Money

There is no doubt that money, in the form that we know it today,1, what keeps
modern economic life functioning. Yet, in the course 2, history, money, in
whatever form, has provided people 3, the ability to buy and 4,
goods. Thousands of years 5, ,civilisations 6, to rely on the barter
system as a way of exchanging goods. Within this system a person had to exchange one
thing for another. This meant that the two parties involved had to 7, an
agreement as to what they thought their products were 8, . Items such 9,
wheat, tobacco and salt have all 10, used as money at one time or another. It
was not until much later that humans came up 11, the idea of money in the form of
metal coins.

So why 12, the barter system come to an end ? The answer is simple. Coins
were much easier to handle and carry around. 13, then, the use of coins has become
widespread. It has made business simpler and has given countries an opportunity 14,
development by doing business with other countries further afield, which they 15,
never done business with before.

Later on, paper money became more common all over the world ,as it was easier to use. It
16, not be long, however, before plastic cards take 17, completely,
replacing coins and bank notes.

Space

The theory that the earth has been visited, perhaps even colonized,1, visitors from
outer space has long been a part of popular mythology. The popularity of the theory 2,
helped considerably by Stanley Kubrick's cult movie, 2001: A Space Odyssey, which
came3, in 1968 and was instantly a great success.

But the idea of visitors 4, space had been very much in the air over the previous
twenty years, ever 5, 1947 when a businessman called Kenneth Arnold, 6,
was flying his private plane in Washington state , reported seeing nine shining discs.

He said they were moving 7, an estimated speed of 1,000 miles 8,

hour. This was widely reported in the press and aroused great interest. Soon
sightings of unidentified flying objects, or UFOs 9, short, were being reported 10,
over the world. There were far 11, many of these reports for them to
be dismissed 12, pure fantasy.
In 1958, in a book entitled Secret Places of the Lion, George Hunt Williamson advanced the
theory that visitors from space had arrived on earth 18 million years AGO and had since
been devoting themselves to helping mankind evolve.

The Apollo Moon Landing

50 years ago, on July 20th, 1969, Apollo 11 astronauts Neill Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin
became the first humans to 1, their foot on the moon. The United States had
won the space 2, with the Soviet Union. After 3, from
Kennedy Space Centre in Florida on July 16th, the lunar module Eagle landed on the
moon's 4, . Four days after the lunar landing Apollo 11 successfully splashed
down in the Pacific Ocean.

The race to the moon began in 1962 when President John F Kennedy 5, that
America would land a man on the moon by the end of the decade. In the following years, the
American space agency NASA received large amounts of government 6, in order to
achieve a lunar landing.

The Apollo spacecraft consisted of the command and service module, 7, the lunar
landing module that would bring two astronauts to the moon's surface and take off again to
successfully dock with the command module. A 8, rocket, the Saturn V, was built
to 9, from Earth's orbit.

NASA's space programme 10, a catastrophic setback in 1967 when

three Apollo astronauts died in a fire 11, practicing on the ground at Cape
Kennedy.

About 600 million people around the world watched the 12, moon landing. Neill
Armstrong's first words on the moon are among the most 13, in
history: "One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind".

All in all, the Apollo programme sent 9 spacecraft to the moon in the 60s and 70s. Six of
them 14, astronauts on the lunar surface. About 400 kilos of lunar rock were 15,
and brought back to earth.

50 years after the first moon landing events all across the US were organised to celebrate
this historic and technological 16,
1, A, locate B, set C, lay D, put
2, A, race B, goal C, aim D, fight
3, A, taking off B, to taking off C, took off D, to take off
4, A, floor B, level C, surface D, ground
5, A, explained B, published C, declared D, posted
6, A, income B, spending C, funding D, donating
7, A, as well as B, in addition C, and even D, such as
8, A, hard B, strengthy C, powerful D, distinct
9, A, suffered B, tolerated C, hardship D, stood
10, A, whenever B, through C, while D, during
11, A, ancient B, important C, historic D, major
12, A, decided B, marked C, famous D, unknown
13, A, landed B, development C, discovery D, invention
14, A, saved B, found C, collected D, taken out
15, A, development B, achievement C, discovery D, invention

Why are people so clumsy?

What makes one person have more 1, than another? Most people would say
that it has to do with taking risks. 2, risks mean fewer accidents. But is taking risks
really a matter of 3, ?

Some experts believe that whether or not you take risks in life has a lot to do with your 4,
and, some believe, with your birth order. Parents are often 5, and
more careful with their first child, and so first-born children 6, to grow up taking
fewer risks and being more 7, . Parents are often more relaxed with a second
or third child, so these children tend to take more risks.

But why do children tend to be more accident-prone than adults? During childhood and 8,
, the body grows very quickly. There seem to be periods in these years when
our brain and body are at different 9, of development. Our arms are longer
than the brain thinks they are, so we knock things OVER our legs are longer than the brain
believes so we trip over easily.

Another 10, has been offered by scientists in Spain who have found a possible 11,
between the number of hours a child watches TV and how accident-prone
they are. The research suggests that the more time a child spends watching TV, the less they
are 12, their physical coordination skills. If a child doesn't run around a lot, they don’t
begin to 13, that the world is full of physical risks. Watching cartoons and action
adventure films doesn't help either. It gives the child a false 14, of how the world
works and of how much danger it 15, .
So what about adults? Some studies have shown that left-handed people are more accident-
prone than right-handed people. Why the 16, ? No one knows for sure. One
theory is that we live in a right-handed world. Everything - from cars to door handles, from
children's toys to engineering 17, and equipment - is made by right-handed
people for right-handed people. So left-handed children and adults are more 18,
to have accidents because the modern world is not 19, for
them.

1, A, accidents B, incidents C, disasters D, mistakes

2, A, little B, less C, fewer D, smaller
3, A, range B, preference C, selection D, choice
4, A, middle age B, infancy C, upbringing D, maturity
5, A, stricter B, more exact C, closer D, more severe
6, A, retreat B, tend C, inclined D, threaten
7, A, ready B, guarded C, reckless D, cautious
8, A, teens B, education C, upbringing D, adolescence
9, A, parts B, points C, stages D, steps
10, A, exclamation B, explanation C, description D, declaration
11, A, tie B, relationship C, bond D, link
12, A, widening B, creating C, developing D, advancing
13, A, value B, mean C, understand D, work out
14, A, sense B, mind C, education D, meaning
15, A, includes B, contains C, limits D, controls
16, A, difference B, modification C, change D, amendment
17, A, schemes B, means C, tools D, systems
18, A, likely B, possible C, accepted D, expected
19, A, planned B, organised C, designed D, proposed