This Marvelous Invention Reading Answers For IELTS

Here is a guide toward the IELTS reading task topic,’ This marvelous invention reading answers.’ You will find the passage along with the questions and their answers.

This Marvelous Invention IELTS Reading Questions & Answers

Passage Questions: 1-6

The Reading Passage has six paragraphs, A-F.

Choose the correct heading for paragraphs A-F from the list of headings below.

Write the correct number, i-vii, in boxes 1-6 on your answer sheet.

List of Headings

i    Differences between languages highlight their impressiveness

ii    The way in which a few sounds are organized to convey a huge range of meaning

iii    Why the sounds used in different languages are not identical

iv    Apparently incompatible characteristics of language

v    Even silence can be meaningful

vi    Why language is the most important invention of all

vii    The universal ability to use language

1. Paragraph A
2. Paragraph B
3. Paragraph C
4. Paragraph D
5. Paragraph E
6. Paragraph F

Questions 9-10

Complete the summary using the list of words, A-G, below.

Write the correct letter, A-G, in boxes 9-10 on your answer sheet.

The importance of language

The wheel is one invention that has had a major impact on 7

Answer: E    Locate aspects of life, but no impact has been as 8

Answer: G    Locate as that of language.

Language is very 9

Answer: B    Locate, yet composed of just a small number of sounds.

Language appears to be 10

Answer: F   Locate to use. However, its sophistication is often overlooked.

A difficult
B complex
C original
D admired
E material
F easy
G fundamental

Questions 11-14

Do the following statements agree with the views of the writer in Reading Passage?

In boxes 11-14 on your answer sheet, write

YES    if the statement agrees with the views of the writer

NO    if the statement contradicts the views of the writer

NOT GIVEN if it is impossible to say what the writer thinks about this statement

11 Human beings might have achieved their present position without language.

12 The Port-Royal grammarians did justice to the nature of language.

13 A complex idea can be explained more clearly in a sentence than in a single word.

14 The Sumerians were responsible for starting the recording of events.

This will help you crack the reading passage given here. It will help you practice better for your upcoming IELTS examination.

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