The iceman Questions 1-5 The reading passage has eight paragraphs A-H . Which paragraph contains the following information? Write the correct letter A-H, in boxes 1-5 on your answer sheet. NB you may use any letter more than once 1 ABCDEFGH the last area in which the iceman might live and stay. 2 ABCDEFGH a mass of special plant …
The iceman Questions 1-5 The reading passage has eight paragraphs A-H . Which paragraph contains the following information? Write the correct letter A-H, in boxes 1-5 on your answer sheet. NB you may use any letter more than once 1 ABCDEFGH the last area in which the iceman might live and stay. 2 ABCDEFGH a mass of special plant …
Bodie: America’s most famous ghost town If you peek inside on of the broken- down buildings in Bodie, California, you might see dust- covered furniture an old muffin pan, rusty tins, and broken kerosene lamps or a fully stocked general store with original wooden boxes and shelves with tin cans Situated in a sagebrush- covered …
Caral: an ancient South American city Huge earth and rock mounds rise out of the desert of the Supe Valley near the coast of Peru in South America. These immense mounds appear simply to be part of the geographical landscape in this arid region squeezed between the Pacific Ocean and the Andes mountains.But looks deceive. …
Should space be explored by robots or by humans? A The advisability of humans participating directly in space travel continues to cause many debates. There is no doubt that the presence of people on board a space vehicle makes its design much more complex and challenging, and produces a large increase in costs, since safety requirements …
The dark side of the technological boom What are the effects on the individual of working in modern technological workplaces? Changes in the way we work and how our offices are structured come at US faster and faster. Waves of state-of-the-art information technology and instant telecommunications let us reach anyone, anywhere, and speed is the …
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 …
