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REORDER PARAGRAPHS

A. In this new place, Jonathan befriends the wisest gull, Chiang, who takes him beyond his
previous learning, teaching him how to move instantaneously to anywhere else in the Universe.

B. The secret, Chiang says, is to "begin by knowing that you have already arrived."

C. Ultimately, the very first of his students, Fletcher Lynd Seagull, becomes a teacher in his own
right, and Jonathan leaves to teach other flocks.

D. One day, Jonathan is met by two gulls who take him to a "higher plane of existence" in which
there is no heaven but a better world found through perfection of knowledge.

E. Not satisfied with his new life, Jonathan returns to Earth to find others like him, to bring them
his learning and to spread his love for flight.

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II

A. Some psychologists advocate a positive psychology, and explicitly embrace an empirical self-
help philosophy.

B. This includes the intentional training of new patterns of thought and feeling.

C. They aim to refine the self-improvement field by way of an intentional increase in scientifically
sound research and well-engineered models.

D. According to them, the role of positive psychology is to become a bridge between the ivory
tower and the main street—between the rigor of academe and the fun of the self-help movement."

E. The division of focus and methodologies has produced several subfields, in particular: general
positive psychology; and personal effectiveness.

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III

A. As Pascal plays with his new-found toy, he realizes it has a mind of its own. It begins to follow
him wherever he goes.

B. At another, he and the balloon encounter a little girl with a blue one that also seems to have a
mind of its own too.

C. The film “The Red Balloon”, tells of Pascal, who, on his way to school one morning, discovers
a large red balloon.

D. At one point it enters his classroom, causing an uproar from his classmates which alerts the
principal, who becomes angry with him and locks him up in his office until school is over.

E. The balloon follows Pascal through the streets of Paris, and they draw inquisitive looks from
adults and the envy of other children as they wander the streets.

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IV

A. Habeas corpus, a law by which a prisoner could demand to be brought before the courts and
have his case heard, was a well-established right in England, but the authorities had found a
number of ways of getting round its use where political prisoners were concerned.

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B. The new act put a stop to such abuses and deprived the executive of powers it might have
used to support oppressive and arbitrary government.

C. In 1679, what became known as the first Exclusionist Parliament passed at least one useful
piece of legislation: on the day parliament was suspended, the King gave his assent to a Habeas
Corpus Act.

D. James Harrington, the philosopher, is a good example. When his sisters applied for habeas
corpus, he was taken from the Tower of London to a barren island where habeas corpus could not
be imposed.

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A. However, the potential for crime is enormous. Some experts believe that American financial
systems are losing up to $5 billion a year to computer fraud. Once a hacker has got into the
bank’s system, he or she can order it to transfer large sums of money to a foreign account.

B. Any computer network connected to the telephone system is vulnerable because the hacker
needs only to discover the coded password in order to gain entry to the network. All it takes is
intelligent guesswork, trial and error, and perseverance.

C. At first, this appeared to be a perfect example of electronic spying, but it turned out to be a
bunch of talented computer buffs doing it for fun. If they had wanted to create real problems, they
could have altered files or deleted them altogether.

D. A German student sitting at home at a computer terminal connected to the telephone system
managed to hack into NASA’s computers and read top secret files. He and a group of other
students in Hamburg had also got into about thirty other restricted computer networks.

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VI

A. At the turn of the 19th century, however, only a relatively small sector of the British economy
had been directly affected by the Industrial Revolution.

B. For each of the three major countries of western Europe – Britain, France, and Germany – the
closing decades of the 18th century were years of increasing economic prosperity, and the pace
of economic development in Britain far outdid that of the others.

C. It would be a mistake to call the other two countries underdeveloped – in terms of cultural
achievement, especially literature, art, and philosophy, they outstripped Britain – but they lagged
behind in terms of economic development.

D. Even two decades later, the picture was little different, except that cotton had become the
country’s leading manufacturing industry. It was not until the middle of the century that it could be
properly described as an industrial society.

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VII

A. By 1817, trousers were shoe-length. Popular with the king, they became accepted as standard
daywear by 1825, and were worn with a waistcoal and, by day, a frock coat, but with a tailcoat in
the evening.

B. Jackets didn’t become fashionable for casual wear until the 1850s. The jacket was derived
from the short jacket worn by boys and working men, and in the age of mass-production and
ready-made suits, its simple style was casier to produce than the tailored coat.

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C. It was George “Beau” Brummell, the champion of simple English style, who started a trend for
wearing tight black trousers in the early 1800s.

D. The favorite patterns for trousers were strong plaids, stripes and checks. The loose straight cut
came in about the 1860s, and front creases in the 1880s. By the turn of the century, they had
become the common way to dress.

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VIII

A. Between May and August 1783, two volcanic eruptions had occurred, one in Iceland and one
in Japan. The northern hemisphere had been covered in a “great fog”

B. A year earlier, a volcano had erupted in Indonesia, sending up vast quantities of fine volcanic
dust into the atmosphere. Circling the Earth, the dust reflected sunlight back into space.

C. This, of course, was an extraordinary event. In fact, it is considered one of the most
catastrophic global events in recorded history. But something like it had happened before, and
within living memory.

D. The Earth literally darkened, temperatures dropped. Throughout western Europe and North
America crops failed, and cattle died. A large portion of the world lay under a huge volcanic cloud.

E. In the spring of 1816, the weather suddenly changed. The unseasonably warm spring turned
cold and people were forced indoors by continual rain. The skies darkened and there was no
summer.

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IX

A. Only four years later did football become an official competition at the Games. At this stage it
was, of course, for amateurs only.

B. Ironically, the first tournament was won by an amateur team from the northeast of England,
who had been especially invited after the British Football Association refused to be associated
with the competition,

C. The first international football match was played in 1872 between England and Scotland, when
football was rarely played anywhere outside Great Britain

D. As an alternative, Sir Thomas Lipton decided to organize an event for professionals. Often
described as The First World Cup, it took place in Turin in 1909 and featured the most prestigious
professional clubs from Italy, Germany and Switzerland.

E. However, as football increased in popularity, it was adimitted to the Olympics in 1900 and 1904,
but only as a sideshow and not in the competition for medals.

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