Category: Reading

 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...

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...

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...

You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 27- 40, which are based on Reading Passage below. EDUCATING PSYCHE Educating Psyche by Bernie Neville is a book which looks at radical new approaches to learning,...

MAKING EVERY DROP COUNT A The history of human civilization is entwined with the history of ways we have learned to manipulate water resources. As towns gradually expanded, water was brought from increasingly remote...

You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-13 which are based on Reading Passage  below: Let’s Go Bats A Bats have a problem: how to find their way around in the dark they hunt at flight,...

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...

You spend about 20 minutes on Questions 14-26, which are based on Reading Passage 152 below. Do Literate women make better mothers? Children in developing countries are healthier and more likely to survive past...

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...

You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 28-40, which 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...