直前(一次は6月8日)情報です。
17年度の試験問題SectionⅢ(Questions56-64)の英文は、
http://www.seedsofchange.com/enewsletter/issue_8/issue_8.asp
にあります。問題に引用した部分はカットされていたり、書き換えられたりしているようです。またネット上でこの問題を入手したものはかなり誤植があります。この問題もそうです。
"Seeds" by Guy Murchie
Although the kingdom got along without them until about 350 million years ago, when evolution devised its first one, the seed is now well established as nature's best all-around invention for starting vegetation in new places. It also possesses a world-changing power that is truly mystic in the sense that it can potentially reproduce not only the complete tree or plant it came from, but all the trees that can descend from that one, indeed (if conditions are favorable) whole forests of them, including those that will eventually mutate into new species and evolve into higher forms of life, ultimately (in billions of years) permeating all the kingdoms without any known limit. ...
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