The Academic passage ‘Secrets of the Forest’ is a reading passage that appeared in an IELTS Test. Read the passage below and answer questions 1-13. Beyond the questions, you will find the answers along with the location of the answers in the passage and the keywords that help you find out the answers.
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The answers to questions 1-13 are given below with their explanations.
| Question Number | Answer | Keywords | Location of Keywords |
| 1 | v | In 1942 Allan R Holmberg, doctoral student, anthropology, Yale, ventured, jungle, Bolivian Amazonia | Section A; lines 1-2 |
| 2 | i | The apparent simplicity, Indian ways of life, evolutionary adaptation, forest ecology, Amazonia could not, complex society | Section B; lines 5-7 |
| 3 | vi | The archaeological evidence, natural history, Amazonia, tied, activities, prehistoric inhabitants. | Section D; last 2 lines |
| 4 | YES | The apparent simplicity, Indian ways of life, evolutionary adaptation, forest ecology, Amazonia could not, complex society | Section B; lines 5-7 |
| 5 | YES | The popular conception, Amazonia, native residents, consequential, true, human history, past 11,000 years, that view, myth | Section C; lines 1-3 |
| 6 | NOT GIVEN | ||
| 7 | NO | The evidence, revised view, Amazonia, take many people, surprise. Ecologists, assumed, tropical ecosystems, shaped entirely, natural forces | Section D; first 2 lines |
| 8 | YES | whose presence, crucial, survival, forest | Section F; line 4 |
| 9 | YES | judicious management, parts, support more people, anyone thought before | Section F; lines 6-7 |
| 10 | C | The Siriono, Holmberg, “strikingly backward” existence | Section A; line 3 |
| 11 | B | Archaeological traces of far more elaborate cultures have been dismissed as the ruins of invaders from outside the region | Section B; linies 7-8 |
| 12 | B | natural history, Amazonia, surprising extent tied to, activities, prehistoric inhabitants | Section C; last 2 lines |
| 13 | C | new understanding, pre-history of Amazonia, points toward, middle ground | Section F; lines 5-6 |
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