You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 28-40, which are based on Reading Passage below. THE ART OF HEALING As with so much, the medicine of the Tang dynasty left its European counterpart in the shade. It boasted its own ‘national health service’, and left behind the teachings of the incomparable Sun Simiao. If no further …
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 27- 40, which are based on Reading Passage below. SAVING LANGUAGE For the first time, linguists have put a price on language. To save a language from extinction isn’t cheap – but more and more people are arguing that the alternative is the death of communities. There is …
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 27-40, which are based on the Reading Passage below. Neuroaesthetics An emerging discipline called neuroaesthetics is seeking to bring scientific objectivity to the study of art, and has already given us a better understanding of many masterpieces. The blurred imagery of Impressionist paintings seems to stimulate the brain’s amygdala, …
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 27- 40, which are based on Passage below. The Future of fish The face of the ocean has changed completely since the first commercial fishers cast their nets and hooks over a thousand years ago. Fisheries intensified over the centuries, but even by the nineteenth century, it was still …
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 27- 40, which are based on Passage below. Video game research Although video games were first developed for adults, they are no longer exclusively reserved for the grown ups in the home. In 2006, Rideout and Hamel reported that as many as 29 percent of preschool children (children between …
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 27 – 40, which are based on Passage below. Learning lessons from the past Many past societies collapsed or vanished, leaving behind monumental ruins such as those that the poet Shelley imagined in his sonnet, Ozymandias. By collapse, I mean a drastic decrease in human population size and/or political/economic/social …
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 14- 26, which are based on Reading Passage below. IT’S ECO-LOGICAL Planning an eco-friendly holiday can be a minefield for the well- meaning traveller, says Steve Watkins. But help is now at hand. If there were awards for tourism phrases that have been hijacked, diluted and misused then …
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 27-40, which are based on the Reading Passage below. Museums of fine art and their public The fact that people go to the Louvre museum in Paris to see the original painting Mona Lisa when they can see a reproduction anywhere leads us to question some assumptions about the role …
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 14- 26, which are based on Reading Passage below. ROBOTS Since the dawn of human ingenuity, people have devised ever more cunning tools to cope with work that is dangerous, boring, onerous, or just plain nasty. That compulsion has culminated in robotics – the science of conferring various …
You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 27- 40, which are based on the Reading Passage below: The psychology of innovation Why are so few companies truly innovative? Innovation is key to business survival, and companies put substantial resources into inspiring employees to develop new ideas. There are, nevertheless, people working in luxurious, state-of-the-art centres …
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