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A) Flock B) Restrictions C) Trespassing D) Separated E) Tribute F) Pious G) Scattered

An Australian sheep farmer paid his own unique----1----to his beloved aunt. Due
to pandemic ----2- - -, Ben Jackson was unable to attend his aunt Deb´s funeral
that took place 400 kilometers away. He ----3----grain in the shape of a heart in a
field, so that when he released his ----4----, thousands of sheep would come into
the field and fill up the vast shape. Like many families ----5----during the
pandemic, Jackson wasn´t able to say goodbye to a loved one, and he felt
hopeless.

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A) Decreasing B) Insolvent C) Meant D) Onslaught E) Odd F) Aspired G) Deprivation

Sleep----1----is a global issue in all the major cities around the world where the
amount of sleep ----2---- over decades. Now, the decrease is growing with the ----
3----of the COVID-19 pandemic. Stress plays a major role in how we sleep. People
are ----4----to have some kind of routines, and many people lost them during the
pandemic and especially during lockdowns. People woke up and went to sleep at -
---5----times, they ate at odd times, and all of that definitely affected their
biological rhythms.

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A) Stylistic B) Propelled C) Masses D) Spawn E) Regarded F) Stylish G) Fledgling

Charlie Watts, the London-born Rolling Stones drummer who----1----the band´s

sound for nearly 60 years, has died at the age of 80. Watts is ----2----as one of the
greatest and most ----3----rock drummers of all time. He was a member of the
Rolling Stones since January 1963, when he joined Mick Jagger, Keith
Richards, and Brian Jones in their ----4 group. Watts helped them become
one of the
bands who took rock´n´roll to the ----5----in the 1960s with classics like
Satisfaction or Sympathy of the Devil.

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A) Shock B) Observe C) Arch D) Vulnerable E) Awe F) Notice G) Rescuers

A koala rode 16 kilometers near Adelaide, Australia, inside an ----1----for a car

wheel. The driver did not ----2----until he stopped and heard the animal making
noise. A woman with an animal rescue organization said that it was incredible, but
the koala was in ----3----. The organization took her straight to the vet. People
named the koala Kelli, after one of her ----4----, and put the koala back into the
wild. She quickly climbed up a tree and went to sleep. Koalas are a ----5----species
as there are less than 100,000 of them in the wild.

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A) Devastation B) Guarantee C) Parole D) Remorse E) Declined F) Assassin G) Amnesty
Sirhan Sirhan, the ----1---- of US Senator Robert F. Kennedy, was granted----2----on
Friday, after two of Kennedy´s sons spoke in favor of Sirhan´s release, and lawyers ----3--
-- to argue that he should stay in jail. The decision was a major victory for the 77-
year- old man, who spent 53 years in prison; however, it doesn´t ----4 he is free.
Douglas
Kennedy, who was a toddler when his father was gunned down in 1968, said he was
moved to tears by Sirhan´s ----5- - -, and he should be released if he´s not a threat to
others.

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1. a) was b) being c) been d) were
2. a) produce b) generate c) create d) conduct
3. a) gases b) steam c) strain d) affect
4. a) stress b) limit c) pressure d) management
5. a) separate b) to c) respectively d) single
6. a) unreliable b) unrivaled c) unrealistic d) unreasonable
Never has the carbon footprint of multi-national corporations (1) ……..………..
under such intense scrutiny. Inter-city train journeys and long-haul flights to (2)
………………. face-to-face business meetings contribute significantly to
greenhouse gases, and the resulting (3) on the environment. The Anglo-US
company Teliris has introduced new video-conferencing technology and

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partnered with the Carbon Neutral Company, enabling corporate outfits to
become more environmentally responsible. The innovation allows simulated face-
to-face meetings to be held across continents without the time (4)......................or
environmental burden of international travel. Previous designs have enabled
video-conferencing on a point-to-point, dual-location basis. The firm’s VirtuaLive
technology, however, can bring people together from up to five (5) ………………….
locations anywhere in the world – with (6).....................transmission quality.

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A) Prefers B) Canine C) Overthrows D) Assistance E) Discharge F) Bats G) Function

A cat named DeeOhGee is helping to train----1----dogs at a not-for-profit

organization in the USA. The director of ----2---- services said that the cat’s ----3----
is to get all of their service dogs used to being around a cat and to be OK with it
because a lot of people have cats. DeeOhGee has lived up to his name – he thinks
that he is a dog who ----4----to eat with the dogs than his own cat food. He is also
fearless – he runs up to any dog and ----5----him across the face or plays with his
tail.

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A) Suffrage B) Amendment C) Convention D) Sympathize E) Ratified F) Advocates G)
Mandate
It has been 100 years since the 19th ----1----that gave US women to the right to vote
and since it was ----2----. However, the fight for women´s ----3----started decades
earlier. Many of the early women´s rights ----4----in the US began their political lives as
anti-slavery activists, who later started to rethink universal claims of human equality. In

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1848, hundreds of people gathered in New York for the first US women´s rights----5----.
However, women´s right to vote was seen as too extreme.

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A) Bright B) Enough C) Trawled D) Potential E) Conjures F) Adequate G) Seek
A vacation in Africa usually ----1----images of palm-fringed beaches or safari tours.
However, the mountain kingdom of Lesotho in southern Africa is attracting tourists who
----2---- a more adventurous skiing destination. Under a ----3----sun, skiers and
snowboarders are enjoying the kind of powder you might find in the Alps. The continent
has five mountain ranges with ----4---- seasonal snow to create the ----5----for ski slopes.
Most people don´t think of Africa for a ski holiday, and they are amazed at what they
find.

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A) Succor B) Utensil C) Relying D) Textures E) Crunchy F) Enables G) Mushy
A new ´chopstick spoon´ to help astronauts eat in space has been designed by Nikolas
Grafakos. Part of the Zero-G Cutlery collection, the new spoon ----1----astronauts to
grab food in the zero gravity environment more easily, as they´re not ----2----on water
surface tension to hold the food on the ----3----or gravity to pull it down. Normally, the
food needs to be very ----4----and wet in order to stick to the spoon. The new spoon
could possibly allow the introduction of drier food and more variety in food ----5----.

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A) Capitalization B) Demoralize C) Fee D) Transactions E) Native F) Transparent G)
Decentralized H) Complement
Ether is a technology that lets you send cryptocurrency to anyone for a small----1----.
The network recently turned six years old, and it has established itself as the
most actively used blockchain network while its ----2token, Ethereum, is the
second
largest cryptocurrency by both market ----3---- and daily use. The emergence of ----4----
finance allowed users to trade, borrow, and lend directly with one another without
involving banks. The launch of Ethereum 2.0 should reduce fees and provide much
faster ----5----. Investors are seeing Ether as an ideal ----6 to Bitcoin.

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1. a) origin b) originating c) originate d)originated
2. a) in b) out c) along d) from
3. a) hurts b) bugs c) seems d) comes
4. a) protected b) immune c) convinced d) prohibited
5. a) roots b) values c) demands d) needs
6. a) little b) many c) a few d) few
In a sequence of bestsellers, including The Language Instinct and How the Mind
Works, Pinker has argued the swathes of our mental, social and emotional lives
may have (1).....................as evolutionary adaptations, well suited to the lives our
ancestors eked (2)...................on the Pleistocene Savannah. Sometimes it (3)
……………… as if nothing is (4)....................from being explained this way.
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Road rage, adultery, marriage, altruism, our tendency to reward senior executives
with corner offices on the top floor, and the smaller number of women who
become mechanical engineers—all may have their (5).....................in natural
selection, Pinker claims. The controversial implications are obvious: that men and
women might differ in their inborn abilities at performing certain tasks, for
example, or that parenting may have (6)...................influence on personality.

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A) Roamed B) Pier C) Voyage D) Phenomenon E) Concomitant F) Floating G)
Occurrence
People saw millions of jellyfish ----1---- near the shore off a ----2----in Crimea,
Russia. There were so many of them that the water looked as if it was raining.
Such a sight is an extremely rare ----3---- and the reason for its ----4----remains
unknown. People believe that jellyfish have ----5----the seas for between 500 and
700 million years.

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A) Rates B) Transcendental C) Suspect D) Described E) Vigil F) Detainee G) Rare

Six people, including a child, were killed in a mass shooting in the city of Plymouth
in southwest England. The ----1---- incident happened on Thursday, and it was ----
2---- by officials as shocking. UK has one of the lowest gun homicide ----3----in the
world, and Thursday´s incident was the country´s first mass shooting in over a
decade. Police said that the serious incident wasn´t related to terrorism, and the -
---4---- died in the shooting. Hundreds of people attended a ----5----in Plymouth
on Friday close to where the victims were killed.

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A) Crude B Documented C) Dredge D) Outraged E) Dispersing F) Biodiverse G) Clumps
H) Demoralize
A group of fishermen were ----1---- when they came across a large oil spill with thick ----
2---- covering the Gulf of Paria in Trinidad, after a new leak along a ----3----pipeline in
early August. Gary Aboud and Fishermen and Friends of the Sea ----4----the spill, and
they criticized the clean-up attempt by the oil company Paria Fuel Trading. They called
for the company to contain the oil and collect it instead of ----5----it with boats.
Hundreds of oil spills have been recorded in one of the most ----6----areas of Trinidad
and Tobago.

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A) Took on B) Disabilities C) Intersection D) Alleged E) Harassing F) Accused G) Picked
on
Edmond Aviv was told to wear the sign on a busy ----1---- as part of his punishment for --
--2----a neighbor and his family over a period of 15 years. Aviv bullied his neighbor
Sandra Prugh and ----3----her husband, who suffers from dementia, and her seven
children, several of whom have ----4---- and use wheelchairs. He’s ----5----of spitting on
her, smearing dog feces on their wheelchair ramp and shining spotlights through the
family’s windows at night.

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A) Process B) Deadline C) Evictions D) Discard E) Busloads F) Offload G) Evacuating
French riot police have been----1----campsites housing hundreds of immigrants in
Calais. Today, police are in the ----2----of removing between 600 and 800 immigrants

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from Asia, the Middle East and Africa who are occupying camps near the port. Several ---
-3---- of police in riot gear arrived at the camps early this morning, after a ----4----for
people to leave expired. After a stand-off with local activists, the officers moved in and
told migrants to pack their bags. The authorities say the ----5----are needed on the
grounds that the makeshift camps pose problems for public health and safety.

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1. (a) reliable (b) copy (c) question (d) speaking
2. (a) desire (b) vision (c) variations (d) complete
3. (a) with (b) upon (c) on (d) alongside
4. (a) revolution (b) manifest (c) clarity (d) reaction
5. (a) wholly (b) fairly (c) squarely (d) constantly
6. (a) assume (b) company (c) adorn (d) venerate
7. (a) consistently (b) nostalgic (c) concerted (d) limits
Considerations of a practical nature give us the most (1)...............possible grounds for a
belief that human desires, feelings, etc., are homogeneous and communicable. The fact
is that we all have back of us many millions of years of evolutionary history in the same
general environment. In the past, with relatively minor (2)................the same influences
have played (3)...............our ancestors from the beginnings of life on our planet. And
then, we are born into the same society, and it has given us, not, to be sure, the power
of (4)..............but certainly all of our most essential stimuli. Further, we do get along in
society. We laugh together, and we play together, we share each other’s sorrows, we
love and hate each other, in a way that would be (5)...................impossible if we did not
in practice (6)................the correctness of our “inferences” about one another’s motives
and desires. And the fact that these “inferences” are in the main correct is the one thing
that makes social life possible. We can, and do, understand one another’s motives,

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desires, wants, emotions. We can, and do, (7)................communicate our feelings to
one another.

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A) halt B) involved C) imposes D) irreversible E) viable F) shortage G)
inadequately
The effects of loss of topsoil and increased drought are …...1….....They are, however,
preventable. Careful conservation of tree cover and sustainable agricultural land use
have been shown to …...2……. deterioration of soils and lessen the effects of......3…....of
rainfall. One project in Kita in south-west Mali funded by the UNDP has …...4…....local
communities in sustainable management of forest, while at the same time providing a
…...5…....agricultural economy based on the production of soaps, bee-keeping, and
marketing shea nuts. This may be a model for similar projects in other West African
countries.

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a) eludes b) breach c) impressive d) apprenticed e) absentmindedly f)
bore g) disasters
The son of an engineer, Brunel …...1…....with his father at an early age on the building of
the Thames Tunnel. At the age of just twenty he became engineer in charge of the
project. This …...2……. plan to......3…....under the Thames twice suffered two major
…...4……. when the river broke through into the tunnel. When the second …...5…….
occurred in 1827, Brunnel was seriously injured during rescue operations and further
work was halted.

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a) exporting b) stripped c) correlate d) powdery e) deduct f) acre g)
swiftly
Under British rule, the island of Ceylon was …...1……. of its forests to turn over every
available …...2……. to coffee production. By the 1870s, Ceylon was …...3……. nearly 100
million pounds of coffee a year, much of it to England. This Empire, however, was
…...4……. devastated by the arrival of the coffee rust fungus. The rust organism can be
recognized by the presence of yellowish …...5……. lesions on the undersides of the
leaves of the coffee plant.

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