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Antarctic Penguins Though penguins are assumed to be native to the South Pole, only four of the seventeen species have evolved the survival adaptations necessary to live and breed in the Antarctic year round. The physical features of the Adelie, Chinstrap, Gentoo, and Emperor penguins equip them to withstand the harshest living conditions in the …

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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 27-40 which are based on the Reading Passage below. PLAY IS A SERIOUS BUSINESS Does play help develop bigger, better brains? Bryant Furlow investigates  A.     Playing is a serious business. Children engrossed in a make-believe world, fox cubs play-fighting or kittens teaming a ball of string aren’t just …

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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 27-40 which are based on Reading Passage 163 below. ObtainingLinguisticData A.    Many procedures are available for obtaining data about a language. They range from a carefully planned, intensive field investigation in a foreign country to a casual introspection about one’s mother tongue carried out in an armchair …

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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-13 which are based on Reading Passage below: AIRPORTS ON WATER River deltas are difficult places for map makers. The river builds them up, the sea wears them down; their outlines are always changing. The changes in China’s Pearl River delta, however, are more dramatic than these natural fluctuations. An island …

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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-13 which are based on the Reading Passage below. Jumping spiders Peter Aldhons examines how Portia spiders catch their prey A  For a stalking predator, the element of surprise is crucial. And for jumping spiders that sneak onto other spiders’ webs to prey on their owners, it …

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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 27-40 which are based on Reading Passage 66 on the following pages. Questions 27-33Reading Passage 3 has eight paragraphs ( A-H). Choose the most suitable headings for paragraphs B-H from the list of headings below.Write the appropriate numbers (i-x) in boxes 27-33 on your answer sheet. NB There are more headings than paragraphs, …

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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 27-40, which are based on the Reading Passage below. Questions 27-32The Reading Passage has six paragraphs, A-F.Choose the correct heading for each paragraph from the list of headings below. Write the correct number, i-viii, in boxes 27-32 on your answer sheet. List of Headings i. The difficulties of talking about smellsii. The …

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Questions 1-12Read the passage below and answer Questions 1-12. The history of the biro A.  One chilly autumn morning in 1945, five thousand shoppers crowded the pavements outside Gimbels Department Store in New York City. The day before, Gimbels had taken out a full-page newspaper advertisement in the New York Times, announcing the sale of …

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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 27-40, which are based on the Reading Passage below. EFFECTS OF NOISE In general, it is plausible to suppose that we should prefer peace and quiet to noise. And yet most of us have had the experience of having to adjust to sleeping in the mountains or the countryside …

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