Grade 12 Reading Exercise

The webpage hosts Grade 12 reading materials and exercises covering the main question types, providing answers for all questions. Students can access reading materials and exercises by topic, type, and practice online.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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Penguins' Anti-ice Trick
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Britain TV Industry
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Australian Aborigines
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Truth About ART
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Life Without Death
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Mysterious Dark Matter
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Crime-Fighting Technology
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Risks Of Artificial Intelligence
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Reveal How To Think
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Gender Price Gap
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In Praise of Amateurs
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Toddlers Bond With Robot
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Cognitive Dissonance
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What A Waste
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Romantic Kiss
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Start-Ups Stay Private
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Gene Editing
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 Today's Question
Questions 1–5: Do the following statements agree with the information given in the Reading Passage? Answer True, False or Not given.
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. The research carried out at the Francis Crick Institute in London is likely to be controversial.
Answer 1:

2. Gene editing, like the one in the upcoming research, can happen naturally in humans or other animals.
Answer 2:

3. CRISPR-Cas is a gene editing technique.
Answer 3:

4. CRISPR was noticed when the researchers saw some odd repetitive sequences at the ends of all bacterial genes.
Answer 4:

5. A group of American researchers made an important revelation about the CRISPR.
Answer 5:
Questions 6–9 Choose the appropriate letters A, B, C, or D.
6. 'Spacer' sequences look odd because:
A)they are a bacterial immune system
B)they are DNA from viruses
C)they aren't bacterial in origin
D)all of the above
Answer 6:

7. The ones, who were excited about the CRISPR's discovery, were:
A)biologists
B)geneticists
C)physicists
D)A and B
Answer 7:

8. Word "learns" in the 6th paragraph means:
A)determines
B)gains awareness
C)adapts
D)studies
Answer 8:

9. What makes CRISPR better than even our adaptive immune system?
A)long history of existence
B)immortality
C)heritability
D)adaptiveness
Answer 9:
Questions 10–16: Complete the sentences below. Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS from the passage for each answer.
10. Vaccination is so effective because it involves with a weakened version of a pathogen.

11. CRISPR adaptive immune system works in a way that seems, at least superficially, superior to ours. But perhaps our is the problem, according to Griffin.

12. Some microbes write their experience into the genome and pass the information to their .

13. Before Darwin, one of the most famous ideas was proposed by a scientist, Lamarck.

14. are often used to demonstrate Lamarck's hypothesis.

15. Lamarck's ideas became deeply unpopular as soon as Darwin's ideas .

16. No biologist agrees with Lamarck's idea that the inherent drive to perfection is the key feature of evolution.