You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-13 which are based on Reading Passage 1 below. READING PASSAGE 1 – The coconut palm For millennia, the coconut has been central to the lives of Polynesian and Asian peoples. In the western world, on the other...
You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-13 which are based on Reading Passage 1 below. READING PASSAGE 1 – Cork Cork – the thick bark of the cork oak tree (Quercus suber) – is a remarkable material. It is tough, elastic, buoyant, and fire-resistant, and...
You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1 – 13, which are based on Passage below. READING PASSAGE 1 – The story of silk The history of the world’s most luxurious fabric, from ancient China to the present day Silk is a fine, smooth material produced...
You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1 – 13, which are based on Passage below. READING PASSAGE 1 – Raising the Mary Rose How a sixteenth-century warship was recovered from the seabed On 19 July 1545, English and French fleets were engaged in a...
You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-13, which are based on Reading Passage below. READING PASSAGE 1-Crop-growing Skyscrapers By the year 2050, nearly 80% of the Earth’s population will live in urban centres. Applying the most conservative estimates to...
You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1 – 13, which are based on Passage below. READING PASSAGE 1 – The megafires of California Drought, housing expansion, and oversupply of tinder make for bigger, hotter fires in the western United States ...