You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-13, which are based on the Reading Passage below. Stepwells A millennium ago, stepwells were fundamental to life in the driest parts of India. Although many have been neglected, recent restoration has returned them to their former glory. Richard Cox travelled to north-western India to document these spectacular monuments …
You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 14- 26, which are based on Reading Passage below. READING THE SCREEN Are the electronic media exacerbating illiteracy and making our children stupid? On the contrary, says Colin McCabe, they have the potential to make us truly literate. The debate surrounding literacy is one of the most charged …
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1 – 13 which are based on Reading Passage. Is There Really a War on Drugs? AIn our contemporary society, the media constantly bombards us with horror stories about drugs like crack-cocaine. From them, and probably from no other source, we learn that crack is immediately addictive in every …
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 27–40, which are based on the reading passage below. What is exploration? We are all explorers. Our desire to discover, and then share that new-found knowledge, is part of what makes us human – indeed, this has played an important part in our success as a species. Long …
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 27-40, which are based on Reading Passage below. Questions 27-30Reading Passage 187 has four sections (A-D). Choose the most suitable heading for each section from the list of headings below. Write the appropriate numbers (i-vii) in boxes 27-30 on your Answer SheetThere are more headings than sections, …
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-13, which are based on Reading Passage below. The Sweet Scent of Success A. Innovation and entrepreneurship, in the right mix, can bring spectacular results and propel a business ahead of the pack. Across a diverse range of commercial successes, from the Hills Hoist clothes line to the Cochlear …
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 14-26, which are based on the Reading Passage below. THE FALKIRK WHEEL A unique engineering achievement The Falkirk Wheel in Scotland is the world’s first and only rotating boat lift. Opened in 2002, it is central to the ambitious £84.5m Millennium Link project to restore navigability across …
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You spend about 20 minutes on Questions 14-26, which are based on the Reading Passage below. Do literate women make better mothers? Children in developing countries are healthier and more likely to survive past the age of five when their mothers can read and write. Experts in public health accepted this idea decades ago, but until …
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 27-40 which are based on Reading Passage below. Fierce, fabulous and fantastic A new exhibition traces the history of animal painting in Europe from the anatomically inaccurate to the highly sentimental. The first picture you see in the exhibition Fierce Friends: Artists and Animals 1750-1900 is of a giraffe …
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 14-27 which are based on Reading Passage 128 below: Why some women cross the finish line ahead of men R E C R U I T M E N TThe course is tougher but women are staying the distance – reports Andrew Crisp. A. Women who apply for …
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