Welcome to your Cambridge 18 Academic Reading Test 4
Questions 10 and 11
Choose TWO letters, A-E.
Write the correct letters in boxes 10 and 11 on your answer sheet.
Which TWO advantages of using newer buildings for green roofs are mentioned in Paragraph C of the passage?
Questions 12 and 13
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Which TWO aims of new variations on the concept of green roofs are mentioned in Paragraph E of the passage?
READING PASSAGE 2
Questions 14-16
Choose the correct letter, A, B, C or D.
Write the correct letter in boxes 14-16 on your answer sheet
14 What can we learn from the first paragraph?
15 The second paragraph describes how schools encourage students to
16 In the third paragraph, the writer suggests that students with a fixed mindset
Questions 31-36
Complete the summary using the list of phrases, A-J, below.
Write the correct letter, A-J, in boxes 31-36 on your answer sheet.
Wegener’s life and work
One of the remarkable things about Wegener from a 31 is that although he proposed a theory of continental drift, he was not a geologist. His 32 were limited to atmospheric physics. However, at the time he proposed his theory of continental drift in 1912, he was already a person of 33 . Six years previously, there had been his 34 of 52 hours in a hot-air balloon, followed by his well-publicised but 35 of Greenland’s coast. With the publication of his textbook on thermodynamics, he had also come to the attention of a 36 of German scientists.
A. modest fame | B. vast range | C. record-breaking achievement |
D. research methods | E. select group | F. professional interests |
G. scientific debate | H. hazardous exploration | I. biographer’s perspective |
J. narrow investigation | |
Questions 37-40
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Write the correct letter in boxes 37-40 on your answer sheet.
37 What is Mott T Greene doing in the fifth paragraph?
38 What is said about Wegener in the sixth paragraph?
39 What does Greene say about some other famous scientists?
40 What is Greene’s main point in the final paragraph?