Let’s Go Bats IELTS Reading Answers and Explanations

Let’s Go Bats: practice guide and common mistakes

Follow the question’s relationship: an animal’s natural sensing mechanism and a human device using a related principle are different answers. Keep the answer word aligned with the blank’s subject. For completion questions, spelling the right term is not enough if the sentence says that the animal does not use that mechanism.

Try an original reading evidence exercise

This short exercise was written for this website. It is separate from the Cambridge questions and answer key above.

A fictional robot measures distance using reflected sound. Its designers tested it in a tunnel. The description does not identify the size of its battery.

Write TRUE, FALSE or NOT GIVEN for each statement.

1. The robot uses reflected sound to measure distance.
2. It was tested only in open fields.
3. Its battery lasts ten hours.

Mini-exercise answers

1. TRUE
2. FALSE
3. NOT GIVEN

How to review your result

For each decision, underline the sentence that supports or contradicts the complete claim. The NOT GIVEN item contains an extra detail the short text does not establish. Do not use the topic’s real-world facts to fill that gap.

Original test questions

Use the question set for the named version when checking the Cambridge answers above. Open the matching questions and source reference. The mini-exercise on this page has its own separate key.

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Let’s Go Bats: checked answers and review tips

These answers cover Questions 1–13 in Cambridge IELTS 7, Reading Test 1, Passage 1.

1. B
2. A
3. A
4. E
5. D
6. phantom
7. echoes / obstacles
8. depth
9. submarines
10. natural selection
11. radio waves
12. mathematical theories
13. zoologist

For Questions 1–5, identify the paragraph containing the specific information, not merely a paragraph mentioning bats. Questions 6–9 allow one word only. In Question 11, the sentence asks what bats do not use: radio waves fits that meaning; echoes does not, because echoes are central to their navigation. Questions 10–13 allow no more than two words, so retain both words in natural selection and mathematical theories.