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Practice Listening: Multiple Choice, Single Answer ID: #34091 Short Wool

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Wool clothing is the result of the efforts ancient humans made to survive after their survival in cold weather was threatening. In the Neolithic Period, people used animal pelts to keep themselves warm, as they are durable and warm. From these pelts, they developed the basic tools to make wool. Thus, Babylonians were using proper woolen clothing by 4000 B.C. They used to rear wool-bearing herds and very soon identified that sheep were the best to yield fine quality wool. Wool trade prospered enormously between the eleventh and twelfth centuries.

Which of the following most accurately summarizes the opinion of the author in the text?

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Wool has come a long way since ancient times, and technology has helped it grow in leaps and bounds. Necessity is the mother of invention. Thus the creation of wool clothing. Any animal can be reared to later grow wool, still, the best wool is always borne by sheep. The Neolithic Period was richer than the Babylonian period in terms of wool manufacturing.

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Which of the following most accurately summarizes the opinion of the author in the text?

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Option 1: "Wool has come a long way since ancient times, and technology has helped it grow in leaps and bounds."

Option 2: "Necessity is the mother of invention. Thus the creation of wool clothing."

Option 3: "Any animal can be reared to later grow wool, still, the best wool is always borne by sheep."

Option 4: "The Neolithic Period was richer than the Babylonian period in terms of wool manufacturing."