Pulling Strings to Build Pyramids Reading Answers
You should spend 20 minutes answering questions 1-13 based on the reading passage.
Pulling Strings to Build Pyramids
Answers
The answers to questions 1-13 are given below along with their explanations.
Question Number | Answer | Keywords | Location of Keywords |
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1 | TRUE | conventional picture, tens of thousands, slaves dragged stones, sledges. | Para 1, line 2 |
2 | FALSE | While perusing a book on the monuments of Egypt | Para 1, lines 4-5 |
3 | NOT GIVEN | ||
4 | TRUE | Gharib and Graff set themselves, raising, 4.5-metre stone column, horizontal to vertical, no source of energy, wind | Para 3, first 2 lines |
5 | FALSE | failed to reckon, what happened when, kite was opened, huge initial force, five times larger, steady state force | Para 5, lines 2-3 |
6 | NOT GIVEN | ||
7 | TRUE | This jerk, kites could lift huge weights, 300-tonne column lifted to the vertical, 40 or so men, four or five sails. | Para 5, lines 4-5 |
8 | Wooden pulleys | they are known, used wooden pulleys | Para 7, lines 2-3 |
9 | stone | strong enough, bear the weight, blocks of stone | Para 7, lines 3-7 |
10 | Accomplished sailors | Harnessing the wind, not, a problem, accomplished sailors, Egyptians | Para 7, first 2 lines |
11 | Modern glider | A wooden artefact, step pyramid at Saqqara, modern glider | Para 7, lines 5-6 |
12 | flight | suggests, Egyptians, developing, flight, long time | Para 7, lines 7-8 |
13 | messages | Chinese, deliver messages | Para 7, last line |
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