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31 The city government declared its commitment to clean up all the school walls covered with racist .
foci graffiti stimuli syllabi
32 A truck on the highway caused many other vehicles stuck in traffic for more than an hour during the
morning rush hour.
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33 For many people who want to learn to swim, the first they have to overcome is to put their face into the
water.
defeat diving hint hurdle
34 Heat waves are the most fatal type of weather phenomenon. The average annual number of deaths attributed
to heat is about 400 in the country.
comprehensive excessive indispensable miserable
35 People who were chronic binge drinkers often made decisions that would put them at high risk of losing money.
People who drank too much continually risked their money in the stock market in the end.
Habitual heavy drinkers tended to make risky decisions leading to losing money.
People who were alcoholic often made decisions that prevented them from taking risks.
Those who indulged in material comforts were at great risk of losing too much money.
36 It seems that few American exports have proved as popular as credit cards.
Credit cards seem to have been among the most popular exports from the United States.
The United States seems to have exported more credit cards than any other countries have.
When it comes to American exports, credit cards seem to have been the least popular ones.
American credit cards seem to have more overseas users than local users in the United States.
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People evolve a language in order to describe and thus control their circumstances, or in order not to be submerged
by a reality that they cannot articulate. A Frenchman living in Paris speaks a subtly and crucially different language from
that of the man living in Marseilles; 37 sounds very much like a man living in Quebec; and they would all have
great difficulty in apprehending what the man from Guadeloupe, or Martinique, is saying, 38 the man from
Senegal—although the “common” language of all these areas is French. But each has paid, and is paying, a different price
for this “common” language, in which, as it turns out, they are not saying, and cannot be saying, the same things: they
each have very different realities to articulate or control.
What joins all languages and all men is the necessity to confront life, in order, not inconceivably, to outwit death: the
price for this is the acceptance and achievement of one’s temporal identity. So that, for examp le, though it is not taught in
the schools, the south of France still clings to its ancient and musical Provencal, which resists being described as a
“dialect.” And much of the 39 in the Basque countries, and in Wales, is due to the Basque and Welsh
determination not to allow their languages to be destroyed. This determination also 40 the flames in Ireland
for among the many indignities the Irish have been forced to undergo at English hands is the English contempt for their
language.
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38 in terms of to say nothing of in accordance with together with
39 adhesion cooperation suspension tension
40 feeds fights lowers quenches
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The story of Orlando’s stunning transformation from swamp and sinkhole to a metropolis began, inevitably, with
Walt Disney and Mickey Mouse. Disney first flew over central Florida in an airplane on the fateful day of November 22,
1963. The Kennedy assassination would mark America forever. So would the decision Walt Disney made that day to turn
an inland Florida agricultural center into an epicenter of world tourism.
Disney chose Orlando first because it was at the confluence of two of the most important thoroughfares, what today
are Interstate 4 and Florida’s Turnpike. Moreover, since Walt Disney’s original theme park—Disneyland, in southern
California—covered fewer than 300 acres and was soon ringed with the suburban blight that its success inevitably
attracted—motels, strip malls, and copycat amusement parks, Disney hoped to rectify in Florida his mistake of not
making Disneyland big enough. He set out to create a new, bigger, better Magic Kingdom. Here, arriving visitors would
not be permitted to choose their own parking spaces; smiling Disney characters would do that for them. Besides, water in
this Magic Kingdom could not be the tannic brown common in central Florida. So Bay Lake was drained, the sludge
removed, and clear water pumped into the resulting lagoon. Even dry land would be turned into another Disney illusion:
As you traverse the theme park, you are actually walking on the roof of an immense, underground control building from
which the operation is run, staffed, and supplied.