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It's amazing what we can remember and what we forget!

Six years after the death of Princess Diana, a famous magazine …………………… that every one of the famous people they had asked could remember

 REPORT

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the exact …………………… of

 DETAIL

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how they …………………… heard the news of the princess's death on August 31, 1997.

 ONE

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We remember such shocking and dramatic events …………………… than any others but why do we forget anything?

 WELL

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The things we most often forget are names (of things as well as people), numbers, dates and things we ……………………. 

 NOT UNDERSTAND

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We also find it hard to remember anything when we ……………………, ill or very tired.

EMBARRASS

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However, forgetting is perfectly normal. There is, it seems, a limit to what we can remember. If we could remember everything, all the time, life …………………… impossible!

 BECOME

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As we get older, we lose more and more of……………………,

 MEMORY

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leaving only the …………………….

IMPORTANT

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After princess Diana ..................... in 1997, the British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, called her 'the people's princess'. This was not only because she was very popular, but also because she did many things that ordinary people did. One of these things was to regularly visit her local gym.

 DIE

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Over the past twenty years, going to a gym..................... an important   part of many people's lives.

 BECOME

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Nowadays, the fitness business.....................! But for many people fitness is not the main reason for going to a gym. They go because they are unhappy with their appearance.

 BOOM

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They want to change the way they look by losing weight and making their muscles...................... Even the beautiful Diana was not satisfied with her body.

 FIRM

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There are gym-goers, however, who exercise to improve their   fitness. It .....................them feel good.

 MAKE

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They ..................... that walking miles on a treadmill, or using a rowing machine has many physical benefits.

 DISCOVER

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They have more energy,   their health..................... and they feel less stressed.

 IMPROVE

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Studies have shown that regular exercise also..................... many psychological benefits. It improves confidence and self-esteem.

 HAVE

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People also report that when they are fitter, they can think ......................

 GOOD

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Heartstopping activities such as mountain biking, snowboarding and skydiving .............. as 'extreme sports'. And they are attracting more and more people.

 KNOW

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Rockclimbing, for example, .............. now by more than half a million Americans. Only 50,000 were doing it in 1989.

 ENJOY

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One of the .............. of all these sports is BASE jumping. First done in 1980, BASE jumping is jumping off tall buildings, towers and bridges, using a parachute.

 EXTREME

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It .............. dangerous, but of course, that's why BASE jumpers love it. Like other extreme sports, it's the risk of disaster that makes BASE jumping so exciting.

 BE

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As one BASE jumper .............. it, 'There aren't many injuries in BASE jumping; you either live or die'.

 PUT

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Some experts predict that extreme sports .............. the major sports of the 21st century.

 BECOME

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They may become .............. than traditional favourites like soccer and baseball.

 POPULAR

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One of the .............. is that parents start taking their little kids to extreme sports shows.

 REASON

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And .............. also attending them, would like to do these dangerous sports in the near future.

What's more, they are almost sure that they will be able to repeat their 'deadly' jump once again, like they always do in a computer game.

 TEENAGER

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Once upon a time a personal diary was something you kept hidden away. It was where you wrote down your .....................thoughts and feelings, knowing that no one else would read it.

 PRIVATE

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Then along ..................... the Internet, and now the idea of a private diary seems to be oldfashioned.

 COME

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..................... days many teenagers write diaries just  for other people to read.

 THIS

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In the USA alone, one in five teenagers..................... their own web page.

 HAVE

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Their sites contain stories, poems and..................... with pictures and, of course, diaries. Many teenagers like writing online diaries because they feel free to write anything.

 FILL

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However, some people ..................... not sure that online diaries are a good idea.

 BE

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'Teenagers need to be careful what they write on the website', says Patricia, a mother of three, who ..................... her web site.

 RUN

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'It's playing with fire. You ..................... who is visiting your web site and whether they will try to find you.

NOT KNOW

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And there are always people who find pleasure in finding and spoiling the .....................moments of your life described in the diaries', she adds.

 DEAR

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Comic books started out as collections of comic strips from   newspapers. They .....................as 'funny books', because the comic stripes were humorous. It wasn't until the 1930's that the first adventure stories started to appear.

 KNOW

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The heroes of these stories were characters like Dick Tracy and the Phantom. But although they ..................... some cool gadgets, these heroes were still just ordinary people.

 HAVE

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Then in June 1938 a new comic came out. It had a new kind of hero. His powers were far..................... than any normal person's. His name was Superman, and he wasn't just a hero; he was a superhero.

 GREAT

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Since Superman made his debut there..................... many comic book superheroes.

 BE

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Most worked alone but sometimes they..................... up with other superheroes.

 TEAM

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Today the most popular superhero team is the X......................

 MAN

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Outside the USA comics have developed in different ways. Japanese comics (known as 'manga') include many more topics than American comics do. Topics range from giant robots and time travel to cooking, sport, romance and much more. There..................... also a huge variety of artistic styles.

 BE

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Although now manga comics ..................... to become popular outside Japan, they still aren't as well known as American comic books. 

 START

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Most people outside Japan wouldn't know who Captain Hurlock was. But you can bet they..................... of Superman.

 HEAR

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The world of music was stunned by the death of Whitney Houston, when she .....................dead in her hotel room on the 11th of February, 2012.

 FIND

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She had been born to sing. Her mother was a soul and gospel singer, and at the age of eleven Whitney already ..................... in her local church in Newark.

 SING

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In the early 1980s, Whitney Houston started working as a fashion model and sang in nightclubs with her mother. When the producer Clive Davis saw her he ..................... so much that he immediately signed a contract with her.

 IMPRESS

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The press called her 'one of the .....................new voices in years'.

 EXCITING

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In 1989, the singer set up The Whitney Houston Foundation for Children, a nonprofit organization that still ..................... money for the needs of children. It takes care of homeless children and children with cancer or AIDS.

 RAISE

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Whitney Houston's ..................... film role was in The Bodyguard which came out in 1992.

 ONE

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That year she married Bobby Brown, a soul singer who ..................... for taking drugs.

 KNOW

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They were married for 14 years, but they had a troubled life. She became ill because of taking drugs with her husband and people began to notice that her voice ..................... as good as it used to be.

 NOT BE

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With her death, the music world has lost one of its most legendary stars. For millions of music fans she forever ..................... for her amazing songs.                                                         

REMEMBER

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People ..................... of staying young and living a long, long life. But can it become a reality?

 Always / dream

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Experts believe it is possible that people will live long enough to have greatgreatgreatgreatgrand ......................

 Child

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This belief ..................... on research and on the fact that more and more people are living to be over 100 years old.

 Base

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A British scientist Aubrey de Grey..................... that we can stop people getting old.

 Think

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In ..................... opinion, getting old is like a disease. If we can cure this disease, we can stop the ageing process.

 He

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The scientist is sure that we ..................... all the methods

 Have

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needed to stop ageing in ..................... than 20 years.

 Little

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Many scientists who study ageing..................... de Grey's ideas seriously.

 Not take

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However, they admit that they .....................wrong yet. Would you like to live for 1,000 years? Won't life get boring if you live such a long life?

 Not prove

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There is no ..................... place in the UK to see sea life than the Sea Life London Aquarium.

 GOOD

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It was opened in 1997 and it has the..................... collection of sea animals in Europe. There are many exotic, beautiful and even strange creatures, but the leading stars are sharks.

 LARGE

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To mark the opening of a new display the Aquarium decided to throw a tea party with sharks! They wanted to prove that sharks are actually a lot ..................... than they look.

 FRIENDLY

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The team ..................... very much to throw the party.

 EXCITE

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'The fact ..................... sharks are far more at threat from humans than humans are from sharks,' said Rachel Wicks, one of the partygoers.

 BE

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The aquarium ..................... that more people die

 SAY

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from creatures like ....................., dogs and snakes than sharks.

 MOSQUITO

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As well as allowing ..................... of people to discover the wonders of the marine world,

 MILLION

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the Sea Life London Aquarium .....................an important role in helping save our seas for the future.

 PLAY

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He is probably the ..................... magician in history.

SUCCESSFUL

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He started practising magic when he was 10. At the age of 12, he ..................... the youngest member of the Society of American Magicians.

 BECOME

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At the age of 19 he played the leading role in the musical The Magic Man. That's when David Kotkin ..................... his stage name  'David Copperfield'  from the famous novel by Charles Dickens.

 CHOOSE

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David has won 11 Guinness World Records and 21 Emmy Awards for his TV series. In 2011, he ..................... 'King of magic' by the Society of American Magicians.

 NAME

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Copperfield's ..................... illusions include walking through the Great Wall of China, levitating over the Grand Canyon and making the Statue of Liberty disappear.

 POPULAR

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He says that the inspiration for new..................... comes to

 ILLUSION

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in ..................... dreams. 

 HE

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'Creating a new illusion is like writing a song, sometimes the lyrics come ..................... and sometimes it's the music'.

 ONE

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He still ..................... to make the moon disappear and straighten the leaning tower of Pisa.

 HOPE

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Some people believe that ghosts are people who ..................... between the living world and the world of the dead.

 TRAP

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This is because they ..................... something wrong when they were alive, or they must deliver a message to someone living, or something tragic happened to that person.

 DO

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When the same ghost .....................repeatedly in the same house, it is said that the house is haunted.

 SEE

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Hauntings can continue for years and even......................

 CENTURY

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There are haunted houses all over the world, but the British say that the UK is the..................... country in the world.

 HAUNTED

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Some people say that they .....................animal ghosts  cats, dogs, horses and even birds.

 SEE

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One of the ..................... animal ghosts is a black cat

 FAMOUS

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that often ..................... near the Revolution Museum in Moscow.

 APPEAR

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..................... a month at midnight it walks along Tverskaya Street.

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