R&UoE 6 - Gapped text

37 G: ‘They’ refers back to the ‘crowd’ who were watching, and ‘highly environmentally-friendly home’, which is a ‘hemispherical glass tube standing above a council car park’, is a building ‘of this kind’. Also, ‘it’ near the beginning of the next paragraph refers to the building, as does the name ‘Living Planet Centre’.

38 D: ‘their new home’ refers back to the WWF’s Living Planet Centre, which they hope will itself be a ‘living example’ of ‘attempts to protect animals and the natural world’ which ‘have been started by the WWF’.

39 C: ‘Other such’ indicates there will be more examples similar to those ‘features’ already mentioned in the previous paragraph, i.e. recycled concrete, carpets and computers, solar panels. Also, the following paragraph describes the overall impression given by the building’s interior.

40 A: The following sentence indicates there is a ‘contrast’ with the missing sentence. Sentence A begins ‘Even so’ and says ‘it’ (a reference back to ‘the building’) is in a ‘town centre’, which is a vocabulary link to ‘urban’. It contrasts the ‘fairly unattractive’ general area and the ‘ugly’ place with the ‘canal’ and the ‘woods’.

41 F: The fact that ‘the planet is one vast ecosystem’ is the reason given for stating that ‘you have to persuade people of the world not to pollute’. Vocabulary links include ‘the world’ and ‘the planet’, and ‘people of the world’ and ‘everyone’.

42 E: There are links to the sentences both before and after the gap. ‘Turn the clock back’ means return to a previous situation, i.e. ‘put back forests’ and reduce the number of people on Earth. The ‘rate at which the numbers are increasing’ refers to ‘population size’ in the missing sentence.

Not used: B