A. moving / earthquake / away / Although / because
A powerful (1)__________ struck the north-east of Japan at 4 p.m last Monday. (2)__________ Japan has the most advanced warning system, there had been no early warning for this one and people were not prepares. Suddenly the ground started (3)__________. The shaking continued for a few minutes and became stronger. People began running (4)__________ from buildings as walls started to collapse.
B. hard / known / interest / telephone
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A. moving / earthquake / away / Although / because
A powerful (1)__________ struck the north-east of Japan at 4 p.m last Monday. (2)__________ Japan has the most advanced warning system, there had been no early warning for this one and people were not prepares. Suddenly the ground started (3)__________. The shaking continued for a few minutes and became stronger. People began running (4)__________ from buildings as walls started to collapse.
B. hard / known / interest / telephone
Alexander Graham Bell is widely (1)__________ as the inventor of the first telephone. He was born on March 3rd, 1847 in Ediburgh, Scotland. When he was 23, Bell emigrated to Canada with his parents and the next year moved to the United States to teach deaf-mute children. He took great (2)__________ in transmitting the human voice. With his colleague Thomas Watson, Bell worked very (3)__________ on the experimentation to invent devices such as the harmonic telegarph (used to send multiple messages overa single write) and phonautograph (used to draw the shape of the sound waves). The first (4)__________ communication was said to have happened between Bell and Watson in 1876 while Bell was at one end of the line, and Watson worked on the telephone in another room. The first transmitted words were, "Mr Watson, come here I want to see you."
1. Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
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2. When did he move to Canada?
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3. What was he interested in?
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4. What was the first telephone communication?
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C. three-dimensional images / mind / device / received / thought / brains
Telepathy uses a tiny (1)__________ placed into our head. Information will be sent and (2)__________ directly to and from our (3)__________. We'll be communicating just by (4)__________over the network! Holography, a video-conference technology with (5)__________, will help us interact in real time in completely different places.
D. anti-ageing pills / scientists / instead / because / medical care / incurable
(1)__________ say that in the future people will live longer. (2)__________ diseases will be cured and 'bad' genes will probably be replaced. With healthier lifestyle and better (3)__________ the average person will live to be 100 (4)__________ of 70 (for men) or 75 (for women) like today. (5)__________ will also be invented to help people live longer.
