You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1 – 14 which are based on Reading Passage below. Cleaning up the Thames The River Thames, which was biologically “dead” as recently as the 1960s, is now the cleanest metropolitan river in the world, according to the Thames Water Company. The company says that thanks to …
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 28 – 40 which are based on Reading Passage below. THE STORY OF COFFEE A. Coffee was first discovered in Eastern Africa in an area we know today as Ethiopia. A popular legend refers to a goat herder by the name of Kaldi, who observed his goats …
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 14-27 which are based on the Reading Passage sample below. Changing Our Understanding of Health A The concept of health holds different meanings for different people and groups. These meanings of health have also changed over time. This change is no more evident than in Western society today, when notions of …
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 27–40, which are based on the reading passage below. IS PHOTOGRAPHY ART? This may seem a pointless question today. Surrounded as we are by thousands of photographs, most of us take for granted that, in addition to supplying information and seducing customers, camera images also serve as decoration, afford spiritual …
Paragraph (i)At any given time, more than a million international students around the world are engaged in the study of the English language in a predominantly English-speaking country. The five most popular destinations, in order of popularity, are the U. S., Britain, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada. The reasons for choosing to study English abroad …
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 14–26, which are based on the reading passage below. The changing role of airports Airports continue to diversify their role in an effort to generate income. Are business meeting facilities the next step? Nigel Halpern, Anne Graham and Rob Davidson investigate. A. In recent times developing commercial revenues has become …
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 28-40 which are based on Reading Passage below. The Pursuit of Happiness “New research uncovers some anti-intuitive insights into how many people are happy – and why.” _____________________________ Compared with misery, happiness is a relatively unexplored terrain for social scientists. Between 1967 and 1994, 46,380 articles indexed …
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1–14 which are based on Reading Passage below: Alarming Rate of Loss of Tropical Rainforests Adults and children are frequently confronted with statements about the alarming rate of loss of tropical rainforests. For example, one graphic illustration to which children might readily relate is the estimate that rainforests are being …
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 14-27, which are based on the Reading Passage below. What’s so funny? John McCrone reviews recent research on humour The joke comes over the headphones: ‘Which side of a dog has the most hair? The left.’ No, not funny. Try again. ‘Which side of a dog has the …
You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1–13, which are based on the reading passage below. The Dover Bronze-Age Boat A beautifully preserved boat, made around 3,000 years ago and discovered by chance in a muddy hole, has had a profound impact on archaeological research. It was 1992. In England, workmen were building a new road through …
