Cambridge ielts 1-15 series reading answers explained

=>ANSWER: NOT GIVEN
37.IN GENERAL, PEOPLE IN SEVENTH-CENTURY EUROPE HAD POOR 
COUNTING ABILITY. 
Keywords: seventh-century Europe, counting ability 
Continue to examine paragraph 4, and we find that: “The average person in the seventh century in 
Europe was not as familiar with numbers as we are today. In fact, to qualify as a witness in a court of 
law a man had to be able to count to nine.” So, people in seventh-century Europe had poor counting 
ability. 
=>ANSWER: TRUE
38.IN THE TSIMSHIAN LANGUAGE , THE NUMBER FOR LONG OBJECTS 
AND CANOES IS EXPRESSED WITH THE SAME WORD. 
Keywords: Tsimshian, long objects , canoes 
In paragraph 6, it is written that: “The numeration system of the Tsimshian language….contains 
seven distinct sets of words..: .for long objects and trees, for canoes…” So the words expressing the 
number for long objects and canoes are different. 
=>ANSWER: FALSE
39.THE TSIMSHIAN LANGUAGE CONTAINS BOTH OLDER AND NEWER 
SYSTEMS OF COUNTING. 
Keywords: Tsimshian, older and newer 
After listing seven distinct sets of words for numbers according to the class of item inthe Tsimshian 
language, the writer says: “It seems that the last is a later development while the first six groups show 
the relics of an older system.” The last set is used “…for counting when no particular object is being 
numerated”. 
+ system of counting = numeration system 
So the Tsimshian language contains both older and newer systems of counting. 
=>ANSWER: TRUE
40.EARLY PEOPLES FOUND IT EASIER TO COUNT BY USING THEIR 
FINGERS RATHER THAN A GROUP OF PEBBLES. 
Keywords: fingers, pebbles 

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These are mentioned in the last paragraph: “…it is possible to count by matching the items being 
counted against a group of pebbles,….or the counter‟s fingers.”Although early peoples found this 
necessary, the passage does not say which of these was easier to use for counting purposes.