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READING You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-13 , which are based on Reading Passage 2 below. Flawed Beauty:the problem with toughened glass On 2nd August 1999, a particularly hot day in the town of Cirencester in the UK, a large pane of toughened glass in the roof of a shopping center at Bishops Walk shattered without warning and fell from its frame. When fragmentswereanalyzedby expertsatthegiantglassmanufacturerPilkington, which hadmade thepane, they found thatminute crystalsofnickel sulphide trapped inside the glass had almost certainly caused the fail