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1.Job Descriptions

Read what the people with different jobs say and match what they say to the name of their job.
Write the correct letter (A-K) in each box.

A. Police Officer G. Gardener

B. Waiter H. Musician
C. Teacher I. Pilot
D. Nurse J. Author
E. Sports Player K. Architect
F. Dentist

1. Some people treat you so badly and think that's OK as long as they give you a few

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dollars. 
2. Many people are suspicious of us but I believe those people are the ones with

something to hide. 
3. It's true that I have had to put my hands into and look into some nasty places, but

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the money's great and everybody wants to know one of us! 
4. It's not all fancy performances and globetrotting I can tell you! Without hard work,

dedication and lots and lots of practice, you won't succeed. 

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while working here and now we are even more careful. After all, I want to remain on

this side of the curtain! 

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6. It's great seeing paper plans come to real stone and brick reality. 
7. Yeah, we get paid a lot but there's always the risk of injury and our careers are

pretty short. 
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 8. The first and last five minutes are the most stressful and that goes for the members of

the public as well. 

9. Some days, I get blocked really badly and can't string more than two words

together. 
10. In this institution, a lot of it is control. When you consider their home life, that's

understandable! 
11. I consider myself an artist, I really do! What I create lasts a long time and can

even change throughout the year. 

2. Ice Melt Clues To Future Climate - Heading Gap Fill

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In the following text, the headings of five sections have been removed. Choose the best
heading (A-F) for the five sections (1-5). There is one extra heading you do not need to use.
You only need to write the letter in the box.

Use these headings to fill the spaces below. There is one extra you do not need to use.

A. Old Ice Clues

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B. History Repeating Itself
C. Fear For The Future
D. Super Fast Melt
E. Accurate Predictors

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F. Fresh Input

When the climate began to warm during the last Ice Age about 23,000 years ago, much of
the Northern Hemisphere was covered in ice.
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In two new studies published this week in Nature Geoscience, researchers describe how ice
sheets behaved in the past could help scientists better predict what might happen to them
in a warmer world of our future.

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University of Wisconsin geologist Anders Carlson studies ice sheet melt from land and ocean
sediment cores. His study describes what prehistoric Earth was like in North America and
Northern Europe some 140,000 years ago.

"What we found in this paper was that ice that's resting on land it responded very quickly to
the warming climate, but then it didn't retreat really rapidly. It kind of chugged along and
slowly melted like an ice cube if you put a hair dryer on it," Carlson says, adding that was
not the case with ice sheets floating on the ocean. "Marine based ice sheets behave
unpredictably. They may not do anything for a while, and then they all of a sudden
respond very abruptly. They can rapidly disappear."

2. 

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Greenland and Antarctica hold the Earth's last remaining ice sheets. In July, satellite data
showed that 97 percent of the surface of the Greenland ice sheet had turned to slush over
four days, a rate faster than at any time in recorded history. According to Carlson, it might
be responding rapidly to small changes in temperature, similar to what he saw in the
prehistoric record of ice sheets on land.

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"But that said, they haven't catastrophically collapsed in the past either to rapidly raise sea
level in the time scale that humans would care about, that we would be hard pressed to
adapt to." Carlson says the Antarctic marine-based ice sheet is less predictable. "What
this would say from the past is that these ice sheets, well they may not do anything for a
bit. But then if you want to catastrophically raise sea level like on the orders of a meter or
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A second paper in Nature Geoscience looks back 12,000 to 7,000 years to when massive
ice sheets still covered the high latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere. At that time, the
global climate was roughly comparable to what it is today and glaciers were melting.
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The study describes abrupt sea level jumps - from one-half to two meters -from melting
glaciers.

4. 

"What happens when you suddenly drain these massive amounts of fresh water into the ocean?
It's going to change ocean circulation, " says co-author Torbjorn Tornqvist, an Earth
scientist at Tulane University in Louisiana.

Today, rapid melting from the Greenland ice sheet would send massive amounts of fresh
water into the North Atlantic Ocean, changing the marine environment.

"But it will also lead to potentially higher precipitation rates in the same region, which
could also lead to fresher surface waters in the North Atlantic," Tornqvist says. "So we need
to understand whether those types of changes could potentially be capable of triggering

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these kinds of abrupt climate events."

5. 

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Tornqvist adds that understanding how abrupt climate changes affected Earth's geologic past
can help design climate models that can better predict the future.

3. Mind Monsters

In the following text, six sentences or parts of sentences have been removed. Above the extract
you will find the six removed sentences PLUS one sentence which doesn't fit. Choose from the
sentences (A-G) the one which fits each gap (1-6). Remember, there is one extra sentence you do
not need to use. Write the correct letter in the box.

Choose from the following sentences to fill the spaces in the text. There is one extra.

A. The future of things to come and not yet seen.

B. I know some of the things you just said are true.

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C. A peculiar odor emanated from the place, a mixture of mothballs and rotting flesh.

D. They don't frighten me anymore.

E. Not many things embarrassed Billy but the poor condition of his feet did.

F. I know it's hard for you to believe me when I tell you about these things I see.

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G. They came in all sizes and shapes.

The ceiling fan above his head creaked and wobbled in time with crickets chirping outside
the window. The walls were plastered with posters of angels and biblical passages riddled
with apocalyptic messages. The house breathed a life of its own as shadows danced on the
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walls of his dimly lit room.

(1)   I gagged upon entering and for a brief moment, I felt the suffocating presence of
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some unclean thing. I heard leaves rustling outside the window by his bed. A cool breeze
blew in through another open window on the south side of the room.

The fresh air brought some welcomed relief but it would not last long.
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"There are monsters in our midst," he said. My poor friend Billy I thought to myself. How can I
make him understand his monsters are all in his head?

Billy sat in the middle of the bed scratching his beard looking up at me smiling with one eye
half closed, the other opened wide. Sitting in a Lotus type position he was in his usual garb,
underwear and white socks.

(2)   The white socks covered the shame of his toe nail fungus but nothing could hide the
pity that was in my heart for him.

"Bobby I'm telling you they are here and living among us. I can see and hear them. I have
learned not to fear them because they need me."

"They need you Billy? I asked sarcastically. He responded nonchalantly, "Yes, I teach them
things, they are lonely and kind of stupid so I let them stay with me and watch TV."

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"Are they here now?" I asked.
"Yes." He answered.
"Then why can't I see them?"
"Because you don't have spiritual eyes, they will only show themselves to those who can
sense their presence."
"Aren't monsters supposed to be wicked creatures that come out at night and scare the hell

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out of people?"

He explained they were not really monsters but more like spiritual beings who dwell on the

earth walking to and fro looking for property to occupy and pass time. (3)   Some were
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I kept trying to reason with him to see if by chance or miracle he would listen to a voice of
reason and logical persuasion. But I was growing weary and it was getting late a more
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aggressive approach seemed to be the only way to reach him.

"Oh come on Billy, what if I was to tell you those things you see are all in your head.
They're just a product of your diagnosed schizophrenia my friend. You refuse to take
medication because when you do you lose all your auditory and visual hallucinations.
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These monsters don't need you. You need them. Because without them you would be lonely
and your whole life would lose its purpose."

He just laughed saying, "Well I would tell you throughout the course of human history there

have been those who have seen visions and dreams that foretold the truth. (4)   These
men were called Prophets of God and answered to a higher calling. They were chosen not by
their own accord but by a power greater than themselves.

They suffered greatly often times labeled crazy, delusional or dangerous. Today they separate
us from society and we are hidden away in institutions. Psychotropic drugs are forced
upon us as a way to silence that which mortal men fear the most. In ancient times we were
imprisoned, stoned or burned to death."

"So now you're saying you are a Prophet of God, chosen because you've led such an
exemplary life? You and I both know you are a drug addict. Most of your life, since you

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were thirteen you have smoked pot, popped pills and injected drugs."

"(5)   I don't know why I see visions and hear things from this other world. But I know
there are dimensions running parallel to our own. Yes, I have been able to sense these
beings since I was a child. I did drugs to stop the voices in my head and the visions
because they scared me. I was trying to self medicate to stop them, but it didn't work.

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(6)   I know now my mission in this world is to teach them, comfort them and
peacefully co-exist with them. They too are also a part of God's creation."

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