You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 14- 26, which are based on Reading Passage below. The MIT factor: Celebrating 150 years of maverick genius The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has led the world into the future for 150 years with scientific innovations. The musician Yo-Yo Ma’s cello may not be the obvious starting point …
You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-15, which are based on Reading Passage 94 on the following pages. A D A M’S W I N E A A Water is the giver and, at the same time, the taker of life. It covers most of the surface of the planet we live on and features large …
You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-13, which are based on Reading Passage below. A The Lumière Brothers opened their Cinematographe, at 14 Boulevard des Capucines in Paris, to 100 paying customers over 100 years ago, on December 8, 1985. Before the eyes of the stunned, thrilled audience, photographs came to life and moved …
N E T W O R K I N G Networking as a concept has acquired what is in all truth an unjustified air of modernity. It is considered in the corporate world as an essential tool for the modern businessperson, as they trot round the globe drumming up business for themselves or a corporation. …
UNMASKING SKIN AIf you took off your skin and laid it flat, it would cover an area of about twenty-one square feet, making it by far the body’s largest organ. Draped in place over our bodies, skin forms the barrier between what’s inside us and what’s outside. It protects us from a multitude of external …
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1–13, which are based on Reading Passage 96 below. MAKING TIME FOR SCIENCE Chronobiology might sound a little futuristic – like something from a science fiction novel, perhaps – but it’s actually a field of study that concerns one of the oldest processes life on this planet …
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 27-40, which are based on the Reading Passage below. Questions 27-30The Reading Passage has six sections, A-F.Choose the correct heading for sections A-D from the list of headings below. Write the correct number, i-vii, in boxes 27-30 on your answer sheet.__________________________________________________ List of Headings i The role of video violenceii The failure of government policyiii Reasons …
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 14-26, which are based on Reading Passage below. Coastal Archaeology of Britain A. The recognition of the wealth and diversity of England’s coastal archaeology has been one of the most important developments of recent years. Some elements of this enormous resource have long been known. The so-called ‘submerged …
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 27-40, which are based on the Reading Passage below. Preface to ‘How the other half thinks: Adventures in mathematical reasoning’ A. Occasionally, in some difficult musical compositions, there are beautiful, but easy parts – parts so simple a beginner could play them. So it is with mathematics as well. …
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 16-28 which are based on Reading Passage below. Zoo Conservation Programmes One of London Zoo’s recent advertisements caused me some irritation, so patently did it distort reality. Headlined “Without zoos, you might as well tell these animals to get stuffed”, it was bordered with illustrations of several endangered species …
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