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Cambridge 11 Reading Test 1 Answer Keys 1. tomatoes Question: allowed businesses to 1……… information regularly Key words: businesses, information, regularly Based on the question and particularly the key words, we need to find the information about anactivity that businesses usually conduct in the database section of the website. In paragraph 2,when referring to the […]

Cambridge 11 Reading Test 3 Answer Keys 1. tea Question: Around 3000 BC, according to legend:– silkworm cocoon fell into emperor’s wife’s 1………….– emperor’s wife invented a 2………… to pull out silk fibres Keywords: 3000 BC, fell into, invented, emperor’s wife In the first paragraph, the writer says that “Legend has it that it was Lei

Cambridge 11 Reading Test 2 Answer Keys 1. TRUE Question: There is some doubt about what caused the Mary Rose to sink Keywords: doubt, sink In the first paragraph, the writer says that “Accounts of what happened to the ship vary: while witnesses agree that she was not hit by the French, some maintain that she

Cambridge 11 Reading Test 01 READING PASSAGE 1 You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-13 which are based on Reading Passage 1 below. Crop-growing skyscrapers By the year 2050, nearly 80% of the Earth’s population will live in urban centres. Applying the most conservative estimates to current demographic trends, the human population will increase by about three

Cambridge 11 Reading Test 02 READING PASSAGE 1 You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-13 which are based on Reading Passage 1 below. Raising the Mary Rose How a sixteenth-century warship was recovered from the seabed On 19 July 1545, English and French fleets were engaged in a sea battle off the coast of southern England in the

Cambridge 11 Reading Test 03 READING PASSAGE 1 You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-13 which are based on Reading Passage 1 below. The story of silk The history of the world’s most luxurious fabric, from ancient China to the present day Silk is a fine, smooth material produced from the cocoons – soft protective shells –

Cambridge 11 Reading Test 04 READING PASSAGE 1 You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-13 which are based on Reading Passage 1 below. Research using twins To biomedical researchers all over the world, twins offer a precious opportunity to untangle the influence of genes and the environment – of nature and nurture. Because identical twins come from

Cambridge 12 Reading Test 1 Answer Keys 1. NOT GIVEN Question: The cork oak has the thickest bark of any living tree. Key words: thickest bark In paragraph 1 and paragraph 2, the author mentioned the thick bark of the cork oak tree as “a remarkable material” and “its bark grows up to 20 cm

Cambridge 12 Reading Test 4 Answer Keys 1. obsidian Question: Early humans used a material called 1…………. to make the sharp points of their 2…………… Key words: early humans, sharp points In the first paragraph, the author mentioned that “From our earliest origins, man has been making use of glass. Historians have discovered that a

Cambridge 12 Reading Test 3 Answer Keys 1. v Paragraph A The first paragraph is about the inhospitable environment of the Galapagos Islands and explains that “the islands were colonised by one or more tortoises from mainland South America”. There is no heading about the environment. “Colonise” can be considered the same as “populate”. Moreover,