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Michelle Whiteman has 1) ………………… has her life to protecting the orang-utan. For ten months of the year she she works in the jungles of Borneo, watching and studying the great apes in the natural 2) …………………. The rest of the time she spends in the UK raising 3) …………………. of the need for help. Like many of the animals in the islands of Indonesia, the orang-utan is in 4) ………………. danger.

The destruction of the jungles is so severe that 5) ……………… to some experts the species may be extinct within ten years. In addition to the destruction of their jungle homes, the animals are also at 6) ……………….. due to hunting and the capture of wild feor the pet trade. Furthermore, their population does not increase rapidly: a female orang-utan has a 7) ………………. baby only once every eight years.

Orang –utans are solitary animals which 8) ………………. almost all of their time in the trees, 9) ………………. for food and sleeping. They can weigh up to 77 kilos, which means they are also the largest tree-living animals in the world.

Michelle learnt about the orang-utans while studying zoology at Bristol University. “When I read about the terrible situation in Indonesia, I could 10) ……………… believe it. There are a great 11) ………………… of new animal species there that can become extinct before before we have had a chance to discover them! I knew I knew I 12) …………….. do something, so I came out here. If we don’t find a 13) …………… soon to stop the destruction of their habitat, the orang-utan will simply disappear.”

What a normal price to pay for lunch I 1) …………………… remember the most expensive lunch of my life. It was in 2) …………………… hotel in Paris and I was entertaining a business customer. Between the two of us we spent 75 euros-and that was 3) ………………… even drinking any wine!

But 4) ………………… a country house hotel in the UK, chefs 5) ………………… recently produced a sandwich that 6) ………………….. its own costs 100 pounds (150 euros)! The sandwich is made from corn-fed chicken, Italian ham and a topping of white truffles. It is the latter that really sends 7) ………………… cost soaring!

The white truffle, a white fungus 8) ………………… is traditionally found with the help of pigs or dogs, sells at outrageous prices. The Alba truffle of South –Eastern France can sell for as 9) ……………….. as 2,500 pounds a kilo! This delicacy is the most expensive ingredient in Europe, but not quite the world.

This is because 10) ……………….. prize must belong to lychee, a fruit that is prized 11) ………………… Asian cuisine. In 2002 a Chinese businessman paid 45,270 pounds 12) ……………………. a single fruit from a 400 year-old tree! It was a single fruit from a 400-year –old tree! It was 13) ……………… valuable because the fruit of the tree was once eaten by the Qing emperors of China.

In Britain 1) …………………. knows a mother-in-law joke. It might seem strange, but they are a member of the family 2) …………….... every comedian makes jokes about. Well, I am very happy I to say that I am really good friends with my mother- in-law. We got on fantastically well from the first moment we met and we 3) …………….. never fallen out.

4) ………………… name is Tracy, and she and my father-in-law, Don, have been like second parents to me. My wife and I go round to their house for lunch every Sunday and they normally visit us 5) …………. least once a week. I think the reason why we got on so well is 6) …………………. we have the same sense of humour. There are always loads 7) ……………… jokes and funny stories whenever we meet.

At the moment, my wife 8) ………….. expecting our first child. Don and Tracy are very excited about 9) …………………. first grandchild. Every time they visit, they bring a new present 10) ………………. the baby and want to hear all the latest news.

As 11) …………….. as my wife, Don and Tracy also have a son: my brother-in-law, Peter.

He works overseas, 12) …………… we don’t see him very often. He works as 13) ……………… chef on a cruise ship and his cooking is amazing.

14) …………….. he is in the country, he always stays with us. We often go out 15) ……………….. the evenings to watch the football together. So you can see, I’m very happy 16) …………..my in-laws.

If you want a different perspective on your friends’ reading 1) …………………, why not ask them what was the worst book they ever read? Or what was the last book that they 2) ………………… to finish reading? When I asked a number of my friends this question. I got some surprising 3) ……………………

The first surprise was one of my friends said that they had 4) ……………………. on J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings after ten pages! I was very disappointed because that is one of my all-time 5) ……………… reads. The same friend that they had tried to read Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe on several 6) ………………., but have never finished it.

One of my friends said that she had always 7) ……………….. the modernist novelist Virginia Woolf, but that she had 8) …………… problems reading her classic fantasy tale Orlando. The problem was that the book was difficult to read because of all the descriptions and adjectives. I have to admit that I 9) …………………….. the same: I finished the book, but it was 10) ……………….. work.

Another interesting response was how many people said that they liked one kind of book when they were younger, but that their taste 11) ………………….. as they got older. I remember my brother complaining at school when his teacher 12) …………….. him read Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. But when we were having dinner recently, he mentioned to me that now it is 13) …………….of the books that he likes the most!

Heart of Darkness is 1) ……… dark tale of colonist exploitation set 2) ………… Africa during the nineteenth century. It was written 3) …………… Joseph Conrad and published in English in 1902, despite the 4) …………….. that Conrad was born in modern Ukraine, and was of Polish nationality.

Although the book is a little more than a hundred pages long, 5) …………….. is a powerful story of the way in which wealthy countries made local people work in terrible conditions. The narrator of 6) …………….. story is a sailor called Marlow 7) ……………. Tells the tale while on a boat moored in the Thames . He recounts the story of how he travelled to Africa, excited by maps with empty spaces showing places that Europeans 8) ……………….. not yet explored. Marlow takes a job on a boat traveling 9) ………………… a river into the African continent where he encounters an ivory trader, Mr Kurtz, who has become a kind of ruler over the local people.

The events of the novel are based on Conrad’s own experience as the captain of a steamboat working in the Congo during the late nineteenth century. Although the African in the book is 10) ………………. named in the novel, many readers assume that it is the Congo.

Conrad was a major novelist 11) ……………… novels have become even 12) ……………. popular since his death. The book has continued to influence later writers 13) …………….. well as Hollywood films such as Apocalypse Now.

The police have announced that 1) …………………… figures in the capital have increased yet again. A police 2) …………….. warned that small offences were increasing and warned the public to be on their guard against attacks in the streets, such as 3) …………………

The police did report a crackdown on offenders after they made a number of 4) …………….. of gangs of thieves who work on the underground network. This attracted a great deal of 5) ……………… attention and the photographs of the suspects appeared in all major newspapers. The police have also encouraged that local store keepers to install security cameras to reduce the amount of 6) ……………. throughout the city.

Nevertheless, it is the organised gangs that remain public 7) ………………. number one. They have been responsible for graffity, vandalism and violent attacks on the major violent attacks on the major housing attacks north of the city. Many elderly people 8) ………………… from intimidation from the gangs and some are afraid even to leave their own homes. The police have 9) …………… for witnesses who may be able to give evidence against these people.

The police commissioner has 10) ……………….. that situation cannot continue. “We cannot 11) ………………… these hooligans ruin the lives of everyone else in the community,” she said yesterday.

12) ……………….. on us getting information from the public.” She also emphasised the increased 13) ………………… to the city’s essential tourist industry if future conditions do not improve.

Middlesbrough 1) has become the first town in Britain 2) to introduce talking CCTV cameras. Faced with problems like littering, drunkenness and antisocial behaviour, the city mayor started placing loudspeakers next 3) to security cameras last year. Now,

4) when people are breaking the law, they will hear a voice warning 5) them that they are being watched. This affects all sorts of petty offences, including riding a bicycle through 6) a pedestrianised zone.

If you are foolish enough to ignore the law inside 7) the system’s zone, you 8) will be very quickly told to change your behaviour. For example, people 9) who/that throw litter on the streets will hear themselves being described and an instruction to pick up their rubbish and throw it away 10) in the correct place.

This system is the brainchild 11) of the local mayor Ray Mallon, an ex-policeman who 12) is known as a Robocop for his hard stance against law-breaking. Of course, as this is England, the voices are very polite. They are ‘please’ and ‘thank you’, 13) and/while the women are addressed as ‘madam’ and a man as ‘sir’.

UFO 1) ………………… means Unidentified Flying Object: it refers to any object in the sky that you cannot explain. There have been 2) …………………… numbers of UFO reports from the late 1940s onwards, when a craze swept across the USA. People really started to believe that UFOs were 3) ………………… craft from alien planets.

Much of this interest was 4) ………………. by the growth of science fiction. Movies from the 1950s such as Invasion of the Body Snatches (1956) were full of aliens. However, this was not a new 5) …………………….. . In 1938 a radio broadcast by Orson Welles included news reports of alien attacks: many people believed that what they were 6) …………………. was true!

The public’s 7) ………………. were fuelled by events such as the Roswell Incident in 1947.

8) ……………… to most reports of the accident, some kind of vehicle crashed in the desert. At first the US military 9) ……………… to journalists by saying it was a UFO. Then the official story changed and it was explained 10) …………….. a weather balloon. Since then there has been countless rumours of what really happened. In 1955 a film was 11) ………………. produced which claimed to show the scientific examination of the spaceship’s alien crew!

Although many in the scientific 12) ……………….. may doubt the existence of extraterrestrial life, there are still experts who 13) ………………….. reports of UFOs sightings. Indeed, many professional pilots have seen strange fast-moving objects in the sky. So perhaps there really is something out there after all.

They built straight roads 1) ………………… still exist today and huge cities and temples. One other thing that the Romans did was to invent the newspaper. The Acta Diurna, which means ‘events of the day’, was founded 2) ……….. Julius Caesar. It was 3) …………. newssheet, written by hand. The Acta Diurna was available in the capital city and all over the Roman Empire. Asonishingly, the Acta Diurna survived 4) ……….. some three centuries, as long as many of the old newspapers today. Many of the ancient writers used the Acta Diurna 5) ………….. the basis for their historical works. Through them we are 6) ………….. to read about daily life in Ancient Rome as written in their 7) ………. words.

The purpose of the Acta Diurna was to publish official news about Roman political life and the empire’s inevitable victories in war. However, like most newspapers before and since, 8) ………… also included lots of other general interest sections which were probably 9) …………… more popular, including sports reports (gladiator fight) and predictions of the future – using omens! No doubt the obituaries sections was particularly busy during the reign 10) ……… the murderous emperor Caligula.

Needless 11) ………… say, not all the news was printed in the Acta Diurna, Under the emperors 12) ……………. succeeded Caesar, democracy in Rome collapsed. And while the Acta Diurna printed the main news, a secret newssheet was prepared in 13) ………………. the records of government business were kept. This was known by a different name: the Acta Publica.

UFO 1) ………………… means Unidentified Flying Object: it refers to any object in the sky that you cannot explain. There have been 2) …………………… numbers of UFO reports from the late 1940s onwards, when a craze swept across the USA. People really started to believe that UFOs were 3) ………………… craft from alien planets.

Much of this interest was 4) ………………. by the growth of science fiction. Movies from the 1950s such as Invasion of the Body Snatches (1956) were full of aliens. However, this was not a new 5) …………………….. . In 1938 a radio broadcast by Orson Welles included news reports of alien attacks: many people believed that what they were 6) …………………. was true!

The public’s 7) ………………. were fuelled by events such as the Roswell Incident in 1947.

8) ……………… to most reports of the accident, some kind of vehicle crashed in the desert. At first the US military 9) ……………… to journalists by saying it was a UFO. Then the official story changed and it was explained 10) …………….. a weather balloon. Since then there has been countless rumours of what really happened. In 1955 a film was 11) ………………. produced which claimed to show the scientific examination of the spaceship’s alien crew!

Although many in the scientific 12) ……………….. may doubt the existence of extraterrestrial life, there are still experts who 13) ………………….. reports of UFOs sightings. Indeed, many professional pilots have seen strange fast-moving objects in the sky. So perhaps there really is something out there after all.

They built straight roads 1) …that… still exist today and huge cities and temples. One other thing that the Romans did was to invent the newspaper. The Acta Diurna, which means ‘events of the day’, was founded 2) ..by.. Julius Caesar. It was 3) ..a.. newssheet, written by hand. The Acta Diurna was available in the capital city and all over the Roman Empire. Asonishingly, the Acta Diurna survived 4) . for . some three centuries, as long as many of the old newspapers today. Many of the ancient writers used the Acta Diurna 5) as the basis for their historical works. Through them we are 6) able to read about daily life in Ancient Rome as written in their 7) own words.

The purpose of the Acta Diurna was to publish official news about Roman political life and the empire’s inevitable victories in war. However, like most newspapers before and since, 8) .. it … also included lots of other general interest sections which were probably 9) much more popular, including sports reports (gladiator fight) and predictions of the future – using omens! No doubt the obituaries sections was particularly busy during the reign 10) of the murderous emperor Caligula.

Needless 11) to say, not all the news was printed in the Acta Diurna, Under the emperors 12) who succeeded Caesar, democracy in Rome collapsed. And while the Acta Diurna printed the main news, a secret newssheet was prepared in 13) which the records of government business were kept. This was known by a different name: the Acta Publica.

Michelle Whiteman has 1) …………… has her life to protecting the orang-utan. For ten months of the year she she works in the jungles of Borneo, watching and studying the great apes in the natural 2) …………………. The rest of the time she spends in the UK raising 3) …………………. of the need for help. Like many of the animals in the islands of Indonesia, the orang-utan is in 4) ………………. danger.

The destruction of the jungles is so severe that 5) ……………… to some experts the species may be extinct within ten years. In addition to the destruction of their jungle homes, the animals are also at 6) ……………….. due to hunting and the capture of wild feor the pet trade. Furthermore, their population does not increase rapidly: a female orang-utan has a 7) ………………. baby only once every eight years.

Orang –utans are solitary animals which 8) ………………. almost all of their time in the trees, 9) ………………. for food and sleeping. They can weigh up to 77 kilos, which means they are also the largest tree-living animals in the world.

Michelle learnt about the orang-utans while studying zoology at Bristol University. “When I read about the terrible situation in Indonesia, I could 10) ……………… believe it. There are a great 11) ………………… of new animal species there that can become extinct before before we have had a chance to discover them! I knew I knew I 12) …………….. do something, so I came out here. If we don’t find a 13) …………… soon to stop the destruction of their habitat, the orang-utan will simply disappear.”

What a normal price to pay for lunch I 1) still remember the most expensive lunch of my life. It was in 2) a hotel in Paris and I was entertaining a business customer. Between the two of us we spent 75 euros-and that was 3) without even drinking any wine!

But 4) at/in a country house hotel in the UK, chefs 5) have recently produced a sandwich that 6) at/in its own costs 100 pounds (150 euros)! The sandwich is made from corn-fed chicken, Italian ham and a topping of white truffles. It is the latter that really sends 7) the cost soaring!

The white truffle, a white fungus 8) which/that is traditionally found with the help of pigs or dogs, sells at outrageous prices. The Alba truffle of South –Eastern France can sell for as 9) much as 2,500 pounds a kilo! This delicacy is the most expensive ingredient in Europe, but not quite the world.

This is because 10) that/the prize must belong to lychee, a fruit that is prized 11) in Asian cuisine. In 2002 a Chinese businessman paid 45,270 pounds 12) for a single fruit from a 400 year-old tree! It was a single fruit from a 400-year –old tree! It was 13) so … valuable because the fruit of the tree was once eaten by the Qing emperors of China.

In Britain 1) everybody knows a mother-in-law joke. It might seem strange, but they are a member of the family 2) which/that every comedian makes jokes about. Well, I am very happy I to say that I am really good friends with my mother- in-law. We got on fantastically well from the first moment we met and we 3) have never fallen out.

4) Her name is Tracy, and she and my father-in-law, Don, have been like second parents to me. My wife and I go round to their house for lunch every Sunday and they normally visit us 5) at least once a week. I think the reason why we got on so well is 6) because we have the same sense of humour. There are always loads 7) of jokes and funny stories whenever we meet.

At the moment, my wife 8) is expecting our first child. Don and Tracy are very excited about 9) their first grandchild. Every time they visit, they bring a new present 10) for the baby and want to hear all the latest news.

As 11) well as my wife, Don and Tracy also have a son: my brother-in-law, Peter.

He works overseas, 12) so we don’t see him very often. He works as 13) a chef on a cruise ship and his cooking is amazing.

14) When he is in the country, he always stays with us. We often go out 15) in the evenings to watch the football together. So you can see, I’m very happy 16) with my in-laws.

If you want a different perspective on your friends’ reading 1) …………………, why not ask them what was the worst book they ever read? Or what was the last book that they 2) ………………… to finish reading? When I asked a number of my friends this question. I got some surprising 3) ……………………

The first surprise was one of my friends said that they had 4) ……………………. on J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings after ten pages! I was very disappointed because that is one of my all-time 5) ……………… reads. The same friend that they had tried to read Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe on several 6) ………………., but have never finished it.

One of my friends said that she had always 7) ……………….. the modernist novelist Virginia Woolf, but that she had 8) …………… problems reading her classic fantasy tale Orlando. The problem was that the book was difficult to read because of all the descriptions and adjectives. I have to admit that I 9) …………………….. the same: I finished the book, but it was 10) ……………….. work.

Another interesting response was how many people said that they liked one kind of book when they were younger, but that their taste 11) ………………….. as they got older. I remember my brother complaining at school when his teacher 12) …………….. him read Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. But when we were having dinner recently, he mentioned to me that now it is 13) …………….of the books that he likes the most!

Heart of Darkness is 1) a dark tale of colonist exploitation set 2) in Africa during the nineteenth century. It was written 3) by Joseph Conrad and published in English in 1902, despite the 4) fact that Conrad was born in modern Ukraine, and was of Polish nationality.

Although the book is a little more than a hundred pages long, 5) it is a powerful story of the way in which wealthy countries made local people work in terrible conditions. The narrator of 6) the story is a sailor called Marlow 7) who tells the tale while on a boat moored in the Thames . He recounts the story of how he travelled to Africa, excited by maps with empty spaces showing places that Europeans 8) had not yet explored. Marlow takes a job on a boat traveling 9) down/along a river into the African continent where he encounters an ivory trader, Mr Kurtz, who has become a kind of ruler over the local people.

The events of the novel are based on Conrad’s own experience as the captain of a steamboat working in the Congo during the late nineteenth century. Although the African in the book is 10) not/never named in the novel, many readers assume that it is the Congo.

Conrad was a major novelist 11) whose novels have become even 12) more popular since his death. The book has continued to influence later writers 13) as well as Hollywood films such as Apocalypse Now.

The police have announced that 1) …………………… figures in the capital have increased yet again. A police 2) …………….. warned that small offences were increasing and warned the public to be on their guard against attacks in the streets, such as 3) …………………

The police did report a crackdown on offenders after they made a number of 4) …………….. of gangs of thieves who work on the underground network. This attracted a great deal of 5) ……………… attention and the photographs of the suspects appeared in all major newspapers. The police have also encouraged that local store keepers to install security cameras to reduce the amount of 6) ……………. throughout the city.

Nevertheless, it is the organised gangs that remain public 7) ………………. number one. They have been responsible for graffity, vandalism and violent attacks on the major violent attacks on the major housing attacks north of the city. Many elderly people 8) ………………… from intimidation from the gangs and some are afraid even to leave their own homes. The police have 9) …………… for witnesses who may be able to give evidence against these people.

The police commissioner has 10) ……………….. that situation cannot continue. “We cannot 11) ………………… these hooligans ruin the lives of everyone else in the community,” she said yesterday.

12) ……………….. on us getting information from the public.” She also emphasised the increased 13) ………………… to the city’s essential tourist industry if future conditions do not improve.

Middlesbrough 1) ………………… become the first town in Britain 2) …………… introduce talking CCTV cameras. Faced with problems like littering, drunkenness and antisocial behaviour, the city mayor started placing loudspeakers next 3) …………… security cameras last year. Now, 4) ..................... people are breaking the law, they will hear a voice warning 5) …………. that they are being watched. This affects all sorts of petty offences, including riding a bicycle through 6) …….. pedestrianised zone.

If you are foolish enough to ignore the law inside 7) ………. system’s zone, you 8) …………… be very quickly told to change your behaviour. For example, people 9) …………… throw litter on the streets will hear themselves being described and an instruction to pick up their rubbish and throw it away 10) …………….. the correct place.

This system is the brainchild 11) .................... the local mayor Ray Mallon, an ex-policeman who 12) ................. known as a Robocop for his hard stance against law-breaking. Of course, as this is England, the voices are very polite. They are ‘please’ and ‘thank you’, 13) ……………… the women are addressed as ‘madam’ and a man as ‘sir’.