IELTS reading True False Practice

Five minute reading practice

Haunted House “The SpookVille”

Paragraph : –

In the early 19th in there was quite a trend of urban legends based on monsters and ghosts. Thus, the artificial haunted houses for entertainment were too spreading at a high pace. Spookville earn high popularity in those days. This haunted house was located in Ohio state of the US. It was the most famous haunted house in the North America continent. The entire house was decorated with skulls and bones of wax.

TRUE/FALSE/NOT GIVEN Questions

Q:1 In The 1920’s folk stories of supernatural and paranormal things were very popular.

Q: 2 Haunted houses for entertainment were spreading rapidly.

Q: 3 This haunted house was located in the Southern part of the US.

Q: 4 The spookville was more famous than Canadian and Mexican’s fake haunted houses.

Q: 5 Spookville had a creepy decoration of human bones.

Answers with explanation : –

  1. True
  2. Not given
  3. False
  4. True
  5. False

1) Here folk stories mean the same as urban legends, and thereafter monsters and ghosts come under the category of supernatural and paranormal entities. So that is why the answer is true and 1920’s means period from 1911 to 1920 which define the early 19th period.

2) There is only information about artificial haunted houses, not about any haunted house. Therefore answer is not given.

3) As in the paragraph spookville was located in Ohio, Which is situated in the Northern part of the US. Thus answer is false.

4) In the paragraph we have read that Spooville was most famous fake haunted house in the entire north America continent. So canada and Mexico are the part of North America continent, Which clearly states that spookville was most famous than all other hauted houses of Canada and Mexico.

5) The answer is false because question statement saying about human bones, while in the paragraph writer saying that the decoration was being done by wax bones and skulls.