More than two thousand years ago, Aristotle begins the Nicomachean Ethics, one of his most widely...
Category - Paper 2 Comprehension
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...
PAPER 2 COMPREHENSION PRACTICE #15 (“GOSSIP”)
Let us face it: gossips get a bad rap. Smugly looking down from a moral high ground – and secure in...
PAPER 2 COMPREHENSION PRACTICE #14 (“MATERIALISM”)
On my desk stands a miniature of an Easter Island moai, carved for me by a Rapa Nui craftsman from...
PAPER 2 COMPREHENSION PRACTICE #13 (“IMMIGRATION”)
There is a moment in Charles Dickens’s travelogue, ‘American Notes’, when the author comes to...
PAPER 2 COMPREHENSION PRACTICE #12 (“LYING”)
Deception can take many forms, but not all acts of deception are lies. A person in a hurry might...
PAPER 2 COMPREHENSION PRACTICE #11 (“HEALTH &...
Any observer of human development would notice that, until relatively recent times, people on the...
PAPER 2 COMPREHENSION PRACTICE #10 (“THE IMPORTANCE OF...
We are firmly in an era of accelerated progress. We are witness to advancements in science, the...