Here are the two questions (from Cambridge IELTS 14) that I showed you last week. This time I've underlined the keywords.
21. How will Rosie and Martin introduce their presentation?
A with a drawing of woolly mammoths in their natural habitat
B with a timeline showing when woolly mammoths lived
C with a video clip about woolly mammoths
22. What was surprising about the mammoth tooth found by Russell Graham?
A It was still embedded in the mammoth's jawbone.
B It was from an unknown species of mammoth.
C It was not as old as mammoth remains from elsewhere.
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Use the transcript below to answer the following questions:
- What are the answers to questions 21 and 22 above?
- Which keywords in the transcript give us the answers?
- Did my underlining in the question choices help?
Martin: We thought we needed something general about woolly mammoths in our introduction, to establish that they were related to our modern elephant, and they lived thousands of years ago in the last ice age.
Rosie: Maybe we could show a video clip of a cartoon about mammoths. But that’d be a bit childish. Or we could have a diagram, it could be a timeline to show when they lived, with illustrations?
Martin: Or we could just show a drawing of them walking in the ice? No, let’s go with your last suggestion.
Tutor: Good. Then you’re describing the discovery of the mammoth tooth on St Paul’s Island in Alaska, and why it was significant.
Rosie: Yes. The tooth was found by a man called Russell Graham. He picked it up from under a rock in a cave. He knew it was special — for a start it was in really good condition, as if it had been just extracted from the animal’s jawbone. Anyway, they found it was 6,500 years old.
Tutor: So why was that significant?
Rosie: Well the mammoth bones previously found on the North American mainland were much less recent than that. So this was really amazing.
I supposed the answer for question 22 is from this phrase "...were much less recent than that." But i have tried to find out meaning in dictionary but i dont understand it. Can you have explanation for this?
Posted by: MPhoenix | October 16, 2019 at 05:53
The answers are :
21. B
22. C
2 all ''could'' and then let’s go with your last suggestion.
much less recent than that.
3 . yes definitely helped and always .
Posted by: Sajan | October 16, 2019 at 09:46
1. the answer to questions 21 and 22 are
21. B
22. C
2. keywords
let's go___last suggestion.
much less recent than that
3. Off course. it definitely helps us
Posted by: Moh Vicky | October 16, 2019 at 10:39
21. B (let’s go with your last suggestion.)
22. A ( it had been just extracted from the animal’s jawbone.)
3.Yes. It is helpful.
Posted by: Trang Le | October 16, 2019 at 11:02
b-c
it could be a timeline to show when they lived, with illustrations?
were much less recent than that.
yes-definitely it helped me.tnx
Posted by: atiti | October 16, 2019 at 11:40
The answers are
21:B
22:C
Thank you, Simon underling the right key words really helped.
Posted by: Maha | October 16, 2019 at 12:58
1. The answers are below.
21. B
22. C
2. let’s go to your last suggestion. much less recent than that.
3. Yes. It really helped. Thank you.
Posted by: Keiko | October 16, 2019 at 13:33
1.
Question 21. B
Question 22. C
2.
Keywords in the transcript give me the answers above are:
Question 21.
Rosie listed 2 options, then Martin suggested the third. However, Martin talked to Rosie: "let’s go with your last suggestion." And the tutor agreed: "Good". => Rosie's second option, "a timeline to show when they lived, with illustrations", was chosen. => Answer B
Question 22.
"Tutor: So why was that [the tooth found by Russell Graham] significant?"
"Rosie: ... bones previously found ... were much less recent than that [the tooth]. So this was really amazing."
Regarding the meaning, A is much less recent than B = B is not as old as A.
=> The surprising fact is that the tooth was not as old as mammoth remains from elsewhere. => Answer C
3.
Yes, it did. It's very helpful. I often underline many words when determining which are keywords. Through this article, I think I just need to focus on some words, the most relevant words. Thank you, Simon!
Posted by: Loc Vo | October 17, 2019 at 16:34
B
C
Yes, it's help us. Thank you. You are very helpful for us. 💐
Posted by: meet | October 21, 2019 at 13:29
CORRECT ANSWERS FROM SIMON:
B - timeline
C - not as old = recent
Posted by: Simon | November 08, 2019 at 14:29