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READING PASSAGE-2 Questions IELTS Essentials @IELTSUzNav Exam Practice Test 3

Questions 14-18 Questions 23-26
Reading Passage 2 has five paragraphs, A-E.
Which paragraph contains the following information? Complete the sentences below.
Write the correct letter A-E in boxes 14-18 on your answer sheet. Choose ONE WORD ONLY from the passage for each answer.
NB You may use any letter more than once. Write your answers in boxes 23-26 on your answer sheet.

14 the claim that it is very hard for people to pretend to laugh
15 a reference to research showing that people do not know how 23 The French neurologist Guillaume Duchenne showed that
often they laugh if a smile is fake, the skin around a person’s
16 the reason why people can sometimes stop themselves ……………… does not change shape.
laughing 24 A ……………… that was produced in ancient Rome
17 an outline of the health benefits experienced by people when contains early examples of attempts to be funny.
laughing 25 In January 1962, an outbreak of mass laughter caused
18 a reference to a medical condition that stops some people problems in a ……………… in Tanzania.
making a noise when laughing 26 Neurologist Nikki Sokolov is investigating why
……………… is possible even when a person finds
Questions 19-22 something funny.

Look at the following statements (Questions 19-22) and the list of
people A-E.
Match each statement with the correct person, A-E.
Write the correct letter, A-E, in boxes 19-22 on your answer sheet.

19 Research has confirmed personal experience by identifying
the wide range of subjects and situations that people find
funny.
20 Ideas about what is amusing have changed considerably over
time.
21 To intentionally make other people laugh requires an unusual
combination of skills and characteristics.
22 The reasons why we laugh are sometimes misunderstood by
ordinary people.

List of People

A Dr Peter Shrimpton
B Jocelyn Barnes
C Heinrich Ahrends

D David Mackenzie
E Jake Gottlieb

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