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Tilted towers

1 Read the sentences, then complete them with an adverb from the box below.
a There's a luxury tower block in San Francisco that's tilting
precariously.

b It took almost 200 years to build?

c Ah right, so anyway, what's the problem with it? Why does it lean?

d But eventually a new master builder was chosen in 1272 and he

came up with this rather novel idea to compensate for the tilt.

e So it's curved then, is it? Yes, the tower is actually curved.

f They didn't want to straighten the tower because obviuosly this is a

huge tourist attraction.

g in May 2008 they decided that it was completely stabilized because it

had stopped moving for the first time in history.

h They say the angle of slant 3.97 degrees, so just under four
degrees.

i Well, interestingly it was also five years after the... the tower
had been completed that they noticed that the tower had sunk.

j But anyway it depends on the height as well doesn't it? the

Millennium Tower is much taller than the Tower of Pisa.

k So one things for sure, maybe I'll live on the first floor of the
Millennium Tower but definitely not on the top floor.

l And certainly not if there's an earthquake in San

Francisco. Surely.

actually almost anyway completely exactly eventually

interestingly just maybe obviously precariously surely

2 Which adverb...
a means by a narrow margin; barely
b is used used to resume the thread of a story or account actually
c means without doubt; certainly exactly
d is used to indicate agreement surely
e is used to express wonder, surprise, or incredulity eventually
f means in an unstable, uncertain, or insecure way. maybe

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