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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 27- 40, which are based on Reading Passage below. Communicating Styles and Conflict Knowing your communication style and having a mix of styles on your team can provide a positive force for resolving conflict. AAs far back as Hippocrates’ time (460-370B.C.),  people have tried to understand other people by …

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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 14-26, which are based on Reading Passage below. Children’s Literature Stories and poems aimed at children have an exceedingly long history: lullabies, for example, were sung in Roman times, and a few nursery games and rhymes are almost as ancient. Yet so far as written-down literature is concerned, …

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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 14-26, which are based on the Reading Passage below. Questions 14-20The Reading Passage has seven paragraphs, A-G.Choose the correct heading for each paragraph from the list of headings below. Write the correct number, i-viii, in boxes 14-20 on your answer sheet. List of Headings i.  Different accounts of the same journeyii.  Bingham …

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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1- 13, which are based on Reading Passage below. The Mozart Effect AMusic has been used for centuries to heal the body. In the Ebers Papyrus (one of the earliest medical documents, circa 1550 BC), it was recorded that physicians chanted to heal the sick (Castleman, 1994). In …

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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1- 13, which are based on Reading Passage below. William Gilbert and Magnetism  AThe 16th and 17th centuries saw two great pioneers of modern science: Galileo and Gilbert. The impact of their findings is eminent. Gilbert was the first modern scientist, also the accredited father of the science …

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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 27- 40, which are based on Reading Passage below. Mechanisms of Linguistic Change A  The changes that have caused the most disagreement are those in pronunciation. We have various sources of evidence for the pronunciations of earlier times, such as the spellings, the treatment of words borrowed from other …

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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1- 13, which are based on Passage below. Foot Pedal Irrigation A. Until now, governments and development agencies have tried to tackle the problem through large-scale projects: gigantic dams, sprawling, irrigation canals and vast new fields of high-yield crops introduced during the Green Revolution, the famous campaign to increase grain …

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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 27–40, which are based on the reading passage below. Plant ‘thermometer’ triggers springtime growth by measuring night-time heat …

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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-13, which are based on the Reading Passage below. The History of Glass From our earliest origins, man has been making use of glass. Historians have discovered that a type of natural glass – obsidian – formed in places such as the mouth of a volcano as a …

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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1- 13, which are based on Passage below. Geoff Brash Geoff Brash, who died in 2010, was a gregarious Australian businessman and philanthropist who encouraged the young to reach their potential. Born in Melbourne to Elsa and Alfred Brash, he was educated at Scotch College. His sister, Barbara, became …

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