You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 14-26, which are based on the Reading Passage below. Gifted children and learning A. Internationally, ‘giftedness’ is most frequently determined by a score on a general intelligence test, known as an IQ test, which is above a chosen cutoff point, usually at around the top 2-5%. Children’s educational environment …
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-12 which are based on Reading Passage below. Right and left-handedness in humans Why do humans, virtually alone among all animal species, display a distinct left or right-handedness? Not even our closest relatives among the apes possess such decided lateral asymmetry, as psychologists call it. Yet about 90 percent of every …
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-13 which are based on the Reading Passage below. Striking Back at LightningWith Lasers Seldom is the weather more dramatic than when thunderstorms strike. Their electrical fury inflicts death or serious injury on around 500 people each year in the United States alone. As the clouds roll in, a leisurely round …
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 14-26, which are based on the Reading Passage below. Questions 14-19The Reading Passage has seven sections, A-G.Choose the correct headings for sections A-F from the list of headings below.Write the correct number, i-x, in boxes 14-19 on your answer sheet.____________________________________________________________List of Headings i The results of the research into blood-variantsii Dental evidenceiii Greenberg’s analysis of …
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Question 1-9Reading Passage 61 has nine paragraphs A–I.Choose the correct heading for each paragraph from the list of headings below. List of Headings i. Island legends ii. Resources for exchange iii. Competition for fishing rights iv. The low cost of equipment v. Agatti’s favourable location vi. Rising income levelsvii.The social nature of reef occupations viii.Resources for islanders’ own useix. High levels of expertise x. …
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 13-26 which are based on Reading Passage below. Moles happy as homes go underground A. The first anybody knew about Dutchman Frank Siegmund and his family was when workmen tramping through a field found a narrow steel chimney protruding through the grass. Closer inspection revealed a chink of …
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 28-40, which are based on Passage below. A. While it may not be possible to completely age-proof our brains, a brave new world of anti-aging research shows that our gray matter may be far more flexible than we thought. So no one, no matter how old, has to lose their …
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A From the comfort of our modern lives we tend to look back at the turn of the twentieth century as a dangerous time for sea travellers. With limited communication facilities, and shipping technology still in its infancy in the early nineteen hundreds, we consider ocean travel to have been a risky business. But to …
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Want to walk on the ceiling?All it takes is a bit of fancy footwork A If Keilar Autumn, an expert in Biomechanik at Clark College in Portland, Oregon, has his way, the first footprints on Mars won’t be human. They’ll belong to a gecko. Gecko toes have legendary sticking power – and the Clark College …
You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-13, which are based on the Reading Passage below. A Chronicle of Timekeeping Our conception of time depends on the way we measure it A According to archaeological evidence, at least 5,000 years ago, and long before the advent of the Roman Empire, the Babylonians began to measure time, introducing calendars …
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