You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 14- 26, which are based on Reading Passage below. The 2003 Heatwave It was the summer, scientists now realise, when global warming, at last, made itself unmistakably felt. We knew that summer 2003 was remarkable: Britain experienced its record high temperature and continental Europe saw forest fires raging …
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 14- 26, which are based on Reading Passage below. Life-Casting and Art Julian Bames explores the questions posed by Life-Casts, an exhibition of plaster moulds of living people and objects which were originally used for scientific purposes A. Art changes over time and our idea of what art is …
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-13, which are based on Reading Passage below. How to Spot a Liar However much we may abhor it, deception comes naturally to all living things. Birds do it by feigning injury to lead hungry predators away from nesting young. Spider crabs do it by disguise: adorning themselves …
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 27- 40, which are based on Reading Passage below. Honey bees in trouble Can native pollinators fill the gap? ARecently, ominous headlines have described a mysterious ailment, colony collapse disorder(CCD)，that is wiping out the honeybees that pollinate many crops. Without honeybees, the story goes, fields will be sterile, …
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 27- 40, which are based on Reading Passage below. The creation of lasting memories Many studies of the brain processes underlying the creation of memory consolidation (lasting memories) have involved giving various human and animal subjects treatment, while training them to perform a task. These have contributed greatly …
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 14-26, which are based on the Reading Passage below. Questions 27-33The Reading Passage has seven paragraphs, A-G.Choose the correct heading for each paragraph from the list of headings below. Write the correct number, i-viii, in boxes 27-33 on your answer sheet. 27. Paragraph A28. Paragraph B29. Paragraph C30. Paragraph D31. Paragraph E32. Paragraph F33. Paragraph G List of Headings …
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 14-26, which are based on the Reading Passage below. Bring back the big cats It’s time to start returning vanished native animals to Britain, says John Vesty There is a poem, written around 598 AD, which describes hunting a mystery animal called a llewyn. But what was it? Nothing …
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-14, which are based on Reading Passage below. The new way to be a fifth-grader Khan Academy is changing the rules of education I peer over his shoulder at his laptop screen to see the math problem the fifth-grader is pondering. It’s a trigonometry problem. Carpenter, a serious-feced …
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 27- 40, which are based on Passage below. Mind readers It may one day be possible to eavesdrop on another person’s inner voice. As you begin to read this article and your eyes follow the words across the page, you may be aware of a voice in your head …
You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 27- 40, which are based on the Reading Passage below. The Benefits of Being Bilingual AAccording to the latest figures, the majority of the world’s population is now bilingual or multilingual, having grown up speaking two or more languages. In the past, such children were considered to be …
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