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A. The English immigrants who settled on America’s northern seacoast, appropriately called New England, came in order to practice their religion freely. They were either Englishmen who wanted to reform the Church of England or people who wanted to have an entirely new church. These two groups combined, especially in what became Massachusetts, came to be known as "Puritans", so named after those who wished to "purify" the Church of England.

B. John provoked the English barons into revolt, though their economic difficulties through high inflation were not his fault. Civil war broke out, and John was forced to sign the document later known as Magna Carta. Magna Carta was the first document forced onto a King of England by a group of his subjects, the feudal barons, in an attempt to limit his powers by law and protect their privileges. It provided redress of grievances, but later ages took it as a statement of civil liberties.

C. More important than packing your bag full of money, pack a bag full of patience and curiosity. There's no such thing as a bad trip, just good travel stories to tell back home. Always travel with a smile and remember that you're the one with the strange customs visiting someone else's country. And, finally, the more time you spend coming to understand the ways of others, the more you'll understand yourself. The journey abroad reflects the one within — the most unknown and foreign and unmapped terra incognita.

D. Architecture is the art and the technique of building, employed to fulfill the practical and expressive requirements of civilized people. Almost every settled society that possesses the techniques for building produces architecture. It is necessary in all but the simplest cultures; without it, man is confined to a primitive struggle with the elements; with it, he has not only a defense against the natural environment but also the benefits of a human environment, a prerequisite for and a symbol of the development of civilized institutions.

E. In Europe, May Day started out as a nice pagan holiday to celebrate the spring planting, then turned into a holiday of love (complete with twirling ribbons around a Maypole). It began its metamorphosis into a working class holiday at the end of the 19th century — in memory of a workers' demonstration in Chicago (calling, among other things, for an eight-hour working day), which ended in bloodshed. The idea of decent working conditions caught on with the Russian comrades. "Here's to the eight-hour working day!", an early May Day pamphlet read.

F. Dinner finally became en evening meal in the 1850s. As the distance between breakfast and dinner widened, it became necessary to create a smaller meal around the middle of the day, for which the world ‘luncheon’ was appropriated. ‘Luncheon’ originally signified a lump or portion. In 1755 Samuel Johnson was still defining it as a quantity of food — ‘as much food as one’s hand can hold’ — and only slowly over the next century did it come to signify, in refined circles at least, the middle meal of the day.

G. The evolution of the Olympic Movement during the 20th and 21st centuries has resulted in several changes to the Olympic Games. Some of these adjustments include the creation of the Winter Games for ice and winter sports, the Paralympic Games for athletes with a physical disability, and the Youth Olympic Games for teenage athletes. The International Olympic Committee has had to adapt to the varying economic, political, and technological realities of the 20th century.

When zebras stick together in a herd, the pattern of their stripes blend together with the stripes of the zebras around them. This is confusing to a lion! All it can see is a large, moving, striped mass. The lion has trouble picking out individual zebras and it’s harder still for the lion to recognize (A)________! Each zebra pattern is unique like a fingerprint. Like a fingerprint (B)________ and no two zebras are exactly alike. What is truly amazing is (C)________ from their body stripe! There are several species classified according to variations in stripe patterns. The mountain zebra has silver-white stripes with black markings (D)________ except for the stomach and the inner thighs. Plains zebras are pale yellow with broad black stripes. Do you know that people of Africa think of zebras as black animals with white stripes (E)________ as white animals with black stripes! Black stripes or white, the fact remains (F)________ and are among the fastest and most graceful of runners in the African bush land.

Anson was the eldest of six children who would some day divide a fortune of fifteen million dollars, and he reached the age of reason — is it seven? — at the beginning of the century when daring young women were already gliding along Fifth Avenue in electric "mobiles". In those days he and his brother had an English governess who spoke the language very clearly and crisply and well, so that the two boys grew to speak as she did — their words and sentences were all crisp and clear. They didn’t talk exactly like English children but got an accent that is peculiar to fashionable people in the city of New York.

In the summer the six children were moved from the house in New York to a big estate in northern Connecticut. It was not a fashionable locality — Anson’s father was a man somewhat superior to his class, which composed New York society, which was snobbish and vulgar, and he wanted his sons to learn habits of concentration and have sound constitutions and grow up into right-living and successful men. He and his wife kept an eye on them as well as they were able until the two older boys went away to school, but in huge establishments this is difficult — it was much simpler in the series of small and medium-sized houses in which my own youth was spent — I was never far out of the reach of my mother’s voice, of the sense of her presence, her approval or disapproval.

Anson’s first sense of his superiority came to him when he realized the respect that was paid to him in the Connecticut village. The parents of the boys he played with always inquired after his father and mother, and were excited when their own children were asked to play with him in his parents’ house. He accepted this as the natural state of things, and a sort of impatience with all groups of which he was not the center — in money, in position, in authority — remained with him for the rest of his life. He didn’t want to struggle with other boys for precedence — he expected it to be given him freely, and when it wasn’t he withdrew into his family. His family was enough for him.

At eighteen, Anson was tall and thick-set, with a clear complexion and a healthy color from the ordered life had led in school. His hair was yellow and grew in a funny way on his head, his nose was beaked — these two things kept him from being handsome — but he had a confident charm, and the upper-class men who passed him on the street knew without being told that he was a rich boy and had gone to one of the best schools. Nevertheless, his very superiority kept him from being success in college — the independence was mistaken for egotism, and the refusal to accept the Yale standards with the proper awe seemed to belittle all those who had. So, long before he graduated, he began to shift the center of his life to New York.

He was at home in New York — there was his own house with "the kind of servants you can’t get any more" — and his own family, and the correct manly world of the men’s clubs. His aspirations were conventional enough — they included even the decent girl he would some day marry.

He and I first met in the late summer of 1917 when he was out of Yale, and, like the rest of us, was swept up into the hysteria of the war.

Anson was the eldest of six children who would some day divide a fortune of fifteen million dollars, and he reached the age of reason — is it seven? — at the beginning of the century when daring young women were already gliding along Fifth Avenue in electric "mobiles". In those days he and his brother had an English governess who spoke the language very clearly and crisply and well, so that the two boys grew to speak as she did — their words and sentences were all crisp and clear. They didn’t talk exactly like English children but got an accent that is peculiar to fashionable people in the city of New York.

In the summer the six children were moved from the house in New York to a big estate in northern Connecticut. It was not a fashionable locality — Anson’s father was a man somewhat superior to his class, which composed New York society, which was snobbish and vulgar, and he wanted his sons to learn habits of concentration and have sound constitutions and grow up into right-living and successful men. He and his wife kept an eye on them as well as they were able until the two older boys went away to school, but in huge establishments this is difficult — it was much simpler in the series of small and medium-sized houses in which my own youth was spent — I was never far out of the reach of my mother’s voice, of the sense of her presence, her approval or disapproval.

Anson’s first sense of his superiority came to him when he realized the respect that was paid to him in the Connecticut village. The parents of the boys he played with always inquired after his father and mother, and were excited when their own children were asked to play with him in his parents’ house. He accepted this as the natural state of things, and a sort of impatience with all groups of which he was not the center — in money, in position, in authority — remained with him for the rest of his life. He didn’t want to struggle with other boys for precedence — he expected it to be given him freely, and when it wasn’t he withdrew into his family. His family was enough for him.

At eighteen, Anson was tall and thick-set, with a clear complexion and a healthy color from the ordered life had led in school. His hair was yellow and grew in a funny way on his head, his nose was beaked — these two things kept him from being handsome — but he had a confident charm, and the upper-class men who passed him on the street knew without being told that he was a rich boy and had gone to one of the best schools. Nevertheless, his very superiority kept him from being success in college — the independence was mistaken for egotism, and the refusal to accept the Yale standards with the proper awe seemed to belittle all those who had. So, long before he graduated, he began to shift the center of his life to New York.

He was at home in New York — there was his own house with "the kind of servants you can’t get any more" — and his own family, and the correct manly world of the men’s clubs. His aspirations were conventional enough — they included even the decent girl he would some day marry.

He and I first met in the late summer of 1917 when he was out of Yale, and, like the rest of us, was swept up into the hysteria of the war.

Anson was the eldest of six children who would some day divide a fortune of fifteen million dollars, and he reached the age of reason — is it seven? — at the beginning of the century when daring young women were already gliding along Fifth Avenue in electric "mobiles". In those days he and his brother had an English governess who spoke the language very clearly and crisply and well, so that the two boys grew to speak as she did — their words and sentences were all crisp and clear. They didn’t talk exactly like English children but got an accent that is peculiar to fashionable people in the city of New York.

In the summer the six children were moved from the house in New York to a big estate in northern Connecticut. It was not a fashionable locality — Anson’s father was a man somewhat superior to his class, which composed New York society, which was snobbish and vulgar, and he wanted his sons to learn habits of concentration and have sound constitutions and grow up into right-living and successful men. He and his wife kept an eye on them as well as they were able until the two older boys went away to school, but in huge establishments this is difficult — it was much simpler in the series of small and medium-sized houses in which my own youth was spent — I was never far out of the reach of my mother’s voice, of the sense of her presence, her approval or disapproval.

Anson’s first sense of his superiority came to him when he realized the respect that was paid to him in the Connecticut village. The parents of the boys he played with always inquired after his father and mother, and were excited when their own children were asked to play with him in his parents’ house. He accepted this as the natural state of things, and a sort of impatience with all groups of which he was not the center — in money, in position, in authority — remained with him for the rest of his life. He didn’t want to struggle with other boys for precedence — he expected it to be given him freely, and when it wasn’t he withdrew into his family. His family was enough for him.

At eighteen, Anson was tall and thick-set, with a clear complexion and a healthy color from the ordered life had led in school. His hair was yellow and grew in a funny way on his head, his nose was beaked — these two things kept him from being handsome — but he had a confident charm, and the upper-class men who passed him on the street knew without being told that he was a rich boy and had gone to one of the best schools. Nevertheless, his very superiority kept him from being success in college — the independence was mistaken for egotism, and the refusal to accept the Yale standards with the proper awe seemed to belittle all those who had. So, long before he graduated, he began to shift the center of his life to New York.

He was at home in New York — there was his own house with "the kind of servants you can’t get any more" — and his own family, and the correct manly world of the men’s clubs. His aspirations were conventional enough — they included even the decent girl he would some day marry.

He and I first met in the late summer of 1917 when he was out of Yale, and, like the rest of us, was swept up into the hysteria of the war.

Anson was the eldest of six children who would some day divide a fortune of fifteen million dollars, and he reached the age of reason — is it seven? — at the beginning of the century when daring young women were already gliding along Fifth Avenue in electric "mobiles". In those days he and his brother had an English governess who spoke the language very clearly and crisply and well, so that the two boys grew to speak as she did — their words and sentences were all crisp and clear. They didn’t talk exactly like English children but got an accent that is peculiar to fashionable people in the city of New York.

In the summer the six children were moved from the house in New York to a big estate in northern Connecticut. It was not a fashionable locality — Anson’s father was a man somewhat superior to his class, which composed New York society, which was snobbish and vulgar, and he wanted his sons to learn habits of concentration and have sound constitutions and grow up into right-living and successful men. He and his wife kept an eye on them as well as they were able until the two older boys went away to school, but in huge establishments this is difficult — it was much simpler in the series of small and medium-sized houses in which my own youth was spent — I was never far out of the reach of my mother’s voice, of the sense of her presence, her approval or disapproval.

Anson’s first sense of his superiority came to him when he realized the respect that was paid to him in the Connecticut village. The parents of the boys he played with always inquired after his father and mother, and were excited when their own children were asked to play with him in his parents’ house. He accepted this as the natural state of things, and a sort of impatience with all groups of which he was not the center — in money, in position, in authority — remained with him for the rest of his life. He didn’t want to struggle with other boys for precedence — he expected it to be given him freely, and when it wasn’t he withdrew into his family. His family was enough for him.

At eighteen, Anson was tall and thick-set, with a clear complexion and a healthy color from the ordered life had led in school. His hair was yellow and grew in a funny way on his head, his nose was beaked — these two things kept him from being handsome — but he had a confident charm, and the upper-class men who passed him on the street knew without being told that he was a rich boy and had gone to one of the best schools. Nevertheless, his very superiority kept him from being success in college — the independence was mistaken for egotism, and the refusal to accept the Yale standards with the proper awe seemed to belittle all those who had. So, long before he graduated, he began to shift the center of his life to New York.

He was at home in New York — there was his own house with "the kind of servants you can’t get any more" — and his own family, and the correct manly world of the men’s clubs. His aspirations were conventional enough — they included even the decent girl he would some day marry.

He and I first met in the late summer of 1917 when he was out of Yale, and, like the rest of us, was swept up into the hysteria of the war.

Anson was the eldest of six children who would some day divide a fortune of fifteen million dollars, and he reached the age of reason — is it seven? — at the beginning of the century when daring young women were already gliding along Fifth Avenue in electric "mobiles". In those days he and his brother had an English governess who spoke the language very clearly and crisply and well, so that the two boys grew to speak as she did — their words and sentences were all crisp and clear. They didn’t talk exactly like English children but got an accent that is peculiar to fashionable people in the city of New York.

In the summer the six children were moved from the house in New York to a big estate in northern Connecticut. It was not a fashionable locality — Anson’s father was a man somewhat superior to his class, which composed New York society, which was snobbish and vulgar, and he wanted his sons to learn habits of concentration and have sound constitutions and grow up into right-living and successful men. He and his wife kept an eye on them as well as they were able until the two older boys went away to school, but in huge establishments this is difficult — it was much simpler in the series of small and medium-sized houses in which my own youth was spent — I was never far out of the reach of my mother’s voice, of the sense of her presence, her approval or disapproval.

Anson’s first sense of his superiority came to him when he realized the respect that was paid to him in the Connecticut village. The parents of the boys he played with always inquired after his father and mother, and were excited when their own children were asked to play with him in his parents’ house. He accepted this as the natural state of things, and a sort of impatience with all groups of which he was not the center — in money, in position, in authority — remained with him for the rest of his life. He didn’t want to struggle with other boys for precedence — he expected it to be given him freely, and when it wasn’t he withdrew into his family. His family was enough for him.

At eighteen, Anson was tall and thick-set, with a clear complexion and a healthy color from the ordered life had led in school. His hair was yellow and grew in a funny way on his head, his nose was beaked — these two things kept him from being handsome — but he had a confident charm, and the upper-class men who passed him on the street knew without being told that he was a rich boy and had gone to one of the best schools. Nevertheless, his very superiority kept him from being success in college — the independence was mistaken for egotism, and the refusal to accept the Yale standards with the proper awe seemed to belittle all those who had. So, long before he graduated, he began to shift the center of his life to New York.

He was at home in New York — there was his own house with "the kind of servants you can’t get any more" — and his own family, and the correct manly world of the men’s clubs. His aspirations were conventional enough — they included even the decent girl he would some day marry.

He and I first met in the late summer of 1917 when he was out of Yale, and, like the rest of us, was swept up into the hysteria of the war.

Anson was the eldest of six children who would some day divide a fortune of fifteen million dollars, and he reached the age of reason — is it seven? — at the beginning of the century when daring young women were already gliding along Fifth Avenue in electric "mobiles". In those days he and his brother had an English governess who spoke the language very clearly and crisply and well, so that the two boys grew to speak as she did — their words and sentences were all crisp and clear. They didn’t talk exactly like English children but got an accent that is peculiar to fashionable people in the city of New York.

In the summer the six children were moved from the house in New York to a big estate in northern Connecticut. It was not a fashionable locality — Anson’s father was a man somewhat superior to his class, which composed New York society, which was snobbish and vulgar, and he wanted his sons to learn habits of concentration and have sound constitutions and grow up into right-living and successful men. He and his wife kept an eye on them as well as they were able until the two older boys went away to school, but in huge establishments this is difficult — it was much simpler in the series of small and medium-sized houses in which my own youth was spent — I was never far out of the reach of my mother’s voice, of the sense of her presence, her approval or disapproval.

Anson’s first sense of his superiority came to him when he realized the respect that was paid to him in the Connecticut village. The parents of the boys he played with always inquired after his father and mother, and were excited when their own children were asked to play with him in his parents’ house. He accepted this as the natural state of things, and a sort of impatience with all groups of which he was not the center — in money, in position, in authority — remained with him for the rest of his life. He didn’t want to struggle with other boys for precedence — he expected it to be given him freely, and when it wasn’t he withdrew into his family. His family was enough for him.

At eighteen, Anson was tall and thick-set, with a clear complexion and a healthy color from the ordered life had led in school. His hair was yellow and grew in a funny way on his head, his nose was beaked — these two things kept him from being handsome — but he had a confident charm, and the upper-class men who passed him on the street knew without being told that he was a rich boy and had gone to one of the best schools. Nevertheless, his very superiority kept him from being success in college — the independence was mistaken for egotism, and the refusal to accept the Yale standards with the proper awe seemed to belittle all those who had. So, long before he graduated, he began to shift the center of his life to New York.

He was at home in New York — there was his own house with "the kind of servants you can’t get any more" — and his own family, and the correct manly world of the men’s clubs. His aspirations were conventional enough — they included even the decent girl he would some day marry.

He and I first met in the late summer of 1917 when he was out of Yale, and, like the rest of us, was swept up into the hysteria of the war.

Anson was the eldest of six children who would some day divide a fortune of fifteen million dollars, and he reached the age of reason — is it seven? — at the beginning of the century when daring young women were already gliding along Fifth Avenue in electric "mobiles". In those days he and his brother had an English governess who spoke the language very clearly and crisply and well, so that the two boys grew to speak as she did — their words and sentences were all crisp and clear. They didn’t talk exactly like English children but got an accent that is peculiar to fashionable people in the city of New York.

In the summer the six children were moved from the house in New York to a big estate in northern Connecticut. It was not a fashionable locality — Anson’s father was a man somewhat superior to his class, which composed New York society, which was snobbish and vulgar, and he wanted his sons to learn habits of concentration and have sound constitutions and grow up into right-living and successful men. He and his wife kept an eye on them as well as they were able until the two older boys went away to school, but in huge establishments this is difficult — it was much simpler in the series of small and medium-sized houses in which my own youth was spent — I was never far out of the reach of my mother’s voice, of the sense of her presence, her approval or disapproval.

Anson’s first sense of his superiority came to him when he realized the respect that was paid to him in the Connecticut village. The parents of the boys he played with always inquired after his father and mother, and were excited when their own children were asked to play with him in his parents’ house. He accepted this as the natural state of things, and a sort of impatience with all groups of which he was not the center — in money, in position, in authority — remained with him for the rest of his life. He didn’t want to struggle with other boys for precedence — he expected it to be given him freely, and when it wasn’t he withdrew into his family. His family was enough for him.

At eighteen, Anson was tall and thick-set, with a clear complexion and a healthy color from the ordered life had led in school. His hair was yellow and grew in a funny way on his head, his nose was beaked — these two things kept him from being handsome — but he had a confident charm, and the upper-class men who passed him on the street knew without being told that he was a rich boy and had gone to one of the best schools. Nevertheless, his very superiority kept him from being success in college — the independence was mistaken for egotism, and the refusal to accept the Yale standards with the proper awe seemed to belittle all those who had. So, long before he graduated, he began to shift the center of his life to New York.

He was at home in New York — there was his own house with "the kind of servants you can’t get any more" — and his own family, and the correct manly world of the men’s clubs. His aspirations were conventional enough — they included even the decent girl he would some day marry.

He and I first met in the late summer of 1917 when he was out of Yale, and, like the rest of us, was swept up into the hysteria of the war.

(1) A message in a bottle (THROW)________ into the sea off Japan by a girl five years ago (FIND)________ by a US sailor in Hawaii.

(2) Saki Arikawa, 17, from Kagoshima, said she had almost forgotten about the bottle and couldn’t believe the news.

(3) It was discovered on Thursday by Navy Petty Officer Jon Moore during a beach cleanup on Kauai island.

(4) It (CONTAIN)________ four origami cranessymbols of peace in Japan a photo of Ms Arikawa’s class and a note dated 25 March 2006.

(5) News of the bottle’s recovery has reconnected her with more than a dozen of her old classmates.

(6)Postcard-pretty Innsbruck is the ideal destination for anyone who (WANT)________ to combine a skiing holiday with a city break.

(7)The capital of the Habsburg Empire in the late middle ages, it has a (CHARM)________ old town with many ornate medieval buildings, together with natural baroque additions, (INCLUDE)________ the cathedral.

(8)The city is home to a wealth of museums, galleries, bars and restaurants, and has twice played host to the Winter Olympics, so it has a lot of winter-sports facilities, and — just a short train ride out of town — ski tracks (CHALLENGE)_______ the most accomplished of skiers.

(1) A message in a bottle (THROW)________ into the sea off Japan by a girl five years ago (FIND)________ by a US sailor in Hawaii.

(2) Saki Arikawa, 17, from Kagoshima, said she had almost forgotten about the bottle and couldn’t believe the news.

(3) It was discovered on Thursday by Navy Petty Officer Jon Moore during a beach cleanup on Kauai island.

(4) It (CONTAIN)________ four origami cranessymbols of peace in Japan a photo of Ms Arikawa’s class and a note dated 25 March 2006.

(5) News of the bottle’s recovery has reconnected her with more than a dozen of her old classmates.

(6)Postcard-pretty Innsbruck is the ideal destination for anyone who (WANT)________ to combine a skiing holiday with a city break.

(7)The capital of the Habsburg Empire in the late middle ages, it has a (CHARM)________ old town with many ornate medieval buildings, together with natural baroque additions, (INCLUDE)________ the cathedral.

(8)The city is home to a wealth of museums, galleries, bars and restaurants, and has twice played host to the Winter Olympics, so it has a lot of winter-sports facilities, and — just a short train ride out of town — ski tracks (CHALLENGE)_______ the most accomplished of skiers.

(1) A message in a bottle (THROW)________ into the sea off Japan by a girl five years ago (FIND)________ by a US sailor in Hawaii.

(2) Saki Arikawa, 17, from Kagoshima, said she had almost forgotten about the bottle and couldn’t believe the news.

(3) It was discovered on Thursday by Navy Petty Officer Jon Moore during a beach cleanup on Kauai island.

(4) It (CONTAIN)________ four origami cranessymbols of peace in Japan a photo of Ms Arikawa’s class and a note dated 25 March 2006.

(5) News of the bottle’s recovery has reconnected her with more than a dozen of her old classmates.

(6)Postcard-pretty Innsbruck is the ideal destination for anyone who (WANT)________ to combine a skiing holiday with a city break.

(7)The capital of the Habsburg Empire in the late middle ages, it has a (CHARM)________ old town with many ornate medieval buildings, together with natural baroque additions, (INCLUDE)________ the cathedral.

(8)The city is home to a wealth of museums, galleries, bars and restaurants, and has twice played host to the Winter Olympics, so it has a lot of winter-sports facilities, and — just a short train ride out of town — ski tracks (CHALLENGE)_______ the most accomplished of skiers.

(1) A message in a bottle (THROW)________ into the sea off Japan by a girl five years ago (FIND)________ by a US sailor in Hawaii.

(2) Saki Arikawa, 17, from Kagoshima, said she had almost forgotten about the bottle and couldn’t believe the news.

(3) It was discovered on Thursday by Navy Petty Officer Jon Moore during a beach cleanup on Kauai island.

(4) It (CONTAIN)________ four origami cranessymbols of peace in Japan a photo of Ms Arikawa’s class and a note dated 25 March 2006.

(5) News of the bottle’s recovery has reconnected her with more than a dozen of her old classmates.

(6)Postcard-pretty Innsbruck is the ideal destination for anyone who (WANT)________ to combine a skiing holiday with a city break.

(7)The capital of the Habsburg Empire in the late middle ages, it has a (CHARM)________ old town with many ornate medieval buildings, together with natural baroque additions, (INCLUDE)________ the cathedral.

(8)The city is home to a wealth of museums, galleries, bars and restaurants, and has twice played host to the Winter Olympics, so it has a lot of winter-sports facilities, and — just a short train ride out of town — ski tracks (CHALLENGE)_______ the most accomplished of skiers.

(1) A message in a bottle (THROW)________ into the sea off Japan by a girl five years ago (FIND)________ by a US sailor in Hawaii.

(2) Saki Arikawa, 17, from Kagoshima, said she had almost forgotten about the bottle and couldn’t believe the news.

(3) It was discovered on Thursday by Navy Petty Officer Jon Moore during a beach cleanup on Kauai island.

(4) It (CONTAIN)________ four origami cranessymbols of peace in Japan a photo of Ms Arikawa’s class and a note dated 25 March 2006.

(5) News of the bottle’s recovery has reconnected her with more than a dozen of her old classmates.

(6)Postcard-pretty Innsbruck is the ideal destination for anyone who (WANT)________ to combine a skiing holiday with a city break.

(7)The capital of the Habsburg Empire in the late middle ages, it has a (CHARM)________ old town with many ornate medieval buildings, together with natural baroque additions, (INCLUDE)________ the cathedral.

(8)The city is home to a wealth of museums, galleries, bars and restaurants, and has twice played host to the Winter Olympics, so it has a lot of winter-sports facilities, and — just a short train ride out of town — ski tracks (CHALLENGE)_______ the most accomplished of skiers.

(1) A message in a bottle (THROW)________ into the sea off Japan by a girl five years ago (FIND)________ by a US sailor in Hawaii.

(2) Saki Arikawa, 17, from Kagoshima, said she had almost forgotten about the bottle and couldn’t believe the news.

(3) It was discovered on Thursday by Navy Petty Officer Jon Moore during a beach cleanup on Kauai island.

(4) It (CONTAIN)________ four origami cranessymbols of peace in Japan a photo of Ms Arikawa’s class and a note dated 25 March 2006.

(5) News of the bottle’s recovery has reconnected her with more than a dozen of her old classmates.

(6)Postcard-pretty Innsbruck is the ideal destination for anyone who (WANT)________ to combine a skiing holiday with a city break.

(7)The capital of the Habsburg Empire in the late middle ages, it has a (CHARM)________ old town with many ornate medieval buildings, together with natural baroque additions, (INCLUDE)________ the cathedral.

(8)The city is home to a wealth of museums, galleries, bars and restaurants, and has twice played host to the Winter Olympics, so it has a lot of winter-sports facilities, and — just a short train ride out of town — ski tracks (CHALLENGE)_______ the most accomplished of skiers.

(1) A message in a bottle (THROW)________ into the sea off Japan by a girl five years ago (FIND)________ by a US sailor in Hawaii.

(2) Saki Arikawa, 17, from Kagoshima, said she had almost forgotten about the bottle and couldn’t believe the news.

(3) It was discovered on Thursday by Navy Petty Officer Jon Moore during a beach cleanup on Kauai island.

(4) It (CONTAIN)________ four origami cranessymbols of peace in Japan a photo of Ms Arikawa’s class and a note dated 25 March 2006.

(5) News of the bottle’s recovery has reconnected her with more than a dozen of her old classmates.

(6)Postcard-pretty Innsbruck is the ideal destination for anyone who (WANT)________ to combine a skiing holiday with a city break.

(7)The capital of the Habsburg Empire in the late middle ages, it has a (CHARM)________ old town with many ornate medieval buildings, together with natural baroque additions, (INCLUDE)________ the cathedral.

(8)The city is home to a wealth of museums, galleries, bars and restaurants, and has twice played host to the Winter Olympics, so it has a lot of winter-sports facilities, and — just a short train ride out of town — ski tracks (CHALLENGE)_______ the most accomplished of skiers.

(1)According to the University of Tubingen (ARCHEOLOGY)________ Nicholas Conard, more than 35,000 years ago, our ancestors, living in present-day southwestern Germany, were playing sophisticated music. (2)In June he announced that he and his colleagues had dug up an ancient bone flute in Hohle Fels. (3)"The five-holed instrument – carved from the bone of a griffon vulture – might be capable of expressing greater harmonic (VARY)________ than the modern-day flute", says Nikolai Tarasov, a recorder specialist.

(4)Conard's group discovered fragments of three ivory flutes in their 2008 digs. (5)(PREVIOUS)________ four other bone and ivory flutes had been found in the same area.

(6)Collectively, these are regarded as the oldest known (MUSIC)________ instruments.

(1)According to the University of Tubingen (ARCHEOLOGY)________ Nicholas Conard, more than 35,000 years ago, our ancestors, living in present-day southwestern Germany, were playing sophisticated music. (2)In June he announced that he and his colleagues had dug up an ancient bone flute in Hohle Fels. (3)"The five-holed instrument – carved from the bone of a griffon vulture – might be capable of expressing greater harmonic (VARY)________ than the modern-day flute", says Nikolai Tarasov, a recorder specialist.

(4)Conard's group discovered fragments of three ivory flutes in their 2008 digs. (5)(PREVIOUS)________ four other bone and ivory flutes had been found in the same area.

(6)Collectively, these are regarded as the oldest known (MUSIC)________ instruments.

(1)According to the University of Tubingen (ARCHEOLOGY)________ Nicholas Conard, more than 35,000 years ago, our ancestors, living in present-day southwestern Germany, were playing sophisticated music. (2)In June he announced that he and his colleagues had dug up an ancient bone flute in Hohle Fels. (3)"The five-holed instrument – carved from the bone of a griffon vulture – might be capable of expressing greater harmonic (VARY)________ than the modern-day flute", says Nikolai Tarasov, a recorder specialist.

(4)Conard's group discovered fragments of three ivory flutes in their 2008 digs. (5)(PREVIOUS)________ four other bone and ivory flutes had been found in the same area.

(6)Collectively, these are regarded as the oldest known (MUSIC)________ instruments.

(1)According to the University of Tubingen (ARCHEOLOGY)________ Nicholas Conard, more than 35,000 years ago, our ancestors, living in present-day southwestern Germany, were playing sophisticated music. (2)In June he announced that he and his colleagues had dug up an ancient bone flute in Hohle Fels. (3)"The five-holed instrument – carved from the bone of a griffon vulture – might be capable of expressing greater harmonic (VARY)________ than the modern-day flute", says Nikolai Tarasov, a recorder specialist.

(4)Conard's group discovered fragments of three ivory flutes in their 2008 digs. (5)(PREVIOUS)________ four other bone and ivory flutes had been found in the same area.

(6)Collectively, these are regarded as the oldest known (MUSIC)________ instruments.

(1)According to the University of Tubingen (ARCHEOLOGY)________ Nicholas Conard, more than 35,000 years ago, our ancestors, living in present-day southwestern Germany, were playing sophisticated music. (2)In June he announced that he and his colleagues had dug up an ancient bone flute in Hohle Fels. (3)"The five-holed instrument – carved from the bone of a griffon vulture – might be capable of expressing greater harmonic (VARY)________ than the modern-day flute", says Nikolai Tarasov, a recorder specialist.

(4)Conard's group discovered fragments of three ivory flutes in their 2008 digs. (5)(PREVIOUS)________ four other bone and ivory flutes had been found in the same area.

(6)Collectively, these are regarded as the oldest known (MUSIC)________ instruments.

(1)According to the University of Tubingen (ARCHEOLOGY)________ Nicholas Conard, more than 35,000 years ago, our ancestors, living in present-day southwestern Germany, were playing sophisticated music. (2)In June he announced that he and his colleagues had dug up an ancient bone flute in Hohle Fels. (3)"The five-holed instrument – carved from the bone of a griffon vulture – might be capable of expressing greater harmonic (VARY)________ than the modern-day flute", says Nikolai Tarasov, a recorder specialist.

(4)Conard's group discovered fragments of three ivory flutes in their 2008 digs. (5)(PREVIOUS)________ four other bone and ivory flutes had been found in the same area.

(6)Collectively, these are regarded as the oldest known (MUSIC)________ instruments.

Many of us built paper planes to (A)________ around the classroom, but a team of British enthusiasts had more ambitious plans — to send a paper plane towards the edge of space. Last week, the aircraft, built from paper and paper straws, and with a three-foot wingspan, was launched from a site in Spain. A helium balloon (B)________ it to an altitude of 90,00ft (17 miles) — not, admittedly, very (C)________ to outer space (which is considered to begin around 50 miles above the Earth’s surface), but higher than a jumbo jet would normally fly (39,000ft). The balloon then (D)________, allowing the plane to glide gently back to Earth.

Along the way, it took pictures (E)________ a miniature camera before landing 100 miles from the launch site, whole but for a tear in its wing.

The project was masterminded by Steve Darnels, John Oates and Lester Haines, who said they (F)________ with the idea after being (G)________ by a project last year to send a lump of cheese into space. They had done it, they said, for a “laugh”.

Many of us built paper planes to (A)________ around the classroom, but a team of British enthusiasts had more ambitious plans — to send a paper plane towards the edge of space. Last week, the aircraft, built from paper and paper straws, and with a three-foot wingspan, was launched from a site in Spain. A helium balloon (B)________ it to an altitude of 90,00ft (17 miles) — not, admittedly, very (C)________ to outer space (which is considered to begin around 50 miles above the Earth’s surface), but higher than a jumbo jet would normally fly (39,000ft). The balloon then (D)________, allowing the plane to glide gently back to Earth.

Along the way, it took pictures (E)________ a miniature camera before landing 100 miles from the launch site, whole but for a tear in its wing.

The project was masterminded by Steve Darnels, John Oates and Lester Haines, who said they (F)________ with the idea after being (G)________ by a project last year to send a lump of cheese into space. They had done it, they said, for a “laugh”.

Many of us built paper planes to (A)________ around the classroom, but a team of British enthusiasts had more ambitious plans — to send a paper plane towards the edge of space. Last week, the aircraft, built from paper and paper straws, and with a three-foot wingspan, was launched from a site in Spain. A helium balloon (B)________ it to an altitude of 90,00ft (17 miles) — not, admittedly, very (C)________ to outer space (which is considered to begin around 50 miles above the Earth’s surface), but higher than a jumbo jet would normally fly (39,000ft). The balloon then (D)________, allowing the plane to glide gently back to Earth.

Along the way, it took pictures (E)________ a miniature camera before landing 100 miles from the launch site, whole but for a tear in its wing.

The project was masterminded by Steve Darnels, John Oates and Lester Haines, who said they (F)________ with the idea after being (G)________ by a project last year to send a lump of cheese into space. They had done it, they said, for a “laugh”.

Many of us built paper planes to (A)________ around the classroom, but a team of British enthusiasts had more ambitious plans — to send a paper plane towards the edge of space. Last week, the aircraft, built from paper and paper straws, and with a three-foot wingspan, was launched from a site in Spain. A helium balloon (B)________ it to an altitude of 90,00ft (17 miles) — not, admittedly, very (C)________ to outer space (which is considered to begin around 50 miles above the Earth’s surface), but higher than a jumbo jet would normally fly (39,000ft). The balloon then (D)________, allowing the plane to glide gently back to Earth.

Along the way, it took pictures (E)________ a miniature camera before landing 100 miles from the launch site, whole but for a tear in its wing.

The project was masterminded by Steve Darnels, John Oates and Lester Haines, who said they (F)________ with the idea after being (G)________ by a project last year to send a lump of cheese into space. They had done it, they said, for a “laugh”.

Many of us built paper planes to (A)________ around the classroom, but a team of British enthusiasts had more ambitious plans — to send a paper plane towards the edge of space. Last week, the aircraft, built from paper and paper straws, and with a three-foot wingspan, was launched from a site in Spain. A helium balloon (B)________ it to an altitude of 90,00ft (17 miles) — not, admittedly, very (C)________ to outer space (which is considered to begin around 50 miles above the Earth’s surface), but higher than a jumbo jet would normally fly (39,000ft). The balloon then (D)________, allowing the plane to glide gently back to Earth.

Along the way, it took pictures (E)________ a miniature camera before landing 100 miles from the launch site, whole but for a tear in its wing.

The project was masterminded by Steve Darnels, John Oates and Lester Haines, who said they (F)________ with the idea after being (G)________ by a project last year to send a lump of cheese into space. They had done it, they said, for a “laugh”.

Many of us built paper planes to (A)________ around the classroom, but a team of British enthusiasts had more ambitious plans — to send a paper plane towards the edge of space. Last week, the aircraft, built from paper and paper straws, and with a three-foot wingspan, was launched from a site in Spain. A helium balloon (B)________ it to an altitude of 90,00ft (17 miles) — not, admittedly, very (C)________ to outer space (which is considered to begin around 50 miles above the Earth’s surface), but higher than a jumbo jet would normally fly (39,000ft). The balloon then (D)________, allowing the plane to glide gently back to Earth.

Along the way, it took pictures (E)________ a miniature camera before landing 100 miles from the launch site, whole but for a tear in its wing.

The project was masterminded by Steve Darnels, John Oates and Lester Haines, who said they (F)________ with the idea after being (G)________ by a project last year to send a lump of cheese into space. They had done it, they said, for a “laugh”.

Many of us built paper planes to (A)________ around the classroom, but a team of British enthusiasts had more ambitious plans — to send a paper plane towards the edge of space. Last week, the aircraft, built from paper and paper straws, and with a three-foot wingspan, was launched from a site in Spain. A helium balloon (B)________ it to an altitude of 90,00ft (17 miles) — not, admittedly, very (C)________ to outer space (which is considered to begin around 50 miles above the Earth’s surface), but higher than a jumbo jet would normally fly (39,000ft). The balloon then (D)________, allowing the plane to glide gently back to Earth.

Along the way, it took pictures (E)________ a miniature camera before landing 100 miles from the launch site, whole but for a tear in its wing.

The project was masterminded by Steve Darnels, John Oates and Lester Haines, who said they (F)________ with the idea after being (G)________ by a project last year to send a lump of cheese into space. They had done it, they said, for a “laugh”.