Test 11 passage1 The Rise and Fall of the British Textile Industry

NO
30. 
There is no clear sign to apply skim and scan technique for this particular 
question. However, just keep reading forward. The answer will be somewhere in 
or near the first paragraph.
“In a further breakthrough, two other research groups have come a step closer 
to cracking the mysteries of levitation”. That means there are still lo
ts of 
mysteries of levitation. Scientists has just discovered a part of this mistery, not 
all of them 
* breakthrough: an important new discovery in something you are studying, 
especially one made after trying for a long time
The answer is 
NO
31. 
Immediately scan the word “ 
empty space
”. You could see it in the second 
paragraph.
Nowhere else in this reading section mentions the term “
empty space” 
So 
that
all information needed is in this paragraph. However, there is no clue in 
transporting thing using this technology. Furthermore, the writer just discuss 
about the advantage of this technology, which requires less amounts of energy 
than the traditional method.
The answer is 
NOT GIVEN
32. 
The answer for this question is full of synonyms.
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Most recent >< before 
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Large magnets ~ powerful magnetic fields 
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Research ~ theories 
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Most recent ~ the latest. So the newest research at the time the writer 
wrote this essay. 
So, using magnets to lift things is an old technique. Now, the newest research 
has shown that scients are using energy produced by by the quantum 
fluctuations of empty space. 
The answer is 
NO 
33. 
Immediately scan the word “
Ulf Leonhardt
” and “
John Pendry”
. You could 
see it in paragraph 3.
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