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Vocabulary Passage 1 1. amber: noun [U]: hard clear yellowish-brown substance, used in making decorative objects or jewellery. 2. resin: noun [C, U] 1. a sticky substance that is produced by some trees and is used in making varnish, medicine, etc. 2. an artificial substance similar to resin, used in making plastics  resinous (adjective) : the resinous scent of pine trees 3. exude (v) : If you exude love, confidence, pain, etc., you show that you have a lot of thatfeeling: EX: She just exudes confidence. 4. palaeontologist (especially BrE) (NAmE usually paleo-) : a person who studies fossils

Open Cloze 1 Alternative lifestyles have existed in a variety of forms since the beginning of organized society. (1)_______ have always been, and probably always will be, people who feel a need to escape from the mainstream of society and find a (2) _______ to live that conforms more closely (3) _______ their individual tastes and needs. The term “alternative lifestyles” (4) _______ is a by-product of the social revolution of the 1960s and 70s, (5) _______ the “Hippie movement” and (6) _______ various back-to-nature and cultist offshoots were in (7) _______ prime, but the concept must be as old as mankind itself. (8) _______ seems evident that in every society there must have been a (9) _______ people who found themselves unable or unwilling to accept the status quo, who felt compelled to seek a better-or at (10) _______ different-life out of reach of the restrictions and standards that any society must impose on its members. The monk in his monastery, the hermit in his cave, the solitary “witch-woman” living in isolation in the forest, must also have been seeking an alternative to the current standards of acceptability prevalent in their own societies. In our times the punks, gang-members and followers of cult leaders are seeking, in their own ways, to find a life well suited to their individual needs, desires and dreams irrespective of the criticism they might draw. Open Cloze 2 In many countries of Europe there has been a steady drift of people away from villages to large cities. These people, many of whom have grown up in great poverty and deprivation, hope to improve their standard of ___________ (1) and see the metropolis as the solution to all their problems. In many ways, they find what they are looking for. Large cities do offer a huge number of facilities, ___________ (2) which better education, better health care and improved housing are perhaps the most important. Large companies and factories, the vast ___________ (3) of which pride themselves on looking after the interests of their employees, also open up any ___________ (4) of career opportunities for those willing to work hard. Inevitably, however, ___________ (5) comes a time when people begin to long for the simplicity of the village or small town. Traffic problems and pollution, both of which affect most large cities today, cause the most unhappiness. For people to whom fresh air, unpolluted water and beautiful countryside are distant ___________ (6) nonetheless painful clear - memories of a previous, peaceful life in a village, the solution must at ___________ (7) be unbearable. The pressure of overpopulation has meant that, in the last thirty or forty years, thousands ___________ (8) thousands of new flats have been built, often with ___________ (9) regard to architectural beauty, and the surrounding countryside has all ___________ (10) disappeared in many cases. It is no longer such an easy matter to escape the noise and turmoil of the street and find a field or a forest where the children can play in safety.

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