Boredom farm job roof books person

Stopped say money everything

After my morning of capturing bees, I spent the afternoon in the

Peach stand out on the highway, selling T. Ray’s peaches. It was the

Loneliest summer (1) a girl could have, stuck in a roadside

Hut with three walls and a flat tin (2).

I sat on a Coke crate and watched pickups zoom by till I was nearly

Poisoned with exhaust fumes and (3). Thursday afternoons

Were usually a big peach day, with women getting ready for Sunday cobblers,

But not a soul (4).

T. Ray refused to let me bring (5) out here and read,

and if I smuggled one out, say, Lost Horizon, stuck under my shirt,

Somebody, like Mrs Watson from the next (6), would see

him at church and (7), ≪Saw your girl in the peach stand

reading up a storm. You must be proud.≫ And he would half-kill me.

What kind of (8) is against reading? I think he

Believed it would stir up ideas of college, which he thought a waste of

(9) for girls, even if they did, like me, score the highest

Number a human being can get on their verbal aptitude test. Math aptitude

Is another thing, but people aren’t meant to be overly bright in

(10).

(From ≪ The Secret Life of Bees» by Sue Monk Kidd)

3 Comment on the following issues.

≪The world is getting smaller,≫ some people say; ≪The world is getting

bigger,≫ the others claim. Explain your point of view.

• How has technology made the world smaller?

• What are the advantages and disadvantages of living in a more connected

World?

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1 Read the text and mark () the following statements «True» or «False».

There could be one hundred billion Earth-like planets in our galaxy,

A United States conference has heard. Dr Alan Boss of the Carnegie Institution

Of Science said many of these worlds could be inhabited by simple

Life forms. Telescopes have been able to detect over 300 planets outside

The Solar System. Very few of these can support life. Most are gas

Giants like Jupiter, and many orbit so close to their parent stars that

Any microbes would have to survive roasting temperatures. But, based

On the limited number of planets found so far, Dr Boss has said that

each Sun-like star has on average one ≪Earth-like≫ planet. This calculation

Means there would be huge numbers able to support life.

≪Not only are they probably habitable but they probably are also going

to be inhabited,≫ Dr Boss said to BBC News. ≪But I think that most likely

≪Earths≫ can be inhabited with things which are more common to what

Earth was like three or four billion years ago.≫ Dr Boss estimates that

NASA’s Kepler mission should begin finding some of these Earth-like

Planets within the next few years. Recent work at Edinburgh University

Tried to quantify how many intelligent civilizations might be out there.

(From ≪ Galaxy Has Billions of Earths» www.bbc.co.uk)

True False

According to the text, there could be one hundred

Billion Mars-like planets in our galaxy.

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