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Questions 28-34

Complete the summary.

Choose NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS from the passage for each answer.

Write your answers in boxes 28-34 on your answer sheet.

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In Europe, modern science emerged at the same time as the nation-state. At first, the scientific language of choice remained 28 .............................. It allowed scientists to communicate with other socially privileged thinkers while protecting their work from unwanted exploitation. Sometimes the desire to protect ideas seems to have been stronger than the desire to communicate them, particularly in the case of mathematicians and 29 .............................. In Britain, moreover, scientists worried that English had neither the 30 ............................. nor the 31 ............................. to express their ideas. This situation only changed after 1660 when scientists associated with the 32 ............................. set about developing English. An early scientific journal fostered a new kind of writing based on short descriptions of specific experiments. Although English was then overtaken by 33 ............................., it developed again in the 19th century as a direct result of the 34 ..............................

Questions 35-37

Do the following statements agree with the information given in Reading Passage 3?

In boxes 35-37 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

35. There was strong competition between scientists in Renaissance Europe.
36. The most important scientific development of the Renaissance period was the discovery of magnetism.
37. In 17th-century Britain, leading thinkers combined their interest in science with an interest in how to express ideas.

Questions 38-40

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Choose NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS from the passage for each answer.

Write your answers in boxes 38-40 on your answer sheet.

Science written in the first half of the 17th century

Language used	Latin	English
Type of science	Original	38 .............................
Examples	39 .............................	Encyclopaedias
Target audience	International scholars	40 ............................., but socially wider

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Reading Passage 3, Questions 28-40

28. Latin
29. doctors

30 & 31 IN EITHER ORDER

• technical vocabulary
• grammatical resources

32. Royal Society
33. German
34. industrial revolution
35. NOT GIVEN
36. FALSE
37. TRUE
38. popular
39. Principia / the Principia / Newton's Principia / mathematical treatise
40. local / more local / local audience