Pulling Strings to Build Pyramids – IELTS Reading Answers

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Updated On Jun 11, 2021

Pulling Strings to Build Pyramids – IELTS Reading Answers

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You should spend 20 minutes answering questions 1-13 based on the reading passage.

Pulling Strings to Build Pyramids

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The answers to questions 1-13 are given below along with their explanations.

Question Number	Answer	Keywords	Location of Keywords
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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