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A DANGEROUS HABIT

Late one night in June 1889, my wife and I were at home when the __________(1) suddenly rang. It was
Mrs Kate Whitney.
'Excuse this late visit,' she began. Suddenly she ran __________(2) to my wife and began to cry. 'Oh! I'm
in such trouble,' she said. 'I don't know what to do. It's my husband,' she __________(3). 'He has not been
home for two days, Dr Watson, and I am so __________(4) about him.'
Isa Whitney, Kate's husband, had a problem. In his college days he had started smoking __________(5),
and now he was __________(6) to stop this dangerous habit. Kate had spoken to us about her husband's
__________(7) before.
'Do you know where your husband is?' I asked.
'Yes. Recently he has been going to an opium house in London, by the river. __________(8) he is away
only during the day. He comes back in the evening, very, very tired. But this time he has been away for
two whole days. I'm sure he is still in that __________(9) place. A young woman like __________(10)
cannot go there among such evil people.'
'I'm Isa's doctor,' I replied, 'and he will do what I tell him. I shall go to this opium house and
__________(11) him home. I __________(12) you this.'

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A CONVERSATION WITH A MUMMY

The Egyptian looked at Mr Buckingham for some __________(1), and then said, "Why don't you speak,
Mr Buckingham? Did you hear what I asked you? Please take your finger out of my mouth!"
At this, Mr Buckingham jumped __________(2), took his finger out of his mouth, and then put another
finger in the __________(3) side of his mouth.
Not being able to get an answer from Mr Buckingham, the mummy __________(4) to Mr Gliddon. He
asked him very __________(5) what they were all doing.
Mr Gliddon __________(6) in great detail, speaking in very beautiful and correct Ancient Egyptian.
Naturally, all __________(7) had to be in this language, and Mr Gliddon spoke it very well. Whenever
any of the others __________(8) to talk to the mummy, either Mr Gliddon or Mr Buckingham acted as
interpreters.
I could not help noticing that the mummy could not understand certain __________(9) words. At one
stage, for example, Mr Gliddon could not make the Egyptian understand the word "politics", for quite a
long time.
Mr Gliddon, naturally, in his conversation with the mummy, was most interested in telling him all about
modern __________(10), especially how advanced we were in the examination of mummies. Mr Gliddon
also __________(11) for upsetting him, and hinted that he would like to continue examining him.
The mummy accepted Mr Gliddon's apologies, but did not seem at all eager to continue the
__________(12) on himself. Instead he got down from the table and shook hands with all of us.

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A GLAWEGIAN IN ALGECIRAS

I sat and waited in silence. I saw a stranger look at me. But as soon as he saw that I had __________(1)
him, he looked away quickly. After I had waited for about ten minutes, the maid returned with one fried
egg and two very small pieces of __________(2). I sat down and ate the very poor meal in silence.
When I finished eating, I suddenly realized how cold I felt. It was a __________(3) cold night. The
people in Algeciras have long hot summers and they forget how cold it can be in the few short weeks of
winter. In these weeks it can be very cold at night. I __________(4) my chair __________(5) the fire
where the stranger was sitting. He was sitting huddled over the very small fire. The fire was
__________(6) big enough to give __________(7) to two people, but as soon as I moved my chair
towards the fire, the stranger moved his chair to one side.
"Don't move," I said. "There's plenty of room for two."
I took out a cigar and lit it. Then I turned to the stranger and offered him a cigar. They were very
good cigars and people did not often __________(8) one.
"That's very good of you," the stranger said and took the cigar from my hand.
From the way he spoke, I realized that he had been born in Glasgow. A person from Glasgow speaks
in a __________(9) of singing way.
When you give someone a cigar, it is usually an __________(10) to talk. But __________(11) from
these few words of thanks, the stranger said nothing. He huddled over his half of the fire and returned to
his __________(12).

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A VISIT TO THE HOSPITAL FOR DYING

A sudden noise broke into his __________(1). He brushed away his tears and looked round. A stream of
eight-year-old children poured into the room. They all looked exactly alike. They were all dressed in
khaki-coloured clothes. They __________(2) on the beds. They looked at the television sets and they
looked into the dying faces.
Linda __________(3) and rather alarmed them. "Oh, look, look!" They spoke in frightened voices.
"What is the matter with her? Why is she so fat?"
They had never seen a face like hers before. They had never seen a face that was not youthful or a
body that was not __________(4). All the other dying people looked young.
"Isn't she ugly? they __________(5). "Look at her mouth!"
One of them climbed on Linda's bed and looked closely at her __________(6) face. "I say - he began.
His sentence ended in a shout of pain. The Savage seized him by the __________(7), lifted him off the
bed, and shook him.
His cries brought the Head Nurse hurrying to the __________(8).
"What have you been doing to him?" she demanded fiercely. "I won't have you striking the children."
"Well, the, keep them away from this bed." The Savage's voice was trembling with anger. "What are
these little brats doing here at all? This is not a place for badly-behaved children. It's __________(9)!"
"Disgusting? What do you mean? They are not brats, as you call them These children are being
death-conditioned. This is an important part of their __________(10). They are brought into hospitals
for the dying. They learn that death is neither sad nor __________(11). And I __________(12) you that
if you interfere with their training I shall have you thrown out."

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A WOMAN BULLFIGHTER

When Cristina Sánchez told her parents that she wanted to be a __________(1), they were not too
pleased. Her father said that bullfighting was a hard enough world for a man and __________(2) as bad
for a woman. "Dad was right," she explains. "You start with the door __________(3) in your face."
Cristina started on the professional circuit only four years ago. After __________(4) performances in
Latin America and Spain earlier this year, Sánchez decided that she was ready to become a
__________(5) bullfighter. She is now the first woman in Spain to have reached the __________(6) of an
all-male profession.
On the day of the fight she eats a light early lunch and __________(7) before dressing for the bullfight.
The worst of the job these days, Sánchez says, is the __________(8) that all eyes are expectantly looking
at her: "It's as if I'm walking round carrying a __________(9) which says 'woman bullfighter'." She is
clear, in any case, that precisely what seems most frightening, facing a 450kg fighting bull, is the best
part of her profession: "Once the two of you are out there, it all __________(10) on how __________(11)
you are, your art. The bull doesn't care what sex your are or how much you're getting __________(12)."

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ADVERTISING

Many of us may __________(1) with the message of some advertisements, such as showing how a
shampoo solves the __________(2) of an unattractive young person. Yet, we have probably accepted
these illusions as part of the advertiser's technique to __________(3) us to buy.
Many advertising campaigns work on our __________(4), and too often we do not __________(5) it.
One of the campaigns that has been most criticised for doing this is that of the __________(6) clothing
company Benetton. Its advertisements do not present illusions, but rather __________(7) of actual events
in recent history. For example, one of them portraits a hungry African child holding a doll. Another
depicts an oil-covered duck, while a third shows a picture of a Pakistani couple walking through a
__________(8).
Instead of showing Benetton's clothes, these advertisements create a feeling of __________(9) for the
company; a feeling that has no real connection to what they are trying to sell. Benetton claims that they
don't put clothes in advertisements because when it's winter in some countries, it's __________(10) in
others. Besides, different markets seem to react differently to different fashions. Finally, Benetton claims
that its advertisements are intended to raise important __________(11) problems for public discussion, so
that people won't forget to think on these subjects.
However, critics of this campaign say it's essential that consumers realise that Benetton takes advantage
of human __________(12) in order to sell more. Benetton pretends to a socially active company, but it is
simply art at the service of business.
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AFTER THE WAR

He tried to let her enjoy the evening. He talked about things that she __________(1). After dinner they
danced and then he paid the bill. The city was quieter now; but some men were drunk in the streets and
could not walk __________(2).
At the station, she thanked him for a lovely evening. "When do you go north?" she asked.
"I don't know. Not yet. A message came in just before we left. I have to report on Monday in the
Navy Department. Lieutenant-Commander Holmes is coming too. Perhaps we'll leave on Monday
afternoon."
"__________(3) me when you get back."
"I will. Perhaps we could go and have a __________(4) somewhere."
He stood and watched her go. She was soon lost in the crowd. She was __________(5) like his wife
Sharon. Or perhaps he was forgetting his wife now. He turned away and went to __________(6) his
train to Williamstown.
On Monday morning he went to the Navy Department. Peter Holmes went with him. They waited to
see Admiral Sir David Hartman. A short time later they were __________(7) into his office.
The Admiral got up to meet them. "Good morning," he said. "The Prime Minister wants to see you
before you go. We'll go to his office in a minute. But before we do that, I want to give you this. It's the
__________(8) of the captain of Swordfish about his __________(9). He went from Rio de Janeiro to
the North Atlantic."
The American took the report and looked at it __________(10).
"He found a lot of __________(11)," the Admiral said. "It was greater in the north than in the south.
He submerged near Parniba and stayed submerged for the whole cruise. He came to the __________(12)
again near Cape Sao Roque."

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ALCOHOL

Seven people woke up that morning and remembered that this was the day Gerry Moore came out of the
nursing home. He wouldn't be cured, of course. You were never __________(1) if you were an alcoholic.
Four of the people __________(2) their heads and thought that perhaps he wasn't __________(3) an
alcoholic - it was just descriptions that had changed. There was a time when a man had a drop too much
to drink, but now it was all medical, and in the blood and the way the body worked, and there were
illnesses and __________(4) that had never existed before. Two people knew very well that he was an
alcoholic. And the seventh one, waking up that morning, looking forward to his release, had never
__________(5) for a moment that there was anything __________(6) with Gerry. He had gone into that
nursing home for a good __________(7), and that's all there was to it.
Gerry's mother was seventy-three, and there had never been any shameful __________(8) about her
family before, and there wasn't going to be any. She had __________(9) up five boys on her own. Three
of them were abroad now, all of them earning a good salary. Only two were in Ireland, and of those
Gerry was easily her __________(10). A big innocent man without a bit of harm on him. He worked too
hard, that was the problem and in his job, Gerry had told her often, the best place to meet
__________(11) was in pubs. A grown man couldn't sit like a baby in a pub, drinking a pint of
__________(12) juice! Naturally a man had to drink with the people he talked to.
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ANTONIO & MELANIE

It was only five years ago that Antonio Banderas -then known only to most __________(1) for his
Spanish films with Almodóvar- sat down with __________(2) Arne Glimcher to talk about
__________(3) in his first English-language role in The Mambo Kings. "I didn't understand a word he
was saying," Banderas __________(4). However, after learning his lines __________(5), Banderas got
the part. He wasn't the main attraction in the first movies he made in America. But this was the price he
was willing to __________(6) to try to become the first leading man from Spain to succeed in
__________(7).
Banderas is finding out the cost of being a star: newspapers around the world have been talking about his
__________(8) with Melanie Griffiths, begun while filming Two Much in Miami. In Spain recently, lots
of __________(9) followed them everywhere. He's hurt by the attacks on Melanie's past problems with
__________(10) abuse, and by the Spanish press's accusation that he left his wife for a celebrity to gain
status in Hollywood. Banderas has no __________(11) about the course his career has taken in
Hollywood. "I'm living the adventure of my life. Now, it's here, __________(12) I don't know," he says..

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BILL GATES

He's the most famous businessman in the world. Many pages have been written about how he has
dominated the __________(1) in personal computing. But we know little about him as a person. Here's a
familiar anecdote which may show his __________(2): When Bill Gates was in the sixth grade, his
parents decided that he __________(3) some kind of help. He was at __________(4) with his mother
Mary, an extrovert woman who __________(5) that he should do what she told him. She would call him
to dinner from his bedroom, which she had given up trying to make him clean, but he wouldn't
__________(6).
"What are you doing?" she once asked him.
"I'm thinking," Bill answered.
"You're thinking?"
"Yes, Mom, I’m thinking," he said __________(7). "Have you tried thinking?"
Finally, his parents decided to send him to a __________(8). The psychologist concluded that Bill was
extremely __________(9). After a one year __________(10) and a large amount of tests, the
psychologist told Bill’s parents: "You're going to lose. You had better adjust to it because there’s no use
trying to __________(11) him. It's useless to try to compete with him." A lot of computer companies
have __________(12) the same.

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BODY AND SOUL

I know this is difficult to __________(1). In fact, when it first happened, I didn't believe it
__________(2). I have been taking pain-killing drugs long enough for them to affect my mind. But the
whole thing __________(3) very real from the first moment.
Four years ago my legs were smashed by enemy __________(4). They operated on me nine times, and
although I lived, I was nothing more than a wreck in a __________(5). 'Don't take so much of the drugs,'
the doctors told me. What a joke! They couldn't cure the pain, and if they'd stopped the drugs, I would
have killed myself. They knew that.
I don't __________(6) Sally for calling off the wedding. Some people thought I was bitter about it, but I
wasn't. She'd got __________(7) to a healthy young man, and the man she found in the wheel-chair was a
very different person. Poor Sally. It nearly broke her heart, and I think she would have stayed with me
out of kindness and pity. But I didn't try to keep her, and I'm glad I didn't - at least I don't have to feel
__________(8) about her. I hear that her husband is a good man, and her children are lovely. And I'm
__________(9) for her.
However, when every woman I meet is __________(10) to me - as though I were a __________(11)
dog... Oh, well, there was always the drug.
And then, when there seemed to be nothing ahead but pain and a __________(12) death, there was this...
this... vision.

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BREAKFAST TIME

Father always __________(1) that we should be on time for breakfast. I used to walk into the dining-
room at the last moment so that I was often late. So were my brothers, with the exception of George.
George got down so early, my father pointed out to me, that he even had time to __________(2) a few
minutes on the piano.
The __________(3) George was so early was that he was in a hurry to see the sports page in the
newspaper before Father took it. And the reason George played the __________(4) was simply to inform
to rest of us upstairs which team had won yesterday's football __________(5). He had made up a
__________(6) code for this purpose. I can't remember the titles of the songs he played, but the
__________(7) idea was that if he played something vivacious and lively, then it meant that the Giants
had won, but if the notes were sad, it meant that Pop Anson had beaten them. We told Father nothing of
this arrangement.
When Father came down and __________(8) reading the newspaper, George walked into the sitting
room and played the baseball results on the piano for us. Upstairs there was usually some __________(9)
among us about which of the two __________(10) George was sending from the piano. Father had not
allowed him to learn popular tunes, only __________(11) music, and the few classical pieces he could
play __________(12) too much alike for us at that distance.

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CALENDARS

Calendars may be considered systems for __________(1) time into manageable calendar periods for life's
activities. The __________(2) Egyptian was among the first, and became the __________(3) for the
Roman Julian Calendar used in much of Europe for over 1,500 years. This was superseded by the more
__________(4) Gregorian Calendar. The __________(5) calendar comes from the latin "calendae", the
beginning of Roman months, when proclamations of markets and festivals were made.
Most __________(6) have the day as their basis, which has not always been counted from
__________(7) to midnight, as at present. The day's 24 hours and the week's seven days are artificial
__________(8) divisions. The year, the time taken by the Earth to orbit the Sun, is measured in several
ways. The common year of __________(9) 365.25 days is incompatible with the "lunar" month -of over
29 days-, twelve of which make __________(10) than 354 days, 11 short of the year we know; neither
are exactly divisible by the length of the day. A calendar that keeps step with the Moon's
__________(11) must have days added at intervals; a common example is the __________(12) day given
to February every fourth year.

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CAN WAR BE ABOLISHED?

Is it possible to __________(1) mankind to live without war? War is an ancient institution which has
__________(2) for at least six thousand years. It was always wicked and usually foolish, but in the
__________(3) the human race __________(4) to live with it. Modern ingenuity has changed this. Either
Man will abolish war, or war will abolish Man. For the present, it is nuclear __________(5) that cause
the gravest danger, but bacteriological or chemical weapons may, before long, offer an even
__________(6) threat. If we succeed in abolishing nuclear weapons, our work will not be
__________(7). It will never be done until we have succeeded in abolishing war. To do this, we need to
persuade __________(8) to look upon international questions in a new way, not as contests of force, in
which the __________(9) goes to the side which is most skilful in massacre, but by arbitration in
accordance with agreed principles of law. It is not easy to __________(10) age-old mental habits, but this
is what must be __________(11).
There are those who say that the adoption of this or that ideology would prevent war. I believe this to be
a profound __________(12). All ideologies are based upon dogmatic assertions which are, at best,
doubtful, and at worst, totally false. Their adherents believe in them so fanatically that they are willing to
go to war in support of them.

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CARS
Motor cars are the __________(1) that could ultimately become the nightmare of the 21st century. The
machines that once liberated rich people have become __________(2) for millions. They have also
sentenced the present generation to the frustration of never-ending journeys that would shock the
pioneers of Britain's biggest single industry.

Cars have __________(3) millions to travel enormous __________(4) for business and holidays cheaply
and __________(5). But the rapid growth in motoring has condemned us all to neurosis, not only over
the time wasted in traffic jams, but also over __________(6). That is why noise, __________(7) and
destruction caused through pollution, road building, and the making of cars have made __________(8) a
major concern for the millennium.

Britain's motor industry today employs a million people. However, the industry which has shown such
brilliant inventiveness over the century now faces its biggest challenge: to ensure a future of growth
__________(9) pollution. The problem facing __________(10) is that millions rely on the car because
there is no viable alternative.
After 100 years, what is the __________(11) of the car? We have asked the __________(12), now let us
know what the ordinary motorist thinks.

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CHESS

We were losing the battle. Our King was old and __________(1) and could hardly move. He was hiding
just outside the castle walls. Of the three soldiers who had been appointed to __________(2) him, two
had been killed while on duty and I was left alone.
From where I was standing, I had a good __________(3) of the battle. Fortunately for us, our Queen was
a young and active __________(4). Tall, dark, and very beautiful, she looked __________(5) out there in
the battlefield with her knights at her side. She had fought with great courage and already __________(6)
two enemy officers herself. Since we had lost so many men it was difficult for her to attack. She
therefore decided to do all she could to defend the King. I got a __________(7) when I saw a humble
enemy soldier threatening her!
He came up very close, but her __________(8) knights sacrificed their lives to serve her. Alone now, she
was trapped by the enemy, and though she fought hard, she too lost her life. Great __________(9) of
white enemy officers and soldiers now descended upon us and soon destroyed the __________(10).
Completely defeated, the black King and I tried to run away together, but it was too __________(11). As
the King moved up behind me, I heard the __________(12) "Check mate". Another game of chess had
come to an end.

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CHRISTMAS

Recently, a woman I know told me shyly that she saves up all her __________(1) until Christmas
morning, then sits up in bed, and opens them, just like a child. She thought I would laugh at her and say
how __________(2) she was. However, I was absolutely delighted to __________(3) someone who treats
Christmas as I do.
Many people today have a very different __________(4) to Christmas. They think it's just a time when
shops make a lot of money and everyone runs about buying presents they don't want to __________(5)
and food they don't want to __________(6). But have they grown so far away from their own childhood
that they can't __________(7) all the good things?
First of all, Christmas takes you out of the ordinary routine of life. For children, the fun begins weeks
before, when the __________(8) are put up, and excitement gradually increases as December the 15th
approaches.
Also, at Christmas-time everyone seems much __________(9) to each other than usual. You walk along
the street and say "Merry Christmas", and people will smile and respond. Perhaps it's because most
people are on holiday or because everyone knows that they are sharing a similar __________(10).
Giving presents can be very satisfying, too, if you plan in advance and really think of the right present for
the __________(11) person. Indeed, Christmas is still a "holy day", the words from which "holiday" is
derived, and it gives people time to __________(12) for a moment on non-commercial values.

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COMPUTERS IN EDUCATION

The 1980s saw the introduction and general use of __________(1) computers at all levels of education in
America. A majority of students now use computers sometime during the school __________(2), either
to learn about computers themselves or as an instrument for learning other __________(3). By the end of
the __________(4), the typical American school had one computer per twenty students, a proportion that
educators feel is still not high enough to affect classroom learning as much as books and __________(5)
do.
Some critics see computer education as just he latest attempt to revolutionalise education through non-
printed media. For example, films, television, cassettes and __________(6) were all initially announced
for their instructional potential, but each of these finally became secondary classroom tools.
Supporters, however, __________(7) that computers are a much stronger instrument for learning than the
others that preceded them. They mention the __________(8) interactive nature of using computer
programmes which provoke making decisions and manipulating the environment. Also, each computer is
__________(9) by one or two students. This means that learning becomes more individualised and
allows each student to receive immediate correction if necessary. Some experts say that making students
work collaboratively on __________(10) leads to greater initiative and more autonomous learning. They
also believe that because computers are __________(11) everywhere, to know how to use a computer has
become a __________(12) objective.

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COWBOYS
The cowboy of the American West, a __________(1) figure in popular novels and films, was in fact a
poorly paid worker engaged a difficult and monotonous work. During the years after the American
__________(2) War, the cattle business __________(3) first in Texas and, after 1870, in the Southwest
and on the northern Great Plains. Not all cowboys were whites: about a third were __________(4) or
Mexican-American. Their techniques and equipment came from the Spanish traditions of northern
Mexico and southern Texas of those of the Gulf coastal areas.
Two annual events marked the year: the "roundup" or "rodeo" and the "long drive". Roundups were held
in spring and often also in __________(5). The cowboys congregated the cattle, branded the new-born
calves, castrated and dehorned old animals, and, in the spring, chose the cattle to be taken to the
__________(6) markets.
Then they started the "long drive". From 1865 to 1880, at least 3,5 millions cattle were driven from
__________(7) Texas to the cattle towns on the railway lines in Kansas, Nebraska, and Wyoming. The
__________(8) most __________(9) followed was called the Chisholm Trail, from Texas to Abilene in
Kansas. Working up to 20 hours a day, the cowboys __________(10) the animals from one watering
place to the next, guarding against __________(11), lost cattle, and the very dangerous stampedes at
night. For this hard and dirty __________(12), the typical cowboy earned between 25 and 40 dollars a
month.

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CRY FREEDOM
'Boss!' Ken Robertson, one of the __________(1) on the Daily Dispatch, burst into the office and
__________(2) a bundle of photographs on to Woods' desk. He lit a cigarette and began to smoke as
Woods looked through the __________(3).
They were pictures of the police raid on Crossroads: a woman holding a baby in her arms in front of her
wrecked home; two policemen __________(4) a boy; an old man sitting in an armchair, with broken
walls around him; a policeman with a whip __________(5) a girl; a bulldozer smashing through a tiny
kitchen.
Woods loked up at Ken in amazement. 'How did you get these?' Ken smiled. 'I got them. Do we dare use
them?'
Woods examined the pictures again. In Cape Town black workers couldn't get work without work
__________(6). Some of these workers brought their families with them, which was also __________(7)
the law, and built a room for them out of wooden boxes or bits of tin. White employers benefited from
the low wages the illegal workers accepted. __________(8), from time to time, so that the town did not
become permanent, the police came with whips and burning __________(9) gas, forcing the men into
police buses and moving them out of the city. Then the __________(10) came to tear apart the houses
made of wooden boxes, and bits of tin.
The law did not __________(11) newspapers to print photographs of police beating black people, but if
there were enough __________(12) pictures the government sometimes let the matter drop in order to
prevent the newspapers giving the public more information.

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DEATH OF A BEGGAR WOMAN

One of the town's beggars is a very old woman. At least, she looks very old, but __________(1) that's
because she has been poor all her life. She doesn't ask for __________(2), but when she is hungry, she
stands there with her hand __________(3) out, waiting for food. I never see her talking to anyone. She
doesn't seem to have a home, or even a favourite place to sleep. When she is tired she lies down in the
street, so that people have to walk round her.
A few days ago, I took some dirty clothes to the man who does our __________(4). He lives near our
house. I think I saw the old beggar woman __________(5) in his street. I'm not sure. The __________(6)
is, I'm so used to her that I hardly notice her. But I did notice her when I went back to __________(7) the
clean clothes. There was something strange about the way she was lying. There is a __________(8) of
rubbish in the street, and she was lying almost on top of it, with __________(9) all around her.
The people in the street were not interested when I told them about her. They didn't have time to listen. I
wondered if perhaps she was __________(10). Who would take her away? Nobody was __________(11)
for her, and I certainly wasn't, so I went home __________(12) my clean clothes.

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DREAM WOMEN

Richer, and busier than ever, __________(1) do not need the miserable $5,000 or so that the New York
shows offer them for an appearance. They have better-or at least more lucrative- things to do with their
time. Supermodels today __________(2) millions of dollars in __________(3) contracts or in films.
Supermodels are no longer just pairs of beautiful eyes and divine bodies; they are becoming their own
businesses. For examples, Naomi Campbell, Claudia Schiffer and Elle MacPherson have entered the less
__________(4) restaurant business. They have opened their Fashion Café at New York's Rockefeller
Center.
Many observers __________(5) that supermodels have reached film __________(6) on the fame
hierarchy because they possess a fragile fascination which has been __________(7) since the '40x and
'50s. Designer Isaac Mizrahi says that when his mother was a little __________(8) she wanted to be Rita
Hayworth. Now all the little girls want to be Schiffer or Evangelista.
The supermodel __________(9) has also been encouraged by the explosion of the mass media interest in
the fashion __________(10). Most newspapers now treat the semiannual fashion shows as
__________(11) events. This marketing has changed the whole culture of modelling. Models of the
1930s, '40s and '50s, largely anonymous to the general public, travelled in __________(12) social circles.
Nowadays fashion, however, has been taken down from that superior standard.

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ENVIRONMENT

When we consider the subject of the environment, we often pay __________(1) to the most tangible
aspects: the air we __________(2), the water we drink, the food we put on the table. Those things are
very important. But to me the environment is also about something less tangible, though no less
__________(3). It is about our sense of __________(4): the duty we have to each other, and to future
generations, to save God's earth. lt is about our __________(5) of responsibility, and the discovery that
natural beauty and wealth that took millions of years to __________(6) could be damaged in a master of
decades.
Those are __________(7) I learned as a young boy on my family's farm in Tennessee. As a teenager, one
of the books that I read was Rachel Carson's classic Silent Spring, about pesticide abuse. As it did for
millions around the world, Carson's book made me understand that our planet's life is too __________(8)
to waste.
Today, the threats to our environment are also __________(9). We live in a world where climate change,
deforestation, holes in the ozone __________(10) and air pollution are causing more and more
__________(11). Our challenge is to find new ways back to the oldest values of community and
responsibility. To do so, we all must do our part, as nations, as families and as __________(12).

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EQUAl RIGHTS

European male executives face a __________(1) when dealing with businesswomen. The question of
who pays the restaurant bill, for instance, can be __________(2). Even a simple introduction may be
tense. The French, and even the reserved British, will often __________(3) on the cheek and not shake
hands when introduced to a woman. A good rule is to treat the woman like a man; if cheek-kissing is
accepted among __________(4) as well as businesswomen, then you can go ahead.
The American business community has already found a way to __________(5) the relationship between
men and women. In the United States, companies are legally required to define appropriate
__________(6), such as whether men should open doors for women. In Europe, however, few companies
provide guidelines, and executives simply follow __________(7) manners. The Scandinavians, Dutch
and Germans are not unlike the Americans. They __________(8) women as equals, even if it means
letting them carry their own luggage. But French, Spanish, Greek and Italian businessmen have a much
more __________(9) experience with women at work, and embarrassing situations may occur. The
English are somewhere in the __________(10).
Most businesswomen just want to be accepted as __________(11). Nevertheless, it will still be some
time before European men and women can __________(12) on equal terms at work.

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FIRE AND CIVILISATION

Animal species use inanimate sources of energy, like wind or water current, to move about. The human
being also uses inanimate sources of __________(1), the most important perhaps being fire. In fact,
without fire the human species would not have reached the present stage of __________(2).
Because human beings are naturally __________(3) only for warm weathers, the use of fire has allowed
them to move into colder areas of Earth and __________(4) cold nights and long winters. Also, thanks to
fire men have achieved security against __________(5) and have learnt to __________(6) meat and
grain. This widened their diet and limited the danger of bacterial and parasitic __________(7). In turn,
this meant that human beings multiplied in number. Finally, this meant that there were more brains to
plan and think.
With fire, life was not so hand-to-mouth: there was more time to work and think on things which were
not __________(8) needs. In other words, the use of fire __________(9) the process of creation and
technological development. About 10,000 years ago, in the Middle East, a number of crucial advances
were made: the development of agriculture, cities, pottery, __________(10) and writing. This series of
changes introduced what is called civilisation, that is, a settled way of life, a complex society in which
human beings are specialised in different tasks.
Undoubtedly, without fire, that __________(11) source of energy that could be lighted or extinguished,
kept small or large, and even transported, human __________(12) would have remained in a primitive
stage.

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FRIENDSHIP

A few months ago, I moved into a very small __________(1) after living for years with my parents. It is
the first time I have ever had a place of my __________(2) and I am very fond of it, despite the lack of
space. I had been in the flat only for a few days when a friend phoned and practically __________(3) me
to let him stay for a while. He __________(4) he had lost his job recently but was sure he would find
another one very soon. Since I thought it would be only for a short time, I said yes.
More than a month has gone by since then and my friend shows no __________(5) of moving out. There
are only two small rooms in the flat, plus the small bathroom and __________(6) kitchen. He has more
or less taken over the front room. What is more, he has brought a lot of clothes and piles and piles of
books and old gramophone __________(7) with him and I can hardly get in there any more. I don't like
__________(8) the bathroom, either. In fact, I have discovered that I just don't like other people living in
my flat!
My friend hasn't found a job and can't __________(9) to rent a room of his own. And there just doesn't
seem to be anyone else he can stay with.
Of course, I'd like to help him as much as __________(10). He is, after all, a friend! But there are
__________(11), even to friendship. I just don't know what I'll do if he is there much longer. Do you
think I am being __________(12) in wanting him out? What would you advise me to do?

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GLOBAL TERROR

Phase 1 of the scenario was going to be the __________(1) of Pope John Paul II on January 12 during his
visit to Manila: a terrorist dressed as a priest was preparing to tie a __________(2) to his body, then
embrace the Pontiff and detonate the explosive. Phase 2 was the destruction of two United Air Lines
__________(3) over Hong Kong. The final phase was set for early February: a young Pakistani with a
newly obtained commercial pilot's __________(4) was going to crash a small __________(5) filled with
explosives into the headquarters of the U.S.A. Central Intelligence Agency. These __________(6) were
apparently designed by Ahmed Youssef, __________(7) of planning the 1993 bombing of the World
Trade Centre in New York city.
The first plan was aborted when a guard smelled a strange __________(8) coming from Ahmed Youssef
flat in Manila. The flat was then raided by the police, but Youssef managed to escape. The police have
learnt about his three terrorist plans from a __________(9) found in his flat and also from an accomplice,
who had given himself up to the police under an amnesty programme. This accomplice was the second in
command of a small Islamic terrorist group in the Philippines, which has __________(10) the
international terrorism __________(11). The group is getting arms, money and training from the
governments of Libya and from Islamic __________(12) in the Middle East, Pakistan and Malaysia.

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HAIR TALK

The way we wear our hair can signify a multitude of things about us - from our age to our state of health,
social __________(1) or personality - so it is not __________(2) that most societies attach such
importance to looking after and styling it. Hair oils and remedies for unhealthy hair date __________(3)
thousands of years, having been found for __________(4) in the tombs of ancient Egyptian kings. And
natural ingredients like lemons, __________(5), coconut and palm oil have been used as hair care
products around the world for __________(6).
Many hair styles too have been with us for thousands of years. In Africa the "cornrow", where hair is
braided firmly onto the surface of the scalp, can be traced back to 3,500 BC. It is still __________(7)
among Africans living all over the world. And the traditions surrounding hairstyles are often ancient too.
Among the Yoruba of Nigeria for example, young girls and old women wear simple styles, while
__________(8) women have more elaborate ones to make them more attractive, and the most intricate
designs are reserved for priestesses and __________(9).
And hairstyles can be just as importan for men. While Masia women of Kenya and Tanzania usually
__________(10) their heads completely, smearing their skulls with a mixture of animal fat and red ochre,
the warrior men or "morans" __________(11) their hair long. Once a moran has grown his hair to a
suitable __________(12), another moran will take up to 20 hours to style it.
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LEGRAND AND THE BIT OF PAPER

He took the paper back, and was about to __________(1) it into the fire when a casual look at the design
seemed to change his mind. As he looked at it his face went red, then very __________(2). Then he
took a candle from the table, and went down to the farthest end of the room and sat on a chair. He took
no __________(3) of me at all. All his __________(4) was fixed on that bit of paper. He turned it over,
and looked at it from all directions. He said __________(5) nothing. I was astonished. However, I
thought it wise not to annoy him with any __________(6) remark. In the end, he took an envelope from
his pocket and placed the drawing in it. He carefully locked the enveloped in a drawer. He then grew
much __________(7). As the evening passed he grew quieter and quieter, and took no interest in
anything I said. I had __________(8) to spend the night in the hut, as I had often done before, but seeing
the __________(9) of my friend, I thought it better to leave. He did not __________(10) that I stay, but
as I left, he shook my hand warmly and wished me well.
I did not see him or hear any more of Legrand until a month later. His __________(11), Jupiter,
visited me at my home in Charleston. I had never seen the old Negro look so unhappy, and I was afraid
that something terrible might have __________(12) to my friend.

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LOVE

What is love? And what __________(1) it? An American professor, Charles Zastrow, offers an
interesting answer, particularly to the second question. He __________(2) that there are many kinds of
love and that particularly in one kind, which he calls '__________(3) love', we are strongly
__________(4) not so much by what we actually feel but by 'what we tell ourselves about the way we
feel.' He calls this 'self-talk'.
For example, say a woman is strongly __________(5) to a man. (It could just as easily happen to a man
attracted to a woman.) She tells herself things like 'He is all I have ever wanted in a man! He is warm,
kind and __________(6) and will understand all my needs.' But when she discovers that he is, like all of
us, just an __________(7) human being with both strong and weak points, she is bitterly __________(8).
Zastrow says that particularly in romantic love, our 'self-talk' comes from 'intense, __________(9)
desires and frustrations', and that this kind of romantic love often requires distance. 'The more
__________(10) the love, the stronger it becomes. The more the effort necessary to be with each other
(e.g. travelling long distances) or the greater the __________(11) (loneliness and sexual needs) the more
intense the romance.'
He points out that this kind of love often begins to __________(12) and die as soon as the problems and
obstacles which separated the two people are removed and a normal relationship begins.

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MARCO POLO

Marco Polo (1254-1324) was a Venetian __________(1) and merchant whose account of his travels in
Asia was the primary source for the European image of the Far East until the late 19th century. Marco's
father and his uncle had __________(2) to China (1260-69) as merchants. When they left Venice to
return to China, they were accompanied by 17-year-old Marco. Travelling __________(3) central Asia,
the Polos arrived in 1275 in Shan-tu, the summer capital of Kublai Khan, and the Mongol __________(4)
of China. Marco soon became a favourite of the Khan and for 17 years __________(5) through China in
his service.
Toward the end of this time, however, the Polos increasingly __________(6) to return home, but the
Khan was unwilling to part with them. In 1292, however, he consented and __________(7) them to sail
to Persia on a diplomatic __________(8), and they were finally able to reach Venice in 1295.
Shortly afterwards, Marco was __________(9) by the Genoese in a naval battle and imprisoned for a
short time. In prison, he dictated an account of his experiences to a well-known __________(10).
Although full of systematic detail, The Travels of Marco Polo was received with __________(11) and
disbelief. After reports by other travellers to China verified portions of his tales, they stimulated Western
interest in the Far Eastern trade and influenced people like Christopher Columbus. Marco's account stood
virtually alone as a __________(12) of the Far East until it was supplemented by the chronicle of the
Jesuit missionary Matteo Ricci, in 1615.

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MARRIED PRIESTS

A priests' magazine recently __________(1) a letter from a woman called Maria. "For the past four
years," she wrote, "I have been having a wonderful __________(2) with a man I love with all my heart
and soul. And this man, a priest, feels very deeply for me. But our dream is also the cause of our
__________(3)." Maria is not alone. According to an organisation of Italian married priests, one third of
Italy's practising priests are __________(4) in stable relationships with women. Moreover, up to 10,000
of Italy's 57,000 priests have left the ministry and are __________(5), having sacrificed their vocations to
the Church's __________(6) rule on celibacy. And this phenomenon is by no means exclusively Italian.
But the Vatican is not in favour. "Even if it __________(7) sacrificing her heart, a woman must not
come __________(8) a man and God," wrote one cleric. And last year, in an open letter to the clergy, the
Pope said that "the vocation to celibacy needs to be __________(9)."
The leader of the organisation of married priests considers that the strict __________(10) of the
Church will continue as long as the current Pope is in charge, and says he hopes the next one is a little
less strict. "What we need is someone who will __________(11) that celibacy has to be a personal
__________(12)," he adds.

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MOTHERS BACK AT WORK

A child is more likely to develop a happy and secure __________(1) if its mother has stayed at home for
the first two years of its life, according to child __________(2). However, maternity leave is usually only
a few months, meaning women who want __________(3) more time to their families have to leave work.
But in a __________(4) world, jobs are precious. And for ambitious women choosing between a career
and full-time motherhood may be very __________(5). Maybe the same job won’t be available, and,
worse, restarting work could mean a lower-paid __________(6).
When children fly the nest, there is a strong temptation for mothers to work outside the home. This is
where organisations such as the Women Returners' Network come in. WRN __________(7) women who
are __________(8) to the jobs market. Karin MacKenzie, 39, from north London, is a good example.
Formerly a nurse, then a bookshop __________(9), she stopped full-time work with the __________(10)
of her first son in 1987. "I was getting near 40 and felt it was time to do something serious," she says. "I
didn't have any idea about formal interview techniques or writing a __________(11) vitae. The course
taught me all that, and introduced me to information technology, which I really __________(12)." The
tuition must have worked. She got the first job she applied.

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MY FIRST NIGHT IN ALGECIRAS

I have spent many years of my life __________(1) all over the world. When I arrive in a new country or
city, usually I am very tired and go to bed __________(2). For this reason my first day or night in any
new place is always quiet and very little happens.
But my first night in Algeciras was very __________(3). This night was very strange and
__________(4).
At that time Algeciras in Southern Spain was a dirty and badly looked after city. I arrived late in the
evening by __________(5). As soon as I got off the boat, I went to look for a hotel. I found a small
hotel not far from the boat.
This hotel looked dirty and __________(6) from the outside. But I was very tired and did not know
my way around the city of Algeciras. And so I decided to stay in this small hotel on the quay. I also
decided to stay in this hotel for another __________(7). The moon was full and it was a clear,
__________(8) night. From the hotel I could look out at the sea. I could see the __________(9) rock of
Gibraltar in the bright moonlight.
The hotel had a narrow doorway and no name. When I went through this doorway, I had to
__________(10) up narrow and dark stairs to the first floor. I came to a small cupboard with a desk in
front of it. This was the hotel office.
An __________(11) and tired woman was sitting beside the desk. When I said I wanted a room for the
__________(12), she took me up some more stairs to a room on the second floor.