Reading Passage 1: "William Kamkwamba"

contact lens 
that would augment reality 
by allowing consumers to see additional visual information.
Q 6
. Degree subject:
Answer: 
computer science
Key words: 
3rd year undergraduate
Q 7
. Competition: to ……………… the automated construction of a house
Answer: 
program
Key words: 
a 
competition
to see which student 
can
most effectively 
program
a robot 
to 
build a house
...
Q 8. 
Special focus on: the ……………… of robots
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Answer: 
adaptability
Key words: 
wanted to master an area of robotics that remain unconquered 
Q 9. 
Future plans: to develop new type of ………………
Answer: 
contact lens
Key words: 
he has an idea for
an original version of 
a contact lens
Questions 10 – 13
Q 10. What proportion of workers at Silicon Valley are employed in companies set 
up by MIT graduates?
Answer: 
a quarter
Part of the passage:
 
A survey of living MIT alumni* found that they have formed 25,800 
companies, employing more than three million people, including about 
a quarter 
of the 
workforce of Silicon Valley
Q 11. What problem does MIT’s Energy Initiative aim to solve?
Answer: 
global warming
Part of the passage:
 
Or in its Energy Initiative, which acts as a bridge for MIT’s com-
bined work across all its five schools, channeling huge resources into the search for a 
solution to 
global warming
.
Q 12. Which ‘green’ innovation might MIT’s work with viruses help improve?
Answer: 
electric cars
Part of the passage:
 
It is also forging ahead with alternative energies from solar to wind 
and geothermal, and has recently developed the use of viruses to synthesise batteries 
that could 
prove crucial in the advancement of 
electric cars
.
Q 13. In which part of the university does Tim Berners-Lee enjoy stimulating
conversations with other MIT staff?
Answer: 
(the) corridors
Part of the passage:
  
Even though I spend my time with my head buried in the details of 
web technology, 
the nice thing is that when I do walk 
the corridors,
 
I bump into people 
who are working in other fields with their students that are fascinating
, and that keeps me 
intellectually alive.’ 
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DAY 20
READING PASSAGE 2
Questions 14 – 20
Q 14. Section A
Answer: 
V An impossible task for any human
Part of the passage:
 
Row upon row, tomato plants stand in formation inside a green-
house. To reproduce, most flowering plants depend on a third party to transfer pollen 
between their male and female parts. Some require extra encouragement to give up that 
golden dust. The tomato flower, for example, needs a violent shake, a vibration roughly 
equivalent to 30 times the pull of Earth’s gravity, explains Arizona entomologist Stephen 
Buchmann. 
Growers have tried numerous ways to rattle pollen from tomato blossoms. 
They have used shaking tables, air blowers and blasts of sound. But natural means 
seem to work better.