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39. Answer: autonomy
Explain
· Key words: play, without, intervention, adults, real
· It is stated (in paragraph 10) that “free play provides the child with true autonomy”.
· without intervention = free
· real = true
40. Answer: targeted
Explain
· Key words: with, adults, particular goals
· In paragraph 10, it is stated that “guided play…can provide more targeted learning experiences”. We already know (from question 36), that „targets‟ and „goals‟ have a similar meaning. Guided play refers to play with the intervention of adults, so the blank should be filled with “targeted”.

Cambridge IELTS 14 Reading – Test 4

1. 
   1. Answer: four / 4
   Explain
   – Key words: focused age groups, ants
   – In paragraph 3, it is stated that “Giraldo focused on ants at four age ranges”,
   so the answer must be “four/4”.
   
2. 
   Answer: young
   Explain
   – Key words: how well, ants, looked after
   – The first sentence of paragraph 4 states that “Giraldo watched how well the ants took care of the young of the colony”
   – Look after = take care of
   
3. 
   Answer: food
   Explain
   – Key words: ability, locate, scent trail
   – In the second sentence of paragraph 4, the author mentions how ants “followed the telltale scent that the insects usually leave to mark a trail to food”. This means that she studied ants‟ ability to locate food using a scent trail.
   
4. 
   Answer: light
   Explain
   

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  Key words: effect
  
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  In the same paragraph, we are told that “she tested how ants responded tolight”, meaning that she tested the effect of “light” on ants
  

5. Answer: aggresively
Explain
– Key words: attacked, prey
– Still in paragraph 4, Giraldo compared the way old and young ants attacked their prey and found that the old ones attacked “just as aggressively” as the young ones did. In other words, she studied how aggressively they attacked the prey.