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What does Syria think about renewable energy?

What do the speakers say about modem windmills?

What aspect of traditional fuels are they going to address?

What does Greg say about nuclear plants?

What does Syria think of hydrogen fuel?

Which facilities do the colleges have?

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Northdown College 6.1

The Academy in London 6.2

Leeds Conservatory of Contemporary Music 6.3

The Henry Music Institute 6.4

The James Academy of Music 6.5

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In retrospect, I realize now that I _____ him the truth from the beginning, rather than concealing it.

The unforeseen circumstances fed to the rescheduling of the conference that was _____ last month, much to the attendees' disappointment.

The high-pressure environment of the hospital emergency room made even Tom, one of the most experienced doctors, feel like a _____.

At Hudson Bay to the North of Canada _____.

I wouldn’t call her a close friend. She’s more of a/an ______ really.

This football club got through to the final of the championship three years in _____.

It was so hot that most people stayed indoors; the streets were _____ empty.

It was found that some aromas made people feel drowsy while others made them feel _____ or even euphoric.

As the race began, the car quickly _____ speed and shot ahead of the pack.

The top my mom wants to buy me from Blue Exchange doesn't _____ me at all; it's just not my style.

Despite the chaotic emergency situation, the nurse _____ and calmly administered first aid to multiple victims.

Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa is _____; if it was destroyed no amount of money could ever replace it.

Marcus has a high _____ of proficiency in English after studying in Oxford University for 3 years.

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Sales data for the store is divided into discrete time intervals for easy analysis and evaluation.

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The second summit between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un ended abruptly on Thursday, with a working lunch and a scheduled signing ceremony being called off.

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While Dien Bien still evokes memories of fierce battles and 28.1 (HERO) national victories, today, this province 28.2 (CHARMLESS) visitors with its peaceful beauty. Spring is a 28.3 (SPECTACLE) time to visit Vietnam's Northern Highlands. After a cold winter, when mist and frost cover the whole plateau, spring brings a blanket of white bauhinia blossoms. The pure white blooms of bauhinias are mirrored in the Nam Na and Nam Ron Rivers. 28.4 (TRAVEL) pass beneath flowering bauhinia trees as they cross Pha Din Pass, one of the Four Great Mountain Passes of Vietnam. These fragile white blooms grow between bright green leaves on scraggy branches, like white butterflies fluttering in the 28.5 (WILD).

For ethnic Thai people in Dien Bien, bauhinias are a symbol of longing for happiness, 28.6 (PURE), faith, beauty, filial 28.7 (PIOUS) and hope. These flowers are 28.8 (CLOSE) linked to the lives, customs, traditions and folk chants of Thai communities. Bauhinias are often compared to young Thai girls: radiant and 28.9 (GRACE), wild yet innocent, living in these remote mountains.

Arguably, bauhinias are a symbol of the local people, spreading far and wide and adding beauty to the wild landscape. Visitors who come to Vietnam's Northwest Highlands in the spring can't help but be 28.10 (ENCHANT) by the pure and tranquil beauty of wild bauhinia flowers.

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MEASURES TO COMBAT INFECTIOUS DISEASE IN TSARIST RUSSIA

A. In the second half of the seventeenth century, Russian authorities began implementing controls at the borders of their empire to prevent the importation of plague, a highly infectious and dangerous disease. Information on disease outbreak occurring abroad was regularly reported to the tsar's court through various means, including commercial channels (travelling merchants), military personnel deployed abroad, undercover agents, the network of Imperial Foreign Office embassies and representations abroad, and the customs offices. For instance, the heads of customs offices were instructed to question foreigners entering Russia about possible epidemics of dangerous diseases in their respective countries.

B. If news of an outbreak came from abroad, relations with the affected country were suspended. For instance, foreign vessels were not allowed to dock in Russian ports if there was credible information about the existence of epidemics in countries from whence they had departed. In addition, all foreigners entering Russia from those countries had to undergo quarantine. In 1665, after receiving news about a plague epidemic in England, Tsar Alexei wrote a letter to King Charles II in which he announced the cessation of Russian trade relations with England and other foreign states. These protective measures appeared to have been effective, as the country did not record any cases of plague during that year and in the next three decades. It was not until 1692 that another plague outbreak was recorded in the Russian province of Astrakhan. This epidemic continued for five months and killed 10,383 people, or about 65 percent of the city's population. By the end of the seventeenth century, preventative measures had been widely introduced in Russia, including the isolation of persons ill with plague, the imposition of quarantines, and the distribution of explanatory public health notices about plague outbreaks.

C. During the eighteenth century, although none of the occurrences was of the same scale as in the past, plague appeared in Russia several times. For instance, from 1703 to 1705, a plague outbreak that had ravaged Istanbul spread to the Podolsk and Kiev provinces in Russia, and then to Poland and Hungary. After defeating the Swedes in the battle of Poltava in 1709, Tsar Peter I (Peter the Great) dispatched part of his army to Poland, where plague had been raging for two years. Despite preventive measures, the disease spread among the Russian troops. In 1710, the plague reached Riga (then part of Sweden, now the capital of Latvia), where it was active until 1711 and claimed 60,000 lives. During this period, the Russians besieged Riga and, after the Swedes had surrendered the city in 1710, the Russian army lost 9,800 soldiers to the plague. Russian military chronicles of the time note that more soldiers died of the disease after the capture of Riga than from enemy fire during the siege of that city.

D. Tsar Peter I imposed strict measures to prevent the spread of plague during these conflicts. Soldiers suspected of being infected were isolated and taken to areas far from military camps. In addition, camps were designed to separate divisions, detachments, and smaller units of soldiers. When plague reached Narva (located in present-day Estonia) and threatened to spread to St. Petersburg, the newly built capital of Russia, Tsar Peter I ordered the army to cordon off the entire boundary along the Luga River, including temporarily halting all activity on the river. In order to prevent the movement of people and goods from Narva to St. Petersburg and Novgorod, roadblocks and checkpoints were set up on all roads. The tsar's orders were rigorously enforced, and those who disobeyed were hung.

E. However, although the Russian authorities applied such methods to contain the spread of the disease and limit the number of victims, all of the measures had a provisional character: they were intended to respond to a specific outbreak, and were not designed as a coherent set of measures to be implemented systematically at the first sign of plague. The advent of such a standard response system came a few years later.

F. The first attempts to organise procedures and carry out proactive steps to control plague date to the aftermath of the 1727-1728 epidemic in Astrakhan. In response to this, the Russian imperial authorities issued several decrees aimed at controlling the future spread of plague. Among these decrees, the 'Instructions for Governors and Heads of Townships' required that all governors immediately inform the Senate - a government body created by Tsar Peter I in 1711 to advise the monarch - if plague cases were detected in their respective provinces. Furthermore, the decree required that governors ensure the physical examination of all persons suspected of carrying the disease and their subsequent isolation. In addition, it was ordered that sites where plague victims were found had to be encircled by checkpoints and isolated for the duration of the outbreak. These checkpoints were to remain operational for at least six weeks. The houses of infected persons were to be burned along with all of the personal property they contained, including farm animals and cattle. The governors were instructed to inform the neighbouring provinces and cities about every plague case occurring on their territories. Finally, letters brought by couriers were heated above a fire before being copied.

G. The implementation by the authorities of these combined measures demonstrates their intuitive understanding of the importance of the timely isolation of infected people to limit the spread of plague.

Complete the sentences below. Choose ONE WORD ONLY from the passage for each answer.

An outbreak of plague in 29.1 prompted the publication of a coherent preventative strategy.

Provincial governors were ordered to burn the 29.2 and possessions of plague victims.

Correspondence was held over a 29.3 prior to copying it.

Which TWO measures did Russia take in the seventeenth century to avoid plague outbreaks?

Which TWO statements are made about Russia in the early eighteenth century?

The reading passage has SEVEN sections, A-G. Choose the correct heading for sections A-F from the list of headings below. Write the correct number, i-viii.

Section A: 32.1

Section B: 32.2

Section C: 32.3

Section D: 32.4

Section E: 32.5

Section F: 32.6

Read the following passage and choose the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the blanks.

IS TRADITION AN OBSTACLE TO PROGRESS?

Most of what we do in our daily lives follows procedures that come from the past. They are habits and customs 33.1to be createdcreatedcreatingcreate throughout the centuries, and they have a profound relation to the unchanging natural order of things. When people or institutions 33.2adoptwinbreakgain a custom, it is because its efficiency had already been tested and approved for generations as the best way to act. 33.3By contrastHoweverThereforeEven if people and institutions have a large stock of these wise customs and a natural tendency to continue them. They confer stability. Things become fixed in tradition because they work well that way: they aren't seen as a straitjacket, limiting movement. One may adjust the custom, but only to improve it, not destroy it. Of course, if one was to call every practice "tradition" and refuse to change anything for its sake, society wouldn't move at all.

Some object that tradition produces 33.4stagnationimprovementrevolutiondifference because nothing changes. This is a rash judgment. Traditions don't become moldy; they constitute an inheritance of wise practices and customs that prevent us from having to waste time figuring out 33.5wherewhatwhywhen our ancestors have already figured out - where's the point in trying to reinvent the 33.6wheeltirebrakegear? It is constantly starting again that produces sluggishness. Leave 33.7justanywellsome enough alone. When one accepts established solutions for problems, one is free to accomplish creative additions in other unexplored fields. This is the way societies progress and rise to a higher level of civilisation. To constantly change everything is to condemn society to instability, perpetually remaining at the same level of civilisation, or even 33.8movingholdingfallingdropping into decay. Important traditions which are held sacred don't interfere with progress: they give us a sense of belonging! When we belong, we care enough to think about how we can improve our own lives and the lives of those around us.

Read the passage below and fill in each blank with ONE suitable word.

Britain has gone mad for bananas. Over the past 12 months, Britons have consumed an unprecedented 3.5 billion pieces of the tropical fruit, forcing the 34.1 apple into second place. The nation's banana boom is one of the most remarkable nutritional trends of recent years, a guide not only to the growing 34.2 consciousness of the British people but also to the country's economic health. 34.3 is amazing is that bananas were virtually unheard of during the 19th century and even up until the end of the 1920s 34.4 anyone in Britain had tasted or 34.5 seen them. Early attempts to introduce them to northern countries had met with failure because by the time they had been shipped to Britain, they had rotted 34.6 recognition. However, thanks to the development of refrigerated shipping, all this changed. Refrigerated shipping meant that then, as now, bunches of imported bananas could arrive in good condition at 34.7 houses in dockyards where they were stored. The first commercial refrigerated shipment arrived 100 years ago, triggering an enthusiasm from 34.8 Britons have never looked back. "The banana has everything going for it”, says Jeanette Scott of the Banana Group marketing organization. "It's easy to open, it is packed 34.9 energy and vitamins and is low in calories. It is also a first-class cure for upset stomachs and it stabilizes blood 34.10, so its popularity should not be seen as that surprising."

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During competition, figure skaters are awarded points based on how well they execute the maneuvers as well as on artistic merit.

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I believe that she can't have been ignorant of the company’s dirty connections, though she strongly denied knowing anything about them.

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Although the United States is the richest country in the world, parts of their inner cities are as poor as the typical urban areas of developing countries.

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The critics tore into much of Picasso's work, mostly because of a failure to understand that he was trying to break away from the traditions of the Renaissance.

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Kierkegaard is today regarded as amongst history's best thinkers. However, when he was alive in the 19th-century, he faced a lot of mockeries.

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The Spanish were unable to beat down the forces of Abd el-Krim in Morocco. It was only when they were backed up by the French and started using chemical weapons that they could win.

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Great or notorious leaders seem to have unusual and distinctive capabilities. That's why they stand out from the rest of us.

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Spare us the details of your story, please. Most of us have lost the thread of it anyway.

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When I was a child, I usually went for family picnics. I would go off into the forest to escape my annoying relatives.