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Do the following statements agree with the information given in Reading Passage 1?In boxes 1–7 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 1 Michael Faraday was the first person to recognise Perkin’s ability as a student of chemistry.
2 Michael Faraday suggested Perkin should enrol in the Royal College of Chemistry.3 Perkin employed August Wilhelm Hofmann as his assistant.
4 Perkin was still young when he made the discovery that made him rich and famous.5 The trees from which quinine is derived grow only in South America.6 Perkin hoped to manufacture a drug from a coal tar waste product.
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Questions 8–13
Answer the questions below.
Choose NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS from the passage for each answer.Write your answers in boxes 8–13 on your answer sheet.8 Before Perkin’s discovery, with what group in society was the colour purple associated?
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What potential did Perkin immediately understand that his new dye had? 10 What was the name finally used to refer to the first colour Perkin invented?11 What was the name of the person Perkin consulted before setting up his own dye
works? 12 In what country did Perkin’s newly invented colour first become fashionable?13 According to the passage, which disease is now being targeted by researchers
using synthetic dyes?
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《剑桥雅思9》阅读TEST1
