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READING PASSAGE   Scientists Are Mapping the World's Largest Volcano (A) After 36 days of battling sharks that kept biting their equipment, scientists have returned from the remote Pacific Ocean with a new way of looking at the world’s largest - and possibly most mysterious - volcano, Tamu Massif. (B) The team has begun making 3-D maps that offer the clearest look yet at the underwater...

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Reading Passage 1 The potential to sniff out disease The fact diseases have a smell comes as no surprise -  but finding someone or something that can detect them at an early stage could hold huge potential for medicine. Breath, bodily odours and urine are all amazingly revealing about general health. Even the humble cold can give off an odour, thanks to the thick bacteria-ridden mucus that...

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READING PASSAGE 1 The students’ problem (A) The college and university accommodation crisis in Ireland has become ‘so chronic’ that students are being forced to sleep rough, share a bed with strangers – or give up on studying altogether. (B) The deputy president of the Union of Students in Ireland, Kevin Donoghue, said the problem has become particularly acute in Dublin. He told...