IELTS Reading inference Practice
What does the author use the 'branches of a tree' to illustrate in Paragraph C?
Question type: multiple choice · Difficulty: beginner
- A. A. The difficulty of learning a new language
- B. B. The way languages mix together through trade
- C. C. The idea that all languages are equally complex
- D. D. The way an original language split into many different ones
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The passage uses the tree analogy to explain how languages diversified from a common source due to migration. Paragraph C states, 'This process can be compared to the branches of a tree: from a common trunk of an ancestral language, numerous distinct branches and smaller twigs—the world’s language families and individual languages—grew.'