22 New research leads scientists to believe that:
A the oceans are less complex
B the oceans are more complex
C the oceans will rise more than D the oceans will rise less than
expected expected
Question 23
Look at the following list of factors A-F and select THREE which are mentioned
in
the reading passage which may contribute to the rising ocean levels. Write the
THREE corresponding letters A-F, in the space numbered 23 on the answer sheet.
List of factors
A thermal
expansion
B melting
ice
C increased air temperature
D
higher
rainfall
E changes in the water table
F increased
ocean
movement
Questions 24-28
Read each of the following statements, 24-28. According to the information in
the
reading passage, if the statement is true, write T, if it is false, write F and if there
is
no information about the statement in the reading passage, write NI. Write your
answers in the spaces numbered 24-28 on the answer sheet.
24. The surface layer of the oceans is warmed by the atmosphere.
25. Advection of water changes heat and salt levels.
26.
A
gyre holds less heat than there is in the atmosphere.
27 The process of subduction depends on the water density.
The sea level is expected to rise evenly over the Earth's surface.
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
NEW
RULES FOR THE PAPER GAME
1. Computerised data storage and electronic
4. Since the early 1980s, most of the world-scale
mail were to have heralded the paperless
pulp mills in Scandinavia and North America
office. But, contrary to expectations,
paper
have modernised their operations, outlaying
consumption throughout the world shows no
substantial amounts
to improve production
sign of abating. In fact, consumption, especially
methods. Changes in mill design and processes
of printing and writing papers, continues to
have been aimed at minimising the
increase. World demand for paper and board is
environmental effects of effluent discharge
now expected to grow faster than the general
while at the same time producing pulp with
economic growth in the next 15 years. Strong
the whiteness and strength demanded by the
demand will be underpinned by the growing
international market. The environmental
industrialization of South-East Asia, the re-
impetus is taking this
industry even further,
emergence of paper packaging, greater use of
with the focus now on developing processes
facsimile machines and photocopiers, and the
that may even eliminate waste-water
popularity of direct-mail advertising. It is
discharges. But the ghost of the old mills
possible that by 2007, world paper and board
continues to haunt the industry today. In
demand will reach 455 million tonnes,
Europe,
companies face a flood of
compared with 241 million tonnes in 1991.
environment-related legislation. In Germany,
companies are now being held responsible for
2. The pulp and paper industry has not been
the waste they create.
badly affected by the electronic technologies
that promised a paperless society. But what has
5. Pulp is the porridge-like mass of plant fibres
radically altered the industry's structure is
from which paper is made. Paper makers
pressure from another front — a more
choose the
type of plant fibre and the
environmentally conscious society driving an
processing methods, depending on what the
irreversible move towards cleaner industrial
end product will be used for: whether it is a
production. The environmental consequences
sturdy packing box, a smooth sheet of writing
of antiquated pulp mill practices and
paper or a fragile tissue. In wood, which is the
technologies had marked this industry as one
source of about 90% of the world's paper
in need of reform. Graphic descriptions of
production, fibres are bound together by
deformed fish and thinning populations,
lignin, which gives the unbleached pulp a
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