The Power of Light – IELTS Reading Answers

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The Power of Light – IELTS Reading Answers

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
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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