Paraphrasing

Question: Over two thousand years ago, kites were used in China as weapons, as well as for sending ___________

Passage: And other ancient civilizations certainly knew about kites; as early as 1250 BC, the Chinese were using them to deliver messages and dump flaming debris on their foes.

• ancient civilizations

• messages

• flaming debris

• foes

Question: In recent years, many of them have been obliged to give up their ________ lifestyle, but they continue to depend mainly on ____________ for their food and clothes.

Passage: Over the past 40 years, most have abandoned their nomadic ways and settled in the territory’s 28 isolated communities, but they still rely heavily on nature to provide food and clothing.

• isolated - nature

• nomadic - nature

• isolated - territory

• nomadic - territory

Question: Gordon Shepherd uses the word 'neurogastronomy' to draw together a number of __________ related to the enjoyment of eating.

Passage: Shepherd has come up with the term 'neurogastronomy' to link the disciplines of food science, neurology, psychology, and anthropology with the savory elements of eating, one of the most enjoyed of human experiences.

• discplines

• food science

• savory elements

• human experiences

Question: In addition to power and cost benefits, Broad's AC units improve ____________________ .

Passage: Broad's large air-conditioning (AC) units fueled by natural gas could help companies ease their electricity load, reduce overheads, and enjoy more reliable climate control into the bargain.

• natural gas

• electricity load

• overheads

• climate control

Question: The book Educating Psyche is mainly concerned with

Passage: Educating Psyche by Bernie Neville is a book which looks at new approaches to learning, describing the effects of emotion, imagination and the unconscious on learning. One theory discussed in the book is that proposed by George Lozanov, which focuses on the power of suggestion.

• the power of suggestion in learning

• a particular technique for learning based on emotions

• the effects of emotion on the imagination and the unconscious

• ways of learning which are not traditional

Question: The storeys of a Japanese pagoda are ________

Passage: In other words, a five-storey pagoda contains not even one pillar that travels right up through the building to carry the structural loads from the top to the bottom. More suprising is the fact that the individual storeys of a Japanese pagoda, unlike their counterparts elsewhere, are not actually connected to each other. They are simply stacked one on top of another like a pile of hats.

• linked only by wood

• fastened only to the central pillar

• fitted loosely on top of each other

• joined by special weights

Question: Lozanov claims that teachers should train students to ____________

Passage: Lozanov therefore made indirect instruction (suggestion) central to his teaching system. In suggestopedia, as he called his method, consciousness is shifted away from the curriculum to focus on something peripheral.

• memorise details of the curriculum.

• develop their own sets of indirect instructions.

• think about something other than the curriculum content.

• avoid overloading the capacity of the brain.

Question: True / False / Not given

Alien civilisations may be able to help the human race to overcome serious problems.

Passage: It is even possible that the alien civilisation may pass on the benefits of their experience in dealing with threats to survival such as nuclear war and global pollution, and other threats that we haven't yet discovered.

• True

• False

• Not given

Question: True / False / Not given

The Lumiere Brothers' film about the train was one of the greatest films ever made.

Passage: One of the Lumiere Brothers' earliest films was a 30-second piece which showed a section of a railway platform flooded with sunshine. A train appears and heads straight for the camera. And that is all that happens. Yet the Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky, one of the greatest of all film artists, described the film as a 'work of genius'.

• True

• False

• Not given

Question: True / False / Not given

The Hanshin earthquake of 1995 destroyed the pagoda at the Toji temple.

Passage: The disastrous Hanshin earthquake in 1995 killed 6,400 people, toppled elevated highways, flattened office blocks and devastated the port area of Kobe. Yet it left the magnificent five-storey pagoda at the Toji temple in nearby Kyoto unscathed, though it levelled a number of buildings in the neighbourhood.

• True

• False

• Not given