How to Master the ielts

Q121
FALSE.
(first paragraph) The Rosetta Stone was unearthed in the city of 
Alexandria. The statement is false because ‘discovery was made 
in the 
small town of Rashid, 65 km from the city of Alexandria
’.
Q122 TRUE.
(second paragraph) 
There are three translations of the same 
passage on the Rosetta Stone.
The statement is false because ‘it is 
carved with the same text 
written in two
Ancient Egyptian 
scripts
(hiero­
glyphics and Demotic) 
and in Greek
.’
Q123 FALSE.
(second paragraph) 
Egyptian scholars wrote the passages 
almost 4,000 years ago. 
The statement is false because ‘The “Pierre de 
Rosette” 
dates back to 196 BC
. (Q123 distracter: ‘Egyptian hieroglyphs 
dating back almost 4,000 years’, which does not refer to the words on the 
stone.)
Q124 FALSE.
(third paragraph) 
Thomas Young translated the entire Demotic 
test. 
The statement is false because ‘Thomas Young translated 
some of the 
words in the Demotic section
of the stone.’
Q125 TRUE.
(third paragraph) 
The hieroglyphs were more difficult to translate 
than the Demotic text. 
The statement is true because 
‘he made little 
headway with the hieroglyphics symbols, which proved baffling’.
Q126 NOT GIVEN. Demotic language used phonetic sounds.
There is no 
information given on phonetic sounds in relation to the demotic language. 

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READING SECTION ExPANDED ANSWERS
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(Q126 distracter: ‘the symbols used a combination of alphabet letters and 
phonetic sounds’, refers to the hieroglyphic symbols.)