Part 1Read the text and answer questions 1–13. Case Study: Tourism New Zealand website New Zealand is a small country of four million inhabitants, a long-haul flight from all the major tourist-generating markets of the world. Tourism currently makes up 9% of the country’s gross domestic product, and is the country’s largest export sector. Unlike…
Part 1Read the text and answer questions 1–13. Bringing cinnamon to Europe Cinnamon is a sweet, fragrant spice produced from the inner bark of trees of the genus Cinnamomum, which is native to the Indian sub-continent. It was known in biblical times, and is mentioned in several books of the Bible, both as an ingredient…
Part 1Read the text and answer questions 1–13. The coconut palm For millennia, the coconut has been central to the lives of Polynesian and Asian peoples. In the western world, on the other hand, coconuts have always been exotic and unusual, sometimes rare. The Italian merchant traveller Marco Polo apparently saw coconuts in South Asia…
Part 1Read the text and answer questions 1–13. Cutty Sark: the fastest sailing ship of all time The nineteenth century was a period of great technological development in Britain, and for shipping the major changes were from wind to steam power, and from wood to iron and steel. The fastest commercial sailing vessels of all…
Part 1Read the text and answer questions 1–13. READING PASSAGE 1 You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-13 which are based on Reading Passage 1. The Life of Sir Isaac Newton A Isaac Newton was born on January 4, 1643, in Lincolnshire, England. The son of a farmer, who died three months before he…
Part 1Read the text and answer questions 1–13. How we manage the land on Earth Overpopulation, climate change, mass migration, farming issues and the use of natural resources are all affecting our relationship with terra firma, and it has never been more complicated. It is increasingly looking like Earth’s land is being overlooked rather than…
Part 1Read the text and answer questions 1–13. Cathy Freeman – Australian’s track queen A Runner Cathy Freeman is the first Aborigine, the name given to indigenous Australians, ever to compete in the Olympics, and the first to wave the Aboriginal flag at a sporting event. Freeman lit the Olympic flame at the 2000 Olympics…
Part 1Read the text and answer questions 1–13. Sending money homethe economics of migrant remittances A Every year millions of migrants travel vast distances using borrowed money for their airfares and taking little or no cash with them. They seek a decent job to support themselves with money left over that they can send home to…
Part 1Read the text and answer questions 1–13. The Phoenicians: an almost forgotten people The Phoenicians inhabited the region of modern Lebanon and Syria from about 3000 BC. They became the greatest traders of the pre-classical world, and were the first people to establish a large colonial network. Both of these activities were based on…
Part 1Read the text and answer questions 1–14. Read the text below and answer Questions 1-9. ENROLMENT IN THE SELF-ACCESS CENTRE (SAC) Who can enrol?Any permanent or temporary migrant (anyone on a student visa is only eligible if an individual exemption is granted). Where to enrol?The Advance School of English4th floor, J Block, Main Campus120 Portsmith…
