What’s so Funny? Reading Answers
Contents
The Academic passage ‘What’s so Funny’ is a reading passage that appeared in an IELTS Test. Read the passage below and answer questions 14-27. Beyond the questions, you will find the answers along with the location of the answers in the passage and the keywords that prove the answers.
Answers
The answers with explanations are given below
| Question Number | Answers | Keywords | Location of Keywords |
| 14. | False | Arthur Koestler, laughter, biologically, important | Paragraph 1; last line |
| 15. | Not GIven | Plato, humour, above-average, intelligence | Paragraph 2 |
| 16. | True | Kant, release, nervous energy | Paragraph 2, line 3 |
| 17. | `False | Humour, ignored, Aristotle | Paragraph 2, line 4 |
| 18. | True | Graeme Ritchie, jokes, artificial intelligence | Paragraph 3; 1st sentence |
| 19. | Not Given | Comedians, personal situations, source of humour | Paragraph 3;last sentence |
| 20. | True | Chimpanzees, noises, playing | Paragraph 5; line 4 |
| 21. | Problem Solving | Right prefrontal cortex, light up | Paragraph 8; line 3 |
| 22. | Temporal lobes | Active, too | Paragraph 8; line 6 |
| 23. | Evaluating information | Orbital prefrontal cortex, activated | Paragraph 8; last sentence |
| 24. | C | Brain, most difficult task | Paragraph 9; last line |
| 25. | A | Language, developed, humans | Paragraph 10 |
| 26. | F | Individual responses, humour | Paragraph 10 |
| 27. | D | Peter Derks, humour | Paragraph 11; last sentence |
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