Two Wings and a Toolkit Reading Answers

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Two Wings and a Toolkit Reading Answers

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.

Since questions get repeated in the IELTS exam, these passages are ideal for practice. If you want more practice, try taking an IELTS reading practice test

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.

Answers

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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