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Nobel Prizes are awarded to people who excellent in their fields above and beyond what is expected from scholars.

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THE DANGERS OF DIETING
Thanks to our modern lifestyle, with more and more time spent sitting down in front of computers than ever before, the (1)____ of overweight people is at a new high. As people frantically search for a solution (2)____ this problem, they often try some of the popular fad diets being offered. Many people see fad diets (3)____ harmless ways of losing weight, and they are grateful to have them. Unfortunately, not only don’t fad diets usually (4)____ the trick, they can actually be dangerous for your health. Although permanent weight loss is the (5)___, few are able to achieve it. Experts estimate that 95 percent of dieters return to their starting weight, or even (6)____ weight. While the reckless use of fad diets can bring some (7)____ result, long-term results are very rare. (8)____, people who are fed up with the difficulties of changing their eating habits often turn to fad diets. (9)____ being moderate, fad diets involve extreme dietary changes. They advises eating only one type of food, or they prohibit other types of foods entirely. This results in a situation (10)______ a person’s body doesn’t get all the vitamins and other things that it needs to stay healthy.

MANY KINDS OF MICROBES

There are thousands of different kinds of microbes. Microbes called (1) _______ are the smallest living things. Bacteria live almost everywhere: on land, in water, and even (2) _______ you.

Some microscopic life forms are like plants. Tiny diatoms are microbes that live in lakes and the ocean. Diatoms soak up (3) _______ and use its energy to make food, just like plants.

Some microscopic life forms are more (4) _______ animals. Protozoa such as the amoeba and paramecium are animal-like microorganisms. An amoeba can move (5) _______ changing the shape of its body. It sticks out a pseudo pod, or false foot. A paramecium is (6) _______ with tiny hairs. It waves its hairs rapidly to swim.

Viruses are (7) _______ kind of microbe. Viruses sometimes act like living things and other times act like nonliving things. Viruses sometimes live in the cells of plants and animals. (8) _______ a cell, a virus reproduces like a living thing. The virus uses the cell to make many copies of itself. Viruses are (9) _______ small to see with an ordinary microscope. You need a powerful electron microscope to see a virus. Outside of a plant or animal cell, a (10) _______ is like a nonliving thing.

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Football is the (31)_______ popular sport in the world. When we think of football, we think of Pelé, the world’s greatest football (32)_______. He was born in Brazil in 1940. He (33)_______ up with football. At the age of ten, Pelé stopped going to school, and he began to (34)_______ football seriously. He started playing for a professional team in Santos, Brazil when he was only 15 and became famous throughout the world at the age of 18.

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It’s been brought to (my attention that there has been a number of thefts from the office.

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It is relatively easy for computers to speak. A computer that says ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ in the right places is (1) ___ miracle of science ,but recognizing the words that make up normal , continuous human speech is another (2) ___ Not until now have computer been programmed to (3) ___ to a range of spoken commands.Until recently it was thought that computers would have tobe programmed to the accent and speech hahits of each user,and only then would be able to respond (4) ___to their master’s or mistress’s voice.Now rapid progress is being made (5) ______systems programmed to adapt easily to each new speaker. The IBM Tangora system,under development at the end of 1980s was claimed to (6) ______a spoken vocabulary of 20,000 words with 95 percent accuracy. The system includes a processor that can  make informed guesses as to(7)______is a likely sentence.That system has been programmed not only with grammatical rules,but also with an analyssis of a vast quantity of office correspondence.On the (8) _____of this information ,the machine can calculate the probability of one particular word following another. Statistical probability is necessary for computers to interpret not only speech but also (9) ______data. Security systems can distinguish between faces they have been taught to recognize,but never has a computer been able to match a human’s ability to make sense of a three-dimemsional scene (10) ______identifying all objects in it.

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You will make the interview process easier for the employer if you prepare relevant information about yourself. Think about how you want to present your (1)________  , experiences, education, work style, skills, and goals. Be prepared to supplement all your answers with examples that support the statements you make. It is also a good idea to review your resume with a critical eye and (2)____             areas that an  employer might see as limitations or want further information. Think about how you can answer difficult' questions (3) ______and positively, while keeping each answer brief. An interview gives the employer a (4)_____ to get to know you. While you do want to market yourself to the employer, answer each question with an honest (5)_______. Never say anything negative about past experiences, employers, or courses and professors. Always think of something positive about an experience and talk about that. You should also be (6)_______ . If you  are  genuinely interested (7) ____ the job, let the interviewer know that. One of the best ways to show you are keen on a job is to demonstrate that you have researched the organization prior to the interview. You can also (8)_____interest by asking questions about the job, the organization, and its services and products. The best way to impress an employer is to ask questions that build upon your interview discussion. This shows you are interested and (9)______close attention to the interviewer. It is a good idea to prepare a few questions in advance, but an insightful comment based on your conversation can make an even stronger statement. At the (10) _____ of an  interview, it is appropriate for you to ask when you may expect to hear; from the employer

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Those of us who have a family history of heart disease should make yearly appointments with their doctors.

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The government raises money to operate by tax cigarettes, liquor, gasoline, tires, and telephone calls 

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There are thousands of different kinds of microbes. Microbes called bacteria are the smallest living things. Bacteria live almost everywhere: on land, in water, and even inside you. Some microscopic life forms are like plants. Tiny diatoms are microbes that live in lakes and the ocean. Diatoms soak up sunlight and use its energy to make food, just like plants.

Some microscopic life forms are more like animals. Protozoa such as the amoeba and paramecium are animal-like microorganisms. An amoeba can move by changing the shape of its body. It sticks out a pseudo pod, or false foot. A paramecium is covered with tiny hairs. It waves its hairs rapidly to swim.

Viruses are another kind of microbe. Viruses sometimes act like living things and other times act like nonliving things. Viruses sometimes live in the cells of plants and animals. Inside a cell, a virus reproduces like a living thing. The virus uses the cell to make many copies of itself. Viruses are too small to see with an ordinary microscope. You need a powerful electron microscope to see a virus. Outside of a plant or animal cell, a virus is like a nonliving thing.

What should be used to see a virus?

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Conservation organizations help for (to preserve the ecology of an area by keeping track of endangered species.

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Reference books are not designed to be read from the first page to the last but rather to be consulted to answer the questions and provide both general and specific pieces of information. One of the most (1) _________ used reference books is a dictionary, which provides information about words. It lists meanings spelling, (2) _________ how a word is pronounced, gives (3) _________ of how it is used, may reveal its origins and also lists synonyms and (4) _________To help you find the words faster, there are guide words at the top of each page showing the first and last worlds on that page-and of course it (5) _________to know the alphabet! There may be numerous special sections at the back with (6) _________ about famous people and places, lists of dates and scientific names, etc. There is usually a section at the front (7) _________ how to use the dictionary, which includes the special abbreviations or signs. An atlas is also a reference book and (8) _________ charts, tables and geographical facts, as well as maps. Political maps locate countries and cities, physical maps show the formation of the land with its mountains and valleys, and economic maps show industries and agriculture. To find a specific place, you need to look in the (9) _________ at the back of the atlas and the exact position on the map. There are numerous map (10) _________ that you need to know in order to be able to read a map almost like a special language and these are explained at the front of the atlas

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We can develop alternative sources of energy, and unless we try we’ll never succeed. Instead of burning fossil fuels we should be concentrating on more economical uses of electricity, because electricity can be produced from any sources of energy. If we didn’t waste so much energy, our resources would last longer. We can save more energy by conservation than we can produce for the same money. Unless we do research on solar energy, wind power, tidal power, hydroelectric plants … our fossil fuels will run out and we’ll all freeze or starve to death. Several countries are spending much more time and money on research because the energy from the sun, the waves, and the winds last forever. We won’t really survive unless we start working on cleaner and safer sources of energy.

Which source of energy cannot last forever?

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 SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) is a deadly disease. Science hasn’t found the (28)……of this disease. SARS is dangerous because it develops quickly. Patients normally (29)……a high fever, a sore throat, and cough. Their body temperature is (30)……38°C.

Antibiotics cannot cure SARS, and scientists are looking for a (31)….. to prevent the disease. Before they can find one, it is important to have a (32) ……lifestyle. You should keep fit, have plenty of fresh air, and eat a lot of foods with vitamin C.

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British families started  going on holiday to the seaside around the middle of the 19th century. The invention of the railways (1) ____ this possible. The first holidaymakers were quite rich and went for their health and education. The seaside was a place to be (2) ____  of illness, and doctors recommended bathing in the sea and drinking sea water. Also to (3) ____ their knowledge, families attended concerts and read books from the library. At that time, ordinary working people had very little time (4) ____ work. However, in 1871, the government introduced four ‘Banking Holiday’ - national holiday days. This (5) ____ people to have a day or two out, which now and then gave them a taste for leisure and the seaside. At first, they went on day-trips, taking (6) ____ of special cheap tickets on the railways. By the 1880s, rising incomes (7) ____ that many ordinary workers and their families could have a week’s holiday at the seaside. Rail fares were reduced and cheap hotels were built to (8) ____ them. Holidaymakers enjoyed being idle, sitting on the beach, bathing in the sea, and eating ice-cream. Cheap entertainment was (9) ____ offer and holidaymakers went to have fun. Today the English seaside (10) ____ popular, with more than 18 million holidays taken there each year

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The National Basketball Association will not let any athlete to continue playing in league unless he submits voluntarily to treatment for drug addiction

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A NIGHTMARE OF NOISE
According to a recent TV program, noise pollution is becoming an increasingly serious problem. Background noise such as (1)_____, police sirens and aeroplanes is growing year by year, and complaints to the police are becoming more and more (2)_____. However, for people like Mary Norman, who lives close to London Heathrow airport, the situation is particularly bad. “It’s becoming very difficult to (3)_____ a normal family life,’ she told an interviewer, ‘because the planes start first thing in the morning. They make a terrible noise, as you can imagine, and it (4)_____ on all day long. Of course I have complained about it but nobody takes any notice. I’m fed (5)_____ with living here, but unfortunately I can’t afford to move.” Researchers believe that the problem is getting worse. They have found that people who are exposed to high levels of noise become (6)_____ aggressive. Take the case of Henry Wilson, who was (7)_____ mad by a neighbor who insisted on playing his music at full volume. One night, he finally lost his (8)_____. After being forced to listen to heavy metal songs for hours, he burst into his neighbor’s house, poured petrol all over the carpets and (9)_____ to set fire to the place. When he finally appeared in court, the judge was surprisingly understanding. He (10)_____ to send him to jail, saying that he had suffered enough.

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The term civilization basically means the ___1___ of development at which people live together peacefully in communities. Ancient civilization refers specifically to the first ___2___  and stable communities that became the basis for later states, nations, and empires. The study of ancient civilization is concerned with the earliest ___3___  of the much broader subject called ancient history. The ___4___  of ancient history began with the invention of writing in about 3100 BC and lasted for more than 35 centuries. Mankind existed long before the written word, but writing made the keeping of a historical record ___5___. The first ancient societies ___6___  in Mesopotamia and Egypt in the Middle East, in the Indus Valley region of ___7___ are now Pakistan and  India, in the Huang He (Yellow River) valley of China, on the island of Crete in the Aegean Sea, and in Central America. All of these civilizations had certain ___8___  in common. They built cities, invented forms of writing, learned to make pottery and use metals, domesticated animals, and created fairly complex social structures with class systems. ___9___ written records and carved inscriptions, the knowledge about ancient peoples is derived from the work of archaeologists. Most of the significant archaeological ___10___  have been made in the past 200 years. The Sumerian culture of Mesopotamia was discovered in the 1890s, and some of the most important archaeological digs in China were made after the late 1970s

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Parents whose children show a special interest in a particular sport have a difficult decision to (1) ______ about their children’s career. Should they allow their children to train to become top sportsmen and women? For many children it (2) ______starting very young and school work, going out with friends and other (3) ______ have to take second place. It’s very difficult to explain to a young child why he or she has to train for five hours a day, even at the weekend, when (4) _______ of his or her friends are playing. Another problem is of course money. In many countries money for training is (5) ______ from the government for the very best young sportsmen and women. If this help cannot be given, it means that it is the parents (6) ______ have to find the time and the money to support their child’s development- and sports clothes, transport to competitions, special equipment etc. can all be very expensive. Many parents are understandably (7) _______ that it is dangerous to start serious training in a sport at an early age. Some doctors agree that young (8) _______ may be damaged by training before they are properly developed. Professional trainers, however, believe that it is only by starting young that you can reach the top as a successful sports person. What is clear is that very (9) _______ people reach the top and both parents and children should be prepared for failure even after many years of training.

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The latest addiction to trap thousands of people is Internet, which has been (1) … for broken relationships, job losses, financial ruin and even one suicide. Psychologists now recognize Internet Addiction Syndrome (IAS) as a new illness that could (2) ….. serious problems and ruin many lives. Special help groups have been set up to (3) ….. sufferers help and support. IAS is similar to (4) ….. problems like gambling, smoking and drinking : addicts have dreams about Internet; they need to use it first thing in the morning; they (5) … to their partners about how much time they spend online; they (6) …. they could cut down, but are unable to do so . A recent study found that many users spend up to 40 hours a week on the Internet; (7) …. they felt guilty, they became depressed if they were (8) …. to stop using it. Almost anyone can be at risk. Some of the addicts are teenagers who are already hooked on Computer games and who (9) …. it very difficult to resist the games on the Internet. Surprisingly, however, psychologists (10)…. that most victims are middle-aged housewives who have never used a computer before.

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Water pollution happens __________ (1) toxic substances enter water bodies such as lakes, rivers, oceans and so on, getting dissolved in them, lying suspended in the water or depositing on the bed. This degrades the quality of water. Not __________ (2) does this spell disaster for aquatic ecosystems, the pollutants also seep through and reach the groundwater, which might end up in our households as contaminated water we use in our daily activities, including drinking.

Pollutants can be of varying kinds: organic, inorganic, radioactive and so on. In fact, the list of possible water contaminants is just too vast to be listed here.