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Difficulty: upper-intermediate Suitable for: Band 6 to 7
The forest in Passage 1 was not planted. It emerged on abandoned industrial land while ordinary redevelopment was delayed. That reversal matters: questions distinguish deliberate restoration from natural succession, and candidates who assume every urban woodland was designed will misread the account.
Passage 2 is about measurement, but the argument is not that numbers are useless. It is that a metric changes behaviour once it becomes a target. The hardest headings separate the hidden choices inside a number from the later distortion caused by organisations adapting to it.
Forty questions across three passages: natural succession on a former railway site, the unintended effects of performance metrics, and whether streets should be designed for children's play. The format includes TFNG, summary completion, choose-two multiple choice, matching headings, one-word completion, single-answer multiple choice, matching specialists and sentence endings.
READING PASSAGE 1 You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1 – 13, which are based on Reading Passage 1 below. The Forest That Returned to the City How abandoned land became an urban woodland Before the modern system, the site had contained rail sidings and storage yards. This arrangement was workable at a small scale, but it became increasingly inefficient as networks expanded. Records were inconsistent, and decisions made in one place did not always fit conditions elsewhere. People close to the process often treated these mismatches as…
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