In the social sciences, it is often supposed that there can be no suchthing as a controlled experiment. Think again. A In the scientific pecking order, social scientists are usually looked down on by their peers in the natural sciences. Natural scientists do experiments to test their theories or, if they cannot, they try to …
You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-13 which are based on Reading Passage 37 below: GLASSCAPTURING THE DANCE OF LIGHT A. Glass, in one form or another, has long been in noble service to humans As one of the most widely used of manufactured materials, and certainly the most versatile, it can be …
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Questions 1-5The following reading passage has five sections A-E.Choose the correct heading for each section from the list of headings.Write the correct number i-viii in boxes 1-5 on your answer sheet. NB. There are more headings than sections, so you will not use them all. 1 Section A2 Section B3 Section C4 Section D5 Section E List of Headings i Colorblindness’ in different countriesii …
You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 27–40, which are based on the reading passage below. Questions 27-32This Reading Passage has seven paragraphs, A-G.Choose the correct heading for paragraphs B-G from the list of headings below..Write the correct number i-ix, in boxes 27-32 on your answer sheet. List of Headingsi The reaction of the Inuit community to climate changeii Understanding of …
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 27-40, which are based on the Reading Passage below: TELEPATHY Can human beings communicate by thought alone? For more than a century the issue of telepathy has divided the scientific community, and even today it still sparks bitter controversy among top academics Since the 1970s, parapsychologists at leading …
You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1 – 14 which are based on Reading Passage below. Early Telecommunication Devices Although it is hardly used anymore, the telegraph is familiar to most people. This early telecommunication devices is credited, as any school student knows, to Samuel Morse, who, in 1844 made the first long-distance …
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-13 which are based on the Reading Passage below. Endangered chocolate A. The cacao tree, once native to the equatorial American forest, has some exotic traits for a plant. Slender and shrubby, the cacao has adapted to life close to the leaf littered forest floor. Its large leaves …
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 14-26, which are based on the Reading Passage below. Young Children’s Sense of Identity A. A sense of ‘self’ develops in young children by degrees. The process can usefully be thought of in terms of the gradual emergence of two somewhat separate features: the self as a subject, and …
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 28-40 which are based on Reading Passage 24 below. MEASURING ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE There is clear-cut evidence that, for a period of at least one year, supervision, which increases the direct pressure for productivity can achieve significant increases in production. However, such short-term increases are obtained only at a substantial and serious …
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1–15, which are based on the reading passage below. SUGAR AND OTHER SWEETENERS The sweetness of a substance results from physical contact between that substance and the many thousand taste buds of the tongue. The taste buds are clustered around several hundred small, fleshy protrusions called taste papilla which provide a large …
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