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10. Line ... _________________ → __________________________ VIII. Fill in each space in the following passage with one suitable word. (10 pts) The 2015 Nepal earthquake,which (1) _________________ more than 8,000 people and injured more than 18,000, occurred at 11:56 on 25

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April. The earthquake (2) _________________ about twenty seconds. Its epicenter was the village of Barpak, Gorkha district, and its hypocenter was at a depth (3) _________________ approximately 15km. It was the worst (4) _________________ disaster to strike Nepal since the 1934 Nepal-Bihar earthquake. Hundreds of thousands of people became (5) _________________ when their houses collapsed, entire villages were flattened. Many old buildings were completely (6) _________________. The country also had a continued risk of landslides. Two other powerful earthquakes struck Nepal at 06:11 and 06:45. The (7) _________________ earthquake measured 7.9 M

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and its epicenter was identified at a distance of 80km to the northwest of Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal. Bharatpur was (8) _________________ nearest major city to the main earthquake, 53km from the epicenter. The second one was somewhat less powerful (9) ________________ the first one. It occurred 65km east of Kathmandu. These (10) ________________ were really terrible. IX. Circle the correct answer A, B, C or D that best fits each of the blank spaces. (10 pts) MARKETS In practically any country in the world, you are (1) ______ to find a market somewhere. Markets have been with us since (2) ______ times, and arose wherever people need to exchange the goods they produced. For example, a farmer might have exchanged a cow for tools. But just as times have (3) ______, so have markets practices. So, (4) ______ in early times the main activity (5) ______ with markets would have been ‘bartering’- in (6) ______ words exchanging goods – today most stall holders wouldn’t be too (7) ______ on accepting potatoes as payment, for instance, instead of cash. In contrast, what might be a common (8) ______ in a modern market in some countries is a certain amount of ‘haggling’, where customer and seller eventually (9) ______ on a price, after what sometimes be quite a heated debate. However, behavior which is expected in a market in one country may not be acceptable in another. Even within one country, there may be some markets where you could haggle quite (10) ______ and others where it would be advisable not to try.