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Medal, Glory and Honour

During the twentieth century, the Olympic Games have grown. Now thousands of athletes from more than 120 countries take part in hundreds of events. The Olympic Games are the most important sporting event in the world. The greatest ambition for athletes is to win a medal, thus gaining glory and honour for their country.

But there have been many problems. The games were interrupted during the two World Wars and since then, many countries have boycotted the games for political reasons.

The spirit of the Olympics has also changed in another way. In the modern world, the games are a great commercial event. Television companies and sponsors pay enormous sums of money, so the games have been called the capitalist Olympics and the original ideas have been forgotten.

Despite the problems, history of the Olympics is full of great athletes, exciting competitions and incredible records. Thousands of courageous and distinguished men and woman have competed in the original spirit of Olympia.

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When I came home I could smell cigarettes. Somebody ______(1) there. When I went into the main bedroom I noticed at once that something ______(2). For a moment I couldn?t think what it was and then I realized that a big photograph of a Japanese garden ______(3). I never found out what happened that day.

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If you want something badly ______(1) , you can get it. At least that was the case where Steven Crawford was concerned. Until ______(2) recently, Steven had a good job with a building company. Then times got hard and he and twenty other men ______(3) ?At first I felt very depressed, ______(4) is not like me because normally I?m the sort of person who has a very positive ______(5) on life. Anyway, after a few weeks of not being able to find a job, he decided to do something about it. He was absolutely determined to find a new job. 'I made a big sign in red paint, which said I am hard-working, intelligent and looking for a new job. Can you help?'

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Around the world, hundreds, if not thousands of ______(1) of animals are threatened with extinction but the latest scientific developments could mean that one day even extinct animals will be ______(2) life using DNA technology. The last-known Tasmanian tiger died in a zoo in Hobart, Australia in 1936. Fifty years ______(3) , the species was ______(4) extinct. But in 1999, a research project into DNA cloning was set up at the Australian Museum in Sydney, and now, after three years' work, high quality DNA has been extracted from a baby tiger which has been preserved in a jar of alcohol since 1866.

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