You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-13, which are based on the Reading Passage below. BAKELITE The birth of modern plastics In 1907, Leo Hendrick Baekeland, a Belgian scientist working in New York, discovered and patented a revolutionary new synthetic material. His invention, which he named ‘Bakelite’, was of enormous technological importance, and effectively …
You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 27-40. which are based on the Reading Passage below. Forests are one of the main elements of our natural heritage. The decline of Europe’s forests over the last decade and a half has led to an increasing awareness and understanding of the serious imbalances which threaten them. European …
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-13, which are based on the Reading Passage below. Pulling strings to build pyramids No one knows exactly how the pyramids were built. Marcus Chown reckons the answer could be ‘hanging in the air’. The pyramids of Egypt were built more than three thousand years ago, and no …
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 14-26, which are based on the Reading Passage below. The Nature of Genius There has always been an interest in geniuses and prodigies. The word ‘genius’, from the Latin gens (= family) and the term ‘genius’, meaning ‘begetter’, comes from the early Roman cult of a divinity as …
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 14-26, which are based on the reading passage below. Question 14- 19The Reading Passage has seven paragraphs, A-G.Choose the correct heading for paragraph A and C-G from the list below. Write the correct number i-ix, in boxes 14-19 on your answer sheet. List of Headings: i Disobeying FAA Regulationsii Aviation disaster prompts actioniii Two coincidental developmentsiv Setting …
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1–13, which are based on the reading passage below. Roman tunnels The Romans, who once controlled areas of Europe, North Africa and Asia Minor, adopted the construction techniques of other civilizations to build tunnels in their territories The Persians, who lived in present-day Iran, were one of the …
You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 27-40, which are based on the Reading Passage below: The Return of Artificial Intelligence It is becoming acceptable again to talk of computers performinghuman tasks such as problem-solving and pattern-recognition. A After years in the wilderness, the term ‘artificial intelligence’ (AI) seems poised to make a comeback. AI …
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 14-26, which are based on the Reading Passage below. Endless Harvest More than two hundred years ago, Russian explorers and fur hunters landed on the Aleutian Islands, a volcanic archipelago in the North Pacific, and learned of a land mass that lay farther to the north. The islands’ native …
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1–13, which are based on the reading passage below. The White Horse of Uffington The cutting of huge figures or ‘geoglyphs’ into the earth of English hillsides has taken place for more than 3,000 years. There are 56 hill figures scattered around England, with the vast majority on …
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 27–40, which are based on the reading passage below. DELIVERINGTHEGOODS The vast expansion in international trade owes much to a revolution in the business of moving freight A International trade is growing at a startling pace. While the global economy has been expanding at a bit over 3% …
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