You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 14-26. which are based on Reading Passage 159 below. Endless Harvest More than two hundred years ago, Russian explorers and fur hunters landed on the Aleutian Islands, a volcanic archipelago in the North Pacific, and learned of a land mass that lay farther to the north. The […]

You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-13, which are based on Reading Passage 158 below. Pulling string to build pyramids No one knows exactly how- the pyramids were built. Marcus Chown reckons the answer could be ‘hanging in the air’ The pyramids of Egypt were built more than three thousand years ago, and […]

You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 27-40. which are based on Reading Passage 157 below. Forests are one of the main elements of our natural heritage. The decline of Europe’s forests over the last decade and a half has led to an increasing awareness and understanding of the serious imbalances which threaten them. […]

You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 14-26. which are based on Reading Passage 156 on the following pages. Questions 14-19 Reading Passage 156 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 […]

You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-13, which are based on Reading Passage 155 below.   Ant Intelligence When we think of intelligent members of the animal kingdom, the creatures that spring immediately to mind are apes and monkeys. But in fact the social lives of some members of the insect kingdom are […]

You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 27-40, which are based on Reading Passage 154 below: Makete Integrated Rural Transport Project Section A The disappointing results of many conventional road transport projects in Africa led some experts to rethink the strategy by which rural transport problems were to be tackled at the beginning of […]

You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 27-40, which are based on Reading Passage 153 on the following pages. Persistent bullying is one of the worst experiences a child can face. How can it be prevented? Peter Smith, Professor of Psychology at the University of Sheffield, directed the Sheffield Anti-Bullying Intervention Project, funded by […]

You spend about 20 minutes on Questions 14-26, which are based on Reading Passage 152 below. Literate women make better mothers? Children in developing countries are healthier and more likely to survive past the age of five when their mothers can read and write. Experts in public health accepted this idea decades ago, but until […]

You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-13 which are based on Reading Passage 150 on the following pages. Doctoring sales Pharmaceuticals is one of the most profitable industries in North America. But do the drugs industry’s sales and marketing strategies go too far? A. A few months ago Kim Schaefer. sales representative of a […]

You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 28-40. whidi are based on Reading Passage 150 The Search for the Anti-aging Pill In government laboratories and elsewhere, scientists are seeking a drug able to prolong life and youthful vigor. Studies of caloric restriction are showing the way ______________________________________________________________________ As researchers on aging noted recently, no treatment […]

You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 14-27, which are based on Reading Passage 149 on the following pages. Motivating Employees under Adverse Condition THE CHALLENGE     It is a great deal easier to motivate employees in a growing organisation than a declining one. When organisations are expanding and adding personnel, promotional opportunities, pay […]

Climate change and the Inuit The threat posed by climate change in the Arctic and the problems faced by Canada’s Inuit people A     Unusual incidents are being reported across the Arctic. Inuit families going off on snowmobiles to prepare their summer hunting camps have found themselves cut off from home by a sea of mud, […]

You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 14-26, which are base on Reading Passage 144 below: The True Cost of Food A. For more than forty years the cost of food has been rising. It has now reached a point where a growing number of people believe that it is far too high, and that […]

You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-13 which are based on Reading Passage 143 below: WHY PAGODAS DON’T FALL DOWN? In a land swept by typhoons and shaken by earthquakes, how has Japan’s tallest and seemingly flimsiest old buildings – 500 or so wooden pagodas-remained standing for centuries? Records show that only two have collapsed during the […]

You should spend about 20 minuteson Qaestions 27-40 which arebqsed on Reading Passage 142 below. PLAY IS A SERIOUS BUSINESS Does play help develop bigger, better brains? Bryant Furlow investigates     Playing is a serious business. Children engrossed in a make-believe world, fox cubs play-fighting or kittens teaming a ball of string aren’t just having […]

You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 14-26 which are based on Reading Passage 141 below. ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE IN AUSTRALIA The first students to study alternative medicine at university level in Australia began their four-year, full-time course at the University of Technology, Sydney, in early 1994. Their course covered, among other therapies, acupuncture. The […]

You should spend about 20 minutes on Question 1-13 which are based on Reading Passage 140 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 […]