IELTS Academic Reading ‘The Benefits of Being Bilingual’ Answers
The IELTS Academic Reading: Cambridge Reading Sample; ‘The Benefits of Being Bilingual’ with answers. The post will discuss the answers to questions 27-40.
The Benefits of Being Bilingual
Answers
The answers with explanations are given below
Question Number | Answers | Keywords | Location of Keywords |
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27. | Eye movements | ‘language co-activation’, Russian-English bilingual | Paragraph B, Lines 11-12 |
28. | Language co-activation | Bilingual people, activates corresponding words | Paragraph B, Lines 7-11 |
29. | Stroop Task | People see a word, asked to name the colour | Paragraph C, Lines 9-10 |
30. | Conflict management | Bilingual people, better on tasks | Paragraph C, Lines 7-8 |
31. | Cognitive control | More quickly than monolingual people, rapid changes of strategy. | Paragraph C, Last 2 lines |
32. | Yes | Past few decades, several clear benefits | Paragraph A |
33. | Not Given | Not Given | Not Given |
34. | No | Persistent linguistic competition, name pictures more slowly | Paragraph C, First 4 lines |
35. | No | Simple speech sounds, similar brain stem responses | Paragraph D, First 5 lines |
36. | Not Given | Not Given | Not Given |
37. | D | Presence of background noise, bilingual listeners’ neural response, considerably larger | Paragraph D |
38. | G | Benefits, seem to start very early, only the bilingual babies were able | Paragraph G |
39. | B | When we hear a word, sounds arrive in sequential order | Paragraph B |
40. | C | Result in difficulties, name pictures more slowly | Paragraph C |
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