In addition to causing hearing loss, (2)_____ noise exposure can also (3)______ blood pressure and pulse rate, cause irritability, anxiety, and mental fatigue, and interfere with sleep, recreation, and personal communication.

Students use libraries to supplement and enhance their classroom experiences, to learn (4)______ in locating sources of information, and to develop good reading and study habits. Public officials use libraries to research legislation and public policy issues.

The invention of the mobile phone has undoubtedly revolutionized the way people communicate and inuenced every aspect of our lives. The issue is whether this technological innovation has (1)______ more harm than good. In order to answer the question, we must rst turn to the types of consumers. Presumably, most parents (2)_____ are always worrying about their children’s safety buy mobile phones for them to track their whereabouts. We can also assume that most teenagers want mobile phones to avoid missing out on social contact. In this context, the advantages are clear. (3)______ , we cannot deny the fact that text messages have been used by bullies to intimidate fellow students. There is also (4)_____ evidence that texting has affected literacy skills. The widespread use of mobile phone has, out of question, affected adult consumers too. What employee, on the way home from work, would be reluctant to answer a call from their boss? Apparently, only 18% of us, according to a survey, are willing to switch off our mobile phones once we've left the ofce. Admittedly, mobile phones can be intrusive but there are obvious benets to possessing one. Personally speaking, they are invaluable when it comes to making social or business arrangements at short (5)______ . They also provide their owners with a sense of security in emergency situations.

Admittedly, mobile phones can be intrusive but there are obvious benets to possessing one. Personally speaking, they are invaluable when it comes to making social or business arrangements at short (5)______ . They also provide their owners with a sense of security in emergency situations.

Always think of something positive about an experience and talk about that. You should also be (4)_____

The north of Europe, (3)_____ , is not the only place where winter swimming is practised regularly. A large ice swimming movement exists in the UK, based in a famous location: the Serpentine Lake in Hyde Park in London. In Harbin, Northern China, about 200,000 people ice-swim in the Songhua River every winter.

PUBLIC EDUCATION IN THE UNITED STATES

Public Education in the United States, programs of instruction (1) _______ to children, adolescents, and adults in the United States through schools and colleges (2) _______ by state and local governments. (3) _______ the nationally regulated and financed education (4) _______ of many other industrialized societies, American public education is (5) _______ the responsibility of the states and individual school districts. Read the reading below carefully, and then complete it with the best option A, B, C or D given below
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In many countries money for training is (3) ______ from the government for the very best young sportsmen and women.

What is clear is that very (5) _______ people reach the top and both parents and children should be prepared for failure even after many years of training.

A background process thus often performs (4)_____________ work, such as printing or checking for arriving messages on an electronic mail network, invisibly unless the user requests an update or brings the task to the foreground.