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Matching Features
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Wilson proposed that millions of years of evolution in natural environments have shaped our biology in ways that make contact with nature essential to our physical and psychological well being.
Match the idea to the right person.
Who put forward the idea that humans have evolved to need contact with nature?
How to approach Matching Features
Matching Features gives you a set of statements and a list of options, such as researchers, theories or places, and asks you to match each statement to the right option. Options can be used more than once or not at all. The skill is locating each named option in the passage and reading what is said about it.
1
Scan for the named options
Find where each person, study or category appears in the passage and mark it. Names are easy to spot.
2
Read what the text says about each
Note the claim, finding or feature attached to each option before you read the statements.
3
Match each statement to a feature
Compare each statement to the information you gathered and choose the option whose meaning fits.
4
Allow reuse and gaps
An option may match several statements or none, so do not force a one to one pairing.
5
Use elimination on the hard ones
Settle the clear matches, then narrow the rest by ruling out options that clearly do not fit.
Common mistakes to avoid
✗Forcing every option to be used exactly once.
✓Options can repeat or go unused. Match on meaning, not on filling every slot.
✗Matching on a name appearing near a statement.
✓Proximity is not proof. Read what the passage actually attributes to that option.
✗Reading the statements before locating the options.
✓Find and annotate the options first, then the matching becomes far faster.
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