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According to the reading "The way we were", answer the following question: Why did Molly Hornby use to cut her own hair and wear short skirts?
The way we were
Molly Hornby was a young girl in the 1960s. Read what s he says about it. “I was a young girl in the 1960s. My friends and I used to do a lot of things which shocked our parents. We used to do things our mothers never did. We cut our hair, we wore short skirts, we smoked, and went dancing. We danced to the music of Elvis Presley and the Beatles. We also got the chance to see the Beatles live at a concert once. It was amazing. My father went fishing once a week. He always wished that I would accompany him, but fishing was not my cup of tea. Instead my friends and I went for picnics in the surrounding area quite often. My boyfriend had a car, a 1960 Ford Falcon, so he always picked us up and we often drove to Brighton. We went to the pictures twice a week and I loved to watch films with Marlon Brando and Elizabeth Taylor, especially the ‘Reflections in a Golden Eye’ starring both of them. I still love to watch this film. It’s my favorite. I can remember it all so clearly.”
Excerpts taken from English Exercises: used to (Reading & Questions)
Because Elvis Presley and the Beatles used to do it so.
Because her father told her so.
Because in the '60s, women were more liberal.
Because the '60s were against parents.
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According to the text “Olde English spelling bee",
What was one reason for adding more letters to the lines in printing?
OLDE ENGLISH SPELLING BEE
Both native English speakers and non-native speakers find the spelling of English one of its most difficult characteristics. The English spelling system is not based on a phonetic link between sounds and letters, as is the spelling of Spanish and certain other languages. Instead, English spelling is affected by the historical development of the language. Some words are pronounced in several different ways; similarly, different combinations of letters can produce the same pronunciation. The six different pronunciations of ough provide an outstanding example of the differences between spelling and pronunciation, as in bough, cough, thorough, thought, through, and rough. The spellings come from a time when gh represented a sound that was pronounced. Another difference is the many different spellings of the sh sound, as for example in anxious, fission, fuchsia, and ocean. The link between sound and spelling in English is not phonetically exact for two main reasons. First, spelling changes did not keep pace with changes in the sound system after the development of printing and of conventions for spelling. For example, the k in knife and the gh in right come from the Middle English period (from about 1100 to about 1500), when they were pronounced as separate sounds. Second, there are some spelling conventions that are based on other languages. For example, during the 16th century the 'b' was inserted into the word doubt (formerly spelled doute). This reflected the Latin word, dubitare, even though the 'b' was not pronounced in English. Two further influences contributed to the illogical system of spelling. When books began to be printed in England, the newly invented spelling system was undermined because nearly all the early London printers were foreign. They were usually paid by the line and often inserted additional letters into words to earn more. They regularly also added extra letters to the last word of a line to make the whole text look neater. Many of their spelling errors eventually became accepted English spellings. When Samuel Johnson wrote the first English dictionary in 1755, he did not try to reform the system or make it simpler. Instead, he based it on the printed material that was available at the time. As a result, most of the errors that were common at the time became accepted as correct.
Taken from: https://rcel2.enl.uoa.gr/kpgeschool/images/pdf_files/B_Students_Book_English.pdf
The reason was to save on printing costs.
The reason was to make the whole text look neater.
The reason was to invent new words.
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Listen to the audio and answer the question: What was the correct Flight?
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According to the text “Olde English spelling bee”, answer: Why is the spelling not phonetically exact?
OLDE ENGLISH SPELLING BEE
Both native English speakers and non-native speakers find the spelling of English one of its most difficult characteristics. The English spelling system is not based on a phonetic link between sounds and letters, as is the spelling of Spanish and certain other languages. Instead, English spelling is affected by the historical development of the language. Some words are pronounced in several different ways; similarly, different combinations of letters can produce the same pronunciation. The six different pronunciations of ough provide an outstanding example of the differences between spelling and pronunciation, as in bough, cough, thorough, thought, through, and rough. The spellings come from a time when they represented a sound that was pronounced. Another difference is the many different spellings of the sh sound, as for example in anxious, fission, fuchsia, and ocean. The link between sound and spelling in English is not phonetically exact for two main reasons. First, spelling changes did not keep pace with changes in the sound system after the development of printing and of conventions for spelling. For example, the k in knife and the gh in right come from the Middle English period (from about 1100 to about 1500), when they were pronounced as separate sounds. Second, there are some spelling conventions that are based on other languages. For example, during the 16th century the 'b' was inserted into the word doubt (formerly spelled out). This reflected the Latin word, dubitare, even though the 'b' was not pronounced in English. Two further influences contributed to the illogical system of spelling. When books began to be printed in England, the newly invented spelling system was undermined because nearly all the early London printers were foreign. They were usually paid by the line and often inserted additional letters into words to earn more. They regularly also added extra letters to the last word of a line to make the whole text look neater. Many of their spelling errors eventually became accepted English spellings. When Samuel Johnson wrote the first English dictionary in 1755, he did not try to reform the system or make it simpler. Instead, he based it on the printed material that was available at the time. As a result, most of the errors that were common at the time became accepted as correct.
Taken from: https://rcel2.enl.uoa.gr/kpgeschool/images/pdf_files/B_Students_Book_English.pdf
Because it did not keep up with the development of television.
Because Phonetics did not exist then.
Because it did not keep up the pace with the development of printing.
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According to the reading “The Art of fiction”, choose the correct option:
The Art of Fiction
Bradbury was born in 1920 in Waukegan, Illinois, the son of a lineman for the local power company. As a child, he developed a passion for the books of L. Frank Baum and Edgar Allan Poe and immersed himself in popular culture, from cinema to comic strips to traveling circuses. Because Bradbury’s father was often out of work during the twenties and thirties, the family repeatedly moved between Illinois and Tucson, Arizona. His sense of uprootedness and dislocation was compounded by the death of his beloved grandfather when he was five, and his baby sister’s death from pneumonia two years later. The experience of great loss appears frequently in his work. By the spring of 1934, lured by the prospects of sunshine and steady employment, the Bradbury family moved to California, where Bradbury has lived ever since. As a teenager, he roller-skated all over Hollywood, collecting autographs and taking photos with stars like Jean Harlow, Marlene Dietrich, and George Burns. After he graduated from Los Angeles High School in 1938, he joined the Los Angeles Science Fiction League, befriending writers Robert Heinlein and Leigh Brackett. In 1940, with the help of Heinlein, he made his first professional sale, to a West Coast literary magazine called Script. Bradbury’s poor eyesight stopped him from being recruited for the Second World War, and it was during those years that he established himself in the pages of pulp-fiction magazines like Weird Tales and Astounding Science Fiction. The Martian Chronicles, his second book, was embraced by the science-fiction community as well as critics, a rare achievement for the genre. Christopher Isherwood hailed Bradbury as “truly original” and a “very great and unusual talent.” Three years later Bradbury published the novel for which B1+ he is best known, Fahrenheit 451. In all, Bradbury has written more than fifty books, including The Illustrated Man, Dandelion Wine, Something Wicked This Way Comes, and his 2009 story collection, We’ll Always Have Paris. He has worked often in television and film, writing teleplays for Alfred Hitchcock Presents and the screenplay for John Huston’s 1956 adaptation of Moby-Dick. In 1964, he established the Pandemonium Theatre Company, where he started producing his own plays—he is still actively involved with the theater today. He has also published several poetry collections, including When Elephants Last in the Dooryard Bloomed. He has even worked in architecture, contributing to the design of San Diego’s Westfield Horton Plaza and the interior of Spaceship Earth at Disney’s EPCOT Center. Despite recent setbacks—a stroke in 1999 and the death of Marguerite, his wife of fifty-six years, in 2003—Bradbury has remained extraordinarily active. He continues to write and he remains charming and filled with boyish jubilation. When dining out he regularly orders vanilla ice cream with chocolate sauce for dessert. He has just completed a new collection of short stories, tentatively titled “Juggernaut.” He recently told me he still lives by his lifelong credo, “Jump off the cliff and build your wings on the way down.”
Taken from: http://www.centreidiomes.es/images/pdf/pacle-eng-b2-modelo-deexamen.pdf
As a child____
He developed a passion for fashion.
He developed a passion for books.
He developed a passion for horses.
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According to the audio, Why is the man calling?
The man wants to update his information in the sport club.
He wants to reserve a tennis court.
He wants to get a membership.
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According to the audio, Who are they talking about?
Her daughter.
His wife.
A robber.
