IELTS Academic Reading ‘The Benefits of Being Bilingual’ Answers

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IELTS Academic Reading ‘The Benefits of Being Bilingual’ Answers

The Academic passage ‘The Benefits of Being Bilingual’ is a reading passage that appeared in an IELTS Test.

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The Benefits of Being Bilingual

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Question Number Answers Keywords Location of Keywords
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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