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Questions 18-23. 
Below is a table with comparative information about Concorde I, the European 
version of Concorde II and the American version of Concorde II. There is some 
information missing from the table. Complete the table using information from the 
reading passage. Write your answers in the spaces numbered 18-23 on the answer 
sheet. One has been done for you as an example. 
 
CONCORDE II 
 
CONCORDE I  
European version 
American version 
capacity 
Example: 100 
18 
300 
distance 
4000 miles 
19 
20 
speed 
21 
2,5 Mach 
22 
length 
60 m 
23 
(not given) 

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Questions 24-27 
Look at the following statements A-H. According to Reading Passage 2, which 
FOUR statements are TRUE. Choose from the appropriate letters, A-H, and 
write them in the spaces numbered 24-27 on the answer sheet. The answers 
may be written in any order. 
List of statements 
 
A   Concorde II will be ready for commercial use in 10 years.  
B   Daily use of supersonic aircraft causes structural problems.  
C   The new supersonic jet should be twice as fast as the current one.  
D   Only wealthy people will be able to travel on the new planes.  
E   There is world-wide co-operation in this project.  
F   The problems of noise and air pollution have already been researched.  
G   Supersonic jets can fly long distances over Canada and Russia.  
H   Concorde is a commercial aircraft.  
Question 28 
How many countries are involved in developing versions of Concorde II? 

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QUESTIONS 29-40 
You are advised to spend about 20 minutes on Questions 29-40 which refer to 
Reading 
Passage 3 below 
READING PASSAGE 3 
 
 
Co-housing seeks to balance  
of community, but often at the  
* A range of different  
the need for community and  
expense of privacy  
ownership structures can be  
privacy in shared living  
 
matched with co-housing  
arrangements The four  
The Danish Model  
Private ownership, rental, and  
characteristics essential to co-  
* Co-housing seeks to provide  
housing co-operatives have all  
housing are not new, but the  
community and privacy in a  
been used in co-housing  
combination i:> unique to co-  
way that gives people the  
developments  
housing  
flexibility to find their own  
* This makes possible a  
 
balance and so appeals to a  
greater range of household  
* Participatory process  
much wider range of people  
types than would otherwise  
* Intentional neighbourhood  
from more diverse  
be possible couples with  
design  
backgrounds than house  
young children or teenagers.  
* Common facilities  
sharing or conventional home  
single parents, retired couples  
* Resident managed  
ownership  
and single people This makes  
 
* Each household has its own  
it possible for everyone to  
History  
dwelling, with bedrooms,  
have social relationships with  
* The first co-housing  
bathroom, living and dining  
people of all ages  
development was built in  
areas, and a small kitchen  
* There are now co-housing  
Denmark in 1972 The ideas  
* Dwellings are clustered  
communities established right  
were not entirely new, but  
around the common house,  
across Europe and in other  
interest grew from  
with cars kept to the