You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-13, which are based on the Reading Passage below. The life and work of Marie Curie Marie Curie is probably the most famous woman scientist who has ever lived. Born Maria Sklodowska in Poland in 1867, she is famous for her work on radioactivity, and was twice a …
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 28-40, which are based on the Reading Passage below. The Birth of Scientific English World science is dominated today by a small number of languages, including Japanese, German and French, but it is English which is probably the most popular global language of science. This is not …
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 14-26, which are based on the reading passage below. Venus in Transit June 2004 saw the first passage, known as a ‘transit` of the planet Venus across the face of the Sun in 122 years. Transits have helped shape our view of the whole Universe, as Heather Cooper …
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 27-40, which are based on the reading passage below. THE HISTORY OF THE TORTOISE If you go back far enough, everything lived in the sea. At various points in evolutionary history, enterprising individuals within many different animal groups moved out onto the land, sometimes even to the most …
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 15-27, which are based on Reading Passage below. NATURAL CHOICECoffee and chocolate What’s the connection between your morning coffee, wintering North American birds and the cool shade of a tree? Actually, unite a lot, says Simon Birch. When scientists from London’s Natural History Museum descended on the coffee …
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-13, which are based on the reading passage below. William Henry Perkin The man who invented synthetic dyes William Henry Perkin was born on March 12, 1838, in London, England. As a boy, Perkin’s curiosity prompted early interests in the arts, sciences. photography, and engineering. But it was …
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 27-40, which are based on the Reading Passage below. Information theory – the big idea Information theory lies at the heart of everything – from DVD players and the genetic code of DNA to the physics of the universe at its most fundamental. it has been central to the …
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 14-26, which are based on Reading Passage below. The Grand Banks A The Grand Banks is a large area of submerged highlands south-east of Newfoundland and east of the Laurentian Channel on the North American continental shelf. Covering 93,200 square kilometres, the Grand Banks are relatively shallow, ranging from 25 to …
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1- 13, which are based on Passage below. SOSUS: Listening to the Ocean A. The oceans of Earth cover more than 70 percent of the planet’s surface, yet, until quite recently, we knew less about their depths than we did about the surface of the Moon. Distant as it is, the …
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 14-26, which are based on Reading Passage below. Less Television, Less Violence and Aggression Cutting back on television, videos, and video games reduce acts of aggression among schoolchildren, according to a study by Dr. Thomas Robinson and others from the Stanford University School of Medicine. The study, …
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