Part 1

1. on the edge
2. delivery, street
3. discourage / discourage (any) wheeled
Part 2
A) 5
B) 2
Part 3
1. TRUE
2. NOT GIVEN
3. TRUE
4. TRUE
Part 4
1. (human) flight
2. steer
3. powerful engines
4. machinery
5. bicycles
Part 5
1) True
Many experts regard Faraday as the foremost experimentalist of all time. (historians of
science refer to him as having been the best experimentalist in the history of science.)
"experts" = historians of science
"the foremost experimentalist" = the best experimentalist
"in the history of science" = of all time
2) Not Given
Faraday educated himself by reading books that were recommended to him by George
Riebau. (...had to educate himself. At fourteen he became the apprentice to George Riebau, a
local bookbinder and bookseller. During his seven-year apprenticeship he read many books,

including Isaac Watts' The Improvement of the Mind, and he enthusiastically implemented
the principles and suggestions contained therein.)
"educated himself" = had to educate himself
"by reading books" = he read many books
(as you see, there has been no direct reference from the passage that the books read by
Faraday were recommended to him by George Riebau)
3) True
Faraday came to the attention of a famous chemist after he wrote a book based on the
chemist's lectures. (Faraday attended lectures by the eminent English chemist Humphry
Davy. Faraday subsequently sent Davy a three-hundred-page book based on notes that he had
taken during these lectures. Davy's reply was immediate, kind, and favourable...Davy was
asked to find a replacement, and appointed Faraday as Chemical Assistant at the Royal
Institution.)
"came to the attention of a famous chemist" = Davy's reply was immediate, kind, and
favourable...Davy was asked to find a replacement, and appointed Faraday as Chemical
Assistant at the Royal Institution.
"he wrote a book based on the chemist's lectures." = Faraday attended lectures by the eminent
English chemist Humphry Davy. Faraday subsequently sent Davy a three-hundred-page book
based on notes that he had taken during these lectures.

Part 6
1-C
2-D
3-E
4-A
5-F
6B
Part 7
accident
inhibited
repressing

Part 8
1. C
2. D
In question 2, the answer "A" was a trick - the Goldilocks zone is not a region (on the
surface) of a planet, it's a habitable region for the whole planet within a solar system.

Part 9
1. B
2. C
1. a means of rating intelligence tests = a method of scoring (children's) intelligence tests
2. intelligence scores had gradually risen over several decades = IQ test scores have been
rising at an average rate of around three IQ points per decade

Part 10
B
meet readers' expectations = provide what the public wants
If you put 'D', please read some of the students' explanations above. Several people have
explained why 'D' is wrong.

Part 11
1. inherited
2. stories
3. prior knowledge
4. family background
5. modest
Part 12
B and C
A is wrong because we don't know whether it's the MOST dangerous - there is no comparison
with other mountains

B is correct. Infamous means 'famous for bad reasons' (e.g. the deaths, known as "murder
wall" etc.)
C is correct - it was successfully climbed in 1938
D is wrong because we only know that they 'threatened' to fine people.
E is wrong - similar to 'A' - there is no comparison with other mountains.

Part 13
B - this is the overall idea of the paragraph. The other answers are too specific.
Part 14
A=2
(increase in work-related stress = stress related claims by employees has doubled)
B=4
(This paragraph is about the effects/symptoms of stress, NOT the causes)

Part 15
1. No
2. Not given
3. Yes
Part 16
D
Part 17
brought up
to handle
mixed
a cohort
a range of
(state) comprehensives
Fuelled
Part 18

A = 5 (the search = the hunt)

B=1
C = 2 (probability = Hawking BELIEVES, but it is not certain)
A couple of the questions tricked some people, so check again if you got any answers wrong.

Part 19
Number 1: "New method of research"
This is a tricky question as both headings are similar and seem to be correct.
However, the paragraph DOESN'T talk about the first study of spoken language. It talks
about the first time spoken English has been used when collecting data for dictionaries.
In other words, it's a new way of writing dictionaries, not the first study of spoken language.

Part 20
1. C
- a corpus is a collection of texts used to help linguists analyse a language.
2. B
- the BNC was made to document British English from the 20th century as "a representative
sample of spoken and written British English of that time".