Read the following passage and blacken the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word for each of the blanks in the following question.

Cultural diversity can be such a cool thing. I grew up in a predominantly white private school, (62)________

teaching in a place that is extremely diverse has been a joy. I can stand in the hall and (63)________Spanish, Russian, Polish, Korean, Mandarin, Hindu, etc. the list can go on and on. What we need to be careful of is not to make (64)________a big deal out of cultural diversity. I think that when we place too much (65)________ on the diversity it can become a polarizing act. Many students are very aware (66)________their differences, and most just don’t care. I think that cultural diversity is something that needs (67)________addressed be teachers in the schools as something that is positive. Often in rural areas there is not a lot of cultural diversity. (68)________a result, when a student is from a different culture there is a question of what do I do to (69)________their learning needs. It is important before a teacher can teach diverse population they need to (70)________that they are also multicultural. In addition, how much of a role will these beliefs (71)________within the education on the child.Question 64

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 44 to 48.

Sylvia Earle is an underwater explorer and marine biologist, who was born in the USA in 1935. She became interested in the world's oceans from an early age. As a child, she liked to stand on the beach for hours and look at the sea, wondering that it must be like under the surface. When she was 16, she finally got a chance to make her first dive. It was this dive that inspired her to become an underwater explorer. Since then, she has spent more than 6,500 hours under water, and has led more than seventy expeditions worldwide. She has also made the deepest dive ever, reaching a record-breaking depth of 381 meters.

In 1970, she became famous around the world when she became the captain of the first all-female team to live under water. The team spent two weeks in an underwater "house". The research they carried out showed the damage that pollution was causing to marine life, and specially to coral reefs. Since then she has written several books and magazine articles in which she suggests ways of reducing the damage that is being done to the world's oceans. One way, she believes, is to rely on fish farms for seafood, and reduce the amount of fishing that is done the out at sea.

(Adapted from Complete IELTS by Rawdon Wyatt)

By then, the elite performers had all totaled 10000 hours of practice over the (43) ________of their lives, the merely good students 8000 hours and the future music teachers just over 4000 hours.