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I'm not superstitious, honestly!
How (pope COU uly Ay they 48 No sUpeEoUS? A eee survey
‘shows tat most 9% of peoplabllove noe sor of eupasiion 8). another
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‘or unlucky. Their answers tured out be the most interesting ape of hissy.
Neary wos (1) nn. abe taking po sad they Beloved tat pope were
atrly acy unk,
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_upeation they bleedin. (4)... he spi, ecoveradtat almost al the
peopl whe roared themseWes (5)... Lekyballaved in postive supesttions,
‘They did wings t promote ther god lack, sch a crossing thee ges (16)
‘woul aa tat pole make thelr own lth by tl aude oe
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‘ferdens of Amerizan suburbs. They have cauted Haver and
ave FP oo domestic pet
Mountain ons that wander into suburbs are now quite
and wolves have 18)... covered bb bins. you
ind he 20... 0 YoU bin eared ver he garden
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Nobody should be parcuarysurpisedby this development
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i rans wil imply have o get used thei naw neighbours.
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25 Tha phone was cheaper than expat
as
The prone was coe ped
28 Why didnt you ol mot wae wrong?
27 she found we photographs wen she ws lasning her rom,
She hen she was leaning herroom,
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128 "Panc don stay oul his mother ei
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30 Faratner not go ov tis aern00n
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‘You ate gong to e8d an atl bout fein he countrys. Fr guestons 31-26
eae We hoose the aa (A, B, Cor wich ou think fs est coring fo the ts
How | came to envy the country mice
| have been living in London for more than 69 years, but sil, when I'm driving and tke some clever
back straet short eu, leatoh myselt thinking’ hw oxtraordinary tha fe me doing thsi For a moment
the town mouse Ihave become i being seen by the country mouse lused tobe. Ard although, given
1 now start | would again become s town mouse, when |v folatons in the country, envy them
Recently, | stood beside freshwater ake in Norfolk, made by diverting a small iver, naar where my
Bathe lives. As he was dentying some ofthe birds we could seo, in carne saven swans. They ctcloa,
then the haunting sound of thar wing beats gave way to silones as they glided down for splathdown,
Ie ie nota picturesque’ part ofthe coast, but i has a definite charactor of tine and light and colour
"you do live ina lovely place, I sid to my brother, and he answered, "Yes, | do" There are probably
‘ow days thon he dons not pase to recognise its loveliness ae he works with his Boats he tesches
{nling” or gos about his mony other ocupations
‘Te lake's crestor Isa local
has been determined by thase who ovin the land: Formerly, landowners would almost certainly have
‘made such changes for their own benefit, but this tma twas done to lp preserve the wif her
‘sev tihigh is avalable for any visitor te see, providing they do nothing to disturb the birds eis evidonce
Df change: country fe ls changing fast.
countryside
ne of the biggest changes | have witnessed i that second.hemers, together with commuters, have
come to be aezepted asa vital part ofthe county stene. And the men and women wo service their
‘arm, cig their gardens, lay heir carpate and do sll the other thinge they need are vital to modern
coungry Ife Ite uit likely thet the children of today's workers may be moving Into the some kind
Sf jobs ae the second homers and the retired. Both the children of a countey woman tanow sre st
University, sn she hersel, now that they have lft home, s working towards @ university degre.
Much depends, of course, on the part ofthe countryside you are living in and on personality - your
fawn and that of our neighbours. In my brothers Norfolk vege, secta Ife soome cezying to 2
tlondoner: a adtion to dropping in on neighbours, people throw an attand partes far more ofton
than we do. My brothers wife Maty and her fiends are always going inte Norwich fora concert or to
King’s Lynn for an exhibition, The boring country Ie that peopl from erties talk about a thing ofthe
past ~ of porhape it was always matnly In thelr mings.
This is very unlike living i a London street for 50 years and only knowing the names of four other
residents n these 60 years ave mede only one real Hlend among them. do enjoy my Ife, and Mary
‘ays tht she sometimes envies it (the grase an the other side atthe fence.) but whenever | go"
Norfolk end up feting thatthe lives of country mice are more admiable tan my ov
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erlang fxd BB thatehe nas been nto ty for sang.
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Seen tamale thatse vs nthe cy when she pfs the court.
22 The stosphars cra
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is away ess excng than if in tha cy
36 Wine do wees about the writers atte o Landon inthe a araraph?
‘She hs roped moving to Landon
tether very erento county
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‘You aa going to rend an anil sbout the evolution of hand, Six seatences Nave
ron remove rom the arle. Chose rom the snteneesA-G th ane which ts
‘seh gp (9742), Thre is one extra soniance which you do nt need oe
ark your onewers onthe separete answer sheet.
Our amazing hands
‘The hand ie where the mind maets the world. We use
‘our hands to build fires, to steer airplanes, to writ,
The human brsin, with its open-ended eretivity,
‘may be the thing that makes our species unique. But
‘without hands, all the grand ideas we think up would
‘ome to nothing
‘The reason we can use our hands fr so many things
Is thei extraordinary anatomy. [37] | Some are
connected to bones within the hand, while thers
snake their way to the arm. The wrist i a flosting
Group of bones and ligaments threaded with biood
‘vessels and nerves, The nerves send branches into
ach fingertip. The hand can gonerate fina forces or
huge ones. A watchmaker can use his hands to set
springs in place under a microscope. A sportaman can
tse the same anatomy to throw ® ball st over 100
Kiometrs an hour
Ctner species have hands too. [3] —] In other
casos we have to look closer. & bat's wings may look
Tike sheets of skin. But underneath, 2 bat has tho same
five fingers as ¢ human, es wall as @ wrist connected to
the same cluster of wrist bones connected tothe samme
long bones of the ae,
In exploring how hands have evolved, researchers
lover the past 150 years have dug up fossils on every
continent. They've compared the anatomy of hands in
living animals. They've studied tho genes that bull
hands. appears that our hands began to evolve at
least 380 milion years ago from fing ~ not the flat,
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ridged fins ofa goatish but the muscular, stout fs of
‘extinct relatives of today’s lungfish. nse these were
fow chunky Lones coresponding tothe bones in our
‘ems.[ 39] |The digits ator merged and became
Separate, allowing the animale to grip underwater
‘vogetaton as they clambered through
[WO] some species had seven fingers. Others had
{ht But by the time vertebrates were walking around
fon dry land 300 milion years ago, the hand hed been
Scaled back te only five fingers. that retained that
fhumber of fingers ever since ~ for reasons scans
lon’ yet know.
Nevertheless, there ae sill many diffrent typos of
hhandsin living species, from dolphin flippers te eagle
wings tothe hanging hooks of lath. [at | | They
an also see tat despite the outward aiferonces, al
thands stor ott in much the same way, There
network of many gones that builds a hand, and all
Fhands aro bul by variations on that same network It
takes nly suatl changes In these ganes to make
fingers longer orto urn nails into clows.
‘The discovery of the molecular toolbox for hand
‘bullaing has gven scents» deeper understanding of
‘evolution may ust be alte more of one
protein here, ite les of another there. Inthe past,
Sclntets cou recognise ony the outward signs that
hands had evolved from & common ancestor Today
scientists re ncovering the inward signs 9 wall(ver time, smaller ones developed that would
‘eventually became wrists and tngers
‘Although a vuture's wing and lion's paw
‘ay appear to hava nothing in comman, the
iferance between thom may come down to
‘Thay also use them for a numberof diferent
purposes.
No one would doubt thatthe five fingers a the
‘ond of an orangutan’s arm are part of anything
oe
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‘eh dramatic variations
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muscle
Early hands wore more exotic than any hand
today
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‘You ate gong to ead an atl bout he acti organized by four shoal for
EnvironmantalAvrenses Day. For questons 42-52 chore am th school (AD
‘Mor your answers onthe separate ansver shat.
Which school
became beter known ser Environmental ArencesO3y?
‘rode eine information abou the enronmant?
sth » space t giv a tak?
‘alan money hep a organisation?
cxgnised ari to study animals by th 0?
carved ou prlet about endangered atials an pars?
ranged ton plain and eal reece?
cdot protect oa storia te?
‘a ocated in the cate of the cy?
ABR ABABABE
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A. Plumpton High School
This schoo decidedtoarngea vetiety of ecivies,
some slmed st sohievlng a better understanding
Gf environmental problems, and others designed
to bo of practical help. For instanca, the school
‘magezine brought out @ special edition on the
Subject full of icles and stories where. pups
expressed thar felings about the throats facing
fur environmant. in another attempt to id cut
for themselves how serious these tests realy
tr, the pups deeded to study the problem of
Baluton by making a suvay, run by the sconce
‘eparment into ar poltion inthe lca shopping
tonte. The school algo held a sponsored walk and
FRanded over nearly £100 tothe World Wide Fund
{or Nature, Pups propared a campaign to ban cars
from the city corre and reduce vate congestion.
‘They gained @ ft of pubic forthe schoo! by
{ling through the ety ane handing out behest
bout the benefits of etna and waking
B Cresswell College
‘The staff and students at Cresawll Collage held @
meeting and dacusced 2 numberof suggestions.
‘The most popular suggostion tunod out to bo the
moet practical one; was_decided thatthe focal
Srvironment should be bightoned up. Teams wore
Sant out to pant lowers and young tees an areas
Of land in the neighbourhoed. Senior students
‘monitored the progress. of species tveatoned with
txtntion and prepared report on thelr rings.
Fens hopes tht thes would help pubbelse the
problem A leading expert on wil bide was vied
fo-come and ive a take about the dangers faced by
theee creatures. He explained the importance of
the fod chain and aed people to suppor lea
© Grayner institute
‘This school had already been Involved in, some
projects connacted with the environment, though
Aatralyefots wera increesad for Environmental
‘Awareness Dn. For the last to years the school
had been’ suuying the sffects of vetations In
tis pattems round the word and how these
an affect wife. Alm about those magnificent
marine mammals, whales, which was shown tthe
\wholo school as fat of Environmontal Awaronoss
‘Day, wasrocoved with grat enthusiasm by pupil.
Morecth Simmare ws invited eo talk bout how
polltion can destroy buildings in the region
Follow tat pupils decided to aunch seampaign
for the restoration of the motioval square in the
‘iy contre and aakod lea! authorities to Suppo
‘hom finely
D Halliwell Academy
The pupils at this inner-city secondary schoo
fatt that the bast way to mark Environmontal
‘waranest Day would be to help people the
fata understand how important the environment
‘S'to thom. Ono suggestion that was grooted with
tnthusiagm was to moasure the levels of noe
Stanloy Rood a buoy local shopping stest The
Information wat than placed on’ 3 webste that
tho school adored In order to give them a
thane tose for themselves the. problems fing
‘Some loca steels, the school took pups tothe
Coastal marshes of Easton. Many pupils reported
Sterwerds het they hed never ealised Now tribe
the fects of polation could be on coastal wide