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1. Last year's winter was _________ cold and snowfall was frequent.

2. Read the following text to answer the question.

There is clearly no denying that meteorologists are still at a very early stage in understanding weather. The effects of variables such as rainfall, cloud formation, the seas and oceans, gases, including methane and ozone, or even solar energy use are still not really understood. Therefore it must be stressed that the predictions being made today cannot be completely relied on.

Our understanding of the weather ________________________

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Margaret thinks that employers should encourage staff members who are __________

4. More resources are needed to maintain a large aged population with an acceptable _________ of life.

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Drs B. Sellers and P. Manning from the University of Manchester have created a computer model which works with digitized dinosaur skeletons and the locations of known muscles. The model then randomly activates the muscles. This, perhaps unsurprisingly, almost always results in the animal falling flat on its face. So the computer alters the activation pattern and tries again. If there is any improvement, the old pattern is discarded and the new one is adopted as a base. Eventually, the muscle activation pattern evolves to a stable way of movement and the dinosaur can walk, run, chase or graze. Assuming natural selection evolves the best possible solution too, the modeled animal should move in a manner similar to its now-extinct counterpart. Indeed, using the same method for living animals, including humans, emu and ostriches, similar top speeds were achieved on the computer as in reality.

When the Sellers & Manning model was used for people, it showed them moving quicker than they are physically able to.

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If we look at the much reported rise in global temperatures over the last century, a closer analysis reveals that the lion’s share of that increase, almost three quarters in total, occurred before mankind began to “poison” the world with industrial processes and their accompanying greenhouse gas emissions in the second half of the twentieth century.

Most of the increase in global temperature took place in the latter half of the twentieth century.

7. Some researchers refuse to believe that the impact of the meteorite _____________ for the end of the dinosaurs.

8. For _____________ who are not healthy enough to work until 65 , it would be best to retire.

9. Complete the sentence with the verb "risk" in the correct form. "If you spend too long getting ready you _____________ being late for the lecture."

10. "... the nuclear family – that is, _________ consisting of a husband, a wife and children."

11. Complete the sentence with the verb "move" in the correct form. Earthquakes are caused by tectonic plates ________________________ against each other.

12. Listen to the following audio to answer the question.

Passenger surname:

13. Which of the following words is the odd one out?

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If things turn out well for a long time, there is a further concern: that of constantly waiting for something to go wrong. People then find themselves appeasing the gods: not walking on lines on the pavements, performing rituals before public performances, wearing particular clothes and colours so that they can blame the ritual not themselves when things go wrong,

People perform certain rituals to try to avoid failure.

15. Oil is set to run out soon if we continue to ____________ it at the current rate.

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And the future? It is anticipated that, in some years to come, leisure spending will account for between a third to a half of all household expenditure. Whilst it is difficult to give exact figures, it is clear that the leisure industry will certainly experience a long period of sustained growth. Notably, working hours are not expected to decrease. This is because more people will be needed to keep leisure services running.

In the future, people will pay less for leisure facilities than they do today.

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Dr Holman has samples from every __________

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What did the speaker most like about the orientation week?

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Margaret thinks that managers should _________

20. Although it is first described as a county in 1065, its southern boundaries at, before and ______________ are uncertain.