Don't do this all at once; do it little _____ little.
Why don't we meet _____ here on 10th when I get back from France?
I ran _____ an old friend while I was going shopping in the city center.
The concert is only three days away but their preparations are still _____ sixes and sevens.
He was so tired that he wasn't capable _____ driving home himself.
We couldn't find our hotel for hours as it was _____ the beaten track.
Computer technology has brought _____ a revolution in business administration.
Are you for or _____ smoking in public places?
After lunch, we all would sit in front of the television _____ expectation of our favourite TV series.
Walking alone in the desert, the dog was mad _____ water.
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Venice: City of Many Boats
Venice, Italy, is made up of 117 small islands that sit in a lagoon. It is an impressive city because of its canals and majestic buildings. Many people visit it each year and are by its amazing places.
People get around in Venice with water taxis and special boats called "gondolas". The gondolas are suitable for Venice. Because they are long and narrow, they can Venice's many narrow waterways.
When I am in Venice, one of my favorite activities is to sit casually in a gondola as it moves slowly along the Grand Canal, and the many smaller canals. Doing this allows me to enjoy the scenery. I love to watch the boatmen, who guide the boats through the canals with great . They are given honour and respect because of their impressive skills. Afterwards, I can vividly the sound of the gondoliers singing as they row. The memory of them remains clear in my mind.
There are many small boats on the canal, as well as gigantic barges. The barges have to be enormous because they carry fruits, vegetables, and other items that merchants sell. Since there is a lot of boat traffic on the canals, the boatmen must have a lot of patience, especially during traffic jams. Usually, they remain calm and don't get upset as they steer their boats through the waterways. The main reason there is so traffic is that there aren't any cars or other motor vehicles in Venice.
But Venice has a big problem. It is sinking, and some scientists are afraid it will and disappear into the sea. Scientists from around the world are working together to keep it float. People who live in Venice try to each other that the city will always be safe. The Venetians remain hopeful and continue to and do well in their beautiful city.
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The team leader demanded from his members a serious attitude towards work, good team spirit, and that they work hard.
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A balance between cheap production and high quality have been a major concern in the field of crafts.
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I get quite depressed when I think about the damage we are making to the environment.
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The test administrator ordered that we not to open our books until he told us to do so.
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Publishing in the UK, the book has won a number of awards in recent regional book fairs.
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I wish everybody is aware of the protection of our heritage so that the future generations can know better about our nation.
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The Mediterranean climate is little suited to stock-breeding; only sheeps and goats can make use of the extensive feeding grounds with meagre rainfall.
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The little boy's mother bought him a five-speeds racing bicycle for his birthday.
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By whom was the famous song "White Christmas" write?
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While we were waiting in the departure lounge for our flight to announce, we decided which duty-free goods we should buy.
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I _____ met her but I am not sure. I don't remember her name.
Thomas has a garden which is _____ mine.
I've got such a _____ headache that I can't concentrate on the lecture.
The job of a firefighter is _____. You may need to work through the night occasionally.
Hardly _____ the captain of the team when he had to face the problems.
In a recent report, the scientists recommend that the building of the bridge _____.
They were very _____ when they chose the members of the team.
We cannot afford that house because it costs an arm and a _____.
There were a lot of people at my brother's wedding party, only a few of _____ I had met before.
Look at those people! We would now be queuing with them if I _____ father to book the seats in advance.
She loves volleyball and can watch it till the _____ come home.
If she gets the scholarship, her parents will walk on _____.
Joe seemed to be in a good mood, _____ he snapped at me angrily when I asked him to join us.
_____ our kids may be, we cannot have a picnic in this weather.
Everybody was surprised because he went to the party without _____.
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Read the following passage and choose the correct answer to each of the questions.
The word "laser" was coined as an acronym for Light Amplification by the Stimulated Emission of Radiation. Ordinary light, from the sun or a light bulb, is emitted spontaneously, when atoms or molecules get rid of excess energy by themselves, without any outside intervention. Stimulated emission is different because it occurs when an atom or molecule holding onto excess energy has been stimulated to emit it as light.
Albert Einstein was the first to suggest the existence of stimulated emission in a paper published in 1917. However, for many years, physicists thought that atoms and molecules always were much more likely to emit light spontaneously; and that stimulated emission, thus, always would be much weaker. It was not until after the Second World War that physicists began trying to make stimulated emission dominate. They sought ways by which one atom or molecule could stimulate many others to emit light, amplifying it to much higher powers.
The first to succeed was Charles H. Townes, then at Columbia University in New York. Instead of working with light, however, he worked with microwaves, which have a much longer wavelength, and built a device he called a "maser", for Microwave Amplification by the Stimulated Emission of Radiation. Although he thought of the key idea in 1951, the first maser was not completed until a couple of years later. Before long, many other physicists were building masers and trying to discover how to produce stimulated emission at even-shorter wavelengths.
The key concepts emerged in about 1957. Townes and Arthur Schawlow, then at Bell Telephone Laboratories, wrote a long paper outlining the conditions needed to amplify stimulated emission of visible light waves. At about the same time, similar ideas crystalized in the mind of Gordon Gould, then a 37-year-old graduate student at Columbia, who wrote them down in a series of notebooks. Townes and Schawlow published their ideas in a scientific journal, Physical Review Letters, but Gould filed a patent application. Many years later, people still argued about who deserved the credit for the concepts.
The word it in paragraph 1 refers to _____.
Which of the following best describes a maser?
Why was Townes' early work with stimulated emission done with microwaves?
In his research at Columbia University, Charles Townes worked with all of the following EXCEPT _____.
In approximately which year was the first maser built?
The word outlining in paragraph 4 is CLOSEST in meaning to _____.
Which paragraph mentions different people writing similar ideas at about the same time?
The show is so popular that it's _____ for weeks ahead.
As soon as she got home, she knew her house had been _____.
I see a lot of young people with this new hairstyle. It seems to be _____.
In my village, the old artisans _____ to the younger ones the techniques to make beautiful baskets.
Before I travel to a new place, I always _____ about its history.
On the first day of Tet, children _____ their new clothes and visit their relatives.
Emily _____ a bad cold just before the holiday.
When we went to Sydney, we only had a couple of hours to _____ the city.