Read the text and answer the questions.
1 What is the main reason for Rag Week?
2 How can students benefit from Rag Week activities?
3 Which activities do many students do?
4 What other ways can students contribute?
Text 5. Sydney Opera House
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Sydney Opera House was opened in 1973. Since then it has appeared on T-shirts, postcards, in b 
ooks, on travel programmers and in millions of photo albums. Thanks to its unique shape, Sydney Opera House is one of the most photographed buildings in the world!
The building was built by a Danish architect called John Utzon. Utzon gave the building its unusual look by creating a roof which looked like palm tree fronds. Work first started on the Opera House in 1957. The Australian government gave Utzon $7 million and just four years to finish it. Unfortunately, there were lots of delays as well as money problems, so the Opera House was not actually finished until 1973. By then the total cost of the building was over $100 million!
Today the Opera House is one of the busiest performing arts centers in the world. It has around 3,000 events every year, which are watched by over two million people. There are five main concert halls used for a wide variety of performances including classical, opera, pop and jazz. Artists as different as Pavarotti and the pop group INXS have performed there, and the largest hall can seat 2,679 people.
If you want to see a concert however, you will need to book in advance - the best seats are hard to get and they are very expensive! But whether you go to a concert or not, a visit to Sydney would not be complete without a trip to the Sydney Opera House.
Read the text and answer the questions.
1 What is unusual about the Sydney Opera House?
2 How long did the Opera house take to build?
3 What problems did John Utzon have?
4 What type of artists has performed at the Opera House?
Text 6. Surfing.
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The early morning sun shines on the water. A surfer is on his surfboard, a long way out from the beach. He paddles through the waves to the deep water. Out here, the waves are not breaking. Surfers call this place “out the back”. Here he waits. He floats on the water as it gently moves up and down. He lets some small waves pass him by. Then he sees a big wave coming towards him. He turns his board around and begins to paddle as fast as he can. As the wave reaches the board, he stands up. The board starts to go faster. The surfer rides the wave into the beach. He feels the thrill of surfing.
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Surfers can be found at the beach at all hours of the day, and in all seasons. When the weather turns cold, they put on a wetsuit and keep surfing. Some surfers travel the world looking for the best waves. Popular places for surfing are Hawaii, Australia and southern California.
Surfing became a popular pastime in the 1950s and 1960s. However, it began long before then. In the eighteenth century, the British went to Hawaii. There they saw people using long, narrow, wooden boards to ride the waves. Duke Khanamoku, an Olympic swimmer from Hawaii, introduced surfing to Australia. In 1915, he showed the crowds on a Sydney beach how to ride a board.
Duke Khanamoku`s board was made of wood. It was very heavy. Later, people learned how to make boards out of lighter materials, such as fiberglass. Then the sport really took off. Today some people are using materials like bamboo to make surfboards. This is more environmentally friendly.
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Text 7. JEANS - A FASHION PHENOMENON.
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