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One of the hottest topics on the international development agenda is how to harness the power of International Monetary Fund for the benefit of developing countries. What is sometimes called “the death of distance”, brought about by the (1) ______, allow professional services such as (2)____education and training to be provided easily and quickly to (3)___________areas. Some of the gains can be seen in countries as diverse as India and Morocco, where innovations range from (4)________ government announcements to local craftsmen selling their wares to a (5)______ market. But already a huge and expanding (6)_____   divide is opening up between developed and  developing nations. The major tasks facing world leaders at present is to (7)________everybody on the planet with clean water, basic education and the drugs needed to fight preventable diseases. Installing a (8) ________in every classroom and liking us to (9)________must be a lesser (10) _______, for the  time being at least.

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In most of the earliest books for children, illustrations were an afterthought. But in the Caldecott "toy books" which first (1)............ in 1878, they were almost (2)............ important as the lines of text,  and occupied far more space in the book. One can almost read the story from the dramatic action in the pictures. (3)............ then, thousands of successful picture books have been published in the United States and around the world. In the best, the words and illustrations seem to complement each other perfectly. Often a single person is responsible (4)............ both writing and illustrating the book. One of (5)............, and certainly one of the most successful, illustrator-authors was Dr. Seuss, (6)............ real name was Theodor Geisel. His first children's book, And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, hit the market in 1937, and the world of children's literature was changed forever. Seuss's playful drawings were a perfect complement to his engaging stories and (7)............ characters. In 1957, Seuss's The Cat in the Hat (8)............ the first book in Random House's best-selling series, Beginner Books, written by Seuss and several (9)............ authors. These combine outrageous illustrations of people, creatures, and plants, and playful stories written (10)............ very simple language.

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Speech is one of the most important (1) ---------  of communicating .It consists of far more than just making  noises . To talk and also (2) --------- to by other people, we have to speak a language ,that is, we have to use combinations of (3) ------------ that  everyone agrees  to  stand for a  particular object  or idea.  Communication would  be impossible if everyone made up their own language.  Learning a language properly is  very (4) ------------  . The basic (5)--------- of English is not very large, and not only about 2,000 words are needed to speak it quite (6) -----------  .But the more idea you can (7)--------    the more precise you can be about  their exact  meaning. Words are the (8)-------- thing we use in communicating what we want to say. The way we(9)-------------  the words is also very important. Our tone of voice can express many emotions and (10)----------  whether we are  pleased or angry, for instance

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Internet services themselves are, generally speaking, easy (27)_____ and use; however, you will find yourself isolated on the Internet if you are not familiar with English. This means that knowledge or lack of knowledge of English is one of the most severe factors that prevent people (28)_____ using the Internet. Learning to use a new Internet service may take a few hours, a few days, or even weeks, but it takes years to learn a (29)_____ so that you can use it in a fluent and self-confident manner. Of course, when you know some English, you can learn more just by using it on the Internet. The advent of online universities has now made it possible for more people to learn English, people (30)_____ may live in countries where access to standard education facilities is limited. While it may have been impossible for these people to learn English in the past, the Internet has opened up new career (31)_____. These people are now able to learn English, and they can use their English skills to get better-paying jobs at home, or they can use them to find jobs overseas. In any event, the Internet has played a (32) __________ role in allowing English to spread across the world, and the number of people learning it is likely to increase in the future.

28._________

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The weather was fine so we decided to go ____________ foot

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Lassen National Park, the situation of a dormant volcano, is one of the most beautiful but least visited parks in the western United States.

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We call her as ‘Auntie Flo’, though she is not really in any relation to us .

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OWNING A PET
The joys and tribulations of being a pet owner! During our lifetime most of us have some experience of either owning a pet or being in (1) _______ contact with someone who does. Is there such a thing as “the ideal pet”? If so what characterizes the ideal pet? Various (2) _______ influence one’s choice of pet, from your reasons for getting a pet to your lifestyle. For example, although quite a few pets are relatively cheap to buy, the cost of (3) _______ can be considerable. Everything must be (4) _______ into account, from food and bedding, to vaccinations and veterinary bills. You must be prepared to (5) _______ time on your pet, which involves shopping for it, cleaning and feeding it. Pets can be demanding and a big responsibility. Are you prepared to exercise and (6) _______ an animal or do you prefer a more independent pet? How much spare room do you have? Is it right to lock an energetic animal into a (7) _______ space? Do you live near a busy road which may threaten the life of your pet? Pets (8) _______ as turtles and goldfish can be cheap and convenient, but if you prefer affectionate pets, a friendly cat or dog would be more (9) _______. People get pets for a number of reasons, for company, security or to teach responsibility to children. Pets can be affectionate and loyal and an excellent source of company as long as you know what pet (10) _______ you and your lifestyle

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Early writing and Alphabets
When people first began to write, they did not use an alphabet. Instead, they drew small pictures to (01) ______ the objects they were writing about. This was very slow because there was a different picture for (02) ______ word. The Ancient Egyptians had a (03) ______ of picture writing that was (04) ______ hieroglyphics. The meaning of this writing was forgotten for a very long time but in 1799 some scientists (05) ______ a stone near Alexandria, in Egypt. The stone had been there for (06) ______ a thousand years. It had both Greek and hieroglyphics on it and researchers were finally able to understand what the hieroglyphics meant. An alphabet is quite different (07) ______ picture writing. It (08) ______ of letters or symbols that represent a sound and each sound is just part of one word. The Phoenicians, (09) ______ lived about 3,000 years ago, developed the modern alphabets. It was later improved by the Roman’s and this alphabet is now used (10) ______ throughout the world

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If you can roll a ball, you can play bowls. Everyone can play: young and old, men and women, the fit and the not so fit. It is the (1)_______ outdoor game that really is a sport for all. What other sports can grandparents play on equal terms with their grandchildren? What other game is so simple that you could take up it today and be (2)_______ in the national championship tomorrow? Simple? Perhaps that is not the (3)_______ word. There are bowls players in their thousands (4)_______ will tell you that, although bowls is a game that anyone can (5)_______ in five minutes, it takes a lifetime to (6)_______ it. They are the people who have developed a passionate interest in the game. (7)_______ for outsiders, bowls is another word, and a strange and puzzling one. They see a bowl game in action and wonder what is going on. What the players are trying to do is easy to explain. Their (8)_______ is to roll their bowls, called wood, as near as possible to the little white ball, called the jack. If one of your bowls finishes nearer to the jack than your opponent's, you score one point and he or she scores (9)_______ If you have the two nearest, you score two, and so on. The skill involved in rolling a bowl that weighs around 2 kilos across about 40 meters so that it stops only a very short (10)_______ from the target is just as impressive as the skills required in other sports.

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My younger sister is a potential star of state and screen, or at least that's what she tells me. Last week she had an interview. It was for the (1)……………..of Juliet in Shakespear’s Romeo and Juliet. It went well and she starts (2)……………..next week. This is the first play that she has been in, but she has done quite a lot of TV advertising work and she has been in a couple of films. The last film she was in was called The magician. It was set in ancient Egypt and she was in a crowd (3)……with thousands of other people. When I went to see it, I sat in the front (4)……………..so that I could see the (5)…………….really clearly, but I couldn’t pick out my sister in the crowd. She says the (6)……………..was one of the best professionals she has worked with but I must say the (7)……………..seemed a bit stupid to me. It was all about a very clever magician who had managed to travel back through time to the Court of Tutankhamen. The (8)……………..were magnificent and so were some of the sets but having an actor saying (9)…………in present day American English just didn’t work. The ending was really ridiculous. The magician got accidentally buried with Tutankhamen. Funnily enough, the rest of the (10)……………seemed to have rather enjoyed the film.

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Getting friends and family to pose for photos is hard enough, but how would you cope with a rabbit, an owl or a butterfly that simply (1) _______to keep still? Simon King, wildlife film—maker and photographer, says you don't need any formal (2)_______  to get started. "The whole idea is that photographing wildlife should be fun". Simon offers the following (3)_______Specialize from the start. You're more likely to get good result sooner if you (4)_______  on the type of wildlife - insects for instance - (5)_______  than just going off to the woods or park with your camera and snapping whatever you see. Pick something that isn't hard to photograph. Choosing an animal that's hard to (6)_______ or will run away if it sees you (7) _______ unnecessary problems. How about flowers or a group of birds? Search second-hand camera shops and local papers for quality (8) _______. You don't need to (9) _______ a fortune. Simon started with just a second-hand camera that cost around $30. But you will need a single lens reflex camera. Remember it's the whole photograph that counts, nor just the subject. (10) _______ you're composing a picture and try to be as artistic as possible.

It is a common belief in Britain that nowadays men do more housework than they did in (1) _____  generations. But is this really so? A recent survey has (2) _____ some interesting discoveries. When men help out, they enjoy cooking and shopping but most are (3) _____ to do the washing. A quarter of men think that women are better suitable for after (4) _____ the home than men and 19% admit to making no (5) _____to housework.

The average man says that he does a third of the housework, (6) _____the average woman says she does three-quarters of it, so someone isn’t (7) _____the truth! It was impossible to find any men who shared housework (8) _____ with their partners. Perhaps it isn’t so (9) _____that there are some politicians who want a new law forcing men to do their (10) _____.

The average man says that he does a third of the housework, (6) _____the average woman says she does three -quarters of  it.

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   The leading causes of (36) in many developing countries are now heart disease, cancer, accident, flu, pneumonia, etc. Moreover, cigarettes, alcohol, physical inactivity, and overeating also add to the causes of several of these killing diseases. Medicine has little help to offer, however, to persons (37) can not rid (38) habits harmful to their health. Surgery is the only (39) to offer any chance of survival for people (40) lung cancer.

40___________ 

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The most dominant and reliable features of facial expressions provide a constant channel of communication. They can be shifty and evasive; convey hate, fear, and guilt; or (1) _____ confidence, love, and support. Referred to as "mirrors of the soul" our eyes serve as the major decisive factor in (2) _____ the spoken words. The eyes of the man converse as (3) _____ as their tongues, with the advantage that the ocular dialect needs (4) _____ dictionary, but it is understood all over the world. When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practiced man relies on eyes. Except (5) _____ extremely shy individuals, most people look for social acceptance by studying the eyes of others. Eyes also can (6) _____ indicate a positive or a negative relationship. People tend to look longer and more often at the people whom they trust, respect and care about than at those whom they doubt or (7) _____. Normal eye dilation is not under control of the individual. Personally characteristics such as introversion and extroversion also influence eye behavior. Eye behavior seems (8) ____ particular importance and is generally used to indicate whether one is open to communication. This can be observed when a teacher asks the class a question: students who think they know the answer will generally (9) ____ at the teacher, (10) ____ students who do not know the answer will usually try to avoid eye contact

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Do you ever wish you were more optimistic, someone who always (1)____ to be successful? Having someone around who always fears the worst isn't really a lot of (2)____ - we all know someone who sees a single cloud on a sunny day and says, 'It looks like rain.' But if you catch yourself thinking such things, it's important to do something  about it. You can change your view of life, according to psychologist. It only takes a little (3)___, and you'll find life more rewarding as a (4)____. Optimism, they say, is partly about self-respect and confidence but it's also a more positive way of looking at life and all it has to (5)____. Optimists are more (6)_____ to start new projects and are generally more prepared to take risks. Upbringing is obviously very important in forming your (7)___ to the world. Some people are brought up to depend too much on others and grow up forever blaming other people when anything (8)____ wrong. Most optimists, on the (9)____ hand, have been brought up not to (10)____ failure as the end of the world - they just get on with their lives

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The role of translation enabling literature to pass beyond its natural frontiers is receiving growing recognition. In view of the general increase in this (1)_____, it is not surprising that many   people with literary interests and a knowledge of languages should think of adopting translating as a full-or part-time (2)_____. Some advice may usefully be given to such would-be translators. The first difficulty the beginner will (3)_____is the unwillingness of publishers to entrust a translator to anyone who has not already (4)____a reputation for sound work. The least publishers  will (5)____ before commissioning a translator is a fairly lengthy specimen of the applicant’s work, even if unpublished. Perhaps the best way the would-be translator can begin is to select some books of the type (6)_____ he or she feels competent and eager to translate, translate a (7)_____section of   the book and then submit the book and the translation to a suitable publisher. If he or she is extremely lucky, this may result in a commission to translate the book. More probably, however, publishers   will (8)____the book as such but if they are favorably (9)__________    by the translation, they may very possibly commission some other books of a (10)______ nature which they already have in mind.

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The native people of Americans are called Indians because when Columbus landed in the Bahamas in 1492, he thought that he has reached the East Indies.

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CARNIVOROUS PLANTS
All plants rely on nutrients taken from the soil in order to survive. However, in areas where the soil does not contain enough (1)_____ nutrients, some plants have adapted to (2) _____ their diets from another source: living organisms. Though they are few in number, carnivorous plants are (3)_____ fascinating beings that “eat” anything from one-celled organisms to insects in order to survive. They are commonly found in marshlands. Carnivorous plants feature one of several types of “traps” to ensnare prey, which they consume to make up for nutrients that may be missing from the soil. While there are over 400 species of carnivorous plants in the world today, some are more (4)_____ than others. The most well-known of these plants are the snap traps, which include the Venus flytrap. Snap traps are easily identified by their leaves, which are separated into two lobes that have the ability to fold together. Inside the lobes, the surface is covered with tiny hairs that are (5) _____ to movement. When the plant’s prey brushes against the hairs, it triggers a closing mechanism that rapidly brings the two lobes together, trapping the prey (6)_____ inside. The response of the traps is phenomenal (7)_____ speed: the time between triggering the hairs and snapping shut is less than a second. As the prey struggles inside the trap, it only triggers more hairs, causing the leaves to tighten their (8) _____. The plant then secrets liquid chemicals from special glands into the trap to dissolve the prey and absorb all of its nutrients. Besides the Venus flytrap, only one other type of snap trap exists today, (9)_____ to as the waterwheel plant. The two share a common ancestor and differ only in a few ways. For instance, the waterwheel is an aquatic plant, while the flytrap is exclusively terrestrial. In addition, the flytrap feeds primarily on arthropods like spiders, while the waterwheel lives (10)_____ simple invertebrates, like certain types of plankton.

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The future of the daily newspaper is in danger. With changes in people’s reading habits and financial concerns, it seems that more and more of us are turning (1)…………from the traditional daily newspaper as a means of getting our information and going online or to TV news for the headlines and main stories instead. 
Does this mean that newspaper will (2) ………… become a thing of the past? Many experts believe that newspapers will survive in some form in the future (3)…………the convenience of the internet, their main rival. The main reason for thinking this is that a large percentage of the population is (4)…………35 and has a strong newspaper reading habit. For  many of these people, reading newspapers is not simply a way of getting the information about (5)…………events but part of a traditional routine. For them, catching up with the main stories electronically from news websites or TV news broadcast will never be a real substitute for turning the pages of a paper on the train or at the table. However the main competition for newspapers (6)…………from their own online version. Access to these is currently free of charge but for how much longer? Many newspaper corporations are (7)…………that the only way forward for all newspapers is to charge customers to read the online versions. Apparently, surveys (8)…………that as many as 48%of British and American consumers are prepared to pay for this service, although they are not prepared to pay very (9)…………! Would you be willing to pay for online access to news websites or should it continue to be free for everyone? Can you (10)…………a world without newspapers?