"My wife and I made the lifestyle choice to exchange a city terrace for a farm cottage. We'd been there before, liked what we saw, and knew what we were in for. We were familiar with the minor disadvantages of country living, such as the inaccessibility of shops, cinemas, theatres, and the impossibility of hopping onto buses or trains to be in town in five minutes. Yet all these are offset by the many advantages of living in the countryside, such as privacy, fresh air, birdsong, and stars at night. However, my wife might have been harder to persuade than me. Born and bred in the city, she had never known anything else. So when I asked her to marry me and proposed that we move to a farm cottage on a much lower income, I might have been a bit optimistic."

"In 1698, the band of stockbrokers from Jonathan's Coffee House would become the founder members of the world's money capital. But the progress was not smooth. The South Sea bubble burst, but those souls who operate the UK's financial hub have now overtaken their New York rivals and hold 70% of the global secondary bond market. The fact that it flies so high is against the odds because London is one of the most expensive cities in the world to live in."

Essay Question:

"The means of communicating in society today has changed markedly over the last 10 years. In your opinion, what are the positive and negative impacts of this change?"

The atmosphere is forever on the move. Wind is air in motion. Sometimes air moves slowly as a breeze, sometimes _____ or fierce. The air above these _____ is warmed. As the sun moves through the sky, it heats up some parts of the sea and land more than others. Elsewhere, cool air sinks because it is _____. Winds will blow whenever there is a _____ in air temperature, and finally others are part of the huge circulation pattern that sends winds over the entire _____.

In England, students from poor families have limited access to university. However, the question of whether graduates' earnings vary _____ their socioeconomic background among graduates attending the same university has remained poorly understood, _____ by data availability. Our unique database offers substantial advantages in _____ this crucial question. The findings are also relevant for better information on _____ in graduates' earnings. Better information for schools _____ and guide students.

Our sense of cinema can be tracked back to the Lumiere brothers. They _____ a paying public in Paris and blossomed into a world cinema _____. Yet in 30 years, audiences rarely _____ to films, only watched them. The early decades were characterized as silent. _____, there was a lot of noise from machinery. Even so, the absence of human voice and _____ makes films seem strange.

The prospect of learning makes sociology interesting. It is _____ a systematic understanding of forces that we _____ exercise control. The founding figure of sociology _____ to prominence. It is _____ social change that sociology exists.

Scientists discovered plants have tricks to make themselves _____ to even choosy insects. A senior researcher and her _____ set up fake flowers. Unleashing bumblebees on their floral _____, insects quickly responded.

"In Denmark, job protection is minimal. Employers hire and dismiss at will. Around a quarter of the workforce is unemployed at some point each year. But the jobless enjoy generous welfare benefits, receiving around 80% of their previous wage on average while they look for work. To ensure this doesn't deter people from finding new jobs, Danes would like employees to be trained and to look diligently for work."

Question: According to the text, which of the following apply to people in Denmark who lose their job?

"PhD placements in secondary schools aim to raise motivation among pupils and connect them with cutting-edge research. The science teacher asked pupils to draw what scientists look like - all drew eccentric people in white coats. Children were immediately smitten after meeting real researchers. While benefits for schools are obvious, researchers gain CV additions, develop communication skills, and widen their perspectives."

Question: According to the passage, which statements are true?

A. My study of history has revealed that human beings are spiritual animals.

B. Men and women started to worship gods as soon as they became recognizably human.

C. They exhibited religious beliefs at the same time as they created works of art.

D. This was not simply because they wanted to propitiate powerful forces.

E. These early faiths expressed wonder that seems to have been an essential component of human experience.

A. Because of these beneficial medical applications, embryonic stem cells are valued by scientists.

B. Cells can turn into any other sort of body cells.

C. Some examples cited for possible treatments are diabetes and Parkinson's disease.

D. They might thus be used as treatment to replace a particular lost cell type.

E. Because of these benefits, lobbying against stem cell research is particularly regrettable.

Most businesses don't realize how important this _____ of their business is. They'll be at an instant _____ if they don't cover this. No matter how much money you invest in _____, if you don't have fundamentals right, it's _____ money.

Word Bank: aspect, disadvantage, marketing, wasted, advantage, feature

But there has not been consumer growth in _____ to support ministers. The _____ framework for operating is _____.

Word Bank: arrangements, documentary, fragmented, cooperation, regulatory, unified

His published research has co-edited a major _____ and served as chief editor of the _____ of microbiology. His non-scientific _____ include tree planting. He lives _____ a quiet lake.

Word Bank: journal, archives, interests, beside, magazine, collections, hobbies, near

Humans are relatively powerless creatures. What we do as a group has _____ us to take over the planet. These groupings are part of a vast network of _____ finding points where smaller units can _____ to waves of information.

Word Bank: enabled, interconnected, stand up, allowed, connected, resist

"One of the challenges of college writing is that you want to clearly focus. Some students rely on old strategies like the five-paragraph form. Many old tricks such as using elevated language or repeating yourself so you might meet a 10-page requirement will fail you."

Question: According to the writer, a student might repeat himself to:

"As a result of concern for long-term security, Britain's government feared that without French and Russian allies, they could not hope to maintain control of these colonies."

Question: According to the text, which contributed to Britain joining the war?

"In a very important sense, memory is the cognitive function that stores knowledge that we've acquired through learning and _____. But also memory is important because memory frees our behavior from _____ by the present stimulus environment. If you didn't have memory, all you'd be able to do is to _____ to whatever is currently in the environment now, whatever it is that you're _____. But memory allows us to respond to past events. And memory also gives us the means to _____ on our experiences."

"Experimental psychological research is conducted in a lab under controlled conditions. It attempts to rely solely on an application of research methods to understand _____ and mental processes. As an example, you might want to investigate _____ of different tones. Specifically, you could ask: Is it easier for people to discriminate one pair of tones from another _____ ? To answer this, you would want to disprove the hypothesis that all tones are _____ easy to discriminate."

"I mean it saves so much time if you just include the page numbers for any quotes that you've written down. Have you been doing that? No, I haven't actually. I've been keeping a note of the books and obviously who wrote them and their editions and things like that, but no, I haven't been keeping the actual page numbers. Right. Well, just from my own experiments when I was a postgrad, I found that I just spent so much time when I had to go back because the thing is you will have to rewrite the work that you do and you can save so much time if you've actually got all the page numbers written down as well because it means you can go back to the precise quote that you found and work on it there."