Azmoon
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Difficulty: Upper-intermediate - Suitable for: 6.5 to 7.5
Smell is difficult to archive because it is both chemical and linguistic. A sample can preserve volatile compounds, but two people may describe the same odour differently. Passage 1 therefore stores measurements and multiple verbal accounts, and the questions test whether you noticed that neither form of evidence is sufficient alone.
Passage 2 contains visual traps in verbal form. Dark colour may suggest importance, a large symbol may exaggerate difference, and a familiar world map may distort relationships. The correct answers come from what the design makes the reader infer, not only from the data being mapped.
Three passages explore smell preservation in museums, the persuasive power of map design, and the use of care robots for older people. Question formats include True/False/Not Given, summary completion, choose-two questions, matching headings, vocabulary completion, single-answer multiple choice and matching statements to specialists.
READING PASSAGE 1 You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1 – 13, which are based on Reading Passage 1 below. The Library of Smells Why museums preserve odour Before the modern system, conservation focused almost entirely on visible objects and written descriptions. 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 isolated local errors, so no…
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