Timekeeper: Invention of the Marine Chronometer – IELTS Reading Answers

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Timekeeper: Invention of the Marine Chronometer – IELTS Reading Answers

The Academic passage ‘Timekeeper: Invention of the Marine Chronometer’ is a reading passage that appeared in an IELTS Test. Try to find the answers to get an idea of the difficulty level of the passages in the actual reading test. If you want more passages to solve, try taking one of our IELTS reading practice tests.

Timekeeper: Invention of the Marine Chronometer

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The answers to questions 1-14 are given below along with their explanations.

Question Number Answer Keywords Location of Keywords
1 E – Entire Para E
2 A they might face a great number of risks, shipwreck, running out of supplies before arriving  Para A, lines 2-3
3 E Britain’s first-class clockmaker, provided, financial aid, early-stage work on sea clocks Para E, lines 7-8
4 G a safe, pragmatic, navigation at sea, next century and half Para G, last 2 lines
5 B The longitude, term, used to measure the distance, covered from one’s home, another place, without the limitations of naturally occurring baseline  Para B, first 3 lines
6 TRUE Theoretically, knowing the longitude position was quite simple Para B, lines 10-11
7 FALSE To determine longitude, navigators had no choice but to measure the angle with the naval sextant between Moon centre and a specific star Para B, lines 3-4
8 NOT GIVEN
9 Local time local time (easily identified by checking the position of the Sun) Para C, lines 2-3
10 2.8 seconds error, required timekeeping, within 2.8 seconds a day Para D, lines 4-5
11 lubrication revolutionary because it required no lubrication Para E, lines 4-5
12 a/the sextant principal contestant, English mathematician, John Hadley, sextant Para F, first 2 lines
13 angles sextant, tool, people adopt, calculation, location of ships or planes Para F, lines 2-4
14 Marine chronometer made the final decision, format and productions system, marine chronometer Para G, lines 4-5

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