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Passage 1 makes an argument that reverses the usual story of domestication. Nobody bred the cat. Farming created stored grain, grain attracted rodents, rodents attracted wildcats, and the animals least frightened of people ate best. The environment did the selecting, and humans made the environment without meaning to. Three questions depend on holding that direction the right way round.
Passage 2 will change how you think about buying secondhand clothing, and not in the direction you expect.
Three passages, 40 questions. How the domestic cat domesticated itself; what the secondhand clothing market does and does not achieve; and three specialists disagreeing about the four day working week. Note completion, True/False/Not Given, matching headings, sentence completion, and matching statements to people.
READING PASSAGE 1 You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1 – 13, which are based on Reading Passage 1 below. The Animal That Chose Us How the domestic cat arrived, and why it is unlike every other domestic animal Almost every domesticated animal follows the same story. Humans identified a useful species, captured individuals, controlled their breeding and selected for traits they wanted. Cattle became larger and more docile, dogs were bred into shapes that suit particular tasks, chickens were selected for laying. In each case the direction…
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Track improvement across Task 1 and Task 2 over time.
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