One of the more memorable statements of Barack Obama’s presidency thus far has been his claim, in a...
Category - Paper 2 Comprehension
PAPER 2 COMPREHENSION PRACTICE #24 (‘Convenience’)
Convenience is the most underestimated and least understood force in the world today. As a driver...
GP PAPER 2 COMPREHENSION PRACTICE #23 (‘MODERN IDENTITY’)
Don Morgenson writes about why the modern world is having an identity crisis. These are tough and...
PAPER 2 COMPREHENSION PRACTICE #22 (‘ADVERTISING’)
We think we know who the enemies are: banks, big business, lobbyists, the politicians who exist to...
PAPER 2 COMPREHENSION PRACTICE #21 (‘FEAR’)
Shades of scarlet have always been linked with danger and dominance, and interestingly, animal...
PAPER 2 COMPREHENSION PRACTICE #20 (‘CITY LIVING’)
Do cities make us sick? A century ago, it went without saying that they did. With their teeming...
PAPER 2 COMPREHENSION PRACTICE #19 (‘Happiness’)
More than two thousand years ago, Aristotle begins the Nicomachean Ethics, one of his most widely...
PAPER 2 COMPREHENSION PRACTICE #18 (“GENDER”)
We are surrounded by gender lore from the time we were very young. It is ever-present in...
PAPER 2 COMPREHENSION PRACTICE #17 (“TRUTH”)
In Roman mythology, Veritas, the goddess of truth, hid at the bottom of a sacred well, elusive to...
PAPER 2 COMPREHENSION PRACTICE #16 (“MILLENNIALS”)
Some people despair of the young. Books such as “Generation Me” by Jean Twenge and “The Road to...