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Because not food is as nutritious for a baby as its mother’s milk, many women are returning to the practice of breast feeding.

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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.

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If you’ve been told by your boss to improve your knowledge of a foreign language you’ll know that success doesn’t come quickly. It generally takes years to learn another language well and constant (1) _____ to maintain the high standards required for frequent business use. Whether you study in a class, with audio cassettes, computers or on your (2) _____ sooner or (3) _____ every language course finishes and you must decide what to do next if you need a foreign language for your career. Business Audio Magazine is a new product designed to help you continue language study in a way that fits easily into your busy schedule. Each audio cassette (4) _____ of an hour-long program packed with business news, features and interviews in the language of your choice. These cassettes won’t teach you how to order meals or ask for directions. It’s (5) _____ that you can do that already. Instead, by giving you an opportunity to hear the language as it’s really spoken, they help you to (6) _____ your vocabulary and improve your ability to use real language relating to, for example, that all-important marketing trip. The great advantage of using audio magazines is that they (7) _____ you to perfect your language skills in ways that suit your lifestyle. For example, you can select a topic and listen in your car or hotel when away on business. No other business course is as (8) _____ and the unique radio magazine format is as instructive as it’s entertaining. In addition to the audio cassette, this package includes a transcript with a business glossary and a study (9) _____. The components are structured so that intermediate and advanced students may use separately or together, (10) _____ on their ability.

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Have you ever visited London, one of the most famous cities in the world? London is divided into three parts, The City, the West End, and the East End. The City is Britain’s commercial and banking center. The West End is the part where rich people live. The East End is the part where poor people live.
Lenin visited London before the Great October Socialist Revolution. He often came to work at the British Museum. He gathered material for his works. Lenin studied the life of the British workers and the British labor movement. He attended meetings and gatherings. He spent much time learning English in order to master it. Lenin liked to walk around the city to learn more about the British capital. He called London the city of striking contrasts. 

When did Lenin visit London?

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The country is more beautiful than a town and pleasanter to live in. Many people think so and go to the country for the summer holidays though they can not live there all the year round. Some have a cottage built in a village so that they can go there whenever they can find the time.

English villages are not all alike, but in some ways they are not very different from each other. Almost every village has a church, the round or square tower of which can be seen from many miles around. Surrounding the church is the churchyard where people are buried.

The village green is a wide stretch of grass, and houses or cottages are built round it. Country life is now fairly comfortable and many villages have the water brought through pipes into house.

Most villages are so close to some small towns that people can go there to buy what they can't find in the village shops.

Which of the following statements is NOT true?

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Most people feel that when they dream, they are (1)________ off to another world. On the (2)________, dreams are often  connected to our daily lives. When our whole (3)_________ is filled with something, when we are either very  upset (4)________ when we are in good spirit, a dream will represent this reality in symbols. It is often (5)_______ that we benefit from dreams because they help the spirit to heal itself when things (6)__________ wrong. Dreams are therefore a kind of escape, almost a holiday from (7)__________ life, with its fears and responsibilities. It is, however, a strange kind of holiday because whether we have a wonderful time or whether it turns (8)_________ to be a nightmare, we quickly forget it. Most dreams disappear forever, (9)_________ you are one of those people disciplined enough to write them down as soon as you (10)_________.

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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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Do you ever think about what schools will be like in the future? Many people think that students will study most regular classes such as maths, science and history online.

Students will probably learn these subjects anywhere using a computer. What will happen if students have problems with a subject? They might connect with a teacher through live video conferencing. Expert teachers from learning centres will give students help wherever they live.

Students will still take classes in a school, too. Schools will become places for learning social skills. Teachers will guide students in learning how to work together in getting along with each other. They will help students with group projects both in and out of the classroom.

Volunteer work and working at local businesses will teach students important life skills about the world they live in. This will help students become an important part of their communities.

Some experts say it will take five years for changes to begin in schools. Some say it will take longer. Most people agree, though, that computers will change education the way TVs and telephones changed life for people all over the world years before.

Students will still go to school to _____ .

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People are fascinated by robots. Science fiction books and movies feed people’s imagination, making them wonder about the possibilities of robots living and (26)______ with them. Is it possible for robots to look like people, work like people, and (27)______ like people? In the future, anything is possible. Already today, there are tens of thousands of robots doing work all over the world.
Robot is the name (28)______ to any machine that can do a certain job automatically. These machines come in many shapes and sizes. It is possible to build a robot in the shape of a person, but most look like machines built for specific purposes. They can be controlled by computers. The computers tell the robot what to do and how to do it. People write the (29)______ for computers that control the robots. Robots can sense the environment around them and respond (30)______ it. They can complete several steps in a process and can try other methods if one does not work. Ordinary machines cannot do these things.

30.__________

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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 symptoms of diabetes in the early stages are too slight that people don’t notice them

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Magnets
A solid object that has the power to attract iron and some metals is called a magnet. It does this through its magnetic field, a region of force surrounding it. The (1) _____ the magnet, the more intense is the field. Objects that are attracted to the magnet feel a force (2)­­ _____ as “magnetism” when they are inside the magnetic field. This magnetic force can pass (3) _____ some materials. Even a weak magnet will attract a pin to the other side of a (4) ______ of paper, for example. Magnets come in (5) ______ shapes. A familiar one is the curved horseshoes magnet. There are also bar magnets in the form (6) _____ disc or a stubby cylinder. Every magnet has (7) ______ poles, called north and south, at opposite ends of it: at the two ends of a horseshoes magnet, for example, or on the two sides of a disc. Powerful magnets can be (8) _______ by passing an electric current through wire coiled around a piece of iron. The (9) _____ is called and electromagnet. Magnets are (10) ______ in many household and everyday devices. They are also commonly used in industrial machinery, usually in the form of electromagnets

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The medical problems of parents and their children tend to be very similar to because of the hereditary nature of many diseases.

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"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."

3. Diatoms soak up (3) _______ and use its energy to make food, just like plants.

The three phases of human memory are the sensory memory, the short-term memory, and the long-term memory. This division of the memory into phases is based on the length of time of the memory.
Sensory memory is instantaneous memory. It is an image or memory that enters your mind only for a short period of time; it comes and goes in under a second. The memory will not last longer than that unless the information enters the short-term memory.
Information can be held in the short-term memory for about twenty seconds or as long as you are actively using it. If you repeat a fact to yourself, that fact will stay in your short-term memory as long as you keep repeating it. Once you stop repeating it, either it is forgotten or it moves into long term memory.
Long-term memory is the huge memory tank that can hold ideas and images for years and years. Information can be added to your long-term memory when you actively try to put it there through memorization or when an idea or image enters your mind on its own.

The expression "is based on" in the first paragraph could be best replaced by _______.

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What’s your dream? Touring castles in Scotland? Walking on the Great Wall of China? Working to improve the lives of women in rural Uganda? If you’re thinking of studying (1)___________, there’s no end to the places you can go, things you can see, and subjects you can study. At many top schools, such as Duke, Tufts, or Brown, over a third of the junior class take the opportunity to complete part of their (2)___________outside of the United States. Even if your school doesn’t have an extensive study abroad program, you can often get credit from a different school.  Multiple benefits accrue to those who spend significant (3)___________in another country, and a significant proportion of students see the experience as an important (4)___________of their college years. You’re likely to have fun. But if you’re also thinking about study abroad as a way to gain a critical career advantage, read on. You’ll find that all foreign experiences are not created equal in the minds of employers. Employers are looking for graduates who can (5)___________well with others, both in person and in writing. They know the (6)___________of cross-cultural understanding and an appreciation for different points of view. They gravitate toward students who demonstrate maturity, initiative, and (7)___________. All of these assets can be demonstrated through study abroad, but it’s going to be much (8)___________to set yourself apart if you’ve taken the easy route. It’s not hard to find the “easy route”: that’s the one where you go with your friends to another country; all the arrangements are made for you by the school—including the American-style apartment where you live with your classmates. In this scenario, it doesn’t (9)___________which country you go to because all your classes will be in English, and possibly even taught by your American professors. You’ll undoubtedly have a somewhat different experience, but to do the “easy route” is to forego some of the major (10)___________of your time away

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Dear Kate,

How have you been? It has been a long time since I wrote a letter. I was caught up with the holidays and Mama's family came over, so was not able to write any. Hope you have become accustomed to the hostel food there.

When Mama and her family came over, we all went to the Jim Corbett National Park. It was spread on a huge area with huge deciduous and mango trees. There were more than 100 species of trees, with so many varieties of birds, reptiles, and other mammals. The Tigers were the special tourist attractions there.

We also went on an early morning safari and we were able to spot a sambar deer and an elephant. There were the Kalagarh dam and the Corbett falls which were awesome. I will show you all the pictures when you come over for the next holidays.

Also, let's plan to visit there together again when you come here.

Study well, eat well, and sleep well.

Take care.

Love,

Jack

The reptiles were the special tourist attractions there.

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Throughout history people have always communicated with one another, not only by speech but also by movements of the hands and body. It is, however, only (1) ______ the last few years that these aspects of communication have been studied at all widely. This type of communication is known as body language or non-verbal communication. People sometimes wonder (2) ______ you can learn how body language works. It is of course possible to read books on the subject but you also need to (3) ______ time observing people’s movements. A railway station is a particular good place for such observation, as here people can be seen openly expressing eagerness, sorrow, delight, impatience and many other human emotions by (4) _____ of movement. If you turn down the sound on your television set and try to understand (5) _____ is happening simply by watching the picture you will learn even more about communication (6) _____ words. By turning the sound back up every five (7) ______ or so, it is possible to check how accurate your (8) ______ is. Having studied the art of body language you will have a definite (9) ______ at a boring party. You will be able to sit on your own for the whole evening and thoroughly enjoy yourself by both watching (10) ______ interpreting the body language of all the other people there

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Bonsai trees have always been a source of great fascination to people. They are perfect miniatures, grown in pots small enough to sit on a windowsill. You have to keep reminding yourself that these trees are (1) ____real and identical to their larger cousins in all respects except their size. Rather like other small and perfectly-formed artifacts, bonsai trees, (2) ___quite a high price in the marketplace and so it doesn’t come as a great surprise to find that they also attract the attention of thieves. It seems that quite a flourishing business has (3) _____, in which they are stolen from the homes of grower and collectors, then reported and trimmed by unscrupulous dealers, to be sold on, at good prices, to unsuspecting buyers. One of Britain’s top collectors of bonsai trees, Paul Widdington, believes that he has found a solution, however. After losing his life’s work, (4) ____at £250,000, when burglars broke into his home one night, Paul decided to (5) ________the possibilities of electronically tagging the trees he bought as a replacement. This (6)______ injecting a microchip the size of a (7) ____of rice intro trunk of each tree. Each chip is a laser-etched with information which is (8) ____ in a central register held by the police. Paul is quite aware that this kind of data-tagging doesn’t prevent thieves from stealing the trees in the first (9) _____, although it may increase the (10) ____ of getting them back. So he’s also installing a security alarm system, complete with infra-red detectors, in his home.

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Hanging upside down from a tall building isn’t normally most kid’s idea of fun, especially if your hands and feet are tied together. But then, if you read about the life of Ehrich Weiss, you’ll discover he was not your (1)…………….kid. As an adult, he (2)………….his name to Harry Houdini and went on to become a world-famous escape artist. In fact, (3) …………..some people, he was the greatest escape artist of all time. Born in Hungary, in 1874, Harry Houdini was (4) ………………in the USA. Around the age of twelve, he developed a great (5) ………………in magic and started performing card tricks in small theatres and at fun fairs. Harry later developed amazing escape tricks, and these really drew the public’s (6)………… (7)……………how he was tied up- with chains, ropes or handcuffs- the great Harry Houdini would (8)……………manage to escape. Once people had become used to his tricks, he would develop even more dangerous ones, including escaping from water- filled tanks and cases. Harry Houdini was a clever showman and he always managed to get excellent (9) …………….for his shows. (10)…………….he arrived in a new town, he would invite the police to put handcuffs on him, which, of course, he then escaped from.

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POLAR BEARS
Polar bears are in danger of dying out. (1) _________ some other endangered animals, it’s not hunters that are the problem, it’s climate change. Since 1979, the ice cap at the Arctic Circle where the polar bears live has (2) _________ in size by about 30 percent. The temperature in the Arctic has slowly been (3) _________ and this is (4) _________ the sea ice to melt, endangering the polar bears’ home. The polar bears’ main (5) _________ of food are the different types of seal found in the Arctic. They catch them by waiting next to the air holes the seals have (6) _________in the ice. (7) _________ the bears are very strong swimmers, they could never catch seals in the water. This means that the bears (8) _________ do rely on the ice to hunt.bPolar bears also need sea ice to travel. They can (9) _________ a huge territory and often swim from one part of the ice to another. They have been known to swim up to 100km, but when there is less ice, they may have to swim further and this can (10) _________ fatal to the bears. A number of bears have drowned in the last few years and scientists believe that it is because they were not able to reach more sea ice before they became too tired and couldn’t swim any further.