TEST 1
READING PASSAGE 1
You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-13, which are based on Reading Passage 1 below.
Stepwells
A millennium ago, stepwells were fundamental to life in the driest
parts of India. Richard Cox travelled to north-western India to
document these spectacular monuments from a bygone era
During the sixth and seventh centuries, the inhabitants of the modern-day states of Gujarat and Rajasthan in north-western India developed
a method of gaining access to clean, fresh  ...