You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 14-26, which are based on the Reading Passage below. Tidal Power Undersea turbines which produce electricity from the tides are set to become an important source of renewable energy for Britain. It is still too early to predict the extent of the impact they may have. but all …
You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 14-26, which are based on Reading Passage below. Less Television, Less Violence and Aggression Cutting back on television, videos, and video games reduce acts of aggression among schoolchildren, according to a study by Dr. Thomas Robinson and others from the Stanford University School of Medicine. The study, …
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-13 which are based on the Reading Passage below: IMPLEMENTING THE CYCLE OF SUCCESS:A CASE STUDY Within Australia, Australian Hotels Inc (AHI) operates nine hotels and employs over 2000 permanent full-time staff, 300 permanent part-time employees and 100 casual staff. One of its latest ventures, …
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 27-40, which are based on the Reading Passage below. Numeration One of the first great intellectual feats of a young child is learning how to talk, closely followed by learning how to count. From earliest childhood, we are so bound up with our system of numeration that it …
You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 27- 40, which are based on the Reading Passage below. EDUCATING PSYCHE Educating Psyche by Bernie Neville is a book which looks at radical new approaches to learning, describing the effects of emotion, imagination and the unconscious on learning. One the theory discussed in the book is that proposed …
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 15–28, which are based on the reading passage below. Write answers to questions in boxes 15-28 on your answer sheet. The Ingenuity Gap Ingenuity, as I define it here, consists not only of ideas for new technologies like computers or drought-resistant crops but, more fundamentally, of ideas for better institutions and social …
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 14-26 which are based on Reading Passage below. The Motor Car A There are now over 700 million motor vehicles in the world – and the number is rising by more than 40 million each year. The average distance driven by car users is growing too – …
You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-13 which are based on Reading Passag below. Creating Artificial Reefs In the coastal waters of the US, a nation’s leftovers have been discarded. Derelict ships, concrete blocks, scrapped cars, army tanks, tyres filled with concrete and redundant planes litter the sea floor. However, this is not …
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-15 which are based on Reading Passage below: A spark, a flint: How fire leapt to life The control of fire was the first and perhaps greatest of humanity’s steps towards a life-enhancing technology. To early man, the fire was a divine gift randomly delivered in the form of …
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-13, which are based on the Reading Passage below. Sheet glass manufacture:the float process Glass, which has been made since the time of the Mesopotamians and Egyptians, is little more than a mixture of sand, soda ash and lime. When heated to about 1500 degrees Celsius (°C) this becomes a …
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