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Join our free two-hour walking tour and discover stories (1) ____ most guidebooks never mention.

The tour starts (2) ____ the old market gate every Saturday morning and finishes near the riverside park.

Guides are local volunteers (3) ____ knowledge of the area comes from years of living there.

Comfortable shoes are essential, since the route includes several narrow lanes and (4) ____ steps.

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At the end of the tour, guests are welcome to (6) ____ up any questions they still have over a cup of tea.

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Join our free two-hour walking tour and discover stories (1) ____ most guidebooks never mention.

The tour starts (2) ____ the old market gate every Saturday morning and finishes near the riverside park.

Guides are local volunteers (3) ____ knowledge of the area comes from years of living there.

Comfortable shoes are essential, since the route includes several narrow lanes and (4) ____ steps.

Places are limited, so visitors are advised to book (5) ____ advance through our website.

At the end of the tour, guests are welcome to (6) ____ up any questions they still have over a cup of tea.

Read the following notice/advertisement and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct option that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 1 to 6.

DISCOVER THE OLD QUARTER: FREE WALKING TOUR

Join our free two-hour walking tour and discover stories (1) ____ most guidebooks never mention.

The tour starts (2) ____ the old market gate every Saturday morning and finishes near the riverside park.

Guides are local volunteers (3) ____ knowledge of the area comes from years of living there.

Comfortable shoes are essential, since the route includes several narrow lanes and (4) ____ steps.

Places are limited, so visitors are advised to book (5) ____ advance through our website.

At the end of the tour, guests are welcome to (6) ____ up any questions they still have over a cup of tea.

Read the following notice/advertisement and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct option that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 1 to 6.

DISCOVER THE OLD QUARTER: FREE WALKING TOUR

Join our free two-hour walking tour and discover stories (1) ____ most guidebooks never mention.

The tour starts (2) ____ the old market gate every Saturday morning and finishes near the riverside park.

Guides are local volunteers (3) ____ knowledge of the area comes from years of living there.

Comfortable shoes are essential, since the route includes several narrow lanes and (4) ____ steps.

Places are limited, so visitors are advised to book (5) ____ advance through our website.

At the end of the tour, guests are welcome to (6) ____ up any questions they still have over a cup of tea.

Read the following notice/advertisement and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct option that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 1 to 6.

DISCOVER THE OLD QUARTER: FREE WALKING TOUR

Join our free two-hour walking tour and discover stories (1) ____ most guidebooks never mention.

The tour starts (2) ____ the old market gate every Saturday morning and finishes near the riverside park.

Guides are local volunteers (3) ____ knowledge of the area comes from years of living there.

Comfortable shoes are essential, since the route includes several narrow lanes and (4) ____ steps.

Places are limited, so visitors are advised to book (5) ____ advance through our website.

At the end of the tour, guests are welcome to (6) ____ up any questions they still have over a cup of tea.

Read the following notice/advertisement and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct option that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 1 to 6.

DISCOVER THE OLD QUARTER: FREE WALKING TOUR

Join our free two-hour walking tour and discover stories (1) ____ most guidebooks never mention.

The tour starts (2) ____ the old market gate every Saturday morning and finishes near the riverside park.

Guides are local volunteers (3) ____ knowledge of the area comes from years of living there.

Comfortable shoes are essential, since the route includes several narrow lanes and (4) ____ steps.

Places are limited, so visitors are advised to book (5) ____ advance through our website.

At the end of the tour, guests are welcome to (6) ____ up any questions they still have over a cup of tea.

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GREEN CITY VOLUNTEERS: SIGN UP TODAY

Green City is (7) ____ enthusiastic volunteers to help clean up local parks and rivers this spring.

No experience is necessary, and full training will be given (8) ____ your first shift begins.

Volunteers work in small teams, (9) ____ are led by an experienced coordinator each weekend.

Everyone (10) ____ takes part will receive a free T-shirt and a certificate of appreciation.

Tools and gloves are provided, but volunteers should still dress (11) ____ the weather.

If you would like to take part, please sign (12) ____ using the link on our homepage.

Read the following notice/advertisement and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct option that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 7 to 12.

GREEN CITY VOLUNTEERS: SIGN UP TODAY

Green City is (7) ____ enthusiastic volunteers to help clean up local parks and rivers this spring.

No experience is necessary, and full training will be given (8) ____ your first shift begins.

Volunteers work in small teams, (9) ____ are led by an experienced coordinator each weekend.

Everyone (10) ____ takes part will receive a free T-shirt and a certificate of appreciation.

Tools and gloves are provided, but volunteers should still dress (11) ____ the weather.

If you would like to take part, please sign (12) ____ using the link on our homepage.

Read the following notice/advertisement and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct option that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 7 to 12.

GREEN CITY VOLUNTEERS: SIGN UP TODAY

Green City is (7) ____ enthusiastic volunteers to help clean up local parks and rivers this spring.

No experience is necessary, and full training will be given (8) ____ your first shift begins.

Volunteers work in small teams, (9) ____ are led by an experienced coordinator each weekend.

Everyone (10) ____ takes part will receive a free T-shirt and a certificate of appreciation.

Tools and gloves are provided, but volunteers should still dress (11) ____ the weather.

If you would like to take part, please sign (12) ____ using the link on our homepage.

Read the following notice/advertisement and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct option that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 7 to 12.

GREEN CITY VOLUNTEERS: SIGN UP TODAY

Green City is (7) ____ enthusiastic volunteers to help clean up local parks and rivers this spring.

No experience is necessary, and full training will be given (8) ____ your first shift begins.

Volunteers work in small teams, (9) ____ are led by an experienced coordinator each weekend.

Everyone (10) ____ takes part will receive a free T-shirt and a certificate of appreciation.

Tools and gloves are provided, but volunteers should still dress (11) ____ the weather.

If you would like to take part, please sign (12) ____ using the link on our homepage.

Read the following notice/advertisement and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct option that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 7 to 12.

GREEN CITY VOLUNTEERS: SIGN UP TODAY

Green City is (7) ____ enthusiastic volunteers to help clean up local parks and rivers this spring.

No experience is necessary, and full training will be given (8) ____ your first shift begins.

Volunteers work in small teams, (9) ____ are led by an experienced coordinator each weekend.

Everyone (10) ____ takes part will receive a free T-shirt and a certificate of appreciation.

Tools and gloves are provided, but volunteers should still dress (11) ____ the weather.

If you would like to take part, please sign (12) ____ using the link on our homepage.

Read the following notice/advertisement and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct option that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 7 to 12.

GREEN CITY VOLUNTEERS: SIGN UP TODAY

Green City is (7) ____ enthusiastic volunteers to help clean up local parks and rivers this spring.

No experience is necessary, and full training will be given (8) ____ your first shift begins.

Volunteers work in small teams, (9) ____ are led by an experienced coordinator each weekend.

Everyone (10) ____ takes part will receive a free T-shirt and a certificate of appreciation.

Tools and gloves are provided, but volunteers should still dress (11) ____ the weather.

If you would like to take part, please sign (12) ____ using the link on our homepage.

Question 14. a. I am writing to share the story of my grandmother, who taught herself to read at the age of forty.
b. Even though she had never been to school as a child, she never once complained about the hardship this caused her later in life.
c. I hope her story might encourage other readers who feel that it is too late to learn something new.
d. Instead, she borrowed books from neighbours and practised every evening after finishing her work in the fields.
e. Today, at seventy, she still reads a newspaper every single morning before breakfast.

Question 15. a. Small habits, such as carrying a reusable bottle, can quickly become second nature.
b. Many families are now trying to cut down on the plastic they use at home.
c. One common first step is replacing plastic bags with cloth ones for grocery shopping.
d. Over time, these small changes add up to a noticeably smaller amount of household waste.
e. Once families see the difference these changes make, they often look for further ways to reduce plastic.

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the option that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 18 to 22.

When I was eleven, my father signed me up for the local football club without asking whether I actually wanted to play. I remember standing at the edge of the pitch on my first afternoon, convinced I would hate every minute of it.

To my surprise, the coach spent most of that first session just letting us pass the ball around and laugh at our own mistakes. (18) ____, I found myself looking forward to training instead of dreading it.

Over the following two years, the club became something closer to a second family than a weekly activity. (19) ____ joined that season are still some of my closest friends today, even though several of us moved to different schools.

What I only understood later was how much the club relied on parents and local shop owners who volunteered their time and money to keep it running. (20) ____, many of us would never have had the chance to play regularly at all.

Looking back now as a coach myself, I try to give the same patient, low-pressure introduction (21) ____.

Community clubs rarely make the news, but (22) ____, their value is impossible to overstate.

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the option that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 18 to 22.

When I was eleven, my father signed me up for the local football club without asking whether I actually wanted to play. I remember standing at the edge of the pitch on my first afternoon, convinced I would hate every minute of it.

To my surprise, the coach spent most of that first session just letting us pass the ball around and laugh at our own mistakes. (18) ____, I found myself looking forward to training instead of dreading it.

Over the following two years, the club became something closer to a second family than a weekly activity. (19) ____ joined that season are still some of my closest friends today, even though several of us moved to different schools.

What I only understood later was how much the club relied on parents and local shop owners who volunteered their time and money to keep it running. (20) ____, many of us would never have had the chance to play regularly at all.

Looking back now as a coach myself, I try to give the same patient, low-pressure introduction (21) ____.

Community clubs rarely make the news, but (22) ____, their value is impossible to overstate.

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the option that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 18 to 22.

When I was eleven, my father signed me up for the local football club without asking whether I actually wanted to play. I remember standing at the edge of the pitch on my first afternoon, convinced I would hate every minute of it.

To my surprise, the coach spent most of that first session just letting us pass the ball around and laugh at our own mistakes. (18) ____, I found myself looking forward to training instead of dreading it.

Over the following two years, the club became something closer to a second family than a weekly activity. (19) ____ joined that season are still some of my closest friends today, even though several of us moved to different schools.

What I only understood later was how much the club relied on parents and local shop owners who volunteered their time and money to keep it running. (20) ____, many of us would never have had the chance to play regularly at all.

Looking back now as a coach myself, I try to give the same patient, low-pressure introduction (21) ____.

Community clubs rarely make the news, but (22) ____, their value is impossible to overstate.

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the option that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 18 to 22.

When I was eleven, my father signed me up for the local football club without asking whether I actually wanted to play. I remember standing at the edge of the pitch on my first afternoon, convinced I would hate every minute of it.

To my surprise, the coach spent most of that first session just letting us pass the ball around and laugh at our own mistakes. (18) ____, I found myself looking forward to training instead of dreading it.

Over the following two years, the club became something closer to a second family than a weekly activity. (19) ____ joined that season are still some of my closest friends today, even though several of us moved to different schools.

What I only understood later was how much the club relied on parents and local shop owners who volunteered their time and money to keep it running. (20) ____, many of us would never have had the chance to play regularly at all.

Looking back now as a coach myself, I try to give the same patient, low-pressure introduction (21) ____.

Community clubs rarely make the news, but (22) ____, their value is impossible to overstate.

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the option that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 18 to 22.

When I was eleven, my father signed me up for the local football club without asking whether I actually wanted to play. I remember standing at the edge of the pitch on my first afternoon, convinced I would hate every minute of it.

To my surprise, the coach spent most of that first session just letting us pass the ball around and laugh at our own mistakes. (18) ____, I found myself looking forward to training instead of dreading it.

Over the following two years, the club became something closer to a second family than a weekly activity. (19) ____ joined that season are still some of my closest friends today, even though several of us moved to different schools.

What I only understood later was how much the club relied on parents and local shop owners who volunteered their time and money to keep it running. (20) ____, many of us would never have had the chance to play regularly at all.

Looking back now as a coach myself, I try to give the same patient, low-pressure introduction (21) ____.

Community clubs rarely make the news, but (22) ____, their value is impossible to overstate.

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 23 to 30.

I will admit it: for years I thought spray-painted walls belonged in one place only, and that place was certainly not my quiet residential street. Graffiti, to me, meant broken windows and abandoned buildings, not somewhere I would choose to live. Then, three years ago, our local council commissioned an official mural for the side of the community centre, and my opinion changed almost overnight.

What struck me first was not the artwork itself but the way people behaved around it. Neighbours who had barely exchanged more than a nod for years suddenly found themselves discussing colour choices and hidden details over the garden fence. Children who used to walk straight past the community centre started stopping to search for tiny painted animals hidden among the larger design. A wall that had stood blank and forgotten for a decade had somehow turned into the one thing everybody on the street wanted to talk about.

Critics of street art often argue that public money should not be spent on something so temporary, since it will eventually be worn away by weather, sunlight, or the occasional act of vandalism. I used to agree with that argument myself, assuming that only permanent things deserved public funding. Now I think it misses the point entirely: a mural does not need to last forever to have been worth painting, any more than a concert or a summer festival needs to repeat every single week in order to matter to the people who attended it.

None of this means every blank wall should automatically be painted, or that street art is somehow beyond criticism; plenty of murals really are poorly planned or badly maintained. But dismissing the whole movement as mere decoration ignores what I watched happen, slowly and quietly, on my own street: a forgotten wall became a shared project that neighbours still talk about, and for a while, at least, a rather quiet neighbourhood became a community that spoke to one another again.

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 23 to 30.

I will admit it: for years I thought spray-painted walls belonged in one place only, and that place was certainly not my quiet residential street. Graffiti, to me, meant broken windows and abandoned buildings, not somewhere I would choose to live. Then, three years ago, our local council commissioned an official mural for the side of the community centre, and my opinion changed almost overnight.

What struck me first was not the artwork itself but the way people behaved around it. Neighbours who had barely exchanged more than a nod for years suddenly found themselves discussing colour choices and hidden details over the garden fence. Children who used to walk straight past the community centre started stopping to search for tiny painted animals hidden among the larger design. A wall that had stood blank and forgotten for a decade had somehow turned into the one thing everybody on the street wanted to talk about.

Critics of street art often argue that public money should not be spent on something so temporary, since it will eventually be worn away by weather, sunlight, or the occasional act of vandalism. I used to agree with that argument myself, assuming that only permanent things deserved public funding. Now I think it misses the point entirely: a mural does not need to last forever to have been worth painting, any more than a concert or a summer festival needs to repeat every single week in order to matter to the people who attended it.

None of this means every blank wall should automatically be painted, or that street art is somehow beyond criticism; plenty of murals really are poorly planned or badly maintained. But dismissing the whole movement as mere decoration ignores what I watched happen, slowly and quietly, on my own street: a forgotten wall became a shared project that neighbours still talk about, and for a while, at least, a rather quiet neighbourhood became a community that spoke to one another again.

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 23 to 30.

I will admit it: for years I thought spray-painted walls belonged in one place only, and that place was certainly not my quiet residential street. Graffiti, to me, meant broken windows and abandoned buildings, not somewhere I would choose to live. Then, three years ago, our local council commissioned an official mural for the side of the community centre, and my opinion changed almost overnight.

What struck me first was not the artwork itself but the way people behaved around it. Neighbours who had barely exchanged more than a nod for years suddenly found themselves discussing colour choices and hidden details over the garden fence. Children who used to walk straight past the community centre started stopping to search for tiny painted animals hidden among the larger design. A wall that had stood blank and forgotten for a decade had somehow turned into the one thing everybody on the street wanted to talk about.

Critics of street art often argue that public money should not be spent on something so temporary, since it will eventually be worn away by weather, sunlight, or the occasional act of vandalism. I used to agree with that argument myself, assuming that only permanent things deserved public funding. Now I think it misses the point entirely: a mural does not need to last forever to have been worth painting, any more than a concert or a summer festival needs to repeat every single week in order to matter to the people who attended it.

None of this means every blank wall should automatically be painted, or that street art is somehow beyond criticism; plenty of murals really are poorly planned or badly maintained. But dismissing the whole movement as mere decoration ignores what I watched happen, slowly and quietly, on my own street: a forgotten wall became a shared project that neighbours still talk about, and for a while, at least, a rather quiet neighbourhood became a community that spoke to one another again.

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 23 to 30.

I will admit it: for years I thought spray-painted walls belonged in one place only, and that place was certainly not my quiet residential street. Graffiti, to me, meant broken windows and abandoned buildings, not somewhere I would choose to live. Then, three years ago, our local council commissioned an official mural for the side of the community centre, and my opinion changed almost overnight.

What struck me first was not the artwork itself but the way people behaved around it. Neighbours who had barely exchanged more than a nod for years suddenly found themselves discussing colour choices and hidden details over the garden fence. Children who used to walk straight past the community centre started stopping to search for tiny painted animals hidden among the larger design. A wall that had stood blank and forgotten for a decade had somehow turned into the one thing everybody on the street wanted to talk about.

Critics of street art often argue that public money should not be spent on something so temporary, since it will eventually be worn away by weather, sunlight, or the occasional act of vandalism. I used to agree with that argument myself, assuming that only permanent things deserved public funding. Now I think it misses the point entirely: a mural does not need to last forever to have been worth painting, any more than a concert or a summer festival needs to repeat every single week in order to matter to the people who attended it.

None of this means every blank wall should automatically be painted, or that street art is somehow beyond criticism; plenty of murals really are poorly planned or badly maintained. But dismissing the whole movement as mere decoration ignores what I watched happen, slowly and quietly, on my own street: a forgotten wall became a shared project that neighbours still talk about, and for a while, at least, a rather quiet neighbourhood became a community that spoke to one another again.

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 23 to 30.

I will admit it: for years I thought spray-painted walls belonged in one place only, and that place was certainly not my quiet residential street. Graffiti, to me, meant broken windows and abandoned buildings, not somewhere I would choose to live. Then, three years ago, our local council commissioned an official mural for the side of the community centre, and my opinion changed almost overnight.

What struck me first was not the artwork itself but the way people behaved around it. Neighbours who had barely exchanged more than a nod for years suddenly found themselves discussing colour choices and hidden details over the garden fence. Children who used to walk straight past the community centre started stopping to search for tiny painted animals hidden among the larger design. A wall that had stood blank and forgotten for a decade had somehow turned into the one thing everybody on the street wanted to talk about.

Critics of street art often argue that public money should not be spent on something so temporary, since it will eventually be worn away by weather, sunlight, or the occasional act of vandalism. I used to agree with that argument myself, assuming that only permanent things deserved public funding. Now I think it misses the point entirely: a mural does not need to last forever to have been worth painting, any more than a concert or a summer festival needs to repeat every single week in order to matter to the people who attended it.

None of this means every blank wall should automatically be painted, or that street art is somehow beyond criticism; plenty of murals really are poorly planned or badly maintained. But dismissing the whole movement as mere decoration ignores what I watched happen, slowly and quietly, on my own street: a forgotten wall became a shared project that neighbours still talk about, and for a while, at least, a rather quiet neighbourhood became a community that spoke to one another again.

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 23 to 30.

I will admit it: for years I thought spray-painted walls belonged in one place only, and that place was certainly not my quiet residential street. Graffiti, to me, meant broken windows and abandoned buildings, not somewhere I would choose to live. Then, three years ago, our local council commissioned an official mural for the side of the community centre, and my opinion changed almost overnight.

What struck me first was not the artwork itself but the way people behaved around it. Neighbours who had barely exchanged more than a nod for years suddenly found themselves discussing colour choices and hidden details over the garden fence. Children who used to walk straight past the community centre started stopping to search for tiny painted animals hidden among the larger design. A wall that had stood blank and forgotten for a decade had somehow turned into the one thing everybody on the street wanted to talk about.

Critics of street art often argue that public money should not be spent on something so temporary, since it will eventually be worn away by weather, sunlight, or the occasional act of vandalism. I used to agree with that argument myself, assuming that only permanent things deserved public funding. Now I think it misses the point entirely: a mural does not need to last forever to have been worth painting, any more than a concert or a summer festival needs to repeat every single week in order to matter to the people who attended it.

None of this means every blank wall should automatically be painted, or that street art is somehow beyond criticism; plenty of murals really are poorly planned or badly maintained. But dismissing the whole movement as mere decoration ignores what I watched happen, slowly and quietly, on my own street: a forgotten wall became a shared project that neighbours still talk about, and for a while, at least, a rather quiet neighbourhood became a community that spoke to one another again.

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 23 to 30.

I will admit it: for years I thought spray-painted walls belonged in one place only, and that place was certainly not my quiet residential street. Graffiti, to me, meant broken windows and abandoned buildings, not somewhere I would choose to live. Then, three years ago, our local council commissioned an official mural for the side of the community centre, and my opinion changed almost overnight.

What struck me first was not the artwork itself but the way people behaved around it. Neighbours who had barely exchanged more than a nod for years suddenly found themselves discussing colour choices and hidden details over the garden fence. Children who used to walk straight past the community centre started stopping to search for tiny painted animals hidden among the larger design. A wall that had stood blank and forgotten for a decade had somehow turned into the one thing everybody on the street wanted to talk about.

Critics of street art often argue that public money should not be spent on something so temporary, since it will eventually be worn away by weather, sunlight, or the occasional act of vandalism. I used to agree with that argument myself, assuming that only permanent things deserved public funding. Now I think it misses the point entirely: a mural does not need to last forever to have been worth painting, any more than a concert or a summer festival needs to repeat every single week in order to matter to the people who attended it.

None of this means every blank wall should automatically be painted, or that street art is somehow beyond criticism; plenty of murals really are poorly planned or badly maintained. But dismissing the whole movement as mere decoration ignores what I watched happen, slowly and quietly, on my own street: a forgotten wall became a shared project that neighbours still talk about, and for a while, at least, a rather quiet neighbourhood became a community that spoke to one another again.

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 23 to 30.

I will admit it: for years I thought spray-painted walls belonged in one place only, and that place was certainly not my quiet residential street. Graffiti, to me, meant broken windows and abandoned buildings, not somewhere I would choose to live. Then, three years ago, our local council commissioned an official mural for the side of the community centre, and my opinion changed almost overnight.

What struck me first was not the artwork itself but the way people behaved around it. Neighbours who had barely exchanged more than a nod for years suddenly found themselves discussing colour choices and hidden details over the garden fence. Children who used to walk straight past the community centre started stopping to search for tiny painted animals hidden among the larger design. A wall that had stood blank and forgotten for a decade had somehow turned into the one thing everybody on the street wanted to talk about.

Critics of street art often argue that public money should not be spent on something so temporary, since it will eventually be worn away by weather, sunlight, or the occasional act of vandalism. I used to agree with that argument myself, assuming that only permanent things deserved public funding. Now I think it misses the point entirely: a mural does not need to last forever to have been worth painting, any more than a concert or a summer festival needs to repeat every single week in order to matter to the people who attended it.

None of this means every blank wall should automatically be painted, or that street art is somehow beyond criticism; plenty of murals really are poorly planned or badly maintained. But dismissing the whole movement as mere decoration ignores what I watched happen, slowly and quietly, on my own street: a forgotten wall became a shared project that neighbours still talk about, and for a while, at least, a rather quiet neighbourhood became a community that spoke to one another again.

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 31 to 40.

Sea turtles have existed in roughly their current form for more than one hundred million years, yet several of the seven living species are now listed as endangered. A recent three-year study tracked nesting female turtles along a stretch of tropical coastline to better understand why populations at some beaches are recovering while others continue to decline.

Researchers fitted satellite tags to more than sixty nesting females and recorded detailed data on beach temperature, sand composition, and the timing of each nest. One of the clearest findings concerned temperature: because the sex of a turtle hatchling is determined by the heat of the surrounding sand rather than by genetics, beaches that had grown warmer over the past two decades were producing far more female hatchlings than male ones. Left unchecked, the researchers warned, this imbalance could eventually leave some populations without enough males to sustain themselves.

[I] Nest temperature was not the only threat the team identified. [II] Coastal development has removed much of the natural vegetation that once shaded nesting beaches, further raising sand temperatures during the hottest months. [III] Plastic pollution in the surrounding waters was also found in the digestive systems of several turtles examined during the study, though researchers stressed that its long-term effects require further investigation. [IV] Encouragingly, beaches where local communities had planted shade trees and restricted vehicle access showed measurably cooler sand and higher hatchling survival rates than unprotected stretches of coast.

At one beach included in the study, a volunteer-led planting programme begun five years earlier had already produced a noticeable canopy of native trees along the upper shore. When researchers compared hatchling data from this beach with a similar unprotected beach nearby, they found that sand temperatures at the shaded site were, on average, nearly two degrees cooler during peak nesting season. That difference alone was enough to shift the ratio of male to female hatchlings noticeably closer to balance.

The study's authors stop short of claiming that shade planting alone can reverse decades of decline, noting that overfishing, illegal egg collection, and rising sea levels remain serious threats in their own right. Even so, they argue that low-cost, community-led measures deserve far more attention from policymakers than they currently receive, since the improvements documented at the shaded beach required neither large budgets nor advanced technology, only sustained local effort.

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 31 to 40.

Sea turtles have existed in roughly their current form for more than one hundred million years, yet several of the seven living species are now listed as endangered. A recent three-year study tracked nesting female turtles along a stretch of tropical coastline to better understand why populations at some beaches are recovering while others continue to decline.

Researchers fitted satellite tags to more than sixty nesting females and recorded detailed data on beach temperature, sand composition, and the timing of each nest. One of the clearest findings concerned temperature: because the sex of a turtle hatchling is determined by the heat of the surrounding sand rather than by genetics, beaches that had grown warmer over the past two decades were producing far more female hatchlings than male ones. Left unchecked, the researchers warned, this imbalance could eventually leave some populations without enough males to sustain themselves.

[I] Nest temperature was not the only threat the team identified. [II] Coastal development has removed much of the natural vegetation that once shaded nesting beaches, further raising sand temperatures during the hottest months. [III] Plastic pollution in the surrounding waters was also found in the digestive systems of several turtles examined during the study, though researchers stressed that its long-term effects require further investigation. [IV] Encouragingly, beaches where local communities had planted shade trees and restricted vehicle access showed measurably cooler sand and higher hatchling survival rates than unprotected stretches of coast.

At one beach included in the study, a volunteer-led planting programme begun five years earlier had already produced a noticeable canopy of native trees along the upper shore. When researchers compared hatchling data from this beach with a similar unprotected beach nearby, they found that sand temperatures at the shaded site were, on average, nearly two degrees cooler during peak nesting season. That difference alone was enough to shift the ratio of male to female hatchlings noticeably closer to balance.

The study's authors stop short of claiming that shade planting alone can reverse decades of decline, noting that overfishing, illegal egg collection, and rising sea levels remain serious threats in their own right. Even so, they argue that low-cost, community-led measures deserve far more attention from policymakers than they currently receive, since the improvements documented at the shaded beach required neither large budgets nor advanced technology, only sustained local effort.

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 31 to 40.

Sea turtles have existed in roughly their current form for more than one hundred million years, yet several of the seven living species are now listed as endangered. A recent three-year study tracked nesting female turtles along a stretch of tropical coastline to better understand why populations at some beaches are recovering while others continue to decline.

Researchers fitted satellite tags to more than sixty nesting females and recorded detailed data on beach temperature, sand composition, and the timing of each nest. One of the clearest findings concerned temperature: because the sex of a turtle hatchling is determined by the heat of the surrounding sand rather than by genetics, beaches that had grown warmer over the past two decades were producing far more female hatchlings than male ones. Left unchecked, the researchers warned, this imbalance could eventually leave some populations without enough males to sustain themselves.

[I] Nest temperature was not the only threat the team identified. [II] Coastal development has removed much of the natural vegetation that once shaded nesting beaches, further raising sand temperatures during the hottest months. [III] Plastic pollution in the surrounding waters was also found in the digestive systems of several turtles examined during the study, though researchers stressed that its long-term effects require further investigation. [IV] Encouragingly, beaches where local communities had planted shade trees and restricted vehicle access showed measurably cooler sand and higher hatchling survival rates than unprotected stretches of coast.

At one beach included in the study, a volunteer-led planting programme begun five years earlier had already produced a noticeable canopy of native trees along the upper shore. When researchers compared hatchling data from this beach with a similar unprotected beach nearby, they found that sand temperatures at the shaded site were, on average, nearly two degrees cooler during peak nesting season. That difference alone was enough to shift the ratio of male to female hatchlings noticeably closer to balance.

The study's authors stop short of claiming that shade planting alone can reverse decades of decline, noting that overfishing, illegal egg collection, and rising sea levels remain serious threats in their own right. Even so, they argue that low-cost, community-led measures deserve far more attention from policymakers than they currently receive, since the improvements documented at the shaded beach required neither large budgets nor advanced technology, only sustained local effort.

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 31 to 40.

Sea turtles have existed in roughly their current form for more than one hundred million years, yet several of the seven living species are now listed as endangered. A recent three-year study tracked nesting female turtles along a stretch of tropical coastline to better understand why populations at some beaches are recovering while others continue to decline.

Researchers fitted satellite tags to more than sixty nesting females and recorded detailed data on beach temperature, sand composition, and the timing of each nest. One of the clearest findings concerned temperature: because the sex of a turtle hatchling is determined by the heat of the surrounding sand rather than by genetics, beaches that had grown warmer over the past two decades were producing far more female hatchlings than male ones. Left unchecked, the researchers warned, this imbalance could eventually leave some populations without enough males to sustain themselves.

[I] Nest temperature was not the only threat the team identified. [II] Coastal development has removed much of the natural vegetation that once shaded nesting beaches, further raising sand temperatures during the hottest months. [III] Plastic pollution in the surrounding waters was also found in the digestive systems of several turtles examined during the study, though researchers stressed that its long-term effects require further investigation. [IV] Encouragingly, beaches where local communities had planted shade trees and restricted vehicle access showed measurably cooler sand and higher hatchling survival rates than unprotected stretches of coast.

At one beach included in the study, a volunteer-led planting programme begun five years earlier had already produced a noticeable canopy of native trees along the upper shore. When researchers compared hatchling data from this beach with a similar unprotected beach nearby, they found that sand temperatures at the shaded site were, on average, nearly two degrees cooler during peak nesting season. That difference alone was enough to shift the ratio of male to female hatchlings noticeably closer to balance.

The study's authors stop short of claiming that shade planting alone can reverse decades of decline, noting that overfishing, illegal egg collection, and rising sea levels remain serious threats in their own right. Even so, they argue that low-cost, community-led measures deserve far more attention from policymakers than they currently receive, since the improvements documented at the shaded beach required neither large budgets nor advanced technology, only sustained local effort.

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 31 to 40.

Sea turtles have existed in roughly their current form for more than one hundred million years, yet several of the seven living species are now listed as endangered. A recent three-year study tracked nesting female turtles along a stretch of tropical coastline to better understand why populations at some beaches are recovering while others continue to decline.

Researchers fitted satellite tags to more than sixty nesting females and recorded detailed data on beach temperature, sand composition, and the timing of each nest. One of the clearest findings concerned temperature: because the sex of a turtle hatchling is determined by the heat of the surrounding sand rather than by genetics, beaches that had grown warmer over the past two decades were producing far more female hatchlings than male ones. Left unchecked, the researchers warned, this imbalance could eventually leave some populations without enough males to sustain themselves.

[I] Nest temperature was not the only threat the team identified. [II] Coastal development has removed much of the natural vegetation that once shaded nesting beaches, further raising sand temperatures during the hottest months. [III] Plastic pollution in the surrounding waters was also found in the digestive systems of several turtles examined during the study, though researchers stressed that its long-term effects require further investigation. [IV] Encouragingly, beaches where local communities had planted shade trees and restricted vehicle access showed measurably cooler sand and higher hatchling survival rates than unprotected stretches of coast.

At one beach included in the study, a volunteer-led planting programme begun five years earlier had already produced a noticeable canopy of native trees along the upper shore. When researchers compared hatchling data from this beach with a similar unprotected beach nearby, they found that sand temperatures at the shaded site were, on average, nearly two degrees cooler during peak nesting season. That difference alone was enough to shift the ratio of male to female hatchlings noticeably closer to balance.

The study's authors stop short of claiming that shade planting alone can reverse decades of decline, noting that overfishing, illegal egg collection, and rising sea levels remain serious threats in their own right. Even so, they argue that low-cost, community-led measures deserve far more attention from policymakers than they currently receive, since the improvements documented at the shaded beach required neither large budgets nor advanced technology, only sustained local effort.

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 31 to 40.

Sea turtles have existed in roughly their current form for more than one hundred million years, yet several of the seven living species are now listed as endangered. A recent three-year study tracked nesting female turtles along a stretch of tropical coastline to better understand why populations at some beaches are recovering while others continue to decline.

Researchers fitted satellite tags to more than sixty nesting females and recorded detailed data on beach temperature, sand composition, and the timing of each nest. One of the clearest findings concerned temperature: because the sex of a turtle hatchling is determined by the heat of the surrounding sand rather than by genetics, beaches that had grown warmer over the past two decades were producing far more female hatchlings than male ones. Left unchecked, the researchers warned, this imbalance could eventually leave some populations without enough males to sustain themselves.

[I] Nest temperature was not the only threat the team identified. [II] Coastal development has removed much of the natural vegetation that once shaded nesting beaches, further raising sand temperatures during the hottest months. [III] Plastic pollution in the surrounding waters was also found in the digestive systems of several turtles examined during the study, though researchers stressed that its long-term effects require further investigation. [IV] Encouragingly, beaches where local communities had planted shade trees and restricted vehicle access showed measurably cooler sand and higher hatchling survival rates than unprotected stretches of coast.

At one beach included in the study, a volunteer-led planting programme begun five years earlier had already produced a noticeable canopy of native trees along the upper shore. When researchers compared hatchling data from this beach with a similar unprotected beach nearby, they found that sand temperatures at the shaded site were, on average, nearly two degrees cooler during peak nesting season. That difference alone was enough to shift the ratio of male to female hatchlings noticeably closer to balance.

The study's authors stop short of claiming that shade planting alone can reverse decades of decline, noting that overfishing, illegal egg collection, and rising sea levels remain serious threats in their own right. Even so, they argue that low-cost, community-led measures deserve far more attention from policymakers than they currently receive, since the improvements documented at the shaded beach required neither large budgets nor advanced technology, only sustained local effort.

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 31 to 40.

Sea turtles have existed in roughly their current form for more than one hundred million years, yet several of the seven living species are now listed as endangered. A recent three-year study tracked nesting female turtles along a stretch of tropical coastline to better understand why populations at some beaches are recovering while others continue to decline.

Researchers fitted satellite tags to more than sixty nesting females and recorded detailed data on beach temperature, sand composition, and the timing of each nest. One of the clearest findings concerned temperature: because the sex of a turtle hatchling is determined by the heat of the surrounding sand rather than by genetics, beaches that had grown warmer over the past two decades were producing far more female hatchlings than male ones. Left unchecked, the researchers warned, this imbalance could eventually leave some populations without enough males to sustain themselves.

[I] Nest temperature was not the only threat the team identified. [II] Coastal development has removed much of the natural vegetation that once shaded nesting beaches, further raising sand temperatures during the hottest months. [III] Plastic pollution in the surrounding waters was also found in the digestive systems of several turtles examined during the study, though researchers stressed that its long-term effects require further investigation. [IV] Encouragingly, beaches where local communities had planted shade trees and restricted vehicle access showed measurably cooler sand and higher hatchling survival rates than unprotected stretches of coast.

At one beach included in the study, a volunteer-led planting programme begun five years earlier had already produced a noticeable canopy of native trees along the upper shore. When researchers compared hatchling data from this beach with a similar unprotected beach nearby, they found that sand temperatures at the shaded site were, on average, nearly two degrees cooler during peak nesting season. That difference alone was enough to shift the ratio of male to female hatchlings noticeably closer to balance.

The study's authors stop short of claiming that shade planting alone can reverse decades of decline, noting that overfishing, illegal egg collection, and rising sea levels remain serious threats in their own right. Even so, they argue that low-cost, community-led measures deserve far more attention from policymakers than they currently receive, since the improvements documented at the shaded beach required neither large budgets nor advanced technology, only sustained local effort.

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 31 to 40.

Sea turtles have existed in roughly their current form for more than one hundred million years, yet several of the seven living species are now listed as endangered. A recent three-year study tracked nesting female turtles along a stretch of tropical coastline to better understand why populations at some beaches are recovering while others continue to decline.

Researchers fitted satellite tags to more than sixty nesting females and recorded detailed data on beach temperature, sand composition, and the timing of each nest. One of the clearest findings concerned temperature: because the sex of a turtle hatchling is determined by the heat of the surrounding sand rather than by genetics, beaches that had grown warmer over the past two decades were producing far more female hatchlings than male ones. Left unchecked, the researchers warned, this imbalance could eventually leave some populations without enough males to sustain themselves.

[I] Nest temperature was not the only threat the team identified. [II] Coastal development has removed much of the natural vegetation that once shaded nesting beaches, further raising sand temperatures during the hottest months. [III] Plastic pollution in the surrounding waters was also found in the digestive systems of several turtles examined during the study, though researchers stressed that its long-term effects require further investigation. [IV] Encouragingly, beaches where local communities had planted shade trees and restricted vehicle access showed measurably cooler sand and higher hatchling survival rates than unprotected stretches of coast.

At one beach included in the study, a volunteer-led planting programme begun five years earlier had already produced a noticeable canopy of native trees along the upper shore. When researchers compared hatchling data from this beach with a similar unprotected beach nearby, they found that sand temperatures at the shaded site were, on average, nearly two degrees cooler during peak nesting season. That difference alone was enough to shift the ratio of male to female hatchlings noticeably closer to balance.

The study's authors stop short of claiming that shade planting alone can reverse decades of decline, noting that overfishing, illegal egg collection, and rising sea levels remain serious threats in their own right. Even so, they argue that low-cost, community-led measures deserve far more attention from policymakers than they currently receive, since the improvements documented at the shaded beach required neither large budgets nor advanced technology, only sustained local effort.

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 31 to 40.

Sea turtles have existed in roughly their current form for more than one hundred million years, yet several of the seven living species are now listed as endangered. A recent three-year study tracked nesting female turtles along a stretch of tropical coastline to better understand why populations at some beaches are recovering while others continue to decline.

Researchers fitted satellite tags to more than sixty nesting females and recorded detailed data on beach temperature, sand composition, and the timing of each nest. One of the clearest findings concerned temperature: because the sex of a turtle hatchling is determined by the heat of the surrounding sand rather than by genetics, beaches that had grown warmer over the past two decades were producing far more female hatchlings than male ones. Left unchecked, the researchers warned, this imbalance could eventually leave some populations without enough males to sustain themselves.

[I] Nest temperature was not the only threat the team identified. [II] Coastal development has removed much of the natural vegetation that once shaded nesting beaches, further raising sand temperatures during the hottest months. [III] Plastic pollution in the surrounding waters was also found in the digestive systems of several turtles examined during the study, though researchers stressed that its long-term effects require further investigation. [IV] Encouragingly, beaches where local communities had planted shade trees and restricted vehicle access showed measurably cooler sand and higher hatchling survival rates than unprotected stretches of coast.

At one beach included in the study, a volunteer-led planting programme begun five years earlier had already produced a noticeable canopy of native trees along the upper shore. When researchers compared hatchling data from this beach with a similar unprotected beach nearby, they found that sand temperatures at the shaded site were, on average, nearly two degrees cooler during peak nesting season. That difference alone was enough to shift the ratio of male to female hatchlings noticeably closer to balance.

The study's authors stop short of claiming that shade planting alone can reverse decades of decline, noting that overfishing, illegal egg collection, and rising sea levels remain serious threats in their own right. Even so, they argue that low-cost, community-led measures deserve far more attention from policymakers than they currently receive, since the improvements documented at the shaded beach required neither large budgets nor advanced technology, only sustained local effort.

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 31 to 40.

Sea turtles have existed in roughly their current form for more than one hundred million years, yet several of the seven living species are now listed as endangered. A recent three-year study tracked nesting female turtles along a stretch of tropical coastline to better understand why populations at some beaches are recovering while others continue to decline.

Researchers fitted satellite tags to more than sixty nesting females and recorded detailed data on beach temperature, sand composition, and the timing of each nest. One of the clearest findings concerned temperature: because the sex of a turtle hatchling is determined by the heat of the surrounding sand rather than by genetics, beaches that had grown warmer over the past two decades were producing far more female hatchlings than male ones. Left unchecked, the researchers warned, this imbalance could eventually leave some populations without enough males to sustain themselves.

[I] Nest temperature was not the only threat the team identified. [II] Coastal development has removed much of the natural vegetation that once shaded nesting beaches, further raising sand temperatures during the hottest months. [III] Plastic pollution in the surrounding waters was also found in the digestive systems of several turtles examined during the study, though researchers stressed that its long-term effects require further investigation. [IV] Encouragingly, beaches where local communities had planted shade trees and restricted vehicle access showed measurably cooler sand and higher hatchling survival rates than unprotected stretches of coast.

At one beach included in the study, a volunteer-led planting programme begun five years earlier had already produced a noticeable canopy of native trees along the upper shore. When researchers compared hatchling data from this beach with a similar unprotected beach nearby, they found that sand temperatures at the shaded site were, on average, nearly two degrees cooler during peak nesting season. That difference alone was enough to shift the ratio of male to female hatchlings noticeably closer to balance.

The study's authors stop short of claiming that shade planting alone can reverse decades of decline, noting that overfishing, illegal egg collection, and rising sea levels remain serious threats in their own right. Even so, they argue that low-cost, community-led measures deserve far more attention from policymakers than they currently receive, since the improvements documented at the shaded beach required neither large budgets nor advanced technology, only sustained local effort.