# It's your choice! - Or is it really?: answers and explanations

The Official Cambridge Guide to IELTS, Test 2, Reading Passage 3

Source: Passage, questions and answer key from The Official Cambridge Guide to IELTS, Test 2, Reading Passage 3. © Cambridge University Press & Assessment. Used for educational practice. Explanations and evidence notes are written by Testmigo.

## Answer key

| Q | Answer | Proof |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 27 | NOT GIVEN | At other times, the stakes are higher, such as deciding which symptoms to report to the doctor. |
| 28 | NO | does not mean that we are better at it |
| 29 | NO | Our sensory and cognitive systems have systematic ways of failing of which we are often, perhaps blissfully, unaware. |
| 30 | YES | suggesting that change blindness may have serious implications for criminal proceedings |
| 31 | NO | Rather than monitoring all of the visual details that surround us, we seem to focus our attention only on those features that are currently meaningful |
| 32 | visual disturbance | when the changes are accompanied by some other visual disturbance (e.g. the passing of the door). |
| 33 | directions | Imagine that you are taking a walk in your local city park when a tourist approaches you asking for directions. |
| 34 | a door | two men carrying a door pass between the two of you. |
| 35 | identification | Especially noteworthy is an experiment by Davies and Hine (2007) who studied whether change blindness affects eyewitness identification. |
| 36 | valuables | walking through the different rooms and putting valuables into a knapsack. |
| 37 | A, C | choices involving gustatory and olfactory information |
| 38 | A, C | the outcome was manipulated for the second voice pair and participants were presented with the non-chosen voice |
| 39 | B, E | on a 5-point scale |
| 40 | B, E | but can also occur for intensity and frequency |

## Why these answers are right

**27. NOT GIVEN.** The statement claims doctors decide according to the symptoms patients describe. Paragraph A only mentions the patient's decision about which symptoms to report to the doctor; the writer says nothing about how doctors make their decisions, so the answer is NOT GIVEN.

**28. NO.** The statement says our ability to handle a lot of input has improved. Paragraph A says that being accustomed to processing large amounts of information does not mean we are better at it, which directly contradicts the claim of improvement, so the answer is NO.

**29. NO.** The statement says we usually know when we have misjudged something. Paragraph A says our sensory and cognitive systems fail in systematic ways that we are often unaware of, so the writer holds the opposite view and the answer is NO.

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