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IELTS Reading Practice Test: Aphantasia: A life without mental images
Practice your IELTS reading skills with this comprehensive 13-question test. Time limit: 20 minutes.
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## Aphantasia: A life without mental images **Close your eyes and imagine walking along a sandy beach and then gazing over the horizon as the Sun rises. How clear is the image that springs to mind?** Most people can readily conjure images inside their head - known as their mind's eye. But this yea...
Question Types Included
- true-false-not-given (8 questions)
- sentence-completion (5 questions)
Test Information
- Total Questions: 13
- Time Limit: 20 minutes
- Level: Intermediate to Advanced
- Format: IELTS Academic Reading
Reading Comprehension Questions
Questions 1–8: True / False / Not Given
Do the following statements agree with the information in the IELTS reading text?
Write TRUE if the statement agrees with the information.
Write FALSE if the statement contradicts the information.
Write NOT GIVEN if there is no information on this.
1 Aphantasia is a condition, which describes people, for whom it is hard to visualise mental images.
2 Niel Kenmuir was unable to count sheep in his head.
3 People with aphantasia struggle to remember personal traits and clothes of different people.
4 Niel regrets that he cannot portray an image of his fiancee in his mind.
5 Inability to picture things in someone's head is often a cause of distress for a person.
6 All people with aphantasia start to feel 'isolated' or 'alone' at some point of their lives.
7 Lauren Beard's career depends on her imagination.
8 The author met Lauren Beard when she was working on a comedy scene in her next book.
Questions 9–13: Sentence Completion
Complete the sentences below.
Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS from the passage for each answer.
Write your answers in boxes 9–13.
9. Only a small fraction of people have imagination as as Lauren does.
10. Hyperphantasia is to aphantasia.
11. There are a lot of subjectivity in comparing people's imagination - somebody's vivid scene could be another person's .
12. Prof Zeman is that aphantasia is not an illness.
13. Many people spend their lives with somewhere in the mind's eye.
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Aphantasia: A life without mental images
Reading Passage Content
This page contains IELTS reading practice materials with comprehensive questions and explanations.
Reading Comprehension Questions
Questions 1–8: True / False / Not Given
Do the following statements agree with the information in the IELTS reading text?
Write TRUE if the statement agrees with the information.
Write FALSE if the statement contradicts the information.
Write NOT GIVEN if there is no information on this.
1 Aphantasia is a condition, which describes people, for whom it is hard to visualise mental images.
2 Niel Kenmuir was unable to count sheep in his head.
3 People with aphantasia struggle to remember personal traits and clothes of different people.
4 Niel regrets that he cannot portray an image of his fiancee in his mind.
5 Inability to picture things in someone's head is often a cause of distress for a person.
6 All people with aphantasia start to feel 'isolated' or 'alone' at some point of their lives.
7 Lauren Beard's career depends on her imagination.
8 The author met Lauren Beard when she was working on a comedy scene in her next book.
Questions 9–13: Sentence Completion
Complete the sentences below.
Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS from the passage for each answer.
Write your answers in boxes 9–13.
9. Only a small fraction of people have imagination as as Lauren does.
10. Hyperphantasia is to aphantasia.
11. There are a lot of subjectivity in comparing people's imagination - somebody's vivid scene could be another person's .
12. Prof Zeman is that aphantasia is not an illness.
13. Many people spend their lives with somewhere in the mind's eye.
Ready to Start?
Click to begin your 20-minute reading test
20 min
13 questions