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.
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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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