The Romantic Poets – IELTS Reading Answers
You should ideally spend 20 minutes on questions 1-14, based on the given passage.
The Romantic Poets
Answers
The answers to questions 1-14 are given below along with their explanations.
Question Number | Answer | Keywords | Locations of Keywords |
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1 | FALSE | During the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries | Para 1, line 2 |
2 | TRUE | casting off their predecessors’ styles | Para 1, line 3 |
3 | FALSE | endures with us to this day | Para 1, last line |
4 | NOT GIVEN | ||
5 | TRUE | imagination, most critical attribute of the Romantic poets | Para 2, lines 3-4 |
6 | TRUE | Nature, mythology, emotion, great importance | Para 2, lines 5-6 |
7 | (the) Mediterranean | embark on a tour of the Mediterranean | Para 3, lines 4-5 |
8 | Greece | he developed a passion for Greece | Para 3, line 5 |
9 | his (colourful) lifestyle | colourful lifestyle, unpopular, establishment | Para 4, lines 2-3 |
10 | political views | he deserted his former political views | Para 6, line 3 |
11 | output | never achieved, same prolific output, Romantic poets | Para 7, line 3 |
12 | failing health | With failing health, he later moved to London | Para 8, line 1 |
13 | climate | he left for Rome hoping, agreeable climate, ease his suffering | Para 9, lines 5-6 |
14 | individualism and imagination | introduced the concepts of individualism and imagination | Para 10, lines 4-5 |
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