READING PASSAGE 3 Memory champions…or just good at tricks Paragraph A The Examinations School at Oxford University is where, last August, 34 contestants gathered at the World Memo...

Part 3 Read the text and answer questions 27-40. READING PASSAGE 3 You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 27–40, which are based on Reading Passage 3 below. Living dunes T...

Part3 Read the text and answer the questions below. Manage your energy, not your time A At our company, the Energy Project, we have worked with thousands of executives and, with r...

Learning Lessons From the Past A Many past societies collapsed or vanished, leaving behind monumental ruins such as those that the poet Shelley imagined in his sonnet, Ozymandias....

Part2 Read the text and answer the questions below. Placebo Effect‑The Power of Nothing A Want to devise a new form of alternative medicine? No problem. Here’s the recipe. Be w...

  Part1 Read the text and answer the questions below. A River Reveals its Roman Past A 2,000 years ago the town of Arles, in what is now south‑western France, was a busy g...

Part 2 You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 14-26, which are based on Reading Passage 2 on the following pages. The Myth of the Eight-hour Sleep (A) We often worry about ...

Part2 Read the text and answer the questions below. The Evolutionary Mystery:Crocodile Survives A Even though crocodiles have existed for 200 million years, they're anything but ...

Malaria Combat in Italy A Malaria. Bad air. Even the world is Italian, and this horrible disease marked the life of those in the peninsula for thousands of years. Giuseppe Garibald...

Part 2 Read the text and answer questions 14-26. READING PASSAGE 2 You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 14–26, which are based on Reading Passage 2 below. Surviving city...