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Questions 18-23. 
Below is a table with comparative information about Concorde I, the European 
version of Concorde II and the American version of Concorde II. There is some 
information missing from the table. Complete the table using information from the 
reading passage. Write your answers in the spaces numbered 18-23 on the answer 
sheet. One has been done for you as an example. 
CONCORDE II 
CONCORDE I
European version 
American version 
capacity 
Example: 100 
18 
300 
distance 
4000 miles 
19 
20 
speed 
21 
2,5 Mach 
22 
length 
60 m 
23 
(not given) 

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Questions 24-27 
Look at the following statements A-H. According to Reading Passage 2, which 
FOUR statements are TRUE. Choose from the appropriate letters, A-H, and 
write them in the spaces numbered 24-27 on the answer sheet. The answers 
may be written in any order. 
List of statements 
A Concorde II will be ready for commercial use in 10 years.
B Daily use of supersonic aircraft causes structural problems.
C The new supersonic jet should be twice as fast as the current one.
D Only wealthy people will be able to travel on the new planes.
E There is world-wide co-operation in this project.
F The problems of noise and air pollution have already been researched.
G Supersonic jets can fly long distances over Canada and Russia.
H Concorde is a commercial aircraft.
Question 28 
How many countries are involved in developing versions of Concorde II? 

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QUESTIONS 29-40 
You are advised to spend about 20 minutes on Questions 29-40 which refer to 
Reading 
Passage 3 below 
READING PASSAGE 3 
Co-housing seeks to balance
of community, but often at the
* A range of different
the need for community and
expense of privacy
ownership structures can be
privacy in shared living
matched with co-housing
arrangements The four
The Danish Model
Private ownership, rental, and
characteristics essential to co-
* Co-housing seeks to provide
housing co-operatives have all
housing are not new, but the
community and privacy in a
been used in co-housing
combination i:> unique to co-
way that gives people the
developments
housing
flexibility to find their own
* This makes possible a
balance and so appeals to a
greater range of household
* Participatory process
much wider range of people
types than would otherwise
* Intentional neighbourhood
from more diverse
be possible couples with
design
backgrounds than house
young children or teenagers.
* Common facilities
sharing or conventional home
single parents, retired couples
* Resident managed
ownership
and single people This makes
* Each household has its own
it possible for everyone to
History
dwelling, with bedrooms,
have social relationships with
* The first co-housing
bathroom, living and dining
people of all ages
development was built in
areas, and a small kitchen
* There are now co-housing
Denmark in 1972 The ideas
* Dwellings are clustered
communities established right
were not entirely new, but
around the common house,
across Europe and in other
interest grew from
with cars kept to the