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The dawn of the eT age In the 30s brought in the likes of te MIM Bocing 707 an aircraft capable of carrying more passengers more quickly than any propellerdkiven design, Since that time, atfinces have grow larger and larger The sight of an Airbus A380 can stl create great excitement The [enormous double-decker plane ean scat over 800 people. While the Aithus 380 isthe largest passonger-carrying sreraft ever IBM built itis dwarfed by another design that may someday take tothe skies. 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IMusions, IE sins have found, ean reveal everything from how we process time and space to how we experience consciousness, For example, if'a person ‘watching a waterfall shifts his or her gaze toa group of rocks om the side, the rocks appear to move inthe “opposite dircotion from the flow of water. EM However, this ffeet is known asthe waterfall lusion. Track we the flow ofthe water seems 1 “te” some of the brain's neurons, When the person's gize moves tothe ook, caer ncurons I ovsreompensate, They case the illusion of movement inthe other diction 7 Ttscoms strange that wate is such a scarce resource ‘when the Barth is covered in more than 300 milion tillon gallons of Ether, From oceans to lakes to rivers, waterisscemingly everywhere. Unfortunately, though, only shout one-half of one percent of water is is salt water, and D) likewise, a A) NO CHANGE B) conquests and defenses, Q ‘conquests and defenses a re9. Machines ae often blamed for taling people's jobs I Morsver, some machines actually create ‘work Technology can bost productivity, increasing the demand for labor. can also streamne complex tsk, opening the door for les skilled worker. The American inventor Eli Whitney invented machines that dd both Whitney's most Famous invention, the cotton gin, 1794. The EB word sia.” shor for ind the cotton gin revolutionized cotton was patented ‘engin production by automating its processing, The device retal hooks. As consisted of a set of wheels contain the wheels turned, the hooks caught bits of cotton pulling them through a sereen that kept out seeds FEMA wire brush periodically swept the cotton off the bade, This brush prevented the machine from jamming. Inland coton EM farmers, who could only evkivate “green seed" cotton ~ Found the gin especially useful This type of cotton was so labor-intensive hat it reqired 10 hours of hand labor to produce a single unit of HM coton: one Whitney cotton gin could do a fll day's work of several men in an hour. 4 oa A) NOCHANGE In reality, Likewise D) Assueh, What isthe most effective way of combining the sentences atthe underlined portion? A) A.wire brush periodically swept the cotton off the blade and prevented the machine from jam ) A wire brush periodically swept the cotton off the blade, it prevented the machine from Jamming ©) A.wire brush periodically swept the cotton off the blade; however, this prevented the cee an pcg (Cod iver sch pertety septhe of hae ape te ‘machine from jamming. a A) NO CHANGE Farmers who Farmers — who DB) farmers: who C ino Whey oon a 16810. Every clinical drug rial conducted today randomly assigns patients o one of tI eroups: members of the fist group receive a eal drug, while members of the second receive an inactive pl or substance known as placebo, Some placebos contain sugar, others consist of distiled water o saline solution, Patients are no old Which one they are taking, and that information is hidden from researchers as well. Remarkably, the patients taking the inaetvedevg tend to show some lfimprovement, this isa res known asthe placebo effect. Alongside the benefits, however, people taking placebos often report EM puzling side effects: nous Ineadaches, or pain ~ that are unlikely to eome from an inert tablet. 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