You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 14-26, which are based on the Reading Passage below: Questions 14-21The Reading Passage has nine paragraphs, A-I.Choose the correct heading for paragraphs A-E and G-I from the list of headings below.Write the correct number i-xi, in boxes 14-21 on your answer sheet. List of Headings i      A fresh and important long-term goalii     Charging for roads and …

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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 26-40 which are based on Reading Passage below: HIGHS & LOWS Hormone levels – and hence our moods –may be affected by the weather. Gloomy weather can cause depression, but sunshine appears to raise the spirits. In Britain, for example, the dull weather of winter drastically cuts down the …

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 Investigating Children’s Language A     For over 200 years, there has been an interest in the way children learn to speak and understand their first language. Scholars carried out several small-scale studies, especially towards the end of the 19th century, using data they recorded in parental diaries. But detailed, systematic investigation did not begin until the …

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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-13, which are based on the Reading Passage below. Raising the Mary Rose How a sixteenth-century warship was recovered from the seabed On 19 July 1545, English and French fleets were engaged in a sea battle off the coast of southern England in the area of water called …

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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 14-26, which are based on the Reading Passage below: Flawed Beauty: the problem with toughened glass On 2nd August 1999, a particularly hot day in the town of Cirencester in the UK, a large pane of toughened glass in the roof of a shopping centre at Bishops Walk …

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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-13, which are based on Reading Passage below: Early Childhood Education New Zealand’s National Pony spokesman on education, Dr Lockwood Smith,recently visited the US and Britain. Here he reports on the findings of his tripand what they could mean for New Zealand’s education policy A‘Education To Be More’ …

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