What is the secret of a long life? This year, the number of retired pensioners in the UK exceeded the number of under 18 years old for the first time in history. That’s remarkable in its own right, but the real ‘population explosion’ has been among the oldest of the old — the centenarians. In …
Developmental Tasks of Normal Adolescence Some years ago, Professor Robert Havighurst of the University of Chicago, USA, proposed that stages in human development can best be thought of in terms of the developmental ‘tasks’ that are part of the normal transition. He identified ten developmental tasks associated with the adolescent transition. Each of the Havighurst …
Answers Underground Burying greenhouse gases to slow global warming Questions 1-6 Look at the following issues (Questions 1-6) and the list of people and organisations below. Match each issue with the correct person or organization, A-F. Write the correct letter, A-F, in boxes 1-6 on your answer sheet. NB You may use any letter more than once. 1 ABCDEF …
Katherine Mansfield Katherine Mansfield was a modernist writer of short fiction who was born and brought up in New Zealand Katherine Mansfield Beauchamp Murry was born in 1888, into a prominent family in Wellington, New Zealand. She became one of New Zealand’s best-known writers, using the pen name of Katherine Mansfield. The daughter of a …
Insect decision-making It has long been held that decision made collectively by large groups of people are more likely to turn out to be accurate than decisions made by individuals. The idea goes back to the ‘jury theorem’ of Nicolas de Condorcet, an 18th-century French philosopher who was one of the first to apply mathematics …
Science and the Stradivarius:Uncovering the secret of quality Questions 1-8 Reading Passage has nine paragraphs, A-l Choose the correct heading for paragraphs A and C-l from the list of headings below. Write the correct number, i-xi, in boxes 1-8 on your answer sheet. List of Headings i An analysis of protective coatings …
When people are deaf’ to music Music has long been considered a uniquely human concept. In fact, most psychologists agree that music is a universal human instinct. Like any ability, however, there is great variation in people’s musical competence. For every brilliant pianist in the world, there are several people we refer to as ” …
How to find your way out of a food desert Ordinary citizens have been using the internet to draw attention to the lack of healthy eating options in inner cities Over the last few months, a survey has been carried out of over 200 greengrocers and convenience stores in Crown Heights, a neighborhood in Brooklyn, …
Fear of the Unknown American companies fear that innovation is the secret of success-and that they cannot innovate In the small Umagic office in midtown Manhattan, a team of 30 computer programmers are working on setting up websites that will allow subscribers to feed in details about themselves and their problems and to receive advice …
Fishbourne Roman Palace Fishbourne Roman Palace is in the village of Fishbourne in West Sussex, England. This large palace was built in the 1st century AD, around thirty years after the Roman conquest of Britain ,on the site of Roman army grain stores which had been established after the invasion, in the reign of the Roman …
