Ten extracts
Each extract comes from a different Reading text. Decide what type of information it gives. Select text to highlight it; click a highlight to remove it.
1Travellers are advised to book accommodation at least three months in advance.
2Volunteers kept a daily sleep diary for six weeks and wore a movement-tracking wristband.
3By 2050, experts expect most electricity in the region to come from renewable sources.
4The harvest failed mainly because heavy rain arrived two months early.
5Unlike earlier telescopes, which captured only visible light, the new instrument detects infrared.
6Residents were furious, and hundreds signed a petition against the plan.
7Biodiversity refers to the variety of living species found in a particular area.
8As a result of the new law, plastic bag use fell by 80 per cent in a year.
9First, the leaves are dried in the sun; then they are rolled by hand and heated over a low fire.
10The data showed that students who exercised before class scored higher in memory tests.
Choose the type
- a cause of something
- an effect or result
- the method used in a study
- a finding of research
- a reaction to something
- a description of a process
- a contrast between two things
- a recommendation
- a definition
- a prediction about the future
The city bee revival
AOver the past decade, beehives have appeared on the roofs of hotels, offices and even a cathedral in several European capitals. Beekeepers use the word 'apiary' for any site where bees are kept, and in some cities urban apiaries now outnumber those in the surrounding countryside.
BCities suit bees better than most people expect. Intensive farming has reduced the variety of wildflowers in rural areas, and a field may bloom for only a few weeks. Urban gardens, parks and balconies, by contrast, supply flowers from March to October. Consequently, city colonies often produce more honey per hive than their rural counterparts.
CTo test this idea, researchers tracked sixty hives across two cities for three years, weighing each one weekly and analysing the pollen in the honey. The samples revealed visits to more than 200 plant species, roughly double the number identified in honey from nearby farmland.
DNot everyone is delighted. Specialists in wild bees caution that honeybees may drive out solitary species that feed on the same flowers. One ecologist likened the trend to opening a hundred restaurants on a street with only ten customers.
ESome councils now limit the number of hives per square kilometre, while others encourage beekeepers to plant extra flowers in return for a licence. Experts suggest that anyone new to the hobby should join a local association before buying any equipment.
FLooking ahead, planners hope to link parks with 'bee corridors', unbroken lines of flowering plants that would help wild species as well as honeybees. One question remains unanswered, however: whether honey from busy roads contains traces of traffic pollution.
Which paragraph contains the following information?
NB You may use any letter more than once. The questions are not in the same order as the passage.