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IELTS Academic Reading — Test 6, Passage 1

The History of the Guitar

Questions 1–13 of Reading Test 6. Do it online and every answer is marked the moment you finish, with your band score and the exact line of the passage each answer came from.

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Where are the answers to “The History of the Guitar”?

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How many questions is it?

Questions 1–13 — 13 questions, in these types: Table Completion, True / False / Not Given.

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How the passage begins

An overview of the origins of the modern guitar. The earliest stringed instruments currently known to archaeologists are bowl harps. For millennia, people made bowl harps using, for example, tortoise shells as resonators, with a bent stick for a neck and one or more gut…

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