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part 1 1 read the text. fill in each gap with one word. you must use a word which is somewhere in the rest of the text. the great quake today, in most industrialized countries in the world, buildings are designed to withstand various, unexpected natural disasters. safety measures are installed in modern-day designs to help contain the spread of fire, and design engineers make sure newer structures are deliberately planned to hold against the violent shifting of the earth during an (q1) earthquake. however, such deliberate design and planning was not the case during the early 1900s. on april 18, 1906, in the morning hours of the day, the citizens of san francisco, california, were witnesses to an (q2) _ so monumental the tremors were felt as far north as oregon. neither the city nor its people were prepared for what would happen next: the devastation of their (q3) …

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ake them to see some animals in the countryside. he wants to be able to buy some refreshments. d) amanda has had an operation and needs plenty of fresh air to help her recover. she wants to find a short, quiet walk with beautiful place to visit on the route. e) claudia's grandparents are staying with her. they are very fit and enjoy walking. they would like to visit some of the local villages and need a clearly-marked route so they don't lose their way. f) anna is 18 and she wants to do computer studies so that she can work in an office. she would like to study in london but is worried about finding accommodation. g) peter is 19 and wants to be a sports teacher. he is very good at sport, especially running. he wants to go to a college outside london. h) maria used to teach …

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uitable for children or older people and there are no shops so take plenty of water. 10) gold-diggers end you won't find any gold on this peaceful walk, but you will find plenty of other things to see including a lovely garden which is open to the public. it's a half-hour walk with a couple of small cafés on the way. 11) mac kintosh college offers a range of courses from modern languages to computer studies, in a quiet and pleasant part of london. all students are offered accommodation in college flats and we have excellent sports facilities. full-time and part-time courses of either three or four years are available 12) kirby college has over fifty years’ experience of teacher training. we offer both fulltime and part-time courses for all levels of teaching. large college in lovely countryside, with excellent sports facilities, especially for football and athletics. there is a …

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rtant invention of all e even silence can be meaningful f differences between languages highlight their impressiveness g why the letters used in one language aren't the same h why the sounds used in different languages are not identical ‘this marvellous invention’ 15) of all mankind’s manifold creations, language must take pride of place. other inventions - the wheel, agriculture, sliced bread – may have transformed our material existence, but the advent of language is what made us human. compared to language, all other inventions pale in significance, since everything we have ever achieved depends on language and originates from it. without language, we could never have embarked on our ascent to unparalleled power over all other animals, and even over nature itself. 16) but language is foremost not just because it came first. in its own right it is a tool of extraordinary sophistication, yet based on an idea …

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tsman. how else could this instrument make so much out of barely three dozen measly morsels of sound? in themselves, these configurations of mouth p,f,b,v,t,d,k,g,sh,a,e and so on – amount to nothing more than a few haphazard spits and splutters, random noises with no meaning, no ability to express, no power to explain. but run them through the cogs and wheels of the language machine, let it arrange them in some very special orders, and there is nothing that these meaningless streams of air cannot do: from sighing the interminable boredom of existence to unravelling the fundamental order of the universe. 18) the most extraordinary thing about language, however, is that one doesn’t have to be a genius to set its wheels in motion. the language machine allows just about everybody from pre- modern foragers in the subtropical savannah, to post-modern philosophers in the suburban sprawl – to tie these …

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part 1 1 read the text. fill in each gap with one word. you must use a word which is somewhere in the rest of the text. the great quake today, in most industrialized countries in the world, buildings are designed to withstand various, unexpected natural disasters. safety measures are installed in modern-day designs to help contain the spread of fire, and design engineers make sure newer structures are deliberately planned to hold against the violent shifting of the earth during an (q1) earthquake. however, such deliberate design and planning was not the case during the early 1900s. on april 18, 1906, in the morning hours of the day, the citizens of san francisco, california, were witnesses to an (q2) …

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