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There is a noticeable increase in temperature from May onwards.

The number of people attending the theatre has fallen dramatically.

There had been a steady rise in DVD sales for the first six months of the year.

There has been a rapid growth in the use of alternative energy sources.

Sony is a big firm which is _____ in Vietnamese's market.

The gas from the chemical factory was extremely _____.

Housework has_______been regarded as women's work.

His result was__________excellent

The Internet is one of the most important ________of our life. (invent)

My parents usually _______________ me to study harder. (courage)

There are my parents, my older brother and me - quite a(n) ____ family for my country.

My father is a heavy smoker. I hope my children don't ________ their grandfather.

Which place is it?

Where are they?

Find the synonym of the word "though"

Put the correct form of the word "pay" in this sentence:

To buy this car I made a monthly ...................of $280 for two years.

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Minister of Finance must be responsible for .................... affairs (economy)

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The ........................ of Beatles soon spread outside Britain. (famous)

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He would never consider .........................(tell) a lie.

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Fifteen pounds ........................ the price of that jacket.

Choose all the words that have similar meaning to the word "moreover"

Choose all the words that have similar meanings with the word "because"

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Fees ............... a month ago, I'm afraid.

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Cutty Sark: the fastest sailing ship of all time

The nineteenth century was a period of great technological development in Britain, and for shipping the major changes were from wind to steam power, and from wood to iron and steel.

The fastest commercial sailing vessels of all time were clippers, three-masted ships built to transport goods around the world, although some also took passengers. From the 1840s until 1869, when the Suez Canal opened and steam propulsion was replacing sail, clippers dominated world trade. Although many were built, only one has survived more or less intact: Cutty Sark, now on display in Greenwich, southeast London.

Cutty Sark’s unusual name comes from the poem Tam O’Shanter by the Scottish poet Robert Burns. Tam, a farmer, is chased by a witch called Nannie, who is wearing a ‘cutty sark’ – an old Scottish name for a short nightdress. The witch is depicted in Cutty Sark’s figurehead – the carving of a woman typically at the front of old sailing ships. In legend, and in Burns’s poem, witches cannot cross water, so this was a rather strange choice of name for a ship.

1   Clippers were originally intended to be used as passenger ships.

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Cutty Sark was built in Dumbarton, Scotland, in 1869, for a shipping company owned by John Willis. To carry out construction, Willis chose a new shipbuilding firm, Scott & Linton, and ensured that the contrast with them put him in a very strong position. In the end, the firm was forced out of business, and the ship was finished by a competitor.

Willis’s company was active in the tea trade between China and Britain, where speed could bring shipowners both profits and prestige, so Cutty Sark was designed to make the journey more quickly than any other ship. On her maiden voyage, in 1870, she set sail from London, carrying large amounts of goods to China. She returned laden with tea, making the journey back to London in four months. However, Cutty Sark never lived up to the high expectations of her owner, as a result of bad winds and various misfortunes. On one occasion, in 1872, the ship and a rival clipper, Thermopylae, left port in China on the same day. Crossing the Indian Ocean, Cutty Sark gained a lead of over 400 miles, but then her rudder was severely damaged in stormy seas, making her impossible to steer. The ship’s crew had the daunting task of repairing the rudder at sea, and only succeeded at the second attempt. Cutty Sark reached London a week after Thermopylae.

? Steam ships sometimes used the ocean route to travel between London and China.

Choose the right word with this definition:

make an effort to achieve or complete (something, typically a difficult task or action).

Two more printing ____ were closed by the strike.

The disease in the region is ______ - affecting up to 60 percent of inhabitants.

If they want to increase ______ from the factory, they'll have to modernize.

The _____ of people in the town strongly support the plans to build a by-pass.

The use of high-speed machinery improved the _____ of the factory.

The machine didn't work because I forgot to ____ it ___.

To avoid fire, remember to ____ the charger after use.

Do you know who _____ the planet Mars?

This is the art of creating objects out of material such as wood, clay, metal, or stone

______ results show that the vaccine is effective, but this has to be confirmed by further research.

Rubik was _______ by geometric puzzles such as the Chinese tangram.

What shape is it?

The new highway goes _______ across the country.

The ______ of their expedition was to discover the source of the River Nile.

This is a new plant where the car engines are ______.

The experiments are the same as those carried out last year.

Willis Carrier _____ the first air-conditioning unit in 1902.

To give money or goods to help a person or organization

I couldn't afford an expensive computer,

___ I bought a cheaper one.

Several of the components,____ the microchips, are produced in Japan.

At first, air conditioners were not installed in private homes ____ they were too large.

The heat made employees uncomfortable, _____ employers decided to install air conditioning.

Employees' output increased _____ their working conditions improved.

Scientists ______of a way of removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

My tutor_____ a paper for a scientific journal.

The cost of these machines_____ by 16% in the last three years.

We ____ the work, but they ____ us yet.

The exhibition has been open ___ last week.

Anwar visited Kuwait ___ a week.

an event that is important

and enjoyable, such as a birthday or a wedding

to make someone agree to do

something by talking to them a lot about it

the job of choosing colours,

designs, etc for the inside of a house or room

something have finally to