Here are some good examples of true, false, not given. Can you explain the three answers below?
(from test 4, passage 2 in Cambridge IELTS 14)
1. TRUE
Question: An animal is likely to live longer in a zoo than in the wild.
Passage: The average captive animal will have a greater life expectancy compared with its wild counterpart.
2. FALSE
Question: Zoos have always excelled at transmitting information about animals to the public.
Passage: ...communicate information to visitors about the animals... This was an area where zoos used to be lacking.
3. NOT GIVEN
Question: Improvements in the quality of TV wildlife documentaries have resulted in increased numbers of zoo visitors.
Passage: It is true that television documentaries are becoming ever more detailed and impressive.
i can explain it by selecting key words.
1. Zoo-captive
Both of the words mean that animals are under supervision.
2. excelled-to be lacking
both of them have opposite meanings.
3. Here is NG, because there is no any information, which can match the meaning between sentences as well as dismtaching.
Key words here: improving in the quality- becoming more detailed and impressive.
Quality does not mean detailed and impressive.
I hope i have explained it correctly.
Posted by: Toghrul | November 04, 2019 at 17:15
1 an animal =the average captive animal
is likely to =will
live longer= greater life expectancy
than =compered with
wild =wild
2.zoos=zoos
transmiting information=communicate information
always =used to be lacking.
3 resulted in increased numbers of zoo visitors= There is not anything mentioned about it in passage.
Posted by: Pachu | November 04, 2019 at 17:21
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1. The keywords in the passage and question are
animal living in zoo = animal in captive
live longer = greater live expentancy.
2. transmitting information = communicating
visitors= public
excelled is opposite of lacking
3. the passage explians that television documentary are more detailed while the question says the quality of wild life has increased the numbers of visitors, there is no correlation between the two. thus the answer is not given
Posted by: maraim | November 05, 2019 at 07:44
Here are my explanations:
1. TRUE
An animal in a zoo (in the question) =captive animal(in the passage)
live longer = greater life expectancy
2. FALSE
in the question ''transmitting information'' = ''communicate information'' in the passage
''excelled ''in the question is opposite in meaning to ''lacking'' the word in the passage
public = visitors
3. NOT GIVEN
Question is talking about increased number of zoo visitors because of improvements in the quality of TV documentary,however,there is no mention of that in the passage.
Posted by: Sajan | November 06, 2019 at 20:30
1. live longer = have a greater life expectancy
an animal...in a zoo than in the wild = the average captive animal...compared with its wild counterpart
2. transmitting information about animals to the public = communicate information to visitors about the animals
zoos have always excelled at is antonym of zoos used to be lacking
3. TV wildlife documentaries = television documentaries
have resulted in increased number of zoo visitors is not concerned with becoming ever more detailed and impressive
Posted by: Hang | November 07, 2019 at 03:53
FROM SIMON:
1.
live longer = greater life expectancy
an animal in a zoo = captive animal
2.
Zoos have always excelled at = OPPOSITE OF = an area where zoos used to be lacking
3.
No information about: "resulted in increased numbers of zoo visitors"
Posted by: Simon | November 08, 2019 at 14:36