A Brief History of Tea A The story of tea began in ancient China over 5,000 years ago. According to legend, the Emperor Shen Nung was a skilled ruler, creative scientist and patron of the arts. His farsighted edicts required, among other things, that all drinking water be boiled as a hygienic precaution. One summer …
Save the Turtles (Leatherback turtles) Question 1-6 Choose the most suitable headings for paragraphs B-G from the list of headings below. Write appropriate numbers (i-x) in boxes 1 -6 on your answer sheet. NB There are more headings than paragraphs, so you will not use them all. List of Headings 1 iiiiiiivvviviiviiiixx Paragraph B 2 iiiiiiivvviviiviiiixx Paragraph C 3 iiiiiiivvviviiviiiixx Paragraph D 4 iiiiiiivvviviiviiiixx Paragraph E 5 iiiiiiivvviviiviiiixx Paragraph …
The Tuatara of New Zealand Tuatara are lizard-like reptiles, found only in New Zealand. They are representative of ancient life forms Tuatara are the only living representatives of an ancient lineage of reptiles called Sphenodontia, which is over 250 million years old. Because tuatara still look like fossils of reptiles that lived during the age …
The Cane Toad in Australia Paragraph A The cane toad was introduced into Australia in 1935 to control sugar cane pests in Queensland. One hundred and one cane toads arnved at Edmonton in June in 1935. Breeding occurred almost immediately. The cane toad is tough and adaptable, as well as being poisonous throughout Its life …
The pesticide-free village Gerry Marten and Dona Glee Williams report on reliance on the Indian village of Punukula, so nearly destroyed by reliance on pesticides. Around 20 years ago, a handful of families migrated from the Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh, south-east India, into Punukula, a community of around 900 people farming plots of between …
Skyscraper Farming With a global food crisis predicted, a group of scientists is advocating an innovative alternative to conventional farming that could radically transform the way that food is produced . A Today’s environment scientists are in no doubt that the world’s resources of fertile sol are rapidly deteriorating, and that new land for agriculture …
Multitasks A Do you read while listening to music? Do you like to watch TV while finishing your homework? People who have these kinds of habits are called multi-taskers. Multitasks are able to complete two tasks at the same time by dividing their focus. However, Thomas Lehman, a researcher in Psychology, believes people never really …
Marketing And Mind Control How marketing and advertising appeal to the associative nature of the brain While there had been a long tradition of giving rings as a commitment to marry, the custom of giving diamond engagement rings was in large part manufactured by one of the most effective marketing campaigns in history . In …
Nature works Polylactic acid A dozen years ago, scientists at Cargill got the idea of converting lactic acid made from corn into plastic while examining possible new uses for materials produced from corn wet milling processes. In the past, several efforts had been made to develop plastics from lactic acid, but with limited success. Achieving this …
Children’s comprehension A In 1874, long before the advent of television, the English Parliament passed a law to protect children ‘from their own lack of experience and from the wiles of pushing tradesmen and moneylenders’ (James, 1965). The act is one of the earliest governmental policies to address children’s vulnerability to commercial exploitation and was produced …
