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Daniel and Diana

Daniel and Diana were good friends. They had majored in economics at Bristol University in the early 1980s. Then Daniel met Rachel, who had arrived a year after them, and fell in love with her at first A22 ______. In Rachel he found everything he was looking A23 ______ in a wife. They married the day he graduated, and after they returned from their honeymoon, David took over the management of his father’s farm in Bedfordshire. Three children followed in quick succession, and Diana was proud when she was asked to be godmother to Sophie, the eldest. Daniel and Rachel had been married for twelve years; they A24 ______ ever quarelled. A25 ______ married couples were so happy.

A26 ______ Diane was regularly asked to spend the weekend with them in the country, she only accepted one invitation out of three. She would have liked to join them more often, but since her divorce she had no desire to take advantage of their hospitality.

Diane felt tired. She A27 ______ her work, but it had been an awful week. Two contracts had fallen through, her son had been dropped from the school soccer team, and her daughter had never stopped A28 ______ her that her father didn’t mind her watching television when she ought to be doing her homework. “I will survive.” Diana smiled and thought about Daniel’s birthday. She had forgotten to get him a present.

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Zanzibar history In 1896, Said Khalid seized power in Zanzibar. A British fleet soon arrived at the port of Zanzibar and ordered him out of the royal palace. Khalid refused to leave. At 9:02 on the morning of August 27, British ships started a fire on the palace, _______BEGIN___________ a war between Britain and Zanzibar. The palace _________DESTROY_________very quickly. At 9:40 that morning, Said Khalid surrendered and the war ended. This “war” was the ________SHORT__________ in history. It lasted a total of 38 minutes! The British _________LATE_________ requested money from the people of Zanzibar to pay for the shells the British warships had used to win the war. A palace with 1,300 rooms It was King Louis XIV of France who ordered a palace with 1,300 rooms in the 1600s. Louis wanted a bigger palace than any other king. In 1661, the French started _________BUILD_________ this new palace. It was located at a place outside Paris, _________CALL_________ Versailles. It had to be big – Louis’s court had 20,000 people, and Versailles _________BECOME_________ the centre of court life.

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2012 London Olympics How has London 2012 changed the sporting map of the world? The United States won the highest number of gold medals and the most medals in total, with China dropping to second place on the medals table after unprecedented ________DOMINATE__________ at their home Olympics in Beijing four years ago. The third place for Great Britain exceeded all ________EXPECT__________. Previously, 2008 Beijing Olympics were considered the most ________SUCCESS__________ for the British with only the fourth place. In 2008, Russia took the third place. This year, Russia fell out of the top three ________WIN__________ for the first time since the end of the Soviet era. South Korea improved to the fifth, their best finish since hosting the Games in Seoul 24 years ago. For Australia it was a _______COMPARATIVE___________ miserable Olympics, where it took the tenth place. It was their worst ________PERFORM__________ in two decades.

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The prize

William and Philippa were rivals. They were considered the best students at New College. At the beginning of the third year they applied for the Charles Oldham Shakespeare prize for an essay. The chosen theme for the prize essay that year was “Satire in Shakespeare”. Troilus and Cressida clearly called for the most attention, but both students A22 ______ to find satirical nuances in almost every play by Shakespeare. As the year was coming to an end, A23 ______ anyone doubted that either William or Philippa would win the prize while the other would come in second. A24 ______, no one was willing to express an opinion as to who the victor would be.

Before the prize essay submission date, they both had to take their final degree examinations. A25 ______ students studied as hard as William and Philippa. It came as no surprise to anyone that they both achievedfirst-class degrees in the final honors school. Rumor spread around the university that the two rivals had been awarded As in every one of their nine papers.

“I would be willing to believe that is the case,” Philippa A26 ______ William. “But I feel I must point out to you that there is a considerable difference between an A-plus and an A-minus.”

“I couldn’t agree with you more,” said William. “But A27 ______, when you discover who has won the Charles Oldham, you will know who was awarded less.”

It turned A28 ______ that the examiners felt unable on this occasion to award the prize to one person and had therefore decided that it should be shared by William and Philippa.

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The invention of video games

Do you know the story behind the invention of video games? Here is the story of the________ONE__________video game.

If you ________READ__________ this article in 2013, you probably imagine video games as we know them now. Nowadays we are used to online games full of colour and action.

However, the story about the invention of video games dates back to the 1940s and to a patent registered by the US patent office. The invention patent ________CALL__________: “The cathode ray tube amusement.”

It was very primitive by today’s standards but has given the inspiration for many video games created _________LATE_________.

Grandma

My grandma often comes to us to babysit my sister, Ann. Yesterday she was tired after a full day of looking after an active five-year-old, but she _________NOT WANT_________ to upset Ann and agreed to play ball in the backyard after supper.

After 5 minutes, she ________SIT__________ down on a patio chair and said, “Grandma is too old for this.”

Ann came over, put her arm around Grandma’s neck and said, “Grandma, I wish you _________BE_________ newer.”

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Cyberspace communication Nowadays most of us go to our computers to connect with friends instead of using our phones. Cyberspace relationships have become the norm for many people, even the most ________CONSERVE__________ ones. The convenience and ________EFFECTIVE__________ of the Web is amazing. If we want to see a movie, find a place to eat or get in touch with a friend, we go to the Web before we call on the phone. Critics, however, say that cyberspace communication loses some important factors of the social atmosphere. Most Web _______USE___________ don’t understand that when we talk to someone, we get many messages from them just by their tone of voice and body language. A tender ________EXPRESS__________ and eye contact cannot possibly be experienced over the Internet. As with anything we do, without regular practice the act can become unfamiliar and________COMFORT__________. There is a possibility that much can be ________REAL__________lost when we communicate via the Internet.

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Consuela

Victor Rosenheim, an American banker, was Consuela’s third husband. At first A22 ______ they looked happy. The gossip columns, however, were suggesting that the former Colombian model was already searchingfor the next husband. The Rosenheims flew into London from their home in New York. The purpose of their trip was twofold. There was always the chance that Mr. Rosenheim would take over a small merchant bank, while Mrs. Rosenheim intended to occupy her time looking A23 ______ a suitable birthday present – for herself. A24 ______ people have been able to discover exactly which birthday Consuela would officially be celebrating.

After a sleepless night, Victor Rosenheim A25 ______ to get up early for an important meeting in the City, while Consuela remainedin bed toying with her breakfast. After breakfast Consuela A26 ______ a couple of phone calls and then she disappeared into the bathroom.

Fifty minutes later she emerged from her suite dressed in a pink Chanel suit. She stepped out of the hotel and into the morning sun to begin her search for the birthday present.

She spent some time in Asprey’s considering the latest slimline watches, a gold statue of a tiger with jade eyes and a Faberge egg. She A27 ______ that her close friend, Tina, was not with her, she needed her advice badly. From there she walked to a A28 ______ shop, which despite a determined salesman who showed her almost everything the shop had to offer, she still left empty-handed.

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