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LISTENING READING Reading Passage 1 Your should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-13 which are based on Reading Passage 1 on the following page. Questions 1-7 Reading passage 1 has seven paragraphs A-G Choose the correct heading for each paragraph from the list of headings below. Write the correct number i-x in boxes 1-7 on your answer sheet. List of Headings i. Early years of Gilbert ii. What’s new about his scientific research method iii. The development of chemistry iv. Questioning traditional astronomy v. Pioneers of the early science vi. Professional and social recognition vii. Becoming the president of the Royal Science Society viii. The great works of Gilbert ix. His discovery about magnetism x. His change of focus A: B: C: D: E: F: G: William Gilbert and Magnetism A. 16th and 17th centuries had seen two greatest pioneers of modern science: Galileo and Gilbert. The impact of their findings is eminent. Gilbert is the first modern scientist, also the accredited father of the science of electricity and magnetism, an Englishman of learning and a physician at the court of Elizabeth. Prior to him, all that was known of electricity and magnetism was what the ancients knew, nothing more than that the lodestone possessed magnetic properties and that amber and jet, when rubbed, would attract bit of paper or other substances of small specific gravity. However, he is less well-known than he deserved. B. Gilbert’s birth predated Galileo. Born in an eminent local family in Colchester county in the UK, on May 24, 1544, he went to grammar school, and then studied medicine at St. John’s College, Cambridge, graduating in 1573. Later he traveled in the continent and eventually settled down in London. C. He was a very successful and eminent doctor. All this culminated in his election to the president of the Royal Science Society. He was also appointed the personal physician to the Queen (Elizabeth I), and later knighted by the Queen. He faithfully served her until