You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 14-26, which are based on the Reading Passage below. THE FALKIRK WHEEL A unique engineering achievement The Falkirk Wheel in Scotland is the world’s first and only rotating boat lift. Opened in 2002, it is central to the ambitious £84.5m Millennium Link project to restore navigability across …
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-13, which are based on the Reading Passage below. Research using twins To biomedical researchers all over the world, twins offer a precious opportunity to untangle the influence of genes and the environment – of nature and nurture. Because identical twins come from a single fertilized egg that splits …
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 14-26, which are based on the Reading Passage below. An Introduction to Film Sound Though we might think of film as an essentially visual experience, we really cannot afford to underestimate the importance of film sound. A meaningful sound track is often as complicated as the image on …
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1- 14, which are based on Passage below. Britain needs strong TV industry Comedy writer Armando Iannucci has called for an industry-wide defence of the BBC and British programme-makers. “The Thick of It” creator made his remarks in the annual MacTaggart Lecture at the Edinburgh TV Festival. “It’s more …
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-13, which are based on the Reading Passage below: Johnson’s Dictionary For the century before Johnson’s Dictionary was published in 1775, there had been concern about the state of the English language. There was no standard way of speaking or writing and no agreement as to the …
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 27- 40, which are based on Reading Passage below. The accidental rainforest According to ecological theory, rainforests are supposed to develop slowly over millions of years. But now ecologists are being forced to reconsider their ideas When Peter Osbeck. a Swedish priest, stopped off at the mid-Atlantic island …
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 14-26, which are based on the Reading Passage below. Great Migrations Animal migration, however it is defined, is far more than just the movement of animals. It can loosely be described as travel that takes place at regular intervals – often in an annual cycle – that may …
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 27-40, which are based on the Reading Passage below. Collecting Ant Specimens Collecting ants can be as simple as picking up stray ones and placing them in a glass jar, or as complicated as completing an exhaustive survey of all species present in an area and estimating their …
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 14–26, which are based on the reading passage below. Changes in reading habits What are the implications of the way we read today? Look around on your next plane trip. The iPad is the new pacifier for babies and toddlers. Younger school-aged children read stories on smartphones; older …
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 14-26, which are based on the Reading Passage below: Questions 14-21The Reading Passage has nine paragraphs, A-I.Choose the correct heading for paragraphs A-E and G-I from the list of headings below.Write the correct number i-xi, in boxes 14-21 on your answer sheet. List of Headings i A fresh and important long-term goalii Charging for roads and …
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