Text 1: Extract from The Box by Marc Levinson (2006)

A. Match the first part of the sentence with the appropriate ending on the right. Write the appropriate
letter in the boxes provided. (1 mark each)

1. As larger ships were increasingly able to
transport containers,
2. As the process of shipping by container
became more streamlined,
3. Container shipping reduced the price for
insurance after it
4. Containers were quickly adopted for train
and truck shipment,
A. affected the cost of movement through
ports.
B. even though there were dramatic
environmental consequences.
C. it reduced the overall cost of moving cargo
significantly.
D. the price for shipping cargo using these
decreased dramatically.
E. was spent moving it on and off of ships.
F. which consequently lowered the cost of
moving any cargo by land.

B. Find the word in the right-hand column that could meaningfully replace one of the words on the
left. (1 mark each)

Example: sting (line 30) H A. cross-cultural

1. Plummeted (line 11) B. expanded hugely
2. Inter-modal (line 11) C. fell rapidly
3. seamless (line 11) D. insult
E. irregular
F. long-term
G. newly fashionable
H. pain
I. radically experimental
J. rose markedly
K. shrank significantly
L. system-combining
M. uninterrupted
N. cross-cultural
O. expanded hugely
P. fell rapidly
 C. Some of the linking words or phrases have been removed from the second half of the text (lines 16
- 32) leaving numbered gaps. From the list, select the word or phrase which make best sense in
each of the numbered gaps. Write the letter identifying the word or phrase in the numbered space
provided.

in which same the more though

not only such these with

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