You are advised to spend about 20 minutes on Questions 16-26. BENEATH THE CANOPY 1. The world’s tropical rainforests comprise some 6% of the Earth’s land area and contain more than half of all known life forms, or a conservative estimate of about 30 million species of plants and animals. Some experts estimate there could be […]
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 29-40 which are based on the Reading Passage below. Questions 29-33The Reading Passage has seven paragraphs A-G.Choose the most suitable headings for paragraphs C-G from the list of headings below.Write the appropriate numbers i-x in boxes 29-33 on your answer sheet. List of Headingsi The Crick and Watson approach to researchii Antidotes to bacterial infectioniii The
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 15 – 27 which are based on Reading Passage 172 below. Contaminating the Arctic Our perception of the Arctic region is that its distance from industrial centers keeps it pristine and clear from the impact of pollution. However, through a process known as transboundary pollution, the Arctic is the
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1 – 13 which are based on Reading Passage 180 below. Complementary and Alternative Medicine WHAT DO SCIENTISTS IN BRITAIN THINK ABOUT ALTERNATIVE THERAPIES? OR LA KENNEDY READS A SURPRISING SURVEY? Is complementary medicine hocus-pocus or does it warrant large-scale scientific investigation? Should science range beyond
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Question 1-13 which are based on the Reading Passage below. Lost for Words Many minority languages are on the danger list. In the Native American Navajo nation which sprawls across four states in the American south-west, the native language is dying. Most of its speakers are middle-age or
You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1–13, which are based on the reading passage below. THE IMPORTANCE OF CHILDREN’S PLAY Brick by brick, six-year-old Alice is building a magical kingdom. Imagining fairy-tale turrets and fire-breathing dragons, wicked witches and gallant heroes, she’s creating an enchanting world. Although she isn’t aware of it, this fantasy
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-13 which are based on Reading Passage 23 below. Part – OneA. Air pollution is increasingly becoming the focus of government and citizen concern around the globe. From Mexico City and New York to Singapore and Tokyo, new solutions to this old problem are being proposed, Mailed and implemented
You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 27–40, which are based on Reading Passage 98 below. HELIUM’S FUTURE UP IN THE AIR A. In recent years we have all been exposed to dire media reports concerning the impending demise of global coal and oil reserves, but the depletion of another key nonrenewable resource continues without receiving
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 27-38 which are based on Reading Passage 4 below. A Workaholic Economy For the first century or so of the industrial revolution, increased productivity led to decreases in working hours. Employees who had been putting in 12-hour days, six days a week, found their time on the job shrinking
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-15 which are based on Reading Passage 25 below. TRACKING HURRICANES North American meteorologists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)’s Hurricane Research Division have recently improved the success rate in their forecasting of where hurricanes are likely to hit land by an estimated 15 to 30%. This increase in
