Questions 1-7
Suggested approach
Question Answer Location of answer in text
• Read the task rubric carefully. You have to
1
B
“… evolution of speech went
match the opinions with the people who express
with right-handed preference.”
them in the text.
2 D gist of final paragraph
• Read through the list of opinions to familiarise
3
“… there are more left-handed
yourself with it.
C
males than females.”
• In this case it is probably best to skim through
the text looking for names as these are easy to
4 B “… if a left handed person is
identify. So skim through the text until you
brain damaged in the left
come to the first name: Professor Turner.
hemisphere the recovery of
speech is quite often better …”
• The text states in the first paragraph that
Professor Turner has studied left-handedness. It
5
A
3rd and 4th sentences of
goes on to say that he noted a “distinctive
paragraph 3
asymmetry” in the human population.
6 C “… discovered that the left-
• Skim through the list of opinions again Number
right asymmetry exists before
7 states “Asymmetry is a common feature of
birth.”
the human body”. So the answer to question 7
7 E “He noted that this distinctive
is E.
asymmetry in the human
• Continue this procedure with the rest of the
population is itself systematic.”
text. Note that the opinions in the questions are
expressed differently from the text. This is
known as “paraphrasing”. It means that you
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