You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 27- 40, which are based on Reading Passage below. Recovering a damaged reputation In 2009, it was revealed that some of the information published by the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit (CRU) in the UK, concerning climate change, had been inaccurate. Furthermore, it was alleged that …
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1 – 13, which are based on Passage below. Optimism and Health Mindset is all. How you start the year will set the template for the rest, and two scientifically backed character traits hold the key: optimism and resilience (if the prospect leaves you feeling pessimistically spineless, the good …
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 27- 40, which are based on Reading Passage below. Pottery production in ancient Akrotiri Excavations at the site of prehistoric Akrotiri, on the coast of the Aegean Sea, have revealed much about the technical aspects of pottery manufacture, indisputably one of the basic industries of this Greek city. …
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 28- 41, which are based on Reading Passage below. The Earth and Space Foundation They are the Earth’s pollinators and they come in more than 200,000 shapes and sizes. The community that focuses its efforts on the exploration of space has largely been different from the community focused …
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1- 14, which are based on Reading Passage below. Examining the placebo effect The fact that taking a fake drug can powerfully improve some people’s health – the so-called placebo effect – was long considered an embarrassment to the serious practice of pharmacology, but now things have changed. …
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 14- 27, which are based on Passage below. Worldly Wealth Can the future population of the world enjoy a comfortable lifestyle, with possessions, space and mobility, without crippling the environment? The world’s population is expected to stabilize at around nine billion. Will it be possible for nine billion people …
You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 27- 40, which are based on the Reading Passage below. Questions 27-32 The Reading Passage has six sections, A-F.Choose the correct heading for each section from the list of headings below.Write the correct number, i-viii, in boxes 27-32 on your answer sheet. 27. Section A28. Section B29. Section C30. Section D31. Section E32. Section F List of Headings i. Courses that require a high level of …
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 27- 40, which are based on Reading Passage below. Language diversity One of the most influential ideas in the study of languages is that of universal grammar (UG). Put forward by Noam Chomsky in the 1960s, it is widely interpreted as meaning that all languages are basically the …
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 27-40, which are based on the Reading Passage below. When evolution runs backwards Evolution isn’t supposed to run backwards – yet an increasing number of examples show that it does and that it can sometimes represent the future of a species. The description of any animal as an ‘evolutionary …
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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 Reading Passage below. The Great Australian Fence A war has been going …
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