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A: Look there, that is an African elephant. B: It's the largest land animal today. A: I see, and what does it feed on? B: Leaves, branches and other vegetation.

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   A: Can you tell our viewers how you have achieved

all this success?

B: Through hard work and sleepless nights.

B- Vocabulary and Structure

3- Choose the correct answer:

1. If I were you, I'd avoid (travels – to travel - travelling – of travelling) into the city during the festival.

2. My parents suggested (go - going – to go – gone) to the theatre.

3. I really want (going – gone – goes - to go) to Hong Kong for the Chinese New Year.

4. Before you go to London, you should practise (speak – speaking – to speaking – speaks) English.

5. He hopes (to win – winning – wins – won) a prize for his schoolwork.

6. I regret (to go – goes - going – gone) to the cinema. It was not a very good film.

7. She offered (taking to taking – to take – taken) me to the station in her car.

8. We've just finished (watching – to watch – watches – watched) a TV programme about Egyptian history.

9. She was so weak after the illness that she couldn't (even – until – too – either) walk without help.

10. (Accept – Expect - Except – However) for one old lady, the bus was empty.

11. Some (celebrations – celebrated - celebrities – celebrates) were interviewed on TV last night.

12. The discovery of penicillin was a (landmark – landowner – landlord – landlady) in the history of medicine.

13. The castle occupies a strategic (post – portion – position – petition), overlooking the valley.

14. They (dried – believed – served - evolved) a new system for running the factory.

15. He still felt (responsible – restored – stored – satisfied) for her death.

16. Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets to (bark – dark – shark – mark) the occasion.

4- Find the mistakes in each of the following sentences then write them correctly:

1. When did you decide studied biology at university?

2. We've arranged picking my brother up from the airport.

3. Ali is planning spent all weekend revising for next week's math test.

4. As medical knowledge revolves, beliefs change.

5. The prices here ferry according to the season.

6. He has a very instinctive way of walking.

C- Reading Comprehension

5- Read the passage then answer the questions: (August, 2004)

Sleep is a powerful influence on our lives. The traditional theory about sleep is that our brain needs to rest for several hours to refresh itself and to ‘file’ in our memory everything that happened to us during the day. If we are not allowed to sleep, we eventually die.

However, Ray Meddis, a scientist at University, has a fascinating new theory. He suggests that we don’t really have to sleep at all. We sleep only because our brain is ‘programmed’ to make us do so. According to Dr Meddis, the ‘tiredness’ we feel at the end of the day is produced by a chemical mechanism in the brain which makes us sleep. We are ‘programmed’ to feel ‘sleepy’ at midnight, even if we have spent the day relaxing or doing nothing. He believes that the unpleasant symptoms we suffer when we don’t sleep enough are not because we have not rested, but because we have disobeyed our brain’s programming. But he believes that if scientists could “turn off” the sleep mechanism in our brain, we could live completely normal lives without sleeping.

So is sleeping a waste of time? Even Dr Meddis does not deny the great psychological value of sleep, and he asks us, “if scientists invented a pill which keeps you awake for ever, would you take it?”

A. Answer the following questions:

1- What happens if people don’t sleep?

2- According to Dr Meddis, could we live without sleeping? Why?

3- What is Dr Meddis’ theory about the reason for tiredness?