You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1- 13, which are based on Reading Passage below. The Impact of the Potato Jeff Chapman relates the story of history the most important vegetable AThe potato was first cultivated in South America between three and seven thousand years ago, though scientists believe they may have grown wild …
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1- 13, which are based on Reading Passage below. The Rufous Hare-Wallaby The Rufous Hare-Wallaby is a species of Australian kangaroo, usually known by its Aboriginal name, ‘mala’. At one time, there may have been as many as ten million of these little animals across the arid and …
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1- 13, which are based on Reading Passage below. Dirty River But Clean Water Floods can occur in rivers when the flow rate exceeds the capacity of the river channel, particularly at bends or meanders in the waterway. Floods often cause damage to homes and businesses if they …
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 27- 40, which are based on Reading Passage below. The Fruit Book It’s not every scientist who writes books for people who can’t read. And how many scientists want their books to look as dog-eared as possible? But Patricia Shanley, an ethnobotanist, wanted to give something back. After …
You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 27- 40, which are based on Passage below. The Columbian Exchange A Millions of years ago, continental drift carried the Old World and New World apart, splitting North and South America from Eurasia and Africa. That separation lasted so long that it fostered divergent evolution; for instance, the development of …
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1- 13, which are based on Reading Passage below. Reducing electricity consumption on the Isle of Eigg Background The Isle of Eigg is situated off the West Coast of Scotland, and is reached by ferry from the mainland. For the island community of about a hundred residents, it …
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 14- 26, which are based on Reading Passage below. The 2003 Heatwave It was the summer, scientists now realise, when global warming, at last, made itself unmistakably felt. We knew that summer 2003 was remarkable: Britain experienced its record high temperature and continental Europe saw forest fires raging …
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 27- 40, which are based on Reading Passage below. Talc Powder Peter Rrigg discovers how talc from Luzenac’s Trimouns in France find its way into food and agricultural products—from chewing gum to olive oil. High in the French Pyrenees, some 1,700m above sea level, lies Trimouns, a huge …
You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 14- 26, which are based on Reading Passage below. Life-Casting and Art Julian Bames explores the questions posed by Life-Casts, an exhibition of plaster moulds of living people and objects which were originally used for scientific purposes A. Art changes over time and our idea of what art is …
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-13, which are based on Reading Passage below. How to Spot a Liar However much we may abhor it, deception comes naturally to all living things. Birds do it by feigning injury to lead hungry predators away from nesting young. Spider crabs do it by disguise: adorning themselves …
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