Academic Reading

READING PASSAGE You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-13 which are based on Reading Passage 1 below.                                          Could urban engineers learn from dance? A The way we travel around cities has a…

Pulling strings to build pyramids No one knows exactly how the pyramids were built. Marcus Chown reckons the answer could be ‘hanging in theair’.      The pyramids of Egypt were built…

LAND OF THE RISING SUM A Japan has a significantly better record in terms of average mathematical attainment than England and Wales. Large sample international comparisons of pupils' attainments since…

Pulling strings to build pyramids No one knows exactly how the pyramids were built. Marcus Chown reckons the answer could be ‘hanging in the air’.                                                                              The pyramids of Egypt…