IELTS Academic Reading ‘Play Is a Serious Business’ Answers | IELTSMaterial.com

The Academic passage ‘Play Is a Serious Business’ is a reading passage that appeared in an IELTS Test.

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Play is a Serious Business

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Question Number
Answers
Keywords
Location of Keywords

27.

H

Activate higher cognitive processes,  improved potential for learning

Paragraph H

28.

F

Young animals,  devotes to play, its development

Paragraph F

29.

A

Can even cost animals their lives, eighty per cent

Paragraph A

30.

H

Play, activate higher cognitive processes, improved potential for learning 

Paragraph H

31.

I

Denied the chance to play, who knows what the result

Paragraph I

32.

B

Among mammals, helps juveniles develop

Paragraph B

33.

(in any order)  A

Helps juveniles develop the skills, as adults

Paragraph B, Last 4 lines

34.

(in any order) C

there’s the skills- training hypothesis. At first glance, playing animals do appear to be practising the complex manoeuvres they will need in adulthood.

Paragraph D

35.

(in any order) F

helps juveniles develop the skills they will need to hunt, mate and socialise. young animals to get in shape for adult life by improving their respiratory endurance.

Paragraph B

36.

B

Learning, environmental data, development

Paragraph E, Last 2 lines

37.

G

Complex assessments, greater behavioural flexibility

Paragraph H, First 6 lines

38.

E

Lost by adulthood, doesn’t work like that

Paragraph C

39.

D

Large brains, more play

Paragraph E, Last 4 lines

40.

A

Play, particular chemical

Paragraph H, Last 5 lines

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