Questions 1-5 Choose the correct letter A, B, C or D.Write your answers in box 1-5 on your answer sheet. 1. One hundred years ago, what percentage of the human population lived in cities? A 10% B 20% C 40% D 80% 2. What lead to the development of the first semi-permanent settlements? A Changes in the global climate B An increase in fresh water supplies …
Questions 1-10 Listen from here Complete the notes below. Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer. Artist’s Exhibition General details: Place: 1 No. 1 2 Dates: 6th October – 3 Display details: Expect to see: crockery in the shape of 5 silver jewellery, e.g. large rings containing 6 a shoe sculpture made out of 7 Go to demonstrations called: 8 Artist’s Conservatory Courses …
Questions 1-10 Complete the form below. Write ONE WORD AND/OR A NUMBER for each answer. Early Learning Childcare Centre Enrolment Form Example Parent or guardian: Carol Smith Personal Details Child’s name: Kate Age: 1 Address: 2 Road, Woodside, 4032 Phone: 3345 9865 Childcare Information Days enrolled for: Monday and 3 Start time: 4 am Childcare group: the 5 group Which meal/s are required each day? 6 Medical conditions: …
Wood: a valuable resource in New Zealand’s economy During the settlement of New Zealand by European immigrants, natural timbers played a major role. Wood was easily accessible and relatively cheap. A tradition of wooden housed arose, supported by the recognition that they were less likely to collapse suddenly during earthquakes, a not infrequent event in …
How do we find our way? A. Most modern navigation, such as the Global Positioning System (GPS), relies primarily on positions determined electronically by receivers collecting information from satellites. Yet if the satellite service’s digital maps become even slightly outdated, we can become lost. Then we have to rely on the ancient human skill of …
Toddlers Bond With Robot (A) Will the robot revolution begin in nursery school? Researchers introduced a state-of-the-art social robot into a classroom of 18- to 24-month-olds for five months as a way of studying human-robot interactions. The children not only came to accept the robot, but treated it as they would a human buddy – hugging …
Paul Nash {A} Paul Nash, the elder son of William Nash and his first wife, Caroline Jackson, was born in London on 11th May 1889. His father was a successful lawyer who became the Recorder of Abingdon. According to Ronald Blythe: “In 1901 the family returned to its native Buckinghamshire, where the garden of Wood Lane House …
Tool for ancient writing {A} With time, the record-keepers developed systematized symbols from their drawings. These symbols represented words and sentences but were easier and faster to draw and universally recognized for meaning. The discovery of clay made portable records possible (you can’t carry a cave wall around with you). Early merchants used clay tokens with …
The success of cellulose {A} Not too long ago many investors made the bet that renewable fuels from bio-mass would be the next big thing in energy. Converting corn, sugarcane, and soybeans into ethanol or diesel-type fuels lessens our nation’s dependence on oil imports while cutting carbon dioxide emissions. But already the nascent industry faces challenges. …
Life code: unlocked! {A} On an airport shuttle bus to the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics in Santa Barbara, Calif., Chris Wiggins took a colleague’s advice and opened a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet. It had nothing to do with the talk on biopolymer physics he was invited to give. Rather the columns and rows of numbers that …
