IELTS Academic Reading ‘The Search for Colour’ Answers
IELTS Academic Reading ‘The Search for Colour’ Answers
The IELTS Academic Reading: Cambridge Reading Sample; ‘The Search for Colour’ with answers. The post will discuss the answers to questions 1-13.
The Search for Colour
Answers
The answers with explanations are given below
| Question Number | Answers | Keywords | Location of Keywords |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | visible | Colour is the most visible element in all objects | Paragraph A, Line 6 |
| 2. | Natural clays | natural clays tinted by the presence of iron-oxides. brown of umber, and the yellow of sienna. | Paragraph B, Lines 3-6 |
| 3. | Biological matter | biological matter, could yield more interesting results. | Paragraph B, Last 2 lines |
| 4. | Carminic acid | carminic acid discourage predation by birds or other insects | Paragraph C, Lines 4-5 |
| 5. | False | pigment production was a meticulous and time-consuming process. | Paragraph C, Lines 7-8 |
| 6. | False | These insects have many advantages over kermes, higher concentrations of carminic acid | Paragraph D, Lines 5-8 |
| 7. | Not Given | Not Given | Not Given |
| 8. | True | cochineals replaced kermes almost completely, becoming a lucrative Central American export | Paragraph D, Last 2 lines |
| 9. | mucus | mucus the snail secretes, produce a purplish-blue dye | Paragraph E, Lines 5-6 |
| 10. | leaves | Indigo plant was discovered. Its leaves were fermented, and then left to age, and the sediment eventually produced was dried, treated, then reduced to a blue powder. | Paragraph F, First4 lines |
| 11. | stone | European artists used a mixture derived from, semi-precious stone, | Paragraph F, Lines 8-9 |
| 12. | stable | first cheap, yet stable | Paragraph G, Lines 4-6 |
| 13. | accidentally | The vivid purple of the Murex snail was accidentally produced by an English chemist | Paragraph G, Lines 7-8 |
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