IELTS Reading 12 - Passage 3

IELTS Reading Tip

The Reading passages always contain the information you need to answer the question. You won't have to use your own knowledge of a topic.

Complete each sentence with the correct ending, A-G, below.

Write the correct letter, A-G, in boxes 27-31 on your answer sheet.

A was necessary in order to fulfil a civic role.

B was necessary when people began farming.

C was necessary for the development of arithmetic.

D persists in all societies.

E was used when the range of number words was restricted.

F can be traced back to early European languages.

G was a characteristic of early numeration systems.

27A developed system of numbering ..........A B C D E F G

28An additional hand signal ..........A B C D E F G

29In seventh-century Europe, the ability to count to a certain number ..........A B C D E F G

30Thinking about numbers as concepts separate from physical objects ..........A B C D E F G

31Expressing number differently according to class of item ..........A B C D E F G

Do the following statements agree with the information given in Reading Passage?

In boxes 32-40 on your answer sheet write

TRUEif the statement agrees with the information
FALSEif the statement contradicts the information
NOT GIVENif there is no information on this

32For the earliest tribes, the concept of sufficiency was more important than the concept of quantity. ..........TRUE FALSE NOT GIVEN

33Indigenous Tasmanians used only four terms to indicate numbers of objects. ..........TRUE FALSE NOT GIVEN

34Some peoples with simple number systems use body language to prevent misunderstanding of expressions of number. ..........TRUE FALSE NOT GIVEN

35All cultures have been able to express large numbers clearly. ..........TRUE FALSE NOT GIVEN

36The word 'thousand' has Anglo-Saxon origins. ..........TRUE FALSE NOT GIVEN

37In general, people in seventh-century Europe had poor counting ability. ..........TRUE FALSE NOT GIVEN

38In the Tsimshian language, the number for long objects and canoes is expressed with the same word. ..........TRUE FALSE NOT GIVEN

39The Tsimshian language contains both older and newer systems of counting. ..........TRUE FALSE NOT GIVEN

40Early peoples found it easier to count by using their fingers rather than a group of pebbles. ..........TRUE FALSE NOT GIVEN