IELTS Academic Reading ‘The Benefits of Being Bilingual’ Answers

Updated On Apr 17, 2021

IELTS Academic Reading ‘The Benefits of Being Bilingual’ Answers

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The IELTS Academic Reading: Cambridge Reading Sample; ‘The Benefits of Being Bilingual’ with answers. The post will discuss the answers to questions 27-40.

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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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