Cambridge ielts 1-15 series reading answers explained

 
36. Answer: G
Key words: aspect, most important, story‘s survival
The end of paragraph 7 features a rhetorical question: “What, then, is important enough to be 
reproduced from generation to generation?”. If a story is “reproduced from generation to generation, 
this means that the story survives for a long time. The answer, which was previously thought to be 
cautionary information/warnings, is actually “fear” (paragraph 8). The stories which survive are 
usually “blood-thirsty and gruesome”, adjectives that we associate with horror and fear. Thus, the 
answer must be G – „horror‟ because it has a similar meaning. 
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horror = fear 
 
37. Answer: B He looked at many different forms of the same basic story.
Key words: method, Tehrani, test, ideas, fairy tales
As mentioned in paragraph 4, Tehrani analysed 58 variants of two fairy tales in their oral form: “he 
ended up with 58 stories recorded from oral traditions”. Thus, the answer is clearly B, because these 
stories are variants of the same basic story. A is incorrect because he only examined oral stories; C is 
also incorrect as the stories are clearly related; D is not discussed in the passage. 
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QUESTIONS 37-40: CHOOSE THE CORRECT LETTER, A, B, C OR 
D. 
38. Answer: D features of stories only survive if they have a deeper significance
Key words: Tehrani‘s views, Jack Zipes, suggests
By skimming the proper noun „Jack Zipes‟, we can find his opinion in paragraph 9: “‟Even if they‟re 
gruesome, they won‟t stick unless they matter”. Here, „gruesome‟ is synonymous to „fearful, horrific‟. 
Zipes argues that such gruesome features/details of fairy tales will not last long unless they have some 
meaning or significance in the story. 
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stick = survive
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have significance = matter
Thus, the answer must be D.