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John Snow was a famous doctor in London—so expert, indeed, that he attended Queen Victoria as her personal physician. But he (61)__________ __________ when he thought about helping ordinary people (62)___________ ___________ ___________. This was the deadly disease of its day. (63)__________ its cause ___________ its cure was understood. So many thousands of (64)__________ __________ died (65)__________ __________ there was an outbreak. John Snow wanted to face the challenge and solve this problem. He knew that cholera would never be controlled until its cause was found.

First there was England. Wales was linked to it in the thirteenth century. Now when people refer to England you find Wales included as well. Next England and Wales were joined to Scotland in the seventeenth century and the name was changed to “Great Britain”. Happily this (66)_________ ____________ __________ __________ when King James of Scotland became King of England and Wales as well. Finally the English government tried in the early twentieth century to form the United Kingdom by (67)_________ ___________ ____________ in the same peaceful way. However, the southern part of Ireland was unwilling and (68)__________ ___________ to form its own United Kingdom and this was shown to the world in a new flag called the Union Jack..

I still cannot believe that I am taking up this prize that I won last year. I have to remind myself constantly that I am really in AD 3008. (69) __________ ___________ ___________ ___________, I was unsettled for the first few days. (70) __________ ___________ __________, I suffered from “time lag”. So I was very nervous and uncertain at first.

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John Snow was a famous doctor in London - so   1   , indeed, that he   2    Queen Victoria as her personal physician. But he became inspired when he thought about helping ordinary people    3   to cholera. This was the   4    disease of its day. Neither its cause nor its cure was understood. So many thousands of terrified people died every time there was an outbreak. John Snow wanted to face the    5    and solve this problem. He knew that cholera would never be controlled until its cause was found.

At last firemen have put out a big forest fire in California. Since then, they have been trying to find out how the fire began. Forest fires are often caused by broken glass or by cigarette ends which people carelessly throw away. Yesterday the firemen    6    the ground carefully, but were not able to find any broken glass. They were also quite sure that a cigarette end did not start the fire. This morning, however, a fireman    7   discovered the cause. He noticed the    8   of a snake which was wound round the electric wires of a 16,000-volt power line. In this way, he was able to solve the mystery. The    9   was simple but very unusual. A bird had    10    the snake from the ground and then dropped it on to the wires. The snake then wound itself round the wires. When it did so, it sent sparks down to the ground and these immediately started a fire.