How to Spot a Liar Reading Answers

IELTS Reading is an important section within the IELTS test which analyzes the skills of students in terms of their reading abilities. The IELTS exam tests the proficiency of students in the language usage, grammar, style and vocabulary. The IELTS academic reading section tests the proficiency of candidates through a passage based on which students need to answer definite questions. IELTS Reading tests the understanding abilities of the candidate. Based on the IELTS reading practice papers students can effectively undertake their exam preparation hence, acing the test efficiently. This IELTS reading sample on the topic How to Spot a Liar Reading answers would help students in part of their preparation for the test. This IELTS reading sample answer consists of two question types:

1. True/False/Not Given
2. Multiple-choice Questions
3. Filling in the boxes

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Section 1

Read the Passage to Answer the Following Questions

How to Spot a Liar Reading Answers

Section 2

Solution and Explanation
Do the following statements agree with the claims of the writer in Reading Passage?

(Guide: In this task type, the candidates are required to study the passage properly then answer the questions marked from 1 - 6. Each question’s answer will either be true or false or not given.)

In boxes 1-5 on your answer sheet, write

YES - if the statement agrees with the information
NO - if the statement contradicts the information
NOT GIVEN - if there is no information on this

Question 1: All living animals can lie.

Answer: Yes
Supporting Sentence: deception comes naturally to all living things
Keywords: Deception, Living things
Keyword Location: paragraph A; line 1-2
Explanation: the sentence in the above passage describes the deceptive nature, which makes the sense of pretending to lie about something. In the sentence, it was given that the deception comes to all living things, which explicitly implies that all the living beings including the animals were included in it. Hence the statement that all the living animals can lie, is true according to the passage in the context of the author.

Question 2: Some people tell lies for self-preservation.

Answer: Yes
Supporting Sentence: often deceive for exactly the same reasons: to save their own skins or to get something they can’t get by other means.
Keywords: deceive, save their own skin
Keyword Location: Paragraph A; last line
Explanation: The question uses a word as self-preservation, which means the protection of oneself from harm or death, especially this word is regarded as a basic instinct in human beings and animals. This word includes all types of protections for the human body including the skin for the outer body so the statement which says that the humans to save their own skins will come under an act of self-preservation.

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Question 3: Scientists have used computers to analyze which part of the brain is responsible for telling lies.

Answer: Not Given
Explanation: Throughout the entire passage, no statement declares the work of the scientists to analyze which part of the brain is responsible for telling lies by using computers.

Question 4: Lying as a survival skill is more important than detecting a lie.

Answer: No
Supporting Sentence: But knowing how to catch deceit can be just as important a survival skill as knowing how to tell a lie and get away with it.
Keywords: how to catch deceit, survival skill
Keyword Location: paragraph B; lines 1-2
Explanation: Generally, the passage mostly implied that lying is a survival skill rather than any offense. One of the statements from the passage which supports lying as a survival skill is that knowing how to catch the deceit can be just as important a survival skill as knowing how to tell a lie and get away with it. This gives a clear picture that detecting a lie is not a very important issue.

Question 5: To be a good liar, one has to understand other people's emotions.

Answer: Yes
Supporting Sentence: Lies work best, successful liars need to accurately assess other people’s emotional states.
Keywords: lies, successful liars, emotional states
Keyword Location: paragraph C; lines 1-2
Explanation: Understanding emotions accurately will help a successful liar to influence someone. This statement was clearly mentioned in the above passage, as assessing the people’s emotional states. This was mentioned indirectly in the passage by the author. Hence this statement is present in the passage.

Questions 6-9:

Choose the correct letter A, B, C, or D.
Write your answers in boxes 6-9.

Question 6: How does the lie detector work?

1. It detects whether one's emotional state is stable.
2. It detects one’s brain activity level.
3. It detects body behavior during one's verbal response.
4. It analyses one's verbal response word by word.

Answer: c (It detects body behavior during one's verbal response.)
Supporting Sentence: …detect the physical cues of emotions, which may or may not correspond to what the person being tested is saying.
Keywords: physical cues, emotions
Keyword Location: Paragraph D; lines 1-2
Explanation: The working of the lie detector test with the electronic machines can be demonstrated from the physical cues of emotions, which may or may not correspond to what the person being tested is explaining, many polygraphs were drawn from the heart rate, pulse rate, and the adrenaline rush. From the above options, the option that detects the behavior during one’s verbal response correctly fits the explanation.

Question 7: Lie detectors can't be used as evidence in a court of law because

1. Lights often cause lie detectors to malfunction.
2. They are based on too many verbal and non-verbal clues.
3. Polygraph tests are often inaccurate.
4. There may be many causes of certain body behavior.

Answer: d (There may be many causes of certain body behavior.)
Supporting Sentence: Studio is too hot- which is one reason polygraph tests are inadmissible in court.
Keywords: Studio, polygraph test
Keyword Location: paragraph D; lines 11-12
Explanation: The question is about the cons of the lie detector tests and the effects of the surroundings affecting the test. The statement in the passage says that the studios were too hot so the polygraph test is inadmissible. Hence certain body behavior changes were observed due to the changes in the surroundings. the surrounding people and the environmental factors will affect the state of mind of the person. and hence this is the correct option among all other options.

Question 8: Why does the author mention the paralyzed patients?

1. To demonstrate how a paralyzed patient smiles.
2. To show the relation between true emotions and body behavior.
3. To examine how they were paralyzed.
4. To show the importance of happiness from recovery.

Answer: b. (To show the relation between true emotions and body behavior.)
Supporting Sentence: If a patient is paralyzed by a stroke on one side of the face
Keywords: paralyzed, stroke
Keyword Location: paragraph E, lines 5-7
Explanation: The paralyzed patients were taken as an example by the author to demonstrate the relation between the true emotions which sometimes were absent in some paralyzed patients, this could affect the person who is taken for the lie detection test. It is the only state where the author described the paralyzed patients all throughout the passage.

Question 9: The author uses politicians to exemplify that they can

1. Have emotions.
2. Imitate actors.
3. Detect other people's lives.
4. Mask their true feelings.

Answer: d. (Mask their true feelings.)
Supporting Sentence: ….-most notably, actors and politicians- are able to consciously control all of their facial expressions.
Keywords: consciously control, facial expressions
Keyword Location: paragraph E; lines 9-11
Explanation: The politicians were taken into consideration by the author in order to explain about the persons who try to mask their face and heart so that they give false statements and take us far away from reality. Hence, they mask their true feelings, mostly hatred and other emotions, and pretend to appear as good persons. This statement describes the behavior of masking true feelings.

Questions 10 – 13:

Classify the following facial traits as referring to

1. sadness
2. anger
3. happiness

Write the correct letter A, B, or C in boxes 10-13.

Question 10: Inner corners of eyebrows raised.

Answer: A sadness
Supporting Sentence: the forehead wrinkles with grief and the inner corners of the eyebrows are pulled up.
Keywords: forehead wrinkles, inner corners, eyebrows
Keyword Location: paragraph F; lines 3-4
Explanation: The statement that the inner corner of eyebrows raised implies that they happen when someone wrinkles their forehead in grief or sorrow such that his eyebrows will be pulled up. Sometimes, out of astonishment, the eyebrows were pulled up, but in this context, the statement clearly depicts a sad mood caused by grief.

Question 11: The whole eyebrows lowered.

Answer: B anger
Supporting Sentence: By contrast, the lowering of the eyebrows associated with an angry scowl can be replicated at will by almost everybody
Keywords: eyebrows, angry scowl
Keyword Location: paragraph F; lines 5-7
Explanation: This statement is in contrast to the previous statement which talks about the raising of the eyebrows and the present statement explains about the lowering of eyebrows which usually occurs when someone scowls with anger or shortens the eyes in order to deny something. Hence the statement depicts the feeling of anger when we shorten our eyes by lowering our eyebrows.

Question 12: Lines formed around.

Answer: C happiness
Supporting Sentence: the muscle around the eye that produces the distinctive “crow’s feet”…
Keywords: muscle, crow’s feet
Keyword Location: paragraph G; lines 6-7
Explanation: Lines were formed around the eyes when someone smiles so then the eyes diminish which causes the formation of the lines around the eyes. This happens when someone smiles out of happiness. Hence the statement occurs in the passage when the author is trying to explain the happiness expressions.

Question 13: Lines form above eyebrows.

Answer: A sadness
Supporting Sentence: If someone claims they are sad and the inner corners of their eyebrows don’t go up…
Keywords: sad, inner corners, eyebrows
Keyword Location: paragraph F; lines 7-9
Explanation: The inner corners of the eyes will form lines when someone is feeling sadness which makes them feel bad and they start staring at things out of sadness, in this type of situation the lines from above the eyes. so the following things were clear and the explanation of sadness will perfectly opt to the context of the passage.