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“That’s my favourite,” said a voice from behind her. Cathy turned to see a tall, dark-haired young man give her a grin that must have made many people return his smile.
“Quite beautiful,” she A27 ______. “When I was younger I used to try and paint a little myself, and it was Sisley who finally convinced me I shouldn’t bother.”
“Good heavens,” the young man said. “An expert in our presence.” Cathy smiled A28 ______ her new companion. “Let’s have a look at some more works in the upper corridor.”
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| How old is Coca-Cola?
Do you know how old this popular drink is? In 1886 a chemist from Atlanta, John Pemberton, ________MAKE__________ a syrup from cola-nut extract, cocoa leaves, some vegetable extracts, caffeine, and sugar.
He ran the _______ONE___________ advertisement for the beverage on May 29 of the same year in the Atlanta Journal.
He started ________SERVE__________ the syrup diluted with soda-water to customers in his drugstore.
That’s how the world famous drink _________INVENT_________.
College life
We are a family of five. My ________OLD__________ sister, Heather, is in her second year in college. This year she could not find a book she needed.
When the professor assigned reading from a hard-to-find book, 150 hands shot in the air to inform him they _________NOT HAVE_________ it. He told them it had arrived at the bookstore that morning.
When the class was over, Heather sprinted to the bookstore, grabbed a copy and rushed to the cashier. The cashier saw Heather and began ringing the bell for assistance, a look of panic on her face. “How many ________BE__________ there behind you?” she demanded.
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| Chemistry or no chemistry
I was planning a career in biology but was not looking forward to taking chemistry in my first year at Carleton University in Ottawa. However, the professor of chemistry was a famous _______SCIENCE___________.
He made the course interesting with his many small ________CHEMISTRY__________ explosions and crazy quizzes.
Once, he posed the question: “What in the world isn't chemistry?” and offered a prize to the student who answered ________CORRECT__________.
A couple of weeks passed. ________FINAL__________, he announced in class that the contest was over. A student had gone to his office to ask if she could try her hand at the question. “What in the world isn't chemistry?” she asked.
“My _______RELATION___________ with my last boyfriend – that wasn't chemistry.”
By default, she became the ________WIN__________.
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William and Philippa
William and Philippa were students. Some people, it is said, fall in love at first A22 ______, but that was not what happened to them. They hated each other from the moment they met. This mutual hatred began at the first tutorial of their freshman term. Both had A23 ______ with major scholarships to read English language and literature. Each had been reliably assured by their schoolteachers that they would be the star pupil of their year. A24 ______ students had such prospects.
Their tutor, Simon Jakes of New College, was amused by the competition that so quickly developed between his two brightest pupils. He skillfully used their hatred to bring out the best in both of them. He never A25 ______ it. By the end of their first year, they were far ahead of other students.
In their second year, they became even more hostile. When they were both awarded A-plus for their essays on Shakespeare, it didn’t help. Simon Jakes told his colleagues that he had never had a brighter pair up in the same year. They taught each other most of the time and he A26 ______ acted as a referee. It A27 ______ as no surprise to anyone that, as the examiners felt unable on this occasion to award the prize to just one person, they A28 ______ decided that it should be shared by William and Philippa.
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| Kid inventions
Becky Schroeder was only 10 years old when she came up with the idea of the glo-paper. Two years________LATE__________, in 1974, her invention was patented.
She became the ________YOUNG __________ female to ever receive a patent in the United States.
The idea came to her when she tried to do her homework in the family car, while her mother shopped for groceries. It _________GET_________ dark gradually, and she couldn’t see her notebook very well.
She ________NOT HAVE__________a flashlight and imagined how nice it would be to have a paper that glows in the dark and allows you to write effortlessly without light. A year of research and experiment and she did it!
A white flag
It’s always a problem for me to find my car in a huge parking lot. After reading an article with a piece of advice for people like me, I decided to follow it one day. I attached a tissue to the car’s antenna with a rubber band. The little white flag waving in the breeze ________SUPPOSE__________to help me spot my car easily.
So I went _______SHOP___________ .
When I _________COME_________ out, I quickly spotted a little white flag … and about ten others.
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| Morse Code
Before phones, computers, and telegraphs were invented, messages would take months or even years to reach their destination. Samuel Morse was born in Charlestown, Massachusetts, in April 1791, not knowing that he would be a famous _______INVENT___________.
Since the age of four, Morse had been interested in ________DRAW__________ and he wanted to become a painter. Mr. and Mrs. Morse were afraid that he couldn't make a living as a painter, so they made him a bookseller. He worked as a bookseller but at night he would paint.
________FINAL__________, his parents realized how he loved art, so they found the money for Morse to study art in London.
After a ________SUCCESS__________ artistic career (first painting historical scenes and then portraits), Morse built the first American telegraph around 1835.
Morse patented a working telegraph machine in 1837, with help from his _________BUSY _________ partners, Leonard Gale and Alfred Vail.
Morse used a dots-and-spaces code for the letters of the alphabet and for numbers. It was later improved to use dashes with dots and spaces. Since then, it has proved its _________EFFECTIVE_________many times.
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Alexander
Sir Alexander Heathcote was an exact man. A22 ______ people were like him. He was exactly six feet three-and-a-quarter inches tall, rose at seven o’clock every morning, joined his wife at breakfast to eat one boiled egg cooked for precisely four minutes, two pieces of toast with one spoonful of Cooper’s marmalade, and drink one cup of China tea. He used to take a carriage from his home in Cadogan Gardens at exactly 8:20 and A23 ______ at the Foreign Office at promptly 8:59, returning home again on the stroke of six o’clock.
Sir Alexander had been exact from an early age, as he was the only son of a general. But, unlike his father, he chose to serve his queen in the diplomatic service, another exacting calling. He A24 ______ in progressing from a shared desk at the Foreign Office in Whitehall to third secretary in Calcutta to minister in Peking. He was delighted when Mr. Gladstone A25 ______ the opportunity to represent the government in China. For some time he had been A26 ______ in the art of the Ming dynasty. This appointment would present him a perfect chance of A27 ______ in their natural habitat some of the great statues, paintings and drawings he had previously been able to admire only in books.
When he arrived in Beijing, Her Imperial Highness wished him a successful term of office in his appointment and then the audience A28 ______ to an end.
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