You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1- 13, which are based on Passage below. Going Bananas The world’s favourite fruit could disappear forever in 10 years’ time The banana is among the world’s oldest crops. Agricultural scientists believe that the first edible banana was discovered around ten thousand years ago. It has been at …
You should spend no more than 20 minutes on Questions 27-40 which are based on Reading Passage 2 below. Visual Symbols and the Blind Part 1 From a number of recent studies, it has become clear that blind people can appreciate the use of outlines and perspectives to describe the arrangement of objects and other …
The Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence The question of whether we are alone in the Universe has haunted humanity for centuries, but we may now stand poised on the brink of the answer to that question, as we search for radio signals from other intelligent civilizations. This search is often known by the acronym SETI [search for …
You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-12 which are based on Reading Passage below: Population Viability Analysis Part ATo make political decisions about the extent and type of forestry in a region it is important to understand the consequences of those decisions. One tool for assessing the impact of forestry on the ecosystem is population viability analysis (PVA). …
The word, ‘security’, has both positive and negative connotations. Most of us would say that we crave security for all its positive virtues, both physical and psychological – its evocation of the safety of home, of undying love, or of freedom from need. More negatively, the word nowadays conjures up images of that huge industry …
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In simple words, global warming is changing the surface temperature in a way that affects the existence or survival of living beings and natural cycles. In detail, global warming is the gradual and restrained increase in the surface temperature of the earth and its atmosphere generally characterized by the greenhouse effects causing the rise in …
Parents want to achieve a balance between family and career but only a few manage to achieve it. What do you think is the reason? Discuss possible solutions and provide examples. From having cared and fulfilled basic needs to be in a field of interests and a choice, the family is the support system that …
To begin with, the internet is a system of global connection that networks many computers at a time using its special protocol suite (TCP/IP). It is a system developed for communicating between the devices with the network connection. It is a storehouse of online services with wide coverage in the modern era. Millions of web …
To begin with, happiness is an emotion or a feeling one gets within him/her rather than the society makes them feel. From having a variation between an individual who wakes up early to follow the yoga routine and the person who loves waking up late in the morning, happiness is what a soul achieves after …
