Reading passage 1 Most people can remember a phone number for up to thirty seconds. When this short amount of time elapses

1. The passage states that the British government ............. . 

a) was punished by the leaders of the rebellion
b) in a way, apologised for its former mistakes after the rebellion was over
c) agreed to release the rebels from the prison
d) was supported by the majority of the colonies
e) threatened the people in the colonies and this led to the rebellion
2. It's clear from the passage that ....................... .

a) King George was put in a mental hospital when the American colonies rebelled
b) one third of the colonists were killed in the attempted rebellion
c) after the revolt, the king was not as angry as people had expected
d) the rebels were successful in their attempt to gain power
e) the colonist rebels became more popular with their supporters
3. After the war, ............................... .

a) a single government was formed to unite the colonies
b) the clan fighting and rations continued for yet another six years
c) most colonists were still not happy about their position
d) the colonies were full of hatred because of the previous years of death and misery
e) many colonists moved to Brooklyn and became farmers
Reading passage 3


Genetics is the study of mechanisms of the hereditary process. Modern genetics began with the experiments of Gregor Mendel in 1865. He studied the inheritance of different factors in peas, and found that some traits were "dominant" and some "recessive", the "dominant" appearing in a ratio of very nearly three to one. Mendels results were ignored for many years until their discovery at the beginning of the twentieth century . 


1. According to the passage .......................... .

a) the results of Mendel's experiments were immediately put into practise
b) the purpose of Mendel's experiments was primarily agricultural
c) genetics is essentially concerned with heredity
d) modern genetics owes very little to Mendel's experiments
e) the mechanisms of heredity were known prior to Mendel