You are advised to spend about 20 minutes on Questions 27 – 40 The Discovery of Uranus Someone once put forward an attractive though unlikely theory. Throughout the Earth’s annual revolution around the sun, there is one point of space always hidden from our eyes. This point is the opposite part of the Earth’s orbit, which …
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 14-26, which are based on the Reading Passage below. Question 14-20The Reading Passage has seven paragraphs, A-H.Choose the correct heading for paragraphs A and C-H from the list of headings below.Write the correct number, i-xi, in boxes 14-20 on your answer sheet. List of Headings i Scientists’ call for revision of policyii An explanation for reduced water useiii …
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 27-40, which are based on the Reading Passage below. THE TRUTH ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENT For many environmentalists, the world seems to be getting worse. They have developed a hit-list of our main fears: that natural resources are running out, that the population is ever growing, leaving less and …
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 13-25 which are based on Reading Passage 27 on the following pages. Questions 13-15The Reading Passage has six sections A-F.Choose the most suitable headings for sections A, B and D from the list of headings below.Write the appropriate numbers i-vii in boxes 13-15 on your answer sheet. List of Headingsi Amazonia as unable to sustain complex societiesii …
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 29-40 which are based on the Reading Passage below. Questions 29-33The Reading Passage has seven paragraphs A-G.Choose the most suitable headings for paragraphs C-G from the list of headings below.Write the appropriate numbers i-x in boxes 29-33 on your answer sheet. List of Headingsi The Crick and Watson approach to researchii Antidotes to bacterial infectioniii The …
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Question 1-13 which are based on the Reading Passage below. Lost for Words Many minority languages are on the danger list. In the Native American Navajo nation which sprawls across four states in the American south-west, the native language is dying. Most of its speakers are middle-age or …
You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-13 which are based on Reading Passage 23 below. Part – OneA. Air pollution is increasingly becoming the focus of government and citizen concern around the globe. From Mexico City and New York to Singapore and Tokyo, new solutions to this old problem are being proposed, Mailed and implemented …
You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 27–40, which are based on Reading Passage 98 below. HELIUM’S FUTURE UP IN THE AIR A. In recent years we have all been exposed to dire media reports concerning the impending demise of global coal and oil reserves, but the depletion of another key nonrenewable resource continues without receiving …
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 27-38 which are based on Reading Passage 4 below. A Workaholic Economy For the first century or so of the industrial revolution, increased productivity led to decreases in working hours. Employees who had been putting in 12-hour days, six days a week, found their time on the job shrinking …
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 28-41 which are based on Reading Passage 35 below. TOURISM A Tourism, holidaymaking and travel are these days more significant social phenomena than most commentators have considered. On the face of it, there could not be a more trivial subject for a book. And indeed since social scientists …
