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2. Could you ___________ on whether people will change their attitudes towards borrowing money?

3. The university is going to _________________ a coach from the airport to the conference venue.

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

5. Ur was ___________________located close to the Euphrates and Tigris rivers.

6. "The match was _________ live on a leading sports channel." Which of the following words DOES NOT fit in the gap?

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People romanticise writing as a profession. They think that it is just about sitting down and churning out words on a page, or more likely these days, on a computer screen. If only it were so! In fact, being a writer is about managing a spectrum of contradictory and conflicting emotions: elation, despair, hope, frustration, satisfaction, and depression! Furthermore, it also involves carrying out meticulous research: first to establish whether there is a market for the planned publication, and second into the actual content of the book. Sometimes, however, instinct takes the place of market research and the contents are dictated not by planning and exhaustive research but by experience and knowledge.

In the planning stages of a book, ______________________________________

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Dr Billingham is investigating fossilized tracks, or footprints, using computer simulations to help analyse how now-extinct animals moved. Modern-day trackers who are familiar with the habitats of wild animals can, with ease, tell you what animal made a track, whether it was walking or running, and sometimes even the sex of the animal. However, a fossil track poses a more considerable challenge to interpret in the same way. A crucial consideration is knowing what the environment upon which the animal walked was like millions of years ago when the track was made. Experiments can answer these questions but the number of variables is mind-boggling. Physically recreating each scenario with a box of mud or sediment is extremely time-consuming and difficult to repeat accurately.

An experienced tracker can analyse fossil footprints as easily as those made by live animals.

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What does the speaker say about the barbecues?

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Which organised activity can children do every day of the week?

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The holiday insurance that is offered _________

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A decade ago, in one of the most intriguing and in equal parts disturbing experiments in behavioural psychology, S. Milgram of Yale University tested dozens of subjects from all walks of life for their willingness to obey instructions given by a ‘leader’ in a situation in which they might feel a personal distaste for the actions they were called upon to perform. Specifically, Milgram told each volunteer that the experiment was in the name of a noble cause, and was designed to test whether or not punishing pupils for their wrongdoings would have a positive effect on the pupils' educational attainment.

Several of the subjects were psychology graduates from Yale University.

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Perfumes and fragrant spices were precious commodities in antiquity. They were very much in demand, and at times even exceeded silver and gold in value. Therefore they were considered to be luxury products, used mainly in the temples and in the homes of the nobility and upper classes.

Since perfumes and spices were luxury products, their use was exclusive to the noble and the wealthy.

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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.