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Part 1. Beauty is the (1)_______

quality of a thing or person that gives you pleasure. Inner beauty refers to
psychological factors, such as intelligence, kindness, compassion, and honesty. Outer beauty, or physical
attractiveness, refers to factors such as looks, health, youthfulness, and symmetry. Is the ability to
define physical or psychological attractiveness innate or learned? Is beauty objective or subjective? There
evidence that the sense of beauty is subjective and culturally relative. The popular saying
is some (2)_______
beholder tells us that different people have different opinions about what is
“beauty is in the eye of the (3)_______”
beautiful. For example, most Westerners consider a woman with a wide mouth attractive, while many
Chinese regard a woman with a small mouth as beautiful. During part of China’s history, women with big
feet were considered to be ugly. Traditional Chinese foot-binding was (4)_______
intended to keep a woman’s feet
tiny and thus “beautiful”. To people in the modern world, the foot-binding of women was painful, horrible,
and ugly. These two examples suggest that some ideas about beauty are learned and (5)_______
likely to change.
On the other hand, research indicates that a preference for beautiful faces (6)_______
occurs early in a
child’s development. A small child plays with facially attractive dolls longer than with facially unattractive
dolls. Children innately pay attention to the beauty of nature. People from various cultures and periods of
time may have slightly different ideas about beauty. Nonetheless, they usually share many (7)_______
standardsof
beauty. A kind, honest, and intelligent individual is attractive. So is a healthy, youthful person with a
mathematically (8)_______
shaped face and a well – proportioned body. The appreciation of many aspects of
both inner beauty and outer beauty is innate. Many aspects of beauty have been valued throughout human
evolutuon influencedby the
(9)_______. Our notion of beauty is innate, though that innate sense may be (10)_______
environment.
Part 2. Early civilisations, as (1)_______ to merely primitive early societies, seem to have a common
positive characteristic in that they change human (2)_______
perspective of things. They bring together the
cooperative efforts of large number of people, usually bringing them together physically in large
agglomerations. Civilisation is usually marked by urbanisation. It would be a bold individual was willing to
draw a precise (3)_______ at the moment when the balance tipped (4)_______ a dense pattern of agricultural
villages clustered (5)_______ a religious centre or a market to reveal the first true city. However, it
is perfectly resonable to say that more than any (6)_______ institution has provided the critical mass
which produces civilisation. Inside the city, the surpluses of wealth produced by agriculture made
possible other things (7)_______ of civilised life. They provided for the upkeep of a priestly (8)_______
which elaborated a complex religious structure, leading to the construction of great buidings
(9)_______ more than merely economic functions, and in due (10)_______ to the writing down of literature.
Part 3. The average citizen is bombarded with TV commercials, posters and newspapers
advertisements (1)_______ he goes. Not only this, but promotional material is constantly on (2)_______,
with every available public space from shop to petrol station covered with advertising of some kind.
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People who are foolish enough to drive with their windows open are likely to have leaflets advertising
everything and anything thrust in at them. The amount of advertising to which we are (3)_______ is
phenomenal, yet advertisers are being hurt by their industry’s worst recession in a decade and a conviction
that is in many respects more frightening than the (4)_______ and busts of capitalism: the belief that
advertising can go no further. Despite the ingenuity of the advertisers, who, in their need to make
advertisements as visually as attractive as possible, often totally obscure the message, the consumer
has become increasingly cynical and simply blanks (5)_______ all but the subtlest messages. The
advertising industry has therefore turned to
a more vulnerable (6)_______: the young. The messages specifically aimed at children are for toys and games
– whose promotional budgets increased fivefold in the 1990s – and fast food, which dominate the
children’s advertising market. However the main thrust of advertising in this area is no longer
(7)_______ traditional children‘s products. Advertisers acknowledge that the commercial pressures of the
1990s had an extraordinary effect on childhood: it is now generally believed that the cut-off (8)_______
for buying toys has been falling by one year every five years. Research suggests that while not so many
years ago children were happy with Lego or similar construction games at ten or eleven, most of today’s
children (9)_______ them at six or seven. In effect, the result is the premature (10)_______ of children.
Part 4
The game of solving difficult puzzles has always filled people with the feeling of a profound
excitement. No (1)................................, then, that the fascination of treasure hunting has invariably
been associated with the possibility of (2)................................ the most improbable dreams.
According to what the psychologists claim, there is a little boy in every treasure hunter. Yet, the chase
of hidden valuables has recently become a serious venture with amateur and professional seekers
equipped with highly sophisticated (3)................................ like metal detectors, radars, sonars or
underwater cameras. What (4)................................ the adrenaline level in these treasure - obsessed
fanatics are legends, myths, old maps and other variety of clues promising immeasurable fortunes
(5)................................ beneath the earh's surface or drowned in the ancient galleys. For many reassure
hunters the struggle of hint searching is even more stimulating than digging out a treasure
(6)................................ composed of golden or silver objects, jewellery and other priceless artefacts.
The job is, however, extremely strenuous as even the most puzzling clues must be thoroughly analysed.
Failures and misinterpertations (7)................................ quite frequently, too. Yet, (8)................................
the most unlikely clue or the smallest find is enough to reinforce the hunter's self - confidence and
passion. Indeed, the delight in treasure finding doesn't always depend on acquiring tremendous
amounts of valuables. Whatever is detected, (9)................................ it a rusty sundial or a marble
statue, brings joy and (10)................................ after a long and exhausting search.

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