Reading Passage One A Hearing impairment or other auditory function deficit in young children can have a major impact on their development of speech and communication, resulting in a detrimental effect on their ability to learn at school. This is likely to have major consequences for the individual and the population as a whole. The New …
ATTITUDES TO LANGUAGE It is not easy to be systematic and objective about language study. Popular linguistic debate regularly deteriorates into invective and polemic. Language belongs to everyone, so most people feel they have a right to hold an opinion about it. And when opinions differ, emotions can run high. Arguments can start as easily …
Questions 31 – 36 Choose the correct letter, A, B, or C. 31. During the first week of term, students are invited to A be shown round the library by the librarianB listen to descriptions of library resourcesC do an intensive course in the computer centre 32. The speaker warns the students that A internet materials can be unreliableB downloaded information must be acknowledgedC computer access …
You will hear a university tutor talking to two students about problems they are having with a business studies project. Questions 21 – 22 Choose the correct letter A, B or C. 21 What is the problem that the students are having with the project? A The readings are too difficult B The readings are not interesting C The project is taking …
You will hear Dan Saunders, a wildlife expert, giving a talk about Pandas. Questions 11-12 Choose the correct letter A, B or C. 11.Each day, pandas need to eat: A Very little nutrition B 12-38 kg of bamboo C 330 pounds of bamboo 12. If pandas are cared for away from the wild, they can live for approximately: A 6 months B 14-20 years …
Children’s Literature Stories and poems aimed at children have an exceedingly long history:lullabies, for example, were sung in Roman times, and a few nursery games and rhymes are almost as ancient. Yet so far as written-down literature is concerned, while there were stories in print before 1700 that children often seized on when they had …
THE WILD SIDE OF TOWN The countryside is no longer the place to see wildlife, according to Chris Barnes. These days you are more likely to find impressive numbers of skylarks, dragonflies and toads in your own back garden. The past half century has seen an interesting reversal in the fortunes of much of Britain’s …
Vote For Women The suffragette movement, which campaigned for votes for women in the early twentieth century, is most commonly associated with the Pankhurst family and militant acts of varying degrees of violence. The Museum of London has drawn on its archive collection to convey a fresh picture with its exhibition The Purple, White and …
Volcanoes-earth-shattering news When Mount Pinatubo suddenly erupted on 9 June 1991, the power of volcanoes past and present again hit the headlines A Volcanoes are the ultimate earth-moving machinery. A violent eruption can blow the top few kilometres off a mountain, scatter fine ash practically all over the globe and hurl rock fragments into the …
The history of jeans The first people to wear jeans were sailors in the 16th century. Sailors were gone for a long time. They had to do hard work outside in bad weather. Often their clothes had holes in them, got thinner or lost color. They needed something strong against wear and tear. Their clothes …
