Evening Courses
Question No. | Answer | Keywords | Location | Explanation |
1 | C | Teach, skill, others | Paragraph C, Lines 1-2 | "This course is for parents who want to learn how to make fun food with the aim of showing their kids how to cook later at home." |
2 | E | Prepare, home, class | Paragraph E, Line 3 | "To really benefit from the course, learners should have time to read ahead between sessions." |
3 | D | Materials, course fee | Paragraph D, Line 2 | "Base metals are supplied free." |
4 | B | Prepare, meals, guests | Paragraph B, Line 1 | "This course has plenty of ideas and tips for special occasions that you can enjoy preparing, love eating and be proud to provide." |
5 | E | Best use, certain item | Paragraph E, Line 1 | "This course will allow you to take full advantage of your digital camera." |
The Bike Foundry
Question No. | Answer | Keywords | Location | Explanation |
8 | TRUE | Second-hand bicycles | Paragraph 2, Line 1 | "We gratefully accept donations of unwanted bikes." |
9 | FALSE | Training sessions, Bike Foundry | Paragraph 4, Line 1 | "We offer maintenance and cycle training to schools and small groups on their own premises." |
10 | NOT GIVEN | Bike Basics, new cyclists | No information specifically mentions new cyclists for this course. | |
11 | NOT GIVEN | Snacks, maintenance training | No specific mention of snacks being provided. | |
12 | TRUE | Tool Club, reference books | Paragraph 7, Line 1 | "There’s a range of reference manuals available." |
13 | NOT GIVEN | Participants, Cycling Training, beginners | No specific mention of the majority of participants being beginners. | |
14 | TRUE | Cancel, training course, refund | Paragraph 8, Line 2 | "We ask for a 50% deposit to confirm your place, refundable up to seven days before the course." |
Benefits for staff of Hamberton Hospital
Question No. | Answer | Keywords | Location | Explanation |
15 | Contribution | Recognition, staff | Paragraph 1, Line 1 | "Our attractive benefits package is one of the ways we acknowledge the contribution they all make in the provision of high quality patient care." |
16 | Sick | Sick, maternity leave | Paragraph 3, Line 2 | "excellent occupational sick pay and maternity leave and pay entitlements." |
17 | Loans | Loans, housing | Paragraph 3, Line 4 | "loans to assist with the purchase of housing for employees in the health service." |
18 | Parents | Work-life balance | Paragraph 4, Line 3 | "We are committed to making this balance work for all employees equally, not just parents." |
19 | Policies | Return to work | Paragraph 6, Line 3 | "policies supporting phased returns to work after long illnesses or injuries." |
20 | Parking | On-site facilities | Paragraph 7, Line 1 | "On-site facilities include: ... ample parking." |
21 | Holidays | Red Guava, discounts | Paragraph 8, Line 2 | "Red Guava provides discounts on holidays, for example, and can save you money in many other ways too." |
Performance-related pay
Question No. | Answer | Keywords | Location | Explanation |
22 | Retain | Retain, existing staff | Paragraph 1, Line 1 | "They may: be keen to retain current staff." |
23 | Targets | Measurable, targets | Paragraph 2, Line 1 | "In order for performance-related schemes to work they should be based on clear, measurable targets agreed by both employer and employee." |
24 | Commission | Bonus, commission | Paragraph 4, Line 1 | "Short-term schemes usually offer bonus payments, or, depending on the type of work, commission on sales achieved." |
25 | Senior | Senior, long-term | Paragraph 5, Line 2 | "Long-term schemes offer rewards like share options, and can help to encourage loyalty to the organisation and its aims. Such schemes tend to be used as a way of retaining senior staff." |
26 | Meetings/letters | Records, relevant | Paragraph 7, Line 4 | "keep copies of any letters and notes of any meetings." |
27 | Women | Discrimination, women | Paragraph 9, Line 2 | "Your employer must not discriminate against particular groups of people – for example, by giving smaller bonuses to women." |
Marine Ecosystems
Question No. | Answer | Keywords | Location | Explanation |
28 | vi | Marine ecosystems, blame | Section A, Paragraph 1 | "For some time now, the world’s oceans and the people who fish them have been a constant source of bad environmental news... " |
29 | iv | Press, missed | Section B, Paragraph 2 | "What the scientist who led the study has said is that the main conclusion of his research has been buried beneath the headlines." |
30 | ii | Historical, Wadden Sea | Section C, Paragraph 1 | "Around 7,500 years ago, shrinking glaciers and the resulting higher water levels led to the development of what’s called the Wadden Sea..." |
31 | viii | Factors, not fishing | Section D, Paragraph 1 | "What’s interesting is that overfishing isn’t the main agent of the decline... It’s due to an ongoing combination of exploitation, habitat destruction and pollution." |
32 | v | Biodiversity, help | Section E, Paragraph 2 | "Worm believes that, ‘to have a greater number of species makes an ecosystem more robust’. His theory is backed up by evidence from experiments into how ecosystems react to change." |
33 | vii | Optimism, reversal | Section F, Paragraph 1 | "Worm and his colleagues were able to show that it’s possible to reverse such damage as long as there are enough species." |
34 | iii | Marine creatures, missed | Section G, Paragraph 2 | "Human nature will always draw us towards those species or habitats that are more aesthetically pleasing." |
35 | A | Ecosystems, breakdown | Paragraph 2, Line 1 | "Boris Worm’s main concern is that marine ecosystems will completely break down." |
36 | C | Help, unattractive | Paragraph 8, Line 1 | "The public are much less likely to help unattractive creatures." |
37 | B | Review, management | Paragraph 9, Line 1 | "A radical review of marine resource management is needed." |
38 | Glaciers | Created, consequence | Section C, Paragraph 1 | "The Wadden Sea was created when the sea rose as a consequence of glaciers slowly contracting." |
39 | Birds | Wetlands, shore | Section C, Paragraph 1 | "the salt marshes and mud flats on the coast supported millions of birds." |
40 | Oxygen | Destroy, survival | Section D, Paragraph 3 | "This over-enrichment of the sea can ultimately lead to the collapse of the entire system through oxygen starvation." |
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