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I work in 1)___office in 2)___city center and I always have 3)___problem finding 4))___parking space. My wife says I’m always complaining about 5)___ traffic and 6)___pollution, which is true – you see. I grew up in 7)___country, close to nature and I have never got used to living in 8)___city. I think the only thing I would miss about not living in 9)___big city like this is going to 10)___concerts of all kinds. I love rock and classical music, too, and especially going to 11)___cinema, which I am particularly keen on. I also like 12)___good food and occasionally we go out and have 13)___dinner in a nice restaurant, but most of the time we eat at home, where 14)___food is delicious – except when I make it!
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1)___Golden Gate Bridge in 2)___San Francisco had 3)___longest span in 4)___world at 5)___time of its constructions in 1937. It was named after 6)___Golden Gate Strait, which is 7)___entrance to 8)___San Francisco Bay from 9)___Pacific Ocean. 10)___A/army captain gave 11)___strait its name because it reminded him of 12)___harbor in Istanbul. 13)___B/bridge is actually not gold but orange. 14)___P/people in 15)___charge chose 16)___color orange because it blends well with 17)___environment. However, 18)___United States Navy wanted to paint 19)___bridge black and yellow so that 20)___passing ships could see it more easily.
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1)___BBC World Service on radios claims 2)___regular worldwide audience of some 25 million for their English language programmes. It is funded directly by 3)___British Foreign Office, despite any Government attempt to control 4)___content of programmes are vigorously fought off. It is broadcast around 5)___world and nobody who has 6)___access to 7)___radio with short wave need be without it. 8)___A/archetype listener today is under 30, male, likely to be 9)___second or even third language. Few women tune in, which is why there is no women’s programme including in its 24-hour services. 10)___B/biggest and 11)___most important of the news programme is Newshour, 12)___60-minute survey of world news which goes out at 13)___night at 10 p.m. British time. This slot cannot please everyone but be 14)___optimum time to catch any listeners having 15)___breakfast in Hongkong or settling down during 16)___night in 17)___West Africa. It can recommend to anyone who wants to understand 18)___world, not just Britain. At any rate, which is its aim and certainly by 19)___comparison, 20)___most British domestic news programmes seem trivial and parochial.
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1)___E/election year is one in which all four numbers are evenly divisible by four (1944, 1948, etc.) Since 1840, American presidents elected in years ending in zero died in office. William H.Harrison, 2)___man who served 3)___shortest term, died of pneumonia several weeks after his inauguration. Abraham Lincoln was one of four presidents who were assassinated. He was elected in 1860, and his untimely death came just five years later. James A.Garfield, 4)___former Union army general from Ohio, was shot during his first year of presidency (1881) by 5)___man to whom he wouldn’t give a job. While in his second term of office (1905), William McKinley, another Ohioan, attended the Pan-American Exposition at Buffalo, New York. During 6)___reception, he was assassinated while shaking hands with some of 7)___guests. Three yeas after his election in 1920, Warren G. Harding died at work. Although it was never proved, many believe he was poisoned. Franklin D.Roosevelt had been elected four times (1932, 1936, 1940, and 1944), 8)___only man to serve so long a term, He had contracted polio in 1921 and died of 9)___illness in 1945. John Kennedy was assassinated in 1963, only three years after his election. So many people wondered if 1980’s candidate would suffer 10)___same fate.
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1)___thousand years ago York was one of 2)___largest, richest and most famous cities in 3)___ whole of Britain. 4)___M/monk at that time described it as packed with 5)___huge population, rich merchandise, and traders “from all parts, especially Danes”. People in 6)___10″ century called it Jorvik, and knew it as 7)___capital of 8)___North of England, and one of Europe’s greatest trading ports. It owed its prosperity to 9)___hard work and commercial enterprise of Viking settlers from Scandinavia who had captured 10)___city in AD 866 and almost totally rebuilt it.
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