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Language Form and Meaning


(1)

Located in central Africa, ……….(1)……… a very unusual lake.


………….(2)……….. of the largest lakes in the world; it is also one
of the youngest.
Estimated to be about 15,000 years old, it is a relative baby
compared with Earth’s other very large lakes, …………(3)……..
more than two million years old. Yet judging by the variety of
life in it, Lake Victoria ……….(4)………… a much older body of
water. Usually, lakes need a much longer time ……….(5)……… by
a diverse array of life-forms.
………..(6)………. common for new lakes to contain only a small
number of species. Lake Victoria, however, is
………..(7)………… with colorful fish, most notably, cichlids. There
are ………(8)…………. 500 different species of just this one type
of fish.

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Complete the missing parts in the above paragraph:


1. a) Lake Victoria is
b) and Lake Victoria is
c) Lake Victoria's being
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2. a) It not only one is


b) Is it one not only
c) Not only is it one
3. a) they are
b) which being
c) which can be
4. a) resembles
b) portrays
c) views
5. a) is populated
b) they are populated
c) to become populated
6. a) Is
b) It is
c) Being
7. a) opened
b) packed
c) satisfied
8. a) many
b) as many
c) as many as
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(2)
The first radio signals were sent twenty years after ………
(1)……….. The first person ………(2)………. such signals was the
Italian Guglielmo Marconi. His first radio transmissions were
only sent about one mile, but Marconi ……….(3)……….. that the
technology had great potential. He approached the Italian
government with his invention. However, the Italian
government turned it down, ………..(4)……….. Marconi moved to
England to continue his experiments. In 1899 he opened his
first radio factory, and ………(5)……….. two years, he had
established a radio link between Britain and the USA. However,
Marconi’s ‘wireless telegraph’ only ……..(6)……… signals in the
form of Morse code or ‘dots and dashes’. These transmissions
were useful for communication between ships, but were
………..(7)………. the radio broadcasts we hear today. Voices
were not heard over the radio …………(8)……… 1921.
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Complete the missing parts in the above paragraph:


1. a) was invented the telephone
b) the telephone was invented
c) the invention of the telephone
2. a) who sends
b) send
c) to send
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3. a) remined
b) identified
c) realized
4. a) so
b) because
c) although
5. a) among
b) between
c) within
6. a) was transmitted
b) has transmitted
c) transmitted
7. a) dislike
b) nothing like
c) different
8. a) since
b) by
c) until

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