Questions 1-10

40  conservation The speaker explains that while 
some projects involving conservation need a lot of 
land, others do not. In the case of the metalmark 
butterfly, it only needed the area of the dunes to 
survive.
READing PASSAgE 1 
Training 
Useful strategy: identifying key words and phrases
1  2   A newspaper report in the Sydney Daily Times 
contained factual errors. 
3  Some academics have criticised the theory put 
forward by Dr Jonathan Purdie. 
4 Whales 
off the coast of South Africa behave in the 
same way as whales in New Zealand waters. 
5  The Rolls-Royce Merlin engine was modified and 
improved in its first years in production.
6  The British public held a wide variety of opinions 
on this topic, according to a survey completed by 
over 3,000 people. 
2  Most of these might be used as locating words, but NOT
 
y
an adverb or adjective
 
y
prepositions and conjunctions
Therefore, the locating words are usually clear noun 
phrases and very often proper nouns.