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After a while, the track we have been following became thick undergrowth

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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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Personal computers are used in business and professional offices and at home to reduce paperwork. There are two important reasons for the increasing popularity of personal computers. First, there is a great deal of software for use both in the office and at home. Software for word processing and accounting improves office efficiency while programs for household budgets, games, or educational activities are used at home. Second, using a personal computer is an individual activity that allows the user to control and interact with the computer. 

Which program is not used at home? 

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PROBLEMS OF WATCHING TELEVISION IN BRITAIN
British parents are always complaining that their children spend too much time gluing to the telly and not enough (1)____ other activities like sports and reading. A survey recently carried out on people's viewing habits  (2)____ not disapprove it. It shows that young people in Britain spend on  (3)___ twenty three hours a week in front of the television,  (4)_______ works out at over three hours every day. What is surprising, however, is the fact that the average adult watches even more: an incredible 28 hours a week. We seem to have become a nation of telly addicts. Just about  (5)_______ household in the country has a television and over half have two or more. According  (6)___ the survey, people nowadays don't just watch television sitting in their living room, they watch it in the kitchen and in bed as well. The Education Minister said a  (7)___weeks ago that Britain's pupils should spend more time reading. Unfortunately, parents are not setting a good example: adults do  (8)__ reading than young people. In fact, reading is  (9)___ the bottom of their list of favorite pastimes. They would (10)____ listen to the radio, go to the cinema or hire a video to watch on their television at home.

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HOW COOL! I’VE BEEN BITTEN BY A TARANTULA

A student’s trip to the rainforests of Borneo ended in a race to save her life after she was bitten by a tarantula – an experience she described as “cool”. Lucy Watson, 20, was four weeks (81) ____ a conservation expedition when the (82)____ spider bit her on the arm. Other groups (83) ____ carried the Durham University student for nine hours through the jungle. The difficult (84) ____ was followed by a three-hour drive to a hospital, where Lucy was treated (85) ____  antibiotics. Later, she was able to (86) ____ the bright side – her first words over the phone to her anxious parents were. “How cool! I’ve been bitten by a tarantula”. She was (87) ____ the next day and immediately returned to the expedition. Lucy’s parents were told of the accident by the tour organizer. Taskforce Expeditions, which (88)____ them at home in England. Mrs. Watson said “When
she (89) ____ to the hospital, she was covered in mud and she had her first good shower (90) ____ four weeks”. Lucy, who has just completed the second year of her physics degree decided to go on the expedition at the last minute.

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TRAFFIC LIGHTS
The first traffic signal was invented by a railway signaling engineer. It was installed (1) ___ the Houses of Parliament in 1868. It (2)_____ like any railway signal of the time, and was operated by gas.  (3) ____, it exploded and killed a policeman, and the accident discouraged further development until cars became common. (4) ____ traffic lights are an American invention. Red – green systems were installed in Cleveland in 1914. Three - color signals, operated (5) _____ hand from a tower in the (6) _____ of the street, were installed in New York in 1918. The first lights of this type to (7) ____ in Britain were in London, on the junction between St. James’s Street and Piccadilly, in 1925. Automatic signals were installed (8) ____ year later. In the past, traffic lights were special. In New York, some lights had a statue on top. In Los Angeles the lights did not just change silently, but would ring bells to (9) _____ the sleeping motorists of the 1930s. These are gone and have been (10) ____ by standard models which are universally adopted.

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The history of Film
The world’s first film was shown in 1895_______1______ two French brothers, Louis and Auguste Lumiere. Although it only ________2______ of short, simple scenes, people loved it and films have become popular ever since. The first films were silent, with titles on the screen to _________3_________ the story. Soon the public had _______4_______ favorite actors and actresses and, in this way, the first film stars appeared. In 1927, the first “talkie”, a film with sound, was shown and from then on, the public would only accept this kind of film.

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The English language began(3)…….England, of course. But when people went from England to(4)…….countries, they brought their language with them. The first English people come to North America(5)……many things that they did not know about before, especially different kinds of animals and plants. So they took the(6)……for these plants and animals from the people(7)…….were already living in America-the Indians. “Raccoon”, “skunk”, “tomato”, “tobacco” are all American Indian words.

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KEEPING FIT
Bodies are made to move! They are not (1)  _________for sitting around in front of the television or reading magazines. Keeping fit doesn’t (2) _________you have to be a super-athlete, and even (3)  ______exercise can give you a lot of fun. When you are fit and healthy, you will find you look better and feel better. You will develop more energy and self-confidence. Every time you move, you are exercising. The human body is designed to bend, stretch, run, jump and climb. (4)  _________it does, the stronger and fitter it will become. Best of all, exercise is fun. It’s what your body likes doing most-keeping on the (5) _________. Physical exercise is not only good for your body. People who take regular exercise are usually happier, more relaxed and more alert (6)  _________people who sit around all day. Try an experiment-next time you are (7) _________a bad mood, go for a walk or play a ball game in the park. See how much better you feel after an hour. A good (8)  _________of achievement is yet another benefit of exercise. People feel good about themselves when they know they have (9)  _________their fitness. People who exercise regularly will tell you that they find they have more energy to enjoy life. So have (10) _________-you’ll soon see and feel the benefits

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Oxford University, informally known as "Oxford University", or more simply. "Oxford", (1) ______ in the city of Oxford, England, is (2) ______ the oldest university in the English-speaking world. It is also considered as one of the top (3) ______ organizations in the world. Traces of the university, its origins date back to at least the late 11th century, (4) ______ the exact date of its founding remains unclear. Academically, Oxford is consistently ranked in the top ten universities in the world. The school also opens (5) ______ foreign students, mainly from US universities, who may (6) _____ in study abroad programs during the summer months for more than a century, the school has serving as home to the Rhodes Scholarship, (7) ______ brings high achieving students from several countries to study at Oxford as (8) ______. Oxford University is also home to many great leaders from around the world. 25 British Prime Ministers attended Oxford, including Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair. At (9) ______ 25 other international leaders have trained at Oxford, and this number includes King Herald V of Norway and King Abdullah II of Jordan. Bill Clinton was the first US President to study at Oxford. Forty-seven Nobel laureates (10) ______ have studied or taught at Oxford.

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The authorities are worried about the increase of drug abuse .

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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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There are many different ways to improve your reading, writing, listening and speaking skills when you study another language. It's easy to (31) ______ a mistake when you write a letter or speak for the first time. You can get a friend (32)____ speaks the language well and record them on your phone. Then you can play it back at home and review how they pronounce (33)________ words. Another tip many language teachers share is to label things use a lot, like your book (34) ______backpack. This will help you when you try to translate English words (35)__________ your own language in the future.

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Music is universal - it is produced by all cultures. Some scientists believe that music came before speech and (1) ______ as a development of mating calls. In fact, there is one theory that the earliest    languages were chanted or sung, rather than spoken. Indeed, in some cultures, music is a form of (3) ______ history. The Aboriginal Australians, for example, use music as a means to (4) ______ on stories of the land and spirits to the next (5)________. New evidence suggests that music does not just (6) ______ the feel - good factor but it is also good for the brain. A study of intellectually (7) ______ children showed that they could recall more (8)_________ after it was given to them in a song than after it was read to them as a story. Researchers also report that people score better on a standard intelligence test after listening to Mozart. The so-called “Mozart effect” has also been (9) ______ by findings that rats (10)________ up on Mozart run faster through a complex network of paths or passages, known as a maze. Overall, it seems that in most instances people who suffer from any form of mental illness benefit from listening to music.

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THE OPEN UNIVERSITY
The Open University was created in 1968 to give people who cannot afford (1) _______ attend regular courses of study, the opportunity of studying and (2)_______ a university diploma or degree. They study at home and their academic performance is assessed by (3) ______                 of written examinations or project work. Most Open University    students (4) ________  in study while also holding down a job or coping with a busy home life. They study in order to update their job skills  or  for personal (5) ______ .At the heart of  most courses is a (6)______ of specially written and  professionally printed textbooks and workbooks which students receive by post. On many of the courses, students are expected to watch television programmes on the BBC   network, (7)______-are usually broadcast in the (8) _____                   hours  of  the  morning. The (9) ______ of these programmes is to develop  and broaden the study experience, (10)______ students do not have to rely only on the printed material they are sent.

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The Medal of Honor is the higher award for military bravery that can be given to any soldier of the United States.

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Two British policemen were (19)_______ to investigate a flying saucer on March 31, 1989, the day before April Fool’s Day. When the policemen arrived at a field in Survey, they saw a small figure wearing a silver space (20)________ walking out of a spacecraft. Immediately the police ran off in the opposite direction. Reports revealed that the alien was in fact a small person, and the flying saucer was a hot air balloon that had been specially built to look (21)________ a UFO by Richard Branson, the 36-year-old chairman of Virgin Records.

Branson had planned to (22) _______ the balloon in London’s Hyde Park on April 1.

However, a wind change had brought him down in a Survey field. The police received a lot of phone calls from terrified motorists as the balloon drifted over the motorway. One lady was so (23)_____ by the incident that she was crying as she was (24)______ the UFO to a radio station.

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Every society changes, but not change at the same rate or in the same direction

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Despite its smaller size, the Indian Ocean is as deep the Atlantic Ocean.

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Tigers are one of the most powerful and graceful animals in the world. The different species that still exist today, namely the Bengal, Indochina, Siberian, South China, and Sumatra tigers are in danger of becoming extinct. Due to irresponsible hunting, the Bali, Caspian, and Java tigers have already become extinct. This could soon happen to the other species too.

In the past, tigers were considered pests. With a smaller area to hunt, as man had taken up more of the land to build upon, the tigers found less area for themselves to hunt. They thus turned to farms to get their food. Farmers’ livestock were attacked by these tigers. People were then encouraged to hunt and kill these animals with the promise of rewards. Even after the threat of tigers on livestock was over, the man continued to hunt tigers, this time for recreation. Poachers too hunt tigers for their body parts knowing that the skin of tigers is much sought after. Bones and other organs are also used as ingredients in traditional Chinese medicine. Although killing is illegal, it is still being carried out unless it is stopped, the remaining species of tigers will soon become extinct too.

Men continue hunting tigers even they are no longer pests because _____

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Nobody was watching, so his little boy took the packet of sweets from the shelf and putting it in his pocket