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...

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. Playing Soccer...

  Part2 Read the text and answer the questions below. Spider Silk A Scientists have succeeded in copying the silk‑producing gene of the Golden Orb Weaver spider and are us...

Part2 Read the text and answer the questions below. Is Graffiti Art or Crime A The term graffiti derives from the Italian graffito meaning ‘scratching’ and can be defined as un...

Mind Music A Goldsmiths study published in the journal Memory and Cognition this year showed that the singing we hear in our heads tends to be true to actual recordings. Researcher...