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Difficulty: upper-intermediate Suitable for: Band 6 to 7
This test begins with True/False/Not Given rather than completion questions, so there is no gentle vocabulary warm-up. The first six items require you to separate information that is contradicted from information that is simply absent. That distinction is especially important when the passage discusses ownership, adoption and the limits of the seed bank.
The instant-delivery passage rewards candidates who follow conditions. Collection lockers can reduce journeys, but not in every location; forecasting can move stock closer to customers, but incorrect predictions create new waste. If you remove the condition from the claim, you will choose the distractor.
Three Academic Reading passages on crop diversity in a frozen seed vault, the hidden urban costs of instant delivery, and the effects of artificial light on safety and ecology. The 40 questions cover True/False/Not Given, summary completion, two-answer multiple choice, matching headings, one-word sentence completion, 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 Seed Bank Beneath the Ice Why crop diversity is stored in cold places Before the modern system, farmers maintained many local crop varieties in separate regions. 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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