You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-13 which are based on Reading Passage below: AIRPORTS ON WATER River deltas are difficult places for map makers. The river builds them up, the sea wears them down; their outlines are always changing. The changes in China’s Pearl River delta, however, are more dramatic than these natural fluctuations. An island …
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 27-40, which are based on the Reading Passage below: The effects of light on plant and animal species Light is important to organisms for two different reasons. Firstly, it is used as a cue for the timing of daily and seasonal rhythms in both plant and animals, and …
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-13 which are based on the Reading Passage below. Jumping spiders Peter Aldhons examines how Portia spiders catch their prey A For a stalking predator, the element of surprise is crucial. And for jumping spiders that sneak onto other spiders’ webs to prey on their owners, it …
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 27-40 which are based on Reading Passage 66 on the following pages. Questions 27-33Reading Passage 3 has eight paragraphs ( A-H). Choose the most suitable headings for paragraphs B-H from the list of headings below.Write the appropriate numbers (i-x) in boxes 27-33 on your answer sheet. NB There are more headings than paragraphs, …
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-13, which are based on the Reading Passage below. BAKELITE The birth of modern plastics In 1907, Leo Hendrick Baekeland, a Belgian scientist working in New York, discovered and patented a revolutionary new synthetic material. His invention, which he named ‘Bakelite’, was of enormous technological importance, and effectively …
You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 27-40, which are based on the Reading Passage below. Questions 27-32The Reading Passage has six paragraphs, A-F.Choose the correct heading for each paragraph from the list of headings below. Write the correct number, i-viii, in boxes 27-32 on your answer sheet. List of Headings i. The difficulties of talking about smellsii. The …
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Questions 1-12Read the passage below and answer Questions 1-12. The history of the biro A. One chilly autumn morning in 1945, five thousand shoppers crowded the pavements outside Gimbels Department Store in New York City. The day before, Gimbels had taken out a full-page newspaper advertisement in the New York Times, announcing the sale of …
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 27-40. which are based on the Reading Passage below. Forests are one of the main elements of our natural heritage. The decline of Europe’s forests over the last decade and a half has led to an increasing awareness and understanding of the serious imbalances which threaten them. European …
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-13, which are based on the Reading Passage below. Pulling strings to build pyramids No one knows exactly how the pyramids were built. Marcus Chown reckons the answer could be ‘hanging in the air’. The pyramids of Egypt were built more than three thousand years ago, and no …
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 27-40, which are based on the Reading Passage below. EFFECTS OF NOISE In general, it is plausible to suppose that we should prefer peace and quiet to noise. And yet most of us have had the experience of having to adjust to sleeping in the mountains or the countryside …
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