You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 29 – 40, which are based on Passage below. Anesthesiology Since the beginning of time, man has sought natural remedies for pain. Between 40 and 60 A.D., Greet? physician, Dioscorides traveled with the Roman armies, studying the medicinal properties of plants and minerals. His book, De materia medica, written …
You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-15, which are based on Passage below. Questions 1-5 Reading Passage 1206 has five paragraphs, A-E. Choose the most suitable heading for each paragraph from the list of headings below. Write the appropriate numbers (i-viii) on your Answer Sheet There are more headings than paragraphs, so you will …
You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 27- 40, which are based on Reading Passage below. SAVING LANGUAGE For the first time, linguists have put a price on language. To save a language from extinction isn’t cheap – but more and more people are arguing that the alternative is the death of communities. There is …
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 27-40, which are based on the Reading Passage below. Neuroaesthetics An emerging discipline called neuroaesthetics is seeking to bring scientific objectivity to the study of art, and has already given us a better understanding of many masterpieces. The blurred imagery of Impressionist paintings seems to stimulate the brain’s amygdala, …
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 27- 40, which are based on Passage below. The Future of fish The face of the ocean has changed completely since the first commercial fishers cast their nets and hooks over a thousand years ago. Fisheries intensified over the centuries, but even by the nineteenth century, it was still …
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You should complete this reading test in just 20 minutes. After you finish taking the test, check your answer with the answer keys given at the bottom of this section. You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1- 13, which are based on Reading Passage 276 below. Indoor Pollution Since the early eighties, we have …
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Our knowledge of the complex pathways underlying digestive processes is rapidly expanding, although there is still a great deal we do not fully understand. On the one hand, digestion, like any other major human biological system, is astonishing in its intricacy and cleverness. Our bodies manage to extract the complex resources needed to survive, despite …
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 14- 27, which are based on Reading Passage below. Wheel of Fortune Emma Duncan discusses the potential effects on the entertainment industry of the digital revolution ASince moving pictures were invented a century ago, a new way of distributing entertainment to consumers has emerged about once every generation. …
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 14-26, which are based on the Reading Passage below. Questions 14-20The Reading Passage has seven paragraphs, A-G.Choose the correct heading for each paragraph from the list of headings below.Write the correct number, i-ix, in boxes 14-20 on your answer sheet. List of Headings i Evidence of innovative environment management practicesii An undisputed …
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