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“…vertical farming can dramatically cut resource use. Water usage can be reduced by up to 95% compared with traditional field agriculture, since water is recirculated within the closed system.”
Vertical farming uses more water than traditional agriculture.
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- 1Skim first (2–3 min): Read the title, headings and first lines to map what each paragraph covers before touching questions.
- 2Read questions, underline keywords: Names, dates and numbers are easy to scan for; underline them to guide your search.
- 3Scan, do not reread: Hunt for keywords and their synonyms. The answer is almost always a paraphrase, not the exact words.
- 4Watch the clock per passage: Never spend over 20 minutes on one passage. Guess, mark it, and move on — you can return if time allows.
- 5Answer in order where you can: Most question sets follow the passage order, so the next answer is usually below the last one you found.
- 6Never leave a blank: There is no negative marking — a guess on a hard question can still be a band higher.
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True or False or Not Given
291 questions in the pool
Paragraph 1
Known to biologists as the mycorrhizal network, this underground framework was once viewed as little more than a botanical curiosity.
Does the statement agree with the information in the passage?
Mycorrhizal networks were taken seriously by biologists as soon as they were first discovered.
Yes or No or Not Given
247 questions in the pool
Paragraph G
Nevertheless, the analysis reviewed here indicates that these consequences were more significant than many curriculum planners identified.
Does the claim agree with the views of the writer?
The wider consequences of standardised testing were probably greater than many curriculum planners realised.
Matching Headings
246 questions in the pool
Paragraph A
Walk into any modern supermarket and you will be confronted with an extraordinary abundance of choice. A typical large grocery store stocks approximately 30,000 different products, a figure that has tripled since the 1990s.
Choose the best heading for this paragraph.
Which heading best fits the paragraph above?
Multiple Choice
255 questions in the pool
Paragraph F
When alternatives are clearly differentiated, adding more options does not typically cause problems. But when options are similar and require careful comparison on multiple dimensions, the cognitive cost of evaluating them rises steeply.
Choose the best answer.
According to the passage, choice overload is most likely to occur when
Sentence Completion
212 questions in the pool
Paragraph B
Japanese cultivators developed a distinctive method of steaming and grinding leaves to produce matcha, the powdered green tea used in the formal tea ceremony.
Complete the sentence. Choose ONE WORD from the passage.
In Japan, growers created a powdered green tea, made by steaming and grinding leaves, which came to be called ______.
Summary Completion
99 questions in the pool
Paragraph A
The longest documented migration is that of the Arctic tern, which flies each year from the Arctic to the Antarctic and back, a round trip of around forty thousand kilometres.
Complete the summary. Choose ONE WORD from the passage.
The seabird with the greatest annual round trip is the Arctic ______.
Matching Information
207 questions in the pool
Paragraph C
These maps functioned as devotional images, arranged around theological priorities rather than coastlines or roads, and were never intended to guide a traveller.
Which piece of information does this paragraph contain?
What does this paragraph tell us about the maps?
Matching Features
57 questions in the pool
Paragraph A
Wilson proposed that millions of years of evolution in natural environments have shaped our biology in ways that make contact with nature essential to our physical and psychological well being.
Match the idea to the right person.
Who put forward the idea that humans have evolved to need contact with nature?
Matching Sentence Endings
13 questions in the pool
Paragraph B
Critics contend that the insistence on consensus as the telos of deliberation conceals the extent to which procedural neutrality itself encodes the values of dominant groups.
Choose the ending that correctly completes the sentence.
Critics argue that the requirement for consensual rational discourse is problematic because
Short Answer Questions
113 questions in the pool
Paragraph A
The festival was held every four years, an interval known as an Olympiad, which the ancient Greeks used as a unit of time.
Answer the question. Choose ONE WORD from the passage.
What name was given to the four year interval between the Games in ancient Greece?
Note Completion
32 questions in the pool
Paragraph 2
The procedure begins with a small biopsy from a living animal. Technicians isolate a population of stem cells from this tissue.
Complete the note. Choose ONE WORD from the passage.
Starting material: a small ______ taken from a living animal.
Table Completion
20 questions in the pool
Paragraph 3
Hydroponics, the most common method, suspends plant roots in a nutrient solution rather than soil.
Complete the table. Choose ONE WORD from the passage.
Hydroponics: roots are suspended in a liquid nutrient ______.
Flow Chart Completion
8 questions in the pool
Paragraph C
The standard tool is a hollow steel auger, known as an increment borer, which is screwed into the trunk by hand. The auger removes a thin core of wood without doing significant harm to the tree.
Complete the flow chart. Choose TWO WORDS from the passage.
An ______ is screwed by hand into the trunk, then a thin core of wood is removed.
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