You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1- 13, which are based on the Reading Passage below. Cork Cork – the thick bark of the cork oak tree (Quercus suber) – is a remarkable material. It is tough, elastic, buoyant, and fire-resistant, and suitable for a wide range of purposes. It has also been used for millennia: the …
You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-13, which are based on Passage below. Astronaut ice cream, anyone? Breeze-drying is a technique that can help to provide food for astronauts. But it also has other applications nearer home. Freeze-drying is like suspended animation for food: you can store a freeze-dried meal for years, and then, when …
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1- 14, which are based on Reading Passage below. Examining the placebo effect The fact that taking a fake drug can powerfully improve some people’s health – the so-called placebo effect – was long considered an embarrassment to the serious practice of pharmacology, but now things have changed. …
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-13, which are based on Reading Passage below. Sport Science in Australia The professional career paths available to graduates from courses relating to human movement and sport science are as diverse as the graduate’s imagination. However, undergraduate courses with this type of content, in Australia as well as in …
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 27- 40, which are based on Passage below. Running on empty A revolutionary new theory in sports physiology. AFor almost a century, scientists have presumed, not unreasonably, that fatigue – or exhaustion in athletes originates in the muscles. Precise explanations have varied but all have been based on the …
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 14- 27, which are based on Passage below. Worldly Wealth Can the future population of the world enjoy a comfortable lifestyle, with possessions, space and mobility, without crippling the environment? The world’s population is expected to stabilize at around nine billion. Will it be possible for nine billion people …
You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-13, which are based on the Reading Passage below. Questions 1-4The Reading Passage has five paragraphs, A-E.Choose the correct heading for paragraphs B-E from the list of headings below.Write the correct number, i-vii, in boxes 1-4 on your answer sheet. List of Headingsi. Economic and social significance of tourismii. The development of mass …
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 14- 26, which are based on Reading Passage below. Acquiring the principles of mathematics and science AIt has been pointed out that learning mathematics and science is not so much learning facts as learning ways of thinking. It has also been emphasised that in order to learn science, …
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 14- 26, which are based on Reading Passage below. Measures to combat infectious disease in tsarist Russia A. In the second half of the seventeenth century, Russian authorities began implementing controls at the borders of their empire to prevent the importation of plague, a highly infectious and dangerous disease. …
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 14- 26, which are based on Passage below. Neanderthals and modern humans AThe evolutionary processes that have made modern humans so different from other animals are hard to determine without an ability to examine human species that have not achieved similar things. However, in a scientific masterpiece, Svante Paabo …
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