The Power of Light – IELTS Reading Answers

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Updated On Apr 17, 2021

The Power of Light – IELTS Reading Answers

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1 The Power of Light
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You should spend 20 minutes on questions 1-13 based on your reading of the passage given.

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

Question Number	Answer	Keywords	Locations of Keywords
1	F	measure of light’s importance, daily lives, hardly pay any attention	Para 3, first line
2	H	exceptions, sudden appreciation, manifestation of light, rainbow, sunset, flash of lightning, shimmering surface, sea, twilight, dappled light, forest, the little red dot, laser pointer	Para 3, lines 3-6
3	A	So much, importance, communicated, visible light, everything, fly, octopus has a way, capture, eyes, something similar	Para 6, last 3 lines
4	D	Lynch, shadow, filled with light reflected from, sky, otherwise, completely black	Para 8, lines 3-4
5	E	Even though light, manipulated, faster than light, matter can’t, information can’t, no possibility, time travel.	Para 12, last 2 lines
6	TRUE	–	Whole of para 1
7	FALSE	can’t appreciate, beauty, rose if, ponder, colour red, brain’s interpretation, specific wavelength of Light, crests, roughly 700 nanometres apart	Para 4, first 3 lines
8	NOT GIVEN
9	TRUE	To see long, stretched-out radio waves, have huge eyes like satellite dishes. Nor would it make sense, eyes to detect infrared light	Para 7, lines 3-5
10	TRUE	Lynch, when he looks at a rainbow, spots details, elude most of us	Para 9, first line
11	A little blue	the reason, mountains, look a little blue	Para 9, lines 5-6
12	A spaceship	If, spaceship, wasn’t bound, Einstein’s speed limit	Para 11, last 2 lines
13	Cesium gas	We created, artificial medium, cesium gas, speed, pulse of light exceeds, speed of light, vacuum	Para 12, lines 2-3

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