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matrix intermediate transport system in ………………… (15) all vehicles UNIT 10 will be ………………… (16) by a central computer and radar will take the place of human drivers CLOZE TEST 'People movers' — a kind of urban cable-car — Fill in the blanks with suitable words of your own will carry us high in the air over towns ………………… (17) car parks, airports, bus stations and railway stations Pollution will ………………… (18) a thing of the past ………………… (19) all vehicles will have special filters and run on lead-free petrol Doesn't ………………… (20) sound marvellous? I wonder, though, if any of us will be around to see it 2.As a working man, Christopher MacLean counts himself among the fortunate 1.Travelling to or from anywhere these days ………………… (1) the exception of two years on can be an unhealthy and frustrating experience the dole when he was just married, he has been In reached ………………… (2) in the docks ………………… (3) a ………………… (1) proportions that we all suffer boat handler for the best part of twenty years ………………… (2) coughs, colds and other chest A man needs to work; it is his right He doesn't problems constantly Also our transport system have ………………… ………………… (5) he cannot organize his life and most cities, air (3) pollution has become dangerously any respect ………………… (4) himself overloaded Our roads are blocked ………………… support his own family (4) traffic jams, while buses, cars, taxis and His eldest boy, Tom, ………………… (6) is married motorbikes fight against ………………… (5) other and lives with his wife and children ………………… to get through Annoyed and tired, drivers drive (7) the road in a decaying pre-war house, is badly, employed ………………… (6) accidents and even ………………… (8) the moment, murder one another ………………… (9) there is no guarantee of how Also, buses and trains are ………………… (7) ………………… (10) it will last Before that he was crowded hardly out of ………………… (11) for two years He got breathe or even stand up straight There are himself qualified as a welder and ………………… simply too ………………… (9) people wanting to (12) move from one place to another and not apprenticeship to full wages, they gave him the ………………… (10) space for them to so sack ………………… (13) broke his heart Town planners ………………… (11), tell us that Christopher's younger son, Tony, has never everything will soon be different ………………… ………………… (14) a job Christopher understands (12) the future, according to them, private cars why his son can't get ………………… (15) of his will ………………… (13) banned ………………… (14) bed until the afternoon, ………………… (16) it town centres and be replaced by an integrated irritates him, hearing young Tony wandering that you ………………… (8) as he was about to change from around the ………………… (17) in the small hours, (19) a penny, but he gets depressed because he is an able man, a willing ………………… (20) the idea of acupuncture" began when a man who wants to work developed a headache while lifting some heavy turning night into ………………… (18) Tony has never asked his father or brother ………………… According to an ancient Chinese legend, rocks The headache was ………………… (1) severe that he dropped ………………… (2) of the rocks ………………… (3) his foot His foot became very And then Father began to tell Marvin the story There painful and ………………… (4) to bleed were ………………… (1) things he ………………… (5) his headache stopped From this did not understand: it was impossible for the practice of acupuncture developed, although ………………… (2) to imagine life on the planet he the rock ………………… (6) replaced by a variety of had never seen Nor could he understand why it needles The first acupuncture needles were had ………………… (3) destroyed in the end, ………………… (7) of stone, bone, bamboo, copper, leaving the Colony alone ………………… (4) he did iron or silver, but today stainless steel is usually understand the pain of ………………… (5) last days used when the Colony had learnt at ………………… (6) You that the supply ships would never again come acupuncture treatment in the `Biographies of ………………… (7) through the stars with presents Pien Chueh and Tsang Kung' which was written from home One by one the radio stations on over two thousand years ………………… (8) Pien Earth had ………………… (8) calling: the lights of Chuch was famous ………………… (9) his skill in the cities had died, and ………………… (9) were acupuncture, massage and the use of herbal alone at last as no men ………………… (10) been medicines One day he was with his two alone before, carrying the future of the race in assistants in an area called Kuo ………………… ………………… (11) hands (10) he heard that the Prince of Kuo was very So, at last, Marvin realized that he (12) never walk beside, the ………………… rivers of can read an early description of seriously ………………… (11) When Pien Chueh arrived at the palace, preparations ………………… ………………… (13) lost world or listen to the (12) thunder ………………… (14) its hills Yet one day — ………………… (13) made Pien Chuch examined how far ahead — HIS (15) children's children the Prince and ………………… (14) he was still would return The winds and the rains would breathing, but only weakly He immediately carry the poisons ………………… (16) the burning ordered ………………… (15) of his assistants to lands down to the sea, and in the depths of the treat sea they ………………… (17) harm no living thing ………………… (16) assistant placed bunches of Then the great spaceships ………………… (18) special herbs in his armpits Soon the Prince were still waiting here on the silent, dusty recovered consciousness and was ………………… plains could lift off once ………………… (19) into (17) to sit ………………… (18) in bed Pien Chueh space, along the road that led ………………… (20) recommended that he should ………………… (19) home certain herbal medicines for twenty days The the him Prince's with funeral were acupuncture, already while the Prince ………………… (20) this and was soon fit ………………… (20) apparently well-fed and healthy again 6.Many students visit Britain every summer 5.I'm a teacher and a few years ago I started either as tourists, or to learn the language, or getting worried about my students because thinking ………………… (1) visiting Britain, there they weren't concentrating in lessons and had are ………………… (2) things that you should difficulties ………………… (3) ready for following what I was saying I to a combination of the two If you're perhaps Firstly, ………………… (4) weather can be very because of all the fast food they ………………… (2) changeable — even in summer — so you days So I contacted a psychologist ………………… ………………… (5) know what it's going to be like (3) a university and, with the students' and It might be rainy or sunny, hot or cold, so you their parents' agreement, we worked out an ………………… (6) be prepared for everything and experiment ………………… First of ………………… (4) I kept a record of warmer ones everything students Secondly, opening hours for shops, pubs, etc ………………… (5) over a three-day period and, can be very different from ………………… (8) when we analysed this record, ………………… (6) countries Shops normally open at 9.30 a.m found that their diet did not ………………… (7) and ………………… (9) at 5.30 p.m with no enough vitamins and minerals We therefore ………………… (10) in the middle of the day AS decided two (11) for pubs, their opening hours vary Normal ………………… (8) and give ONE (9) group vitamin hours are 11.30 a.m to 2.30 p.m and 5.30 pills pill p.m to 10:30 p.m., ………………… (12) you may same find some pubs are open longer than this You thought that to and this a ………………… hundred divide the the other (1) of my students grow a ………………… (10) looked exactly ………………… (11) which, in into dummy the (7) both summer clothes and no will also ………………… (13) discotheques open nutritional value — no vitamins or minerals at quite late, but generally speaking, night-life all finishes early in Britain, and so ………………… (14) The students ………………… (12) the pills for nine public transport Finally, ………………… (15) word months and then we tested ………………… (13) to about eating If you want to eat out there are see if there was ………………… (14) difference in lots of restaurants, but ………………… (16) tend to their be expensive unless they are Indian or Chinese performance Our fact, results had showed no important differences in memory, concentration Food and language ability ………………… (15) the two ………………… (17) value for money But don't groups But the group who ………………… (16) forget that you ………………… (18) eat in pubs and taken the vitamin pills got much higher scores there the food is often good, varied and cheap, ………………… (17) the other group in tests of although if you're under eighteen they won't their mathematical ability ………………… (19) you drink alcohol with your I hadn't expected these findings but ………………… meal (18) does seem that what ………………… (19) eat One last thing: if you come, ………………… (20) influences a great holiday! our intelligence even when we in these is generally tasty and I 7.Children's Express is a unique organization that started twelve years ago with the slogan 'BY CHILDREN FOR EVERYBODY' The idea behind the articles, which are ………………… (1) in over thirty papers across ………………… (2) USA as ………………… (3) as in New Zealand and Australia, is to encourage readers ………………… (4) look at important issues from the ………………… (5) of view of children and young people In their New York office the 200 young reporters can choose ………………… (6) story they want to work on, depending ………………… (7) what they are ………………… (8) in On any story, a team of three or four, usually under thirteen and sometimes as young ………………… (9) eight, work with an assistant editor Interviews ………………… (10) done using tape-recorders and are then typed out by adult workers The ………………… (11) interesting articles are then selected ………………… (12) a teenage assistant editor and an adult Children's Express editor Children's Express teams have interviewed local politicians and presidential candidates They have covered Kampuchea stories and have on Chernobyl investigated and difficult social problems ………………… (13) as violence ………………… (14) the family They also ………………… (15) articles in Spanish for the large ………………… (16) of Spanish American readers Recently they have announced that they’re ………………… (17) to produce a weekly TV news programme, starting ………………… (18) year Ten-year-old Laurel is to ………………… (19) one of the presenters of the programme because she is not embarrassed about asking important people difficult questions To Laurel, working on a TV ………………… (20) is just ‘fun'! matrix intermediate carry us high in the air over towns TO (17) car UNIT 10 parks, airports, bus stations and railway stations Pollution will BE / BECOME (18) a thing CLOZE TEST of the past BECAUSE / SINCE / AS (19) all Fill in the blanks with suitable words of your own vehicles will have special filters and run on lead-free petrol Doesn't THAT (20) sound marvellous? I wonder, though, if any of us will be around to see it 2.As a working man, Christopher MacLean counts himself among the fortunate WITH (1) the exception of two years on the dole when he was just married, he has been WORKING / EMPLOYED (2) in the docks AS (3) a boat 1.Travelling to or from anywhere these days can be an unhealthy and frustrating experience In most cities, air pollution has reached SUCH (1) proportions that we all suffer FROM (2) coughs, colds and other chest problems constantly Also our transport system HAS (3) become dangerously overloaded Our roads are blocked WITH / BY (4) traffic jams, while buses, cars, taxis and motorbikes fight against EACH (5) other to get through Annoyed and tired, drivers drive badly, HAVE / CAUSE (6) accidents and even murder one another Also, buses and trains are SO (7) crowded that you CAN (8) hardly breathe or even stand up straight There are simply too MANY (9) people wanting to move from one place to another and not ENOUGH (10) space for them to so Town planners HOWEVER (11), tell us that everything will soon be different IN (12) the future, according to them, private cars will BE (13) banned FROM (14) town centres and be replaced by an integrated transport system in WHICH (15) all vehicles will be CONTROLLED / DRIVEN (16) by a central computer and radar will take the place of human drivers 'People movers' — a kind of urban cable-car — will handler for the best part of twenty years A man needs to work; it is his right He doesn't have any respect FOR (4) himself IF / WHEN (5) he cannot organize his life and support his own family His eldest boy, Tom, WHO (6) is married and lives with his wife and children DOWN / UP / ACROSS (7) the road in a decaying pre-war house, is employed AT (8) the moment, BUT (9) there is no guarantee of how LONG (10) it will last Before that he was out of WORK (11) for two years He got himself qualified as a welder and JUST (12) as he was about to change from apprenticeship to full wages, they gave him the sack THAT (13) broke his heart Christopher's younger son, Tony, has never HAD (14) a job Christopher understands why his son can't get OUT (15) of his bed until the afternoon, BUT (16) it irritates him, hearing young Tony wandering around the HOUSE (17) in the small hours, turning night into DAY (18) Tony has never asked his father or brother FOR (19) a penny, but he gets depressed because he is an able man, a willing PERSON (20) who wants to work to bleed BUT (5) his headache stopped From And then Father began to tell Marvin the story There this the practice of acupuncture developed, although the rock WAS (6) replaced by a variety were SOME / TWO (1) things he of needles The first acupuncture needles were did not understand: it was impossible for HIM MADE (7) of stone, bone, bamboo, copper, iron (2) to imagine life on the planet he had never or silver, but today stainless steel is usually seen Nor could he understand why it had BEEN used (3) destroyed in the end, leaving the Colony You alone BUT (4) he did understand the pain of acupuncture treatment in the `Biographies of THE / THOSE (5) last days when the Colony had Pien Chueh and Tsang Kung' which was written learnt at LAST (6) that the supply ships would over two thousand years AGO (8) Pien Chuch never again come UP / BACK (7) through the was famous FOR (9) his skill in acupuncture, stars with presents from home One by one the massage and the use of herbal medicines One radio stations on Earth had (8) day he was with his two assistants in an area calling: the lights of the cities had died, and called Kuo WHEN (10) he heard that the Prince THEY (9) were alone at last as no men HAD of Kuo was very seriously ILL (11) When Pien (10) been alone before, carrying the future of Chueh arrived at the palace, preparations FOR the race in THEIR (11) hands (12) the Prince's funeral were already BEING So, at last, Marvin realized that he WOULD (12) (13) made Pien Chuch examined the Prince and never walk beside, the rivers of THE (13) lost REALISED / SAW / NOTICED / FOUND (14) he world or listen to the thunder ABOVE / OVER was (14) its hills Yet one day — how far ahead — immediately ordered ONE (15) of his assistants HIS (15) children's children would return The to treat him with acupuncture, while the OTHER winds and the rains would carry the poisons (16) assistant placed bunches of special herbs FROM / OFF (16) the burning lands down to the in his armpits Soon the Prince recovered sea, and in the depths of the sea they WOULD consciousness and was ABLE (17) to sit UP (18) (17) harm no living thing Then the great in bed Pien Chueh recommended that he spaceships WHICH / THAT (18) were still should TAKE / DRINK / HAVE (19) certain waiting here on the silent, dusty plains could lift herbal medicines for twenty days The Prince off once AGAIN / MORE (19) into space, along DID (20) this and was soon fit and healthy the road that led THEM / BACK (20) home again According to an ancient Chinese legend, 5.I'm a teacher and a few years ago I started the idea of acupuncture" began when a man getting worried about my students because they developed a headache while lifting some heavy weren't rocks The headache was SO (1) severe that he difficulties dropped ONE (2) of the rocks ON (3) his foot thought that this WAS (1) perhaps because of His foot became very painful and STARTED (4) all the fast food they THESE (2) days So I STOPPED can still read an early breathing, but concentrating following in what description only of weakly He lessons and I saying was had I contacted a psychologist AT (3) a university and, with the students' and their parents' can be very different from OTHER (8) countries agreement, we worked out an experiment Shops normally open at 9.30 a.m and CLOSE First of ALL (4) I kept a record of everything a (9) at 5.30 p.m with no BREAK (10) in the hundred of my students ATE (5) over a three- middle of the day AS (11) for pubs, their day period and, when we analysed this record, opening hours vary Normal hours are 11.30 WE (6) found that their diet did not HAVE (7) a.m to 2.30 p.m and 5.30 p.m to 10:30 p.m., enough vitamins and minerals We therefore ALTHOUGH / BUT (12) you may find some pubs decided to divide the students into two GROUPS are open longer than this You will also FIND (8) and give ONE (9) group vitamin pills and (13) discotheques open quite late, but generally the other grow a dummy pill WHICH / THAT speaking, night-life finishes early in Britain, and (10) looked exactly the same BUT / YET (11) so DOES (14) public transport Finally, A (15) which, in fact, had no nutritional value — no word about eating If you want to eat out there vitamins or minerals at all are lots of restaurants, but THEY (16) tend to The students TOOK / HAD (12) the pills for nine be expensive unless they are Indian or Chinese months and then we tested THEM (13) to see if Food in these is generally tasty and I GOOD there was ANY / A (14) difference in their (17) value for money But don't forget that you performance Our results showed no important CAN / MAY (18) eat in pubs and there the food differences and is often good, varied and cheap, although if language ability BETWEEN (15) the two groups you're under eighteen they won't LET (19) you But the group who HAD (16) taken the vitamin drink alcohol with your meal pills got much higher scores THAN (17) the One last thing: if you come, HAVE (20) a other group in tests of their mathematical great holiday! in memory, concentration ability I hadn't expected these findings but IT (18) 7.Children's Express is a unique organization does seem that what WE (19) eat influences our that started twelve years ago with the slogan intelligence even when we ARE (20) apparently 'BY CHILDREN FOR EVERYBODY' The idea well-fed behind the articles, which are PUBLISHED / PRINTED (1) in over thirty papers across THE 6.Many students visit Britain every summer (2) USA as WELL (3) as in New Zealand and either as tourists, or to learn the language, or Australia, is to encourage readers TO (4) look at to a combination of the two If you're important issues from the POINT (5) of view of thinking OF (1) visiting Britain, there are FEW children and young people (2) things that you should BE (3) ready for In Firstly, THE (4) weather can be very changeable reporters can choose ANY / WHAT / A / WHICH — even in summer — so you NEVER (5) know (6) story they want to work on, depending ON what it's going to be like It might be rainy or (7) what they are INTERESTED (8) in On any sunny, hot or cold, so you MUST / SHOULD (6) story, a team of three or four, usually under be prepared for everything and TAKE / BRING thirteen and sometimes as young AS (9) eight, (7) both summer clothes and warmer ones work with an assistant editor Interviews ARE Secondly, opening hours for shops, pubs, etc (10) done using tape-recorders and are then their New York office the 200 young typed out by adult workers The MOST (11) interesting articles are then selected BY (12) a teenage assistant editor and an adult Children's Express editor Children's Express teams have interviewed local politicians and presidential candidates They have covered Kampuchea and stories have on Chernobyl investigated and difficult social problems SUCH (13) as violence IN (14) the family They also WROTE (15) articles in Spanish for the large NUMBER (16) of Spanish American readers Recently they have announced that they’re GOING (17) to produce a weekly TV news programme, starting NEXT (18) year Ten-year-old Laurel is to BE (19) one of the presenters of the programme because she is not embarrassed about asking important people difficult questions To Laurel, working on a TV PROGRAM (20) is just ‘fun'!