Welcome to your Cambridge 17 Academic Reading Test 2
READING PASSAGE 1 : Questions 1-13
Complete the notes below.
Choose ONE WORD ONLY from the passage for each answer.
Write your answers in boxes 1-5 on your answer sheet.
The Dead Sea Scrolls
Discovery
Qumran, 1946/7
- three Bedouin shepherds in their teens were near an opening on side of cliff
- heard a noise of breaking when one teenager threw a 1.
- teenagers went into the 2. and found a number of containers made of 3.
The scrolls
- date from between 150 BCE and 70 CE
- thought to have been written by group of people known as the 4.
- written mainly in the 5. language
- most are on religious topics, written using ink on parchment or papyrus
READING PASSAGE 3 : Questions 27-40
Choose the correct letter, A, B, C or D.
Write the correct letter in boxes 27-31 on your answer sheet.
27. The purpose of the first paragraph is to
28. What are the writers doing in the second paragraph?
29. In the third paragraph, what do the writers suggest about Darwin and Einstein?
30. John Nicholson is an example of a person whose idea
31. What is the key point of interest about the ‘acey-deucy’ stirrup placement?
Questions 37-40
Complete the summary using the list of words, A-G, below.
Write the correct letter, A-G, in boxes 37-40 on your answer sheet.
The origins of creative behaviour
The traditional view of scientific discovery is that breakthroughs happen when a single great mind has sudden 37. . Although this can occur, it is not often the case. Advances are more likely to be the result of a longer process. In some cases, this process involves 38. , such as Nicholson’s theory about proto-elements. In others, simple necessity may provoke innovation, as with Westrope’s decision to modify the position of his riding stirrups. There is also often an element of 39. , for example, the coincidence of ideas that led to the invention of the Post-It note. With both the Law of Natural Selection and the Law of Effect, there may be no clear 40. involved, but merely a process of variation and selection.
A invention B goals C compromise
D mistakes E luck F inspiration
G experiments