Questions –13 The correct answer is false

11 The correct answer is ‘photographer’: 
The text says, ‘A calculated move by a male bear 
involved running and jumping onto barrels in an attempt to get to a photographer standing on a 
platform four metres high.’
12 The correct answer is ‘game’: 
The text refers to Ames’s study and says that she ‘observed 
bears putting objects in piles and then knocking them over in what appeared to be a game’.
13 The correct answer is ‘frustration’: 
The text says, ‘many bears have been seen to hit out at 
ice and snow – seemingly out of frustration – when they have just missed out on a kill’.
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IELTS 16 Academic, Test 1 answer key with extra explanations, Reading
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Reading Passage 2
Questions 14–26
14 The correct answer is iv, ‘A single certainty among other less definite facts’: 
The 
text mentions that ‘The evolution of the pyramid form has been written and argued about for 
centuries.’ This means that people do not agree about the evolution of the pyramid form. It 
then says, ‘However, there is no question that, as far as Egypt is concerned, it began with 
one monument to one king designed by one brilliant architect: the Step Pyramid of Djoser at 
Saqqara.’ The phrase ‘there is no question’ means that although there is a lack of certainty 
about other subjects, this one fact is certain. 
ix is incorrect: 
This paragraph refers to questions, 
but there is no mention of unexpected questions.
15 The correct answer is vii, ‘An idea for changing the design of burial structures’: 
The text 
describes the design of tombs before the reign of Djoser, then says that Djoser’s main official, 
Imhotep, ‘conceived of building a taller, more impressive tomb for his king by stacking stone 
slabs on top of one another, progressively making them smaller, to form the shape now known 
as the Step Pyramid’. A burial structure is a synonym for ‘tomb’, and if someone conceives of 
something, this means that they had an idea or invented something new.