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I love roses because they are one of the most enduring symbols of love and appreciation. They also
have a sweet and delicate fragrance that ease my mind.
enduring: lasting for a long time
2. What is your most favorite flower?
As I've just said, I really like roses and they are my most favorite flower.
3. Why do some people like flowers?
Well, many people love flowers because of their beauty, fragrance and meanings attached
to/associated with them while some people like flowers because they are a great ornament used to
decorate their rooms.
4. Is there any special meaning of some flowers?
Well, as I've said before, roses symbolize love, romance and appreciation; lilies represent pureness,
and carnations are the symbol of Mother's Day/sun flowers represents optimism/peonies are the
symbol of elegance, wealth and prosperity.
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In linguistics, a corpus (plural corpora) is a large and structured set of texts (now usually
electronically stored and processed). A corpus may be used to help linguists to analyse a language,
or for the purpose of dictionary writing or language teaching. The British National Corpus (BNC) is a
100-million-word text corpus of samples of written and spoken English from a wide range of sources.
The corpus covers British English of the late twentieth century from a wide variety of genres with the
intention that it be a representative sample of spoken and written British English of that time.
1. What is a corpus?
A) A type of large dictionary.
B) A single written text.
C) A tool for language analysis.
2. Why was the BNC compiled?
A) For the purpose of language teaching.
B) To document written and spoken English from a particular period in time.
C) To document the history of the English language.
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