You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 26-40 which are based on Reading Passage below: HIGHS & LOWS Hormone levels – and hence our moods –may be affected by the weather. Gloomy weather can cause depression, but sunshine appears to raise the spirits. In Britain, for example, the dull weather of winter drastically cuts down the …
Investigating Children’s Language A For over 200 years, there has been an interest in the way children learn to speak and understand their first language. Scholars carried out several small-scale studies, especially towards the end of the 19th century, using data they recorded in parental diaries. But detailed, systematic investigation did not begin until the …
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-13, which are based on the Reading Passage below. Raising the Mary Rose How a sixteenth-century warship was recovered from the seabed On 19 July 1545, English and French fleets were engaged in a sea battle off the coast of southern England in the area of water called …
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 14-26, which are based on the Reading Passage below: Flawed Beauty: the problem with toughened glass On 2nd August 1999, a particularly hot day in the town of Cirencester in the UK, a large pane of toughened glass in the roof of a shopping centre at Bishops Walk …
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-13, which are based on Reading Passage below: Early Childhood Education New Zealand’s National Pony spokesman on education, Dr Lockwood Smith,recently visited the US and Britain. Here he reports on the findings of his tripand what they could mean for New Zealand’s education policy A‘Education To Be More’ …
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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 the reading passage below. Why we need to protect polar bears Polar bears …
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-13, which are based on the Reading Passage below. Crop-growing skyscrapers By the year 2050, nearly 80% of the Earth’s population will live in urban centres. Applying the most conservative estimates to current demographic trends, the human population will increase by about three billion people by then. An …
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-13 which are based on the Reading Passage below. How consumers decide Professor John Maule from the University of Leeds describes new research into the way that consumers choose a product. Understanding consumersConsumers are creatures of habit: they buy the same products time and time again, and …
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 14-26, which are based on the Reading Passage below. Nature or Nurture? A A few years ago, in one of the most fascinating and disturbing experiments in behavioural psychology, Stanley Milgram of Yale University tested 40 subjects from all walks of life for their willingness to obey instructions …
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 27-40, which are based on the Reading Passage below: The effects of light on plant and animal species Light is important to organisms for two different reasons. Firstly, it is used as a cue for the timing of daily and seasonal rhythms in both plant and animals, and …
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