Indeed, to use renewable sources of power, including solar, wind and tidal, Europe will need to build completely new electrical grids. That’s

Part of the passage [Par C]:

 … which focus light on water pipes or boilers to produce 

very hot

 

steam

 to operate the turbines of generators.

Explanation: very hot (=high temperature)

Q 25. CSP plants will be situated in ………… to allow sea water to run in.

Answer: 

depressions

Part of the passage [Par C]: 

The Sahara Forest Project proposes building CSP plants in 

areas below sea level

 (the Sahara has several 

such

 

depressions

) so that sea water can 

flow into them.

Explanation: This is a really tricky question as the answer is hidden inside the brackets. 

Most students fail to see the correct answer, not paying attention to the referencing word 

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‘such’. ‘Areas below sea level’ is over the word limit (has to be max 2 words), and there is 

no way to shorten it. However, this is paraphrased with ‘such depressions’ (=areas below 

sea level) hence the correct answer is hidden masterfully.

Q 26. The resulting dirty water will be used for ………… around the power plant, and 

in this way oases will be formed.

Answer: 

irrigation

Part of the passage [Par C]: 

Waste water would then supply 

irrigation

 to areas around 

the stations, creating lush oases - hence the ‘forest’ in the group’s name.

Explanation: Waste water (=resulting dirty water) would then supply (=will be used for) 

IRRIGATION to areas around the power plant (=around station)

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Q14 

(may be difficult to locate the answer)

Q19

 (there are many paragraphs with numbers/years which might confuse students. The 

common distraction is Par D which talks about the cost by the year 2020, but this is not a 

goal to achieve).

Q25

 (this is our star question; I can safely say that one has to be at a band 8.0 level to get 

this right, or at least be very lucky)

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