Two Wings and a Toolkit Reading Answers
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The Academic passage ‘Two Wings and a Toolkit’ is a reading passage that appeared in an IELTS Test. Ideally, you should not spend more than 20 minutes on a passage.
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Two Wings and a Toolkit
You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 14-26, which are based on the Reading Passage below.
Find the reading passage with the questions in the Two Wings and a Toolkit PDF here.
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The answers to questions 14-26 are given below along with their explanations.
| Question Number | Answer | Keywords | Locations of Keywords |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | Crochet hook | wild crows’ cleverest tools, crochet hook, detaching, side twig from a larger one, leaving enough, larger twig, shape into, hook | Para 2, first 2 lines |
| 15 | leaflets/leaves | tool crafted, barbed vine-leaf, consists of a central rib, paired leaflets, rose-like thorn, base | Para 2, lines 2-3 |
| 16 | thorn | strip out a piece, rib, removing, leaflets, all but one thorn, ready-made hook, prise out insects, awkward cracks | Para 2, last 2 lines |
| 17 | (tapered) steps | also make, ingenious tool, padanus probe, padanus tree leaves, tapered shape, crow nipping and tearing, progression, three or four steps | Para 3, first 3 lines |
| 18 | TRUE | makes this tool special, manufacture it, standard design | Para 3, lines 4-5 |
| 19 | TRUE | Although, rare, catch a crow, clipping out a padanus probe, ample proof, workmanship | Para 3, lines 5-6 |
| 20 | FALSE | The remarkable thing, crows consistently produce, same design, no in-between, trial versions | Para 3, lines 7-9 |
| 21 | TRUE | left the researchers wondering, envisage the tool before they start, perform the actions, know, needed to make it | Para 3, lines 9-10 |
| 22 | NOT GIVEN | ||
| 23 | FALSE | it’s highly unlikely, toolmaking skills, hardwired, brain | Para 3, lines 12-13 |
| 24 | C | biologists, noticed, padanus probes, cut, left side of the leaf, birds clip them, right side, beaks, crow’s equivalent, right- handedness | Para 7, lines 4-6 |
| 25 | D | left side, crow’s brain, specialised, handle, sequential processing | Para 7, line 7 |
| 26 | G | they had to change their behaviour instead | Para 8, lines 6-7 |
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