READING PASSAGE 1
You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-13, which are based on Reading Passage
1 below.
Stepwells
A millennium ago, stepwells were fundamental to life in the driest
parts of India. Richard Cox travelled to north-western India to
document these spectacular monuments from a bygone era.
During the sixth and seventh centuries, the
inhabitants of the modern-day states of
Gujarat and Rajasthan in north-western
India developed a method of gaining
access to clean, fresh groundwater during
the dry season for drinking. However, the
significance of this invention – the
stepwell – goes beyond its utilitarian
application.
Unique to this region, stepwells are often
architecturally complex and vary widely in
size and shape. During their heyday, they
were places of gathering, of leisure and
relaxation and of worship for villagers of
all but the lowest classes. Most stepwells
are found dotted round the desert areas of
Gujarat (where they are called vav) and
Rajasthan (where they are called baori),
while a few also survive in Delhi. Some
were located in or near villages as public
spaces for the community; others were
positioned beside roads as resting places
for travellers.
As their name suggests, stepwells
comprise a series of stone steps
descending from ground level to the water
source (normally an underground aquifer)
as it recedes following the rains. When the
water level was high, the user needed only
to descend a few steps to reach it; when it
was low, several levels would have to be
negotiated.
Some wells are vast, open craters with
hundreds of steps paving each sloping
side, often in tiers. Others are more
elaborate, with long stepped passages
leading to the water via several storeys.
Built from stone and supported by pillars,
they also included pavilions that sheltered
visitors from the relentless heat. But
perhaps the most impressive features are
the intricate sculptures that embellish
many stepwells, showing activities from
fighting and dancing to everyday acts such
as women combing their hair or churning
butter.
Down the centuries, thousands of wells
were constructed throughout north-western
India, but the majority have now fallen
disuse; many are derelict and dry, as
groundwater has been diverted for
industrial use and the wells no longer
reach the water table. Their condition
hasn’t been helped by recent dry spells:
southern Rajasthan suffered an eight-year
drought between 1996 and 2004.
However, some important sites in Gujarat
have recently undergone major restoration,
and the state government announced in
June last year that it plans to restore the
stepwell throughout the state.
In Patan, the state’s ancient capital, the
stepwell of Rani Ki Vav (Queen’s
Stepwell) is perhaps the finest current 21 baoris commissioned in the Bundi area
example. It was built by Queen Udayamati by Nathavatji.
during the late 11th century, but became
In the old ruined town of Abhaneri, about
silted up following a flood during the 13th
95 kilometres east of Jaipur, is Chand
century. But the Archaeological Survey of
Baori, one of India’s oldest and deepest
India began restoring it in the 1960s, and
wells; aesthetically it’s perhaps one of the
today it is in pristine condition. At 65
most dramatic. Built in around 850 AD
metres long, 20 metres wide and 27 metres
next to the temple of Harshat Mata, the
deep, Rani Ki Vav features 500 sculptures
baori comprises hundreds of zigzagging
carved into niches throughout the
steps that run along three of its sides,
monument. Incredibly, in January 2001,
steeply descending 11 storeys, resulting in
this ancient structure survived an
a striking pattern when seen from afar. On
earthquake that measured 7.6 the Richter
the fourth side, verandas which are
scale.
supported by ornate pillars overlook the
Another example is the Surya Kund in steps.
Modhera, northern Gujarat, next to the Sun
Still in public use is Neemrana Ki Baori,
Temple, built by King Bhima I in 1026 to
located just off the Jaipur-Delhi highway.
honour the sun god Surya. It actually
Constructed in around 1700, it is nine
resembles a tank (kund means reservoir or
storeys deep, with the last two being
pond) rather than a well, but displays the
underwater. At ground level, there are 86
hallmarks of stepwell architecture,
colonnaded openings from where the
including four sides of steps that descend
visitor descends 170 steps to the deepest
to the bottom in a stunning geometrical
water source.
formation. The terraces house 108 small,
intricately carved shrines between the sets Today, following years of neglect, many
of steps. of these monuments to medieval
engineering have been saved by the
Rajasthan also has a wealth of wells. The
Archaeological Survey of India, which has
ancient city of Bundi, 200 kilometres south
recognised the importance of preserving
of Jaipur, is renowned for its architecture,
them as part of the country’s rich history.
including its stepwells.
Tourists flock to wells in far-flung corners
One of the larger examples is Ranji Ki of north-western India to gaze in wonder at
Baori, which was built by the queen of the these architectural marvels from hundreds
region, Nathavatji, in 1699. At 46 metres of years ago, which serve as a reminder of
deep, 20 metres wide and 40 metres long, both the ingenuity and artistry of ancient
the intricately carved monument is one of civilisations and of the value of water to
human existence.
Questions 1-5
Do the following statements agree with the information given in Reading Passage 1?
In boxes 1-5 on your answer sheet, write
TRUE if the statement agrees with the information
FALSE if the statement contradicts the information
NOT GIVEN if there is no information on this

1 Examples of ancient stepwells can be found all over the world.

2 Stepwells had a range of functions, in addition to those related to water collection.
3 The few existing stepwells in Delhi are more attractive than those found elsewhere.
4 It took workers many years to build the stone steps characteristic of stepwells.
5 the number of steps above the water level in a stepwell altered during the course of a year.

Question 6-8
Answer the questions below.
Choose ONE WORD ONLY from the passage for each answer.
Write your answers in boxes 6-8 on your answer sheet.

6 Which part of some stepwells provided shade for people?

7 What type of serious climatic event, which took place in southern Rajasthan, is mentioned
in the article?

8 Who are frequent visitors to stepwells nowadays?

Question 9-13
Complete the table below
Choose ONE WORD AND/OR A NUMBER from the passage for each answer.
Write your answers in boxes 9-13 on your answer sheet.
 Stepwell Date Features Other notes

Rani Ki Vav Late 11th As many as 500 sculptures Restored in the 1960s
century decorate the monument
Excellent condition,
despite the 9 ……………
of 2001.

1026
Surya Kund Steps on the 10 Looks more like a 11
………………… produce a ……………… than a
geometrical pattern well

Carved shrines

Ranji Ki Baori 1699 Intricately carved One of 21 baoris in the

monument area commissioned by
Queen Nathavatji

850 AD
Chand Baori Steps take you down 11 Old, deep and very
storeys to the bottom dramatic

Has 12 …………….
which provide a view of
the steps

Neemrana Ki 1700 Has two 13 Used by public today

Baori ……………….. levels
READING PASSAGE 2
You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 14-27 which are based on Reading Passage
21 on the following pages.

Questions 14-19
Reading Passage 21 has eight paragraphs (A-H).
Choose the most suitable heading for each paragraph from the list of headings below.
Write the appropriate numbers (i-xi) in boxes 14-19 on your answer sheet.

NB There are more headings than paragraphs so you will not use all of them. You may use
any heading more than once.

List of Headings

i Gathering the information

ii Cigarettes produced to match an image
iii Financial outlay on marketing
iv The first advertising methods
v Pressure causes a drop in sales
vi Changing attitudes allow new marketing tactics
vii Background to the research
viii A public uproar is avoided
ix The innovative move to written adverts
x A century of uninhibited smoking
xi Conclusions of the research

14 Paragraph A 17 Paragraph E
15 Paragraph В 18 Paragraph F
16 Paragraph С 19 Paragraph G

Example Answer Example Answer

Paragraph D iv Paragraph H xi
Looking For A Market Among Adolescents

A. In 1992, the most recent year for which data are available, the US tobacco industry spent
$5 billion on domestic marketing. That figure represents a huge increase from the
approximate £250-million budget in 1971, when tobacco advertising was banned from
television and radio. The current expenditure translates to about $75 for every adult
smoker, or to $4,500 for every adolescent who became a smoker that year. This
apparently high cost to attract a new smoker is very likely recouped over the average 25
years that this teen will smoke.

B. In the first half of this century, leaders of the tobacco companies boasted that innovative
mass-marketing strategies built the industry. Recently, however, the tobacco business
has maintained that its advertising is geared to draw established smokers to particular
brands. But public health advocates insist that such advertising plays a role in generating
new demand, with adolescents being the primary target. To explore the issue, we
examined several marketing campaigns undertaken over the years and correlated them
with the ages smokers say they began their habit. We find that, historically, there is
considerable evidence that such campaigns led to an increase in cigarette smoking
among adolescents of the targeted group.

C. National surveys collected the ages at which people started smoking. The 1955 Current
Population Survey (CPS) was the first to query respondents for this information,
although only summary data survive. Beginning in 1970, however, the National Health
Interview Surveys (NHIS) included this question in some polls. Answers from all the
surveys were combined to produce a sample of more than 165,000 individuals. Using a
respondent's age at the time of the survey and the reported age of initiation, [age they
started smoking], the year the person began smoking could be determined. Dividing the
number of adolescents (defined as those 12 to 17 years old) who started smoking during
a particular interval by the number who were "eligible" to begin at the start of the
interval set the initiation rate for that group.

D. Mass-marketing campaigns began as early as the 1880s, which boosted tobacco

consumption six fold by 1900. Much of the rise was attributed to a greater number of
people smoking cigarettes, as opposed to using cigars, pipes, snuff or chewing tobacco.
Marketing strategies included painted billboards and an extensive distribution of
coupons, which a recipient could redeem for free cigarettes. Some brands included soft-
porn pictures of women in the packages. Such tactics inspired outcry from educational
leaders concerned about their corrupting influence on teenage boys. Thirteen percent of
the males surveyed in 1955 who reached adolescence between 1890 and 1910
commenced smoking by 18 years of age, compared with almost no females.

E. The power of targeted advertising is more apparent if one considers the men born
between 1890 and 1899. In 1912, when many of these men were teenagers, the R.J.
Reynolds Company launched the Camel brand of cigarettes with a revolutionary
 approach. Every city in the country was bombarded with print advertising. According to
the 1955 CPS, initiation by age 18 for males in this group jumped to 21.6 percent, a two
thirds increase over those boom before 1890. The NHIS initiation rate also reflected this
change. For adolescent males it went up from 2.9 percent between 1910 and 1912 to 4.9
percent between 1918 and 1921.

F. It was not until the mid-1920s that social mores permitted cigarette advertising to focus
on women. In 1926 a poster depicted women imploring smokers of Chesterfield
cigarettes to "Blow Some My Way". The most successful crusade, however, was for
Lucky Strikes, which urged women to "Reach for a Lucky instead of a Sweet." The 1955
CPS data showed that 7 percent of the women who were adolescents during the mid-
1920s had started smoking by age 18, compared with only 2 percent in the preceding
generation of female adolescents. Initiation rates from the NHIS data for adolescent girls
were observed to increase threefold, from 0.6 percent between 1922 and 1925 to 1.8
percent between 1930 and 1933. In contrast, rates for males rose only slightly.

G. The next major boost in smoking initiation in adolescent females occurred in the late
1960s. In 1967 the tobacco industry launched "niche" brands aimed exclusively at
women. The most popular was Virginia Slims. The visuals of this campaign emphasized
a woman who was strong, independent and very thin. Initiation in female adolescents
nearly doubled, from 3.7 percent between 1964 and 1967 to 6.2 percent between 1972
and 1975 (NHIS data). During the same period, rates for adolescent males remained
stable.

H. Thus, in four distinct instances over the past 100 years, innovative and directed tobacco
marketing campaigns were associated with marked surges in primary demand from
adolescents only in the target group. The first two were directed at males and the second
two at females. Of course, other factors helped to entrench smoking in society. ... Yet it
is clear from the data that advertising has been an overwhelming force in attracting new
users.

Questions 20-24
Do the following statements agree with the information in Reading Passage 21?
In boxes 20-24 write:

YES if the statement is true according to the passage

NO if the statement contradicts the passage
NOT GIVEN if there is no information about this in the passage

20 Cigarette marketing has declined in the US since tobacco advertising banned on TV.

21 Tobacco companies claim that their advertising targets existing smokers.

22 The difference in initiation rates between male and female smokers at of the 19th century
 was due to selective marketing.

23 Women who took up smoking in the past lost weight.

24 The two surveys show different trends in cigarette initiation.

Questions 25-27
Complete the sentences below with words taken from the Reading Passage.
Use NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer.
Write your answers in boxes 25-27 on your answer sheet.
Tobacco companies are currently being accused of aiming their advertisements mainly at (25)
______________ statistics on smoking habits for men born between 1890 and 1899 were
gathered in the year (26) ______________. The (27) _______________ brand of cigarettes
was designed for a particular sex.
READING PASSAGE 3
You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 28-40 which are based on Reading Passage
20 below.

The Pursuit of Happiness

"New research uncovers some
anti-intuitive insights into how
many people are happy - and why."

Compared with misery, happiness is appear to depend significantly on external

relatively unexplored terrain for social
scientists, Between 1967 and 1994, 46,380
articles indexed in Psychological Abstracts
mentioned depression, 36,851 anxiety, and
5,099 anger. Only 2,389 spoke of
happiness, 2,340 life satisfaction, and 405
joy.
Recently we and other researchers have
begun a systematic study of happiness.
During the past two decades, dozens of
investigators throughout the world have
asked several hundred
thousand representative sampled people to
reflect on their happiness and satisfaction
with life or what psychologists call
"subjective well-being". In the US the
National Opinion Research Center at the
University of Chicago has surveyed a
representative sample of roughly 1,500
people a year since 1957; the Institute for
Social Research at the University of
Michigan has carried out similar studies on
a less regular basis, as has the Gallup
Organization. Government-funded efforts
have also probed the moods of European
countries.
We have uncovered some surprising
findings. People are happier than one
might expect, and happiness does not
circumstances. Although viewing life as a
tragedy has a long and honorable history,
the responses of random samples of people
around the world about their happiness
paints a much rosier picture. In the
University of Chicago surveys, three in
10 Americans say they are very happy, for
example. Only one in 10 chooses the most
negative description "not too happy". The
majority describe themselves as "pretty
happy".
How can social scientists measure
something as hard to pin down as
happiness? Most researchers simply ask
people to report their feelings of happiness
or unhappiness and to assess how
satisfying their lives are. Such self-
reported well-being is moderately
consistent over years of retesting.
Furthermore, those who say they are happy
and satisfied seem happy to their close
friends and family members and to a
psychologist-interviewer. Their daily
mood ratings reveal more positive
emotions, and they smile more than those
who call themselves unhappy. Self-
reported happiness also predicts other
indicators of well-being. Compared with
the depressed, happy people are less self-
focused, less hostile and abusive, and less
susceptible to disease. countries? It appears in general that they
are, but the margin may be slim. In
Portugal, for example, only one in 10
We have found that the even distribution
people reports being very happy, whereas
of happiness cuts across almost all
in the much more prosperous Netherlands
demographic classifications of age,
the proportion of very happy is four in 10.
economic class, race and educational level.
Yet there are curious reversals in this
In addition, almost all strategies for
correlation between national wealth and
assessing subjective well-being - including
well-being -the Irish during the 1980s
those that sample people's experience by
consistently reported greater life
polling them at random times with beepers
satisfaction than the wealthier West
- turn up similar findings. Interviews with
Germans. Furthermore, other factors, such
representative samples of people of all
as civil rights, literacy and duration of
ages, for example, reveal that no time of
democratic government, all of which also
life is notably happier or unhappier.
promote reported life satisfaction, tend to
Similarly, men and women are equally
go hand in hand with national wealth, As a
likely to declare themselves "very happy"
result, it is impossible to tell whether the
and "satisfied" with life, according to a
happiness of people in wealthier nations is
statistical digest of 146 studies by Marilyn
based on money or is a by-product of other
J, Haring, William Stock and Morris A,
felicities.
Okun, all then at Arizona State University.
Although happiness is not easy to predict
Wealth is also a poor predictor of
from material circumstances, it seems
happiness. People have not become
consistent for those who have it, In one
happier over time as their cultures have
National Institute on Aging study of 5,000
become more affluent. Even though
adults, the happiest people in 1973 were
Americans earn twice as much in today's
still relatively happy a decade later, despite
dollars as they did in 1957, the proportion
changes in work, residence and family
of those telling surveyors from the
status,
National Opinion Research Center that
they are "very happy" has declined from [From "The Pursuit of Happiness" by
35 to 29 percent. David G, Myers and Ed Diener. Copyright
© May 1996 by Scientific American, Inc.
Even very rich people - those surveyed
All rights reserved.]
among Forbes magazine's 100 wealthiest
Americans - are only slightly happier than
the average American. Those whose
income has increased over a 10-year
period are not happier than those whose
income is stagnant. Indeed, in most nations
the correlation between income and
happiness is negligible - only in the
poorest countries, such as Bangladesh and
India, is income a good measure of
emotional well-being.
Are people in rich countries happier, by
and large, than people in not so rich
Questions 28-30
Choose the appropriate letters A-D and write them in boxes 23-30 on your answer sheet.

28 What point are the writers making in the opening paragraph?

A Happiness levels have risen since 1967.
В Journals take a biased view on happiness.
С Happiness is not a well-documented research area,
D People tend to think about themselves negatively.

29 What do the writers say about their research findings?

A They had predicted the results correctly.
В They felt people had responded dishonestly.
С They conflict with those of other researchers.
D Happiness levels are higher than they had believed.

30 In the fourth paragraph, what does the reader learn about the research method used?
A It is new.
В It appears to be reliable.
С It is better than using beepers.
D It reveals additional information.

Questions 31-34
According to the passage, which of the findings below (31-34) is quoted by which
Investigative Body (A-G)? Write your answers in boxes 31-34 on your answer sheet.
NB There are more Investigative Bodies than findings, so you do not have to use all of them.

31 Happiness is not gender related.

32 Over fifty per cent of people consider themselves to be 'happy'.
33 Happiness levels are marginally higher for those in the top income brackets.
34 'Happy' people remain happy throughout their lives.

Investigative Bodies

A The National Opinion Research Center, University of Chicago

B Arizona State University
 С The Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan
D Forbes Magazine
E The National Institute on Aging
F The Gallup Organization
G The Government

Questions 35-40
Complete the summary of Reading Passage 20 below.
Choose your answers from the box at the bottom of the page and write them in boxes 35-
40 on your answer sheet.
NB There are more words than spaces so you will not use them all. You may use any of the
words more than once.

HOW HAPPY ARE WE?

Example : Answer
Our happiness levels are ... ...... by relatively few factors. affected

For example, incomes in the States have ..... (35)..... over the past forty years but happiness
levels have ..... (36)..... over the same period. In fact, people on average incomes are only
slightly..... (37)..... happy than extremely rich people and a gradual increase in prosperity
makes ..... (38)..... difference to how happy we are. In terms of national wealth, populations
of wealthy nations are ..... (39)..... happier than those who live in poorer countries. Although
in some cases this trend is ..... (40)..... and it appears that other factors need to be considered.

List of Words
stopped slightly too great
doubled significant similar some
stabilized remarkably reversed dropped
no less much affected
crept up slowed down more clearly