Questions 1-10

37  flour
38  buckets ‘several’ is paraphrased as ‘two or three’.
39  adventure We are told that the writer Jack 
London’s vivid descriptions helped readers get a 
sense of adventure.
40  newspapers The lecturer explains that Hall and 
Kelly were employed by newspapers in the US and 
Canada to write stories about life in the Klondike 
region.
READing PASSAgE 1 
Questions 1–13 
 1  FALSE: In the USA, the figure is 80%. In Australia, 
the proportion is ‘slightly smaller’. 
 2  TRUE: With modern technology the problems of rot 
and fire ‘can be eliminated’. 
 3  nOT giVEn: The building has a concrete floor. But 
there is no information about the type of wood used 
or the species of tree it came from. 
 4  TRUE: New engineering systems based on wood 
construction ‘have been pioneered’ at the institute.