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Agricultural programme in Mozambique

How the programme was organised 

- It focused on a dry and arid region in Chicualacuala district, near the Limpopo River.

- People depended on the forest to provide charcoal as a source of income.

- 1.1 was seen as the main priority to ensure the supply of water.

- Most of the work organised by farmers’ associations was done by 1.2

- Fenced areas created to keep animals away from crops.

- The programme provided

• 1.3 for the fences
• 1.4 for suitable crops
• water pumps.

- The farmers provided

• labour
• 1.5 for the fences on their land.

Further developments

- The marketing of produce was sometimes difficult due to lack of 1.6.

- Training was therefore provided in methods of food 1.7.

- Farmers made special places where 1.8 could be kept.

- Local people later suggested keeping 1.9.

Evaluation and lessons learned

- Agricultural production increased, improving incomes and food security.

- Enough time must be allowed, particularly for the 1.10 phase of the programme.

Which activity can be done at each of the following locations on the heath?

Choose FIVE answers below and write the correct letter, A-G, in each blank.

Kenwood House 2.1

grassy slopes 2.2

open-air stage 2.3

ponds 2.4

Parliament Hill 2.5

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Making mistakes is all _____ of growing up.

Many children in state schools have expressed frustration at having to _____ with values they don’t share.

Mosquitoes are becoming more _____ to insecticides.

Only if the teacher has given permission _____ allowed to leave the room.

He demanded that the problem _____ immediately.

The newspaper article charged her _____ using the company's money for her own purposes.

Mainly because of the recent health _____ involving beef and chicken, the number of vegetarians _____ to rise dramatically in the next five years.

I don't suppose you are telling us the true version of the story, _____?

Kathy _____ comes up with a solution when everyone else is at a loss.

Inviting both Doug and Shirley to the party is a _____ for disaster!

The living conditions of children in slum areas of Africa are _____ belief.

The prices of some kinds of electronics have been _____ by increases in production.

_____ so incredible is that these insects successfully migrate to places they have never seen.

Mark didn’t understand what Ms. Smith was getting _____ so he asked her to explain it again.

You should take a _____ look at all the possible options before making a decision.

My new pullover _____ to half of its previous size when I washed it.

Choose the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined word(s).

The rich aroma of freshly baked bread filled the whole house.

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More and more teenagers are beginning to advocate for sustainable fashion instead of buying cheap, trendy clothes.

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Companies should be careful not to fall foul of government safety regulations or they might have to pay a heavy fine.

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Many animals, like the otter who uses a stone to crack mussel shells, are capable of using objects in the natural environment as rudimentary tools.

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A high wall isolated the villa from the rest of the resort.

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Despite modern advances, most people still have an irrational fear of hospitals and anesthetics.

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The actor's presence on screen was undeniable, even in minor roles.

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Flats which are both comfortable and reasonably priced are few and far between in the current context of economic crisis.

Read the text below. Use the word given in capitals in parentheses to form a word that fits in the gap.

The body of evidence suggesting that positive thinking is an essential factor in success continues to grow. Many scientists are convinced that optimism constitutes a more important (PREDICT) 37.1 of academic achievement than IQ tests.

Psychologists define optimism not (MERE) 37.2 as a sunny (LOOK) 37.3 on life, but as the belief that you can achieve your goals. The ability to attribute failure and success to factors outside yourself is a crucial characteristic of optimism, and results in more manageable emotional reactions to events. The optimist sees failure as caused by something temporary and changeable, and therefore her (INCLINE) 37.4 is to focus on how to avoid making the same mistakes in the future. Optimists have a variety of attributes which enable them to (STAND) 37.5 the setbacks they encounter, like confidence in their resourcefulness and the sense to break up sizeable goals into (ATTAIN) 37.6 objectives.

The pessimist, by contrast, blames himself for his failure, and concludes that he is simply incapable of accomplishing a given task. He is comparatively (LIKE) 37.7 to look for external factors to explain it and is more likely to sink into depression. Obviously, this has (IMPLY) 37.8 in all areas of endeavor.

Supply each blank with one suitable word to make a meaningful passage.

Dairy farms have long had an overabundance of waste, particularly manure, produced by their cows. Some farmers, however, have found a way to 38.1 it to good use: they have been converting it into electricity. First, bacteria are added to the cows' manure to break it 38.2. This process, known as manure digestion, produces biogas, which can then in 38.3 be used to generate electricity.

Recently, one dairy farmer who became 38.4 in manure digestion 30 years ago was finally able to start using the system. He was able not only to produce ample 38.5 to use on his farm, 38.6 he was also able to sell his surplus electricity to the local power company.

38.7 to a senior agricultural engineer, environmental concerns, the country's growing need for renewable 38.8, and rising electricity costs render manure digestion an increasingly attractive option. Many farmers say that they would like to reduce or even eliminate their electricity 38.9. Doing this by transforming farm waste 38.10 electricity would help the environment at the same time.

Read the passage below and decide which word best fits each space.

STRIKING BACK AT LIGHTNING WITH LASERS

Seldom is the weather more dramatic than when thunderstorms strike. Their electrical fury inflicts death or serious injury 39.1intowithonin around 500 people each year in the United States alone. As the clouds roll in, a leisurely round of golf can become a terrifying dice with death - out in the 39.2coldblueopenfield, a lone golfer may be a lightning bolt’s most inviting target. And there is damage to property too. Lightning damage costs American 39.3coalpowercateringlogging companies more than $100 million a year.

But researchers in the United States and Japan are planning to hit back. Already in laboratory trials they have tested strategies for neutralising the power of thunderstorms, and this winter they will 39.4braveincitenavigatereplenish real storms, equipped with an armoury of lasers that they will be pointing towards the heavens to discharge thunderclouds before lightning.

The 39.5capacityideaoutlookinitiative of forcing storm clouds to discharge their lightning on command is not new. In the early 1960s, researchers tried firing rockets trailing wires into thunderclouds to set up an easy discharge path for the huge electric charges that these clouds generate. The technique survives to this day at a test site in Florida 39.6runto runrunningruns by the University of Florida, with support from the Electrical Power Research Institute (EPRI), based in California. 4EPRI, which is funded by power companies, is looking at ways to protect the United States’ power grid from lightning strikes. We can cause the lightning 39.7to striketo be struckstrikesstriking where we want it to using rockets,’ says Ralph Bernstein, manager of lightning projects at EPRI. The rocket site is providing precise measurements of lightning voltages and allowing engineers to check how electrical equipment 39.8bears onbears withbears upbears out.

You are going to read a newspaper article in which a zoology student talks about her experience of doing practical research in an area of rainforest. Six paragraphs have been removed from the article. Choose from the paragraphs A-G the one that fits each gap (1-6). Write the correct letter next to each paragraph. There is ONE extra paragraph which you do not need to use. 

Missing paragraphs

A. Because of this and having experienced fieldwork, I’ve decided it’s definitely something I would like to do as a career. Once this year is over, I will ask my lecturers to advise me what to do next.

B. And the thing is to imagine being the person that has made a discovery – the person who first questions something, investigates and then contributes to the vast catalogue of information that is science. I find this concept inspirational.

C. They have their own traditions, too. One day, a local lady was bitten by a lethal snake, whilst I administered shots of anti-venom to her, the local traditional healer was applying plant remedies to the wound and attempting to suck the venom from it. At least one of the treatments must have worked because she recovered.

D. This morning, for example, a half metre square of mushrooms sprouted on the dirt floor of my kitchen. My favourite time here is in the early evenings. It’s finally cool enough to be comfortable, and the nocturnal creatures begin their nightly cacophony, while the setting sun paints the trees orange.

E. The reality is, however, that to make your way you need to build up a range of contacts and a portfolio of work. Many of the initial work opportunities that do exist are voluntary – in fact, you often have to pay to join a scheme. A student job where you are paid expenses, let alone a basic salary, is quite rare.

F. By and large, they work outdoors, and are interested in pretty much everything from discovering new species to the effect of obscure parasites on ecosystems. They explore and investigate, aiming to understand what they observe. Just two years into my undergraduate zoology degree, I don’t quite qualify as one yet, but hopefully I’m heading that way.

G. To do this, I walk slowly along several paths in the forest, accompanied by a local guide, and at night equipped with a torch. When I spot what I’m looking for, I feel an intense adrenaline rush. Will I manage to capture it? Have I collected this particular species yet?

Fieldwork in the rainforest of Ecuador - the experiences of a zoology student

When I was at school, I was a huge fan of TV wildlife programmes, and at a certain point I realised that somehow the natural world would have to be part of my life. So here I am a few years later, in the tropical rainforest of eastern Ecuador, a novice field scientist. The word scientist evokes various images typically perhaps ones of laboratories and white coats, test tubes and lab rats. But what does it mean to be a field scientist?

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I am currently spending a year at a small scientific research station in a remote patch of the Ecuadorian rainforest belonging to the Kichwa community of San Jose de Payamino. It is glorious – everything you would expect a tropical rainforest location to be, and a world away from my university in the UK. The air is hot and thick, the trees are densely packed, and everywhere is teeming with life.

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The local people own the land and govern themselves, but the Ecuadorian government also provides for them: a school complete with computer room and satellite internet, for instance. Each year, they vote for a new president and vice-president, who organise the democratic community meetings. Each family has a finca in the forest: a wooden home on stilts.

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But my normal life here as a work experience student revolves mainly around my personal research, which is a biodiversity study of frogs. I am trying to establish exactly which species are here, where and when I can find them, and what condition they are in.

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For most of the time, I am just crawling along looking at leaves. Much of field research is like this. It isn’t all finding new species and being transfixed by exotic wildlife behaviour. Have you ever seen the behind-the-scenes footage at the end of many nature documentaries, where it turns out a cameraman has been sitting in a tree for three days waiting for a bird to dance? Research is like this – laborious and monotonous – but it can be rewarding too.

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Being a field scientist basically means being an academic, collecting data and publishing scientific papers. It’s interesting but it doesn’t pay well, and getting started can be tough. When I was looking for work experience, there were plenty of openings with pharmaceutical companies, but very few matching my desire to explore and investigate wildlife.

40.6

This is one reason I count myself lucky to be involved in this project. It’s largely funded by my university, so I can afford it. Then, by the end of this year, I will have acquired valuable skills, and I am hopeful that the experience will facilitate my progression into postgraduate study.

Read the following passage and mark the letter on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions.

HE KNOWS TOO MUCH

Dick Sterling put the phone down. His hands were trembling. He was furious with himself for failing to persuade his boss in Delhi, Keith Lennox, to support him and was disgusted at the mixture of veiled threats and vague promises Lennox had made. "He knows too much" - the words still rang in his ears. He wondered, not for the last time, just what it was that Vish, the officer manager of the factory, knew. How could it be so important that the company's position in India could be threatened by it? It simply didn't make sense. Dick glanced at his watch. Four o'clock. He called for his driver, Gopal, and asked to be driven home. He'd had enough for the day.

Dick sat gloomily in the back of the car, going over in his mind the events which had led up to the present crisis. How had he got himself into this impossible situation? It should never have happened, yet somehow, looking back, it seemed inevitable. Perhaps he was beginning to believe in fate?

He had arrived three years earlier to take over as general manager of Trakton's factory in Madras. India was, of course, only one of the many countries in which Trakton operated. Dick had been transferred to Madras from Nigeria in fact, after a series of other overseas appointments. Each of the overseas factories had a general manager appointed from headquarters to oversee the management of the local workforce. In India, this had worked particularly well. The Indian staff was highly-trained and efficient. They were also generally easy to work with; the company's enlightened industrial relations policy had made sure of that. Salaries were higher than the average; there was a good pension scheme and generous health insurance benefits. Trakton boasted that it had not lost a day in strikes for over fifteen years.

Dick had found his senior Indian colleagues particularly good to work with. They knew their jobs inside out and were clearly committed to the company. Many of them had been with Trakton for the whole of their working lives, starting in the factory and working their way up to become managers. They were a good team.

The only exceptions had been Visvanathan, or "Vish" as he was known, the office manager, and his wife Molly. Molly was in charge of the Personnel Department. For reasons Dick had only gradually understood, Vish and Molly were regarded by the rest of the senior staff as somehow "special". They behaved as if they had special privileges and expected other staff to defer to them. Dick slowly realized that they controlled other staff members through a combination of threats and promises. Given their positions, they could make life very difficult for anyone who opposed them. Likewise, they could make life easy for those who did what they wanted.

Dick knew that this sort of behaviour happened to varying degrees in every culture and didn't think much of it. Indeed, in the first few weeks after his arrival, both Vish and Molly had been all smiles and helpfulness. They had invited Dick and his wife Sally to dinner too. Their newly-built house was in the fashionable, up-and-coming Kalakshetra Colony, close to the sea. Dick had been suitably impressed by the expensively-furnished house, which was full of the most modern household equipment. He had half-wondered, innocently, whether Vish had had to borrow money to pay for it all.

What was Dick's reaction to his conversation with Lennox?

When he was in his car, Dick thought that _____.

Before Dick took charge of the Madras factory, _____.

What is meant by "enlightened" in paragraph 3?

A lot of the bosses at Trakton _____.

What does the word "those" in paragraph 5 refer to?

How did Dick feel about the way Vish and Molly treated the other employees?

Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the passage?

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There won’t be peace in the conflict if both sides do not really desire it.

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To let Harold join our new project was silly as he knows little about our company.

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The successful cardiac surgery afforded him the energy to live life to the fullest.

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It’s possible that the plane has been delayed because of the bad weather.

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Realizing the environmental impact of the fashion industry, some bloggers, vloggers, and influencers are now entering the 'no-buy' movement.

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The coronavirus pandemic has caused people to change their behaviors for the better. People are now more conscious of making sustainable choices in their daily lives.

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I wouldn’t mind having a late meeting tomorrow. I’m quite used to going home late.

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William Clark was not granted the rank of captain. Captain Lewis more or less ignored this and treated Clark as his equal in authority and rank.

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The peasants prepared for the worst concerning the natural disaster. They walked on air when they found themselves bypassed by the hurricane.

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Greenpeace has realized the seriousness of environmental pollution. It urges the government worldwide to take action soon.