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Tweet Disappearing Languages   Many of the world’s languages are disappearing at an alarming   B11 rate due to the political or _____ reasons. It is               ECONOMY estimated that as many as half of all known lan- guages may disappear by 2100. The appearance of some elements of a language is a natural result of the passage of time,   B12 but now that we all live in a _____ village, this              GLOBE process is speeding up. And a language is an es- sential part of a people’s culture,   B13 if one disappears it is a terrible _____ for all the           LOSE humanity. Sometimes […]

Tweet Mary, queen of Scots, was one of the most fаs- cinating and controversial monarchs of the 16th century Europe. Hеr physical beauty and kind heart were acknowledged even by her еnеmiеs. Yet she lacked the political skills to rule in Scotland. Her second marriage was unpopular and ended in murder and scandal.     B4 her third was even _____ and ended in forced ab-      POPULAR                   dication in favor of her infant son.   B5 She fled to England in 1568 _____ for the help of       HOPE her cousin, Elizabeth I. Her presence was dange- rous   B6 for the English queen, who _____ Catholic plotting  […]

Tweet We arrived at Gatwick at 11.15 and made our way to the check-in desk.      A _____ we had some free time, so everyone went to the arcade, ate at Burger King or looked around the shops. The flight was quiet and almost all of us played games. Not many of us hаd bеen to Rome and so wе saw a very different environment from the one we live in. The houses were yellow, there were terracotta tiles on the floor outside the cafes and the most common transport was the moped. We got to our hotel, soгted out our rooms unpacked and went out to dinner. The pasta […]

Tweet The passionate type The bony type The brainy type The muscular type The criminal type The plump type The happy type The quarrelsome type                                                Face to Face   They often have a pear-shaped head. They are intelligent but can also be absent-minded. They like to spend time at home where they can think in peace and quiet. Most of the time they are either thinking, studying or sleeping. They remain single or put off getting married till later in life.   They are well-built and courageous and they do not lack self-confidence. They are easily insulted and get angry quickly. They are quite hard-working at school or […]

Tweet A true pioneer   Marco Polo is probably the most famous traveler-explorer of the Far East. He was born in 1254 and was the son of an Italian merchant living in Venice, an important trade centre at that time. Arco was well educated and also very curious, A22 ____ particular interest in different cultures. His father had already travelled to the Far East several times, and in 1271, when Marco was seventeen, he decided to take Marco with him on his journey to China along the Silk Road, a series of trade A23 ____ through Asia. They set out from Venice, travelled through Armenia, Persia and Afghanistan and along […]

Tweet This expedition bеgаn this morning almost an hour later than l hаd planned, despite my having completed my packing and loaded the Ford with all necessary items well before eight o’clock. What with Мгs Clements and the girls also gone for the week, I suppose I was very conscious of that once I departed, Darlington Hall would stand empty for probably the first time this century – perhaps for the first time since the day it was built. It was an odd feeling and perhaps accounts for why I delayed my departure so long wandering around the house many times over, checking one time all was in order. It […]

Tweet Being a teacher   Without a doubt, teaching is one of the oldest professions   B11  and one of the most _____ . To be a good                      CHALLENGE teacher,   B12  you need certain qualities such as _____ , un-              MATURE understanding and patience. Teachers must also be good communicators if they are to convey knowledge to their students. Language teachers in particular have to be aware of all the skills students   B13  need to communicate _____ with others.                       SUCCESS   B14  As well as being ______ to students’ needs,                  SENSE teachers also need to be helpful and approachable while […]

Tweet   B4  People in the UK are used to _____ excellent               HAVE                             customer service in the shops and   B5  are not used to doing things _____ . We saw a           SELF TV programme about IKEA. The main idea of it was a bad customer service, inconvenience cus- tomers suffer putting furniture together.   B6  All _____ complaints looked ridiculous to us.              THIS         Manuals from IKEA on assembling furniture are so clear that a child can do it.   B7  They contain no words at all – just ______ steps        DETAIL        on how to assemble it.   B8  I remember___ hall furniture […]

Tweet British visual art began A _____, influenced by early Scandinavian wood carvings, and after the Christianization of England, painting appeared at first only in illuminated manuscripts. From the 12th to the 16th century, the great cathedrals in the Romanesque and Gothic styles were В_____. Among the characteristics that distinguished English from European cathedrals were double transepts, rectangular apses and fan vaulting. Later, such 17th and 18th century architects as Inigo Jones and Christopher Wren brought, respectively, C_____. From the beginning of the Renaissance, English painting was influenced by foreign artists, such as the German painter Hans Holbein the Younger in the 16th century and the Flemish painter Sir Anthony […]

Tweet A new craze A fatal mistake A slim chance A waste of time and money All numbers are random Small gains and a big gain Absent-minded Magic numbers: a closed secret                                                The secret of numbers     As the number of people pinning their hopes on winning the Lottery soars, David Jones investigates their chances of winning. Britain’s latest national sport seems to have caught the imagination of millions of people up and down the country. The first studies published, however, do seem to suggest that it is the less well-off who spend more on the Lottery. What chance do they have of winning the countless millions […]