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How long will a baby bom today live? 100 years? 120 years? Scientists are studying genes that could mean long life for us all.

There are already many, many people who have passed the landmark age of 100. In fact, there are now so many healthy, elderly people that there’s a name for them: the wellderly. These are people over the age of eighty who have no major illnesses, such as high blood pressure, heart disease or diabetes.

There are many scientific studies of communities where healthy old age is typical. These include places like Calabria in southern Italy and the island of Okinawa in Japan. In Calabria, the small village of Molochio has about 2,000 inhabitants. And of these, there are at least eight people over a hundred years old. When researchers ask people like this the secret of their long life, the answer is almost always about food and is almost always the same: ‘I eat a lot of fruit and vegetables.’ ‘I eat a little bit of everything.’ ‘ I neither smoke nor drink.’

In the past, scientists looked at things such as diet and lifestyle for an explanation of long life, these days they are also looking at genetics. Researcher Eric Topol says that there must be genes that explain why people are protected from the effects of aging process. The new research into long life did scrutinize groups of people who have a genetic connection. One interesting group lives in Ecuador. In one area of the country there are a number of people with the same genetic condition. It’s called Laron syndrome. These people don’t grow very tall - just over one metre. But Laron syndrome also give them protection against cancer and diabetes. As a result, they live longer than other people in their families. Meanwhile, on the Hawaiian island of Oahu, there’s another group of long-lived men, Japanese-Americans. They have a similar gene to the Laron syndrome group.

Back in Calabria, researchers constructed the family trees of the 100-year-old people. They looked at family information from the 19th century to today. It is concluded that there are genetic factors that give health benefits to the men. This is a surprising result because generally in Europe, women live longer than men. So what really makes people live longer? It seems likely that it is an interaction of genes, the environment and probably a third factor - luck.

(Adapted from https://www.ngllife.com/long-and-healthy-life-0)

Looking at the weather, I think we made a wise decision not to go to the coast this weekend.

Turtle enclosures save baby turtles from natural predators like birds, crabs, and lizards.

The larger the area of forest is destroyed, _______.

John lost the _______ bicycle he bought last week and his parents were very angry with him.

You have a ticket to the water puppetry, _______?

Today, many serious childhood diseases _______ by early immunization.

His visit to Korea was delayed _______ his illness.

The lawyer promised that he would leave no stone unturned in trying to find more evidence to help Jake's case.

It was her performances in American idol that gained her an international reputation as a soprano.

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Sylvia Earle is an underwater explorer and marine biologist, who was born in the USA in 1935. She became interested in the world's oceans from an early age. As a child, she liked to stand on the beach for hours and look at the sea, wondering that it must be like under the surface. When she was 16, she finally got a chance to make her first dive. It was this dive that inspired her to become an underwater explorer. Since then, she has spent more than 6,500 hours under water, and has led more than seventy expeditions worldwide. She has also made the deepest dive ever, reaching a record-breaking depth of 381 meters.

In 1970, she became famous around the world when she became the captain of the first all-female team to live under water. The team spent two weeks in an underwater "house". The research they carried out showed the damage that pollution was causing to marine life, and specially to coral reefs. Since then she has written several books and magazine articles in which she suggests ways of reducing the damage that is being done to the world's oceans. One way, she believes, is to rely on fish farms for seafood, and reduce the amount of fishing that is done the out at sea.

(Adapted from Complete IELTS by Rawdon Wyatt)

By then, the elite performers had all totaled 10000 hours of practice over the (43) ________of their lives, the merely good students 8000 hours and the future music teachers just over 4000 hours.

All were then asked how (40)______ hours they had practised since they first picked up a violin.

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In the early 1990s, the psychologist K. Anders Ericsson and two colleagues installed themselves at Berlin's elite Academy of Music. With the help of the academy's professors, they (39)_______ the school's violinists into three groups. First were the students with the potential to become world-class soloists. Second were those judged to be merely 'good'. Third were the students unlikely ever to play professionally and who intended to be music teachers in schools. All were then asked how (40)______ hours they had practised since they first picked up a violin.

Everyone, from all three groups, had started playing at roughly the age of five and practised from two or three hours a week. (41)______ around the age of eight, differences started to emerge. The students (42)________ would end up as the best in their class began to practise more than everyone else, until by the age of 20 they were practising well over 30 hours a week. By then, the elite performers had all totaled 10000 hours of practice over the (43) ________of their lives, the merely good students 8000 hours and the future music teachers just over 4000 hours.

(Adapted from Ready for Advanced by Roy Norris, Amanda French with Miles Hordern)

Peter was all ears when I told him about my first day at work.