You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-13, which are based on the Reading Passage below: Johnson’s Dictionary For the century before Johnson’s Dictionary was published in 1775, there had been concern about the state of the English language. There was no standard way of speaking or writing and no agreement as to the …
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-12 which are based on the Reading Passage below. Practical intelligence lends a hand Dr Rajendra Persaud explains how practical intelligence is linked to success. This year, record numbers of high school students obtained top grades in their final exams, yet employers complain that young people still …
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 14- 25, which are based on Reading Passage below. Questions 14-19 The reading passage has seven paragraphs, A-G. Choose the correct heading for paragraphs B-G from the list of headings below. Example: Paragraph A: viii 14. Paragraph B15. Paragraph C16. Paragraph D17. Paragraph E18. Paragraph F19. Paragraph G List of Headings …
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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 paragraphs A-F from the list of headings below.Write the correct number, i-vii, in boxes 21-32 on your answer sheet. List of Headings i. Differences between languages highlight their impressivenessii. The way in which a few …
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 27- 40, which are based on Reading Passage below. The accidental rainforest According to ecological theory, rainforests are supposed to develop slowly over millions of years. But now ecologists are being forced to reconsider their ideas When Peter Osbeck. a Swedish priest, stopped off at the mid-Atlantic island …
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What is music? A. Music has probably existed for as long as man has been human, and it certainly predates civilization by tens of millennia. Yet even today there is no clear definition of exactly what music is. For example, birdsong is certainly melodic, but it is not tuneful, and it is not created with the …
You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 14-26, which are based on the Reading Passage below. Great Migrations Animal migration, however it is defined, is far more than just the movement of animals. It can loosely be described as travel that takes place at regular intervals – often in an annual cycle – that may …
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-12 which are based on Reading Passage 127 below. Spoken Corpus Comes To Life A. The compiling of dictionaries has been historically the provenance of studious professorial types – usually bespectacled – who love to pore over weighty tomes and make pronouncements on the finer nuances of meaning. They were probably good …
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-13, which are based on the Reading Passage below: Why Pagodas don’t fall down? In a land swept by typhoons and shaken by earthquakes, how has Japan’s tallest and seemingly flimsiest old buildings – 500 or so wooden pagodas – remained standing for centuries? Records show that only two have collapsed …
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-13 which are based on Reading Passage 161 below. Micro-Enterprise Credit for Street Youth “I am from a large, poor family and for many years we have done without breakfast. Ever since I joined the Street Kids International program I have been able to buy my family …
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