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 1-13 which are based on the Reading Passage below. A Remarkable Beetle Some of the most remarkable beetles are the dung beetles, which spend almost their whole lives eating and breeding in dung. More than 4,000 species of these remarkable creatures have evolved and adapted to the world’s different climates and …
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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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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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