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with light. Few New Yorkers who pass by would find this building boring. And they're likely to be happier - maybe even nicer to each other - because of it. Questions 14-18 Reading Passage 2 has six sections, A-F. Which section contains the following information? Write the correct letter, A-F, in boxes 14-18 on your answer sheet. 14. a description of a building that has a positive effect 15. a reference to architecture affecting people's performance in their jobs 16. examples of the intensity of people's reactions in two urban settings 17. details of a study where seeing certain pictures reduced people's stress 18. a claim about feelings experienced in response to both architecture and leisure settings Questions 19-23 Look at the following statements (Questions 19-23) and the list of researchers below. Match each statement with the correct researcher, A, B, C or D. Write the correct letter, A, B, C or D, in boxes 19-23 on your answer sheet. NB You may use any letter more than once. 19. The aim of good city planning is to provide variety in architecture. 20. People in untidy areas were more helpful. 21. People who had recently felt amazed, placed less importance on material goods. 22. 'Attractive' places are not necessarily the most enjoyable places to be. 23. One particular building failed to provide visual stimulation. List of Researchers A Colin N Ellard B Brendan Walker C Rudd, Vohs and Aaker D Charles Montgomery Questions 24-26 Complete the summary below. Choose ONE WORD ONLY from the passage for each answer. Write your answers in boxes 24-26 on your answer sheet. Hearst Tower Norman Foster's Hearst Tower was built in 2006. The 40-storey modern triangular-patterned building is made of glass and steel, contrasting with the base which is in the style of the 1920s. The sight of the building's 24 __________ has a striking impact on commuters and employees. Some passers-by may find the building's design confusing, as it mixes old and new elements. Inside the tower 25 __________ carry employees up past a large water sculpture in the light-filled 26 __________.
READING PASSAGE 2 You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 14-26, which are based on Reading Passage on pages 6 and 7. The importance of law A The law influences all of us virtually all the time. It governs almost all aspects of our behavior, and even what happens to us when we are no longer alive. It affects us from the embryo onwards. It governs the air we breathe, the food and drink we consume, our travel, family relationships, and our property. It applies at the bottom of the ocean and in space. Each time we examine a label on a food product, engage in work as an employee or employer, travel on the roads, go to school to learn or to teach, stay in a hotel, borrow a library book, create or dissolve a commercial company, play sports, or engage the services of someone for anything from plumbing a sink to planning a city, we are in the world of law. B Law has also become much more widely recognised as the standard by which behaviour needs to be judged. A very telling development in recent history is the way in which the idea of law has permeated all parts of social life. The universal standard of whether something is socially tolerated is progressively becoming whether it is legal, rather than something that has always been considered acceptable. In earlier times, most people were illiterate. Today, by contrast, a vast number of people can read, and it is becoming easier for people to take an interest in law, and for the general population to help actually shape the law in many countries. However, law is a versatile instrument that can be used equally well for the improvement or the degradation of humanity. C This, of course, puts law in a very significant position. In our rapidly developing world, all sorts of skills and knowledge are valuable. Those people, for example, with knowledge of computers, the internet, and communications technology are relied upon by the rest of us. There is now someone with IT skills or an IT help desk in every UK school, every company, every hospital, every local and central government office. Without their knowledge, many parts of commercial and social life today would seize up in minutes. But legal understanding is just as vital and as universally needed. The American comedian Jerry Seinfeld put it like this, 'We are all throwing the dice, playing the game, moving our pieces around the board, but if there is a problem, the lawyer is the only person who has read the inside of the top of the box.' In other words, the lawyer is the only person who has read and made sense of the rules. D The number of laws has never been greater. In the UK alone, about 35 new Acts of Parliament are produced every year, thereby delivering thousands of new rules. The legislative output of the British Parliament has more than doubled in recent times from 1,100 pages a year in the early 1970s, to over 2,500 pages a year today. Between 1997 and 2006, the legislature passed 365 Acts of Parliament and more than 32,000 legally