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    The document discusses Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world located in Dubai. It details its height of 828 meters, cost of $1.5 billion to construct, and that it has 160 floors. It also notes some of the interior features like apartments, offices, and an Armani hotel.

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    The document discusses Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world located in Dubai. It details its height of 828 meters, cost of $1.5 billion to construct, and that it has 160 floors. It also notes some of the interior features like apartments, offices, and an Armani hotel.

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    NAME: __________________________________ ELC120

    STUDENT I.D: ___________________ CLASS: ___________________

    GRAMMAR TASK 1: Fill in the blanks with suitable parts of speech. Burj Dubai is the tallest building that has ever been built. The worlds tallest skyscraper, located in the United Arab Emirates, is 828 (1)____________ (noun) tall. Construction started in 2004 and, even though the interior is unfinished, the building officially opened in January 2009. According to the constructors, a South Korean firm, the skyscraper cost about $1.5 billion. Shortly after the opening ceremonies, the tower was renamed Burj Khalifa, after the president of the United Arab Emirates who gave Dubai about $10 billion to pay (2)____________ (pronoun) debts. The new tower is Y- shaped and has 160 floors. Built with concrete and embedded steel plates, the base gets smaller as the building gets taller. (3)____________ (article) design incorporates ideas from traditional Islamic architecture, while the open petals of a desert flower (4)____________ (verb) the inspiration for the tower's base. The new skyscraper will have over a thousand luxury apartments, 50 floors of offices and a luxurious Armani hotel. About 30,000 (5)____________ (noun) will be working and living in the skyscraper once the interior is finished. The worlds highest observation deck (6)____________ (verb) located in the 124th floor. 54 elevators will get you to the top at speeds of up to 60km an hour in about two minutes. The world's highest mosque and swimming pool will meanwhile be located on the 158th and 76th floors. Construction experts say that building the tower has been the greatest engineering achievement ever accomplished. However, (7)____________ (pronoun) also say that there are negative sides to it. The skyscraper was built by thousands of workers from Southern Asia and they earned very little. (8)____________ (determiner) reports say that they had to work up to 14 hours a day, stayed in miserable houses and were not allowed to leave the site. Many were injured and a few even died. Burj Dubai is the centre of a gigantic new development area with about 30,000 new homes, 9 hotels , 6 acres of parkland, a 12 ha man-made lake and the largest mall in the world. Most of the luxurious space available on Burj Dubai (9)____________ (verb) already been sold. For Dubai and its people, the skyscraper is a (10)____________ (noun) of strength and prosperity.
    Adapted from: http://www.english-online.at/places/burj-dubai/burj-dubai-skyscraper.htm

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