The Power of Light – IELTS Reading Answers
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The Academic passage ‘The Power of Light’ is a reading passage that appeared in an IELTS Test.
It contains some of the IELTS reading question types. If you are interested in familiarising yourself with all the question types, don’t hesitate to take an IELTS reading practice test.
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The answers to questions 1-13 are given below along with their explanations.
Question Number | Answer | Keywords | Locations of Keywords |
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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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