywords |
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27 | B | rotate their overly large heads by up to 270 degrees | Para 1, last line |
28 | A | vascular systems let them move with increased flexibility | Para 2, first 2 lines |
29 | K | They found, vertebral artery enters, neck higher, other birds, more slack, have small vessel connections, carotid, vertebral arteries, allowing, blood, exchanged, two blood vessels | Para 2, lines 3-6 |
30 | D | carotid arteries, instead of, side of the neck, humans, close to the centre of rotation, in front of the spine | Para 5, lines 5-6 |
31 | G | arteries experience much less twisting and turning | Para 5, lines 6-7 |
32 | C | blood vessels below the jaw bone expanded | Para 5, line 3 |
33 | L | owls, structures, adapted, greater arterial flexibility, movement | Para 7, lines 2-3 |
34 | M | – | N/A |
35 | B | designed, prevent injury, animals rotate, overly large heads | Para 1, last 2 lines |
36 | D | human anatomical ability, arteries, get smaller, | Para 5, lines 7-8 |
37 | F | mimicking blood flow | Para 5, first 2 lines |
38 | C | risk damaging the lining of their blood vessels | Para 3, line 4 |
39 | G | This creates an uninterrupted blood flow to the brain | Para 2, lines 6-7 |
40 | H | if you’re trying to avoid predators or detect prey | Para 7, last 2 lines |
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