to help a doctor (50) _____ your illness, or to prove to

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Why is it that many teenagers have the energy to play computer games until late at night but can't find the energy to get out of bed (26) ________ for school? According to a new report, today's generation of children are in danger of getting so (27)_______ sleep that they are putting their mental and physical health at (28)_______. Adults can easily survive on seven to eight hours' sleep a night, (29)_______teenagers require

nine or ten hours. According to medical experts, one in five youngsters (30)________ anything between two and five hours' sleep a night less than their parents did at their age.

By Tim Falla and Paul A.Davies, Solutions Advanced. OUP

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Hospitality

Hospitality - looking after visitors - is universal but in different cultures hostsare (1)______to receive guests in different ways.

In much of the ancient world it was the custom to provide passing travellers with food and water. Today some old customs have (2)_______. In a traditional Japanese household, if a guest admires a particular object in the house, the host will want to give it to the guest straight away. And in parts of Russia guests are greeted with bread and salt on a special cloth.The guest is (3)______to kiss them and hand them back to the host. Sometimes the guest breaks off a small piece of bread, dips it in the salt and eats it.

In some countries, when foreign guests arrive from abroad, they may feel they have been given a particularly (4)______meal. But this is probably because the host politely offers more and more food and

drink and the guest is too embarrassed to (5)_______anything down.

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Most people think of computers as very modern inventions, products of our new technological age. But actually the idea for a computer had been worked out over two centuries ago by a man (11) ______

Charles Babbage. Babbage was born in 1791 and grew up to be a brilliant mathematician. He drew up plans for several calculating machines which he called “engines”. But despite the fact that he (12) ______ building some of these, he never finished any of them. Over the years, people have argued (13) _____ his machines would ever work. Recently, however, the Science Museum in London has finished building (14) _______ engine based on one of Babbage’s designs. (15) ______ has taken six years to complete and move than four thousand parts have been specially made.

Whether it works or not, the machine will be on show at a special exhibition in the Science Museum to remind people of Babbage’s work

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Read the following the passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrasethat best fits each of the numbered blanks from 31 to 35.

From the next year, every student in their final rear at our school will study for a compulsory Diploma of Practical Achievement. This will be in addition to the normal examinations. Up to now, the course has been optional, but from now on every student must (31)_________it.

The aim is to (32)__________ students with "life skills", which the Diploma divides into eight categories. These cover a range of things relevant to life beyond school, from sending an e-mail to giving presentation to an audience. Under the heading "survival", (33)_______, students can learn car mainternance, first aid and cooking. We have discovered that many students cannot do simple things such as mend a puncture or boil an egg. At the other extreme, the Diploma includes such things as how to design a webpage and how to cope if someone has a heart attack. It has been called a " Diploma in Common Sense".

On the course, students will not be taught in the traditional (34)__________, but rather will be guided and encouraged to do things for themselves. This is above all a practical "hand-on" course. To a greater or lesser extent, good schools have always tried to (35)__________these skills. Unfortunately, students have not always shown much interest because such skills are not directly related to passing exams for higher education. We hope this will change now that we have a proper course that will lead to a recognised diploma.

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My first job was a sales assistant at a large department store. I wanted to work part-time, because I was still studying at university and I was only able to work a few nights a week.

I came across the advertisement in the local newspaper. I remember the interview as though it were yesterday. The (41) ________ manager sat behind a large desk. He asked me various questions which surprised me because all I wanted was to work in sales. An hours later, I was told that I had got the job and was given a contract to go over. I was to be trained for ten days before I took my post. Also, as a member of staff, I was (42) ______ to some benefits, including discounts.

When I eventually started, I was responsible (43) _______ the toy section. I really enjoyed it there and I loved demonstrating the different toys. I was surprised at how friendly my colleagues were, too. They made working there fun even when we had to deal with customers (44) ______ got on our nerves. (45) _______, working there was a great experience which I will never forget