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There are 4 people at our table including myself. I’ve already learnt a lot
about them although we rarely meet except at meal time. First, there is Dr. Slone
I le is about 65. He gave up his practice a short while ago and is now travelling
round the world before he retires to some quiet country village. He served
abroad for many years as a doctor in the army. I le speaks several languages
and has told us a lot about the ports we were going to call at. Then, there is
"grandmother”. I call her that as her name escapes me. In spite of being
remarkably young, not more than 45. She is on her way to visit a daughter who
emigrated lo Australia some years ago. There is an engineer called Barlow. He
has been on leave in England and is now returning to his work in Singapore. He
seems full of energy: he swims or plays tennis in the best part of the day. I’ve
never met a man with such a loud laugh.

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 What's Dr. Slone doing before he to some quiet country village?

The writer calls the second person “grandmother” because………..

The word “remarkably means…………

 Barlow is in England……...

Read the following passage, then answer the questions

Necessity is the mother of invention is a famous Common proverb which
means that our needs always motivate our minds to create new things in order
to manage well with a world full of speed changes. Man's needs have often
directed him to discover the natural resources around him, and to make with his
own hands the things he wants. Thus, he made tools to cultivate the land and get
its crops. Those tools played an important part in establishing civilization. Food,
clothing and shelter are still considered to be man's basic needs. The progress
of technology has enabled man to satisfy all! these needs. It has helped him to
take wide steps in developing agriculture, industry and public services. Thus,
we are now enjoying the blessing of modern civilization. When civilization
developed and man lived in organized societies, he found himself in need of
more than his necessities; Education is next to food in importance because it is
the only way to acquire experience and the qualifications necessary to earn a
living. Education changed our style of living and led to higher thinking ievels. He
invaded space. He invented the computer. No wonder that man has great
abilities which II enable him to create more inventions in the future
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………The underlined word "acquire" has a similar meaning to

According to the passage education is of great importance because………

Man needed more than his necessities when he……….

Read the following passage, then answer the questions

Every reader of this passage must spend the whole of his waking life
looking at things. Looking, is natural ; we do it without noticing it. Looking is
passive - but seeing is active, and that is the explanation of the title " To look is
not to see ". once you start seeing things you really began to wake up. People
who see things which others have only looted at, and seeing, draw conclusions
from what they see, can add to man's knowledge and help progress Someone
recently discovered a place where metal had been worked continuously longer
than anywhere else in England. He " saw " a wall in the Forest of Dean,
Thousands of people must have looked at it without really seeing it, but this man
noticed that among the usual stones of that place were bits and pieces of a
different colour ; they also felt different to the hand. A closer sight showed that
these pieces had been left behind in the fires of ancient peoples who had
smelted rocks to get metals. Looking around, he found more and more
information, until the history of what men had done at tat place over tens of
centuries was known You don't have to go far to make similar discoveries once
you really start seeing.

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For this writer "seeing" means…………….
 

The man found a place where………

The man who "saw" the wall got more and more information………….

What was it that mean" men had done at that place over tens of centuries ?