A n s w e r k e y test 1, Paper 1, Reading

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A: ‘When I finally bothered to look, I found my ticket was actually 
for the previous day.’
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C: ‘I hadn’t bothered researching the lie of the land.’
Test 7, Paper 1, Reading 
(Page 159)
Part 1
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B: The writer says it is ‘an invaluable tool’, that it contains ‘all 
the wonderful and clever, and ugly aspects of being human’ 
and describes ‘everything we can see or sense around us’. We 
‘eat and breathe’ it – it is extremely important to us, it affects 
everyone’s lives. 
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C: People wondered whether elements were ‘inherently chaotic’ 
(by nature not in any order, not capable of being organised), 
‘a jumble of substances that could be arranged equally well by 
any old trait’ (a disorganised mixture that could be arranged 
according to any characteristic chosen because there was no 
obvious way of organising them). 
3 
A: By ‘low-hanging fruit’ the writer means, in this context, 
knowledge that can be reached, knowledge that people can 
get easily. He compares this with knowledge that humans 
are not able to get through science and therefore knowledge 
that humans don’t have. People can’t get knowledge of these 
‘uncharted areas of science’ because they are ‘so complex’. 
4 
C: He thinks that scientists will apply existing knowledge in new 
ways and therefore make new breakthroughs but that soon they 
will have got all the knowledge they can get about ‘fundamental 
laws of nature and the constituents of the world’. Scientists will 
soon reach their limit – they will have found out ‘everything 
that’s open to understand’ but not ‘everything about the world’. 
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D: They are given for research that people consider ridiculous but 
these things must also ‘then make them think’ – the results of 
the research are worth thinking about, they are interesting and 
not just silly. 
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B: The Italian research suggested that companies should not have a 
hierarchical system in which people climbed up the hierarchy in 
a fixed and organised way. They should abandon this system and 
instead promote people up the hierarchy ‘randomly’ – by chance, 
with no system for choosing.