1) Select the word that means the basic framework or system of public works. Civil engineers design infrastructure projects such as roads, dams, tunnels and bridges. This is not a new field: the builders of the ancient pyramids also used engineering concepts. However, the tools available to civil engineers today, such as computer-aided design (CAD) programs, have improved the speed and accuracy of the work. a) Infrastructure b) improved 2) Select the word that means present from birth. Frans de Waal, a primatologist, has studied chimpanzees and other primates for more than twenty years. He believes that chimpanzees have an innate sense of fairness similar to that of humans. It may be that being born with a tendency to treat others fairly improves an animal's chances of surviving and reproducing within a group.  a) surviving b) Innate 3) Select the word that means having a huge appetite. The shrew is a tiny, mouse-like mammal with an elevated metabolic rate. In the space of just one minute, it breathes about eight hundred times, and its heart beats about one thousand times. The shrew is also voracious. Every day, it eats its entire body weight in prey such as insects, worms and salamanders.  a) Voracious b) insects 4) Select the word that means to do something special to honour and remember. The Chinese festival of Qingming takes place on the fifteenth day after the spring equinox. On this day, people burn paper 'spirit money' and models of houses and cars to commemorate the dead. Their hope is to make their departed relatives more comfortable in the spirit world. a) Commemorate b) relatives 5) Select the word that means produced. For most of the twentieth century, people with disabilities faced discrimination and were often kept at home. But the Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act, passed in the UK in 1970, was the first act in the world to demand rights for people with disabilities and has wrought many changes. For example, today more places are accessible to people in wheelchairs, and many people with disabilities have been enabled to live independently. a) wheelchairs b) Wrought 6) Select the word that means emphasise. During political campaigns, many candidates use advertisements that discuss what's wrong with their opponents. However, Bill Benoit, a professor at the University of Missouri in the United States, has recommended that candidates avoid attacking their opponents' characters. His research suggests that attack ads can backfire in dramatic ways. Benoit instead recommends that politicians accentuate the positive in their advertisements a) recommends b) Accentuate 7) Select the word that means a state of resting. Mary Cassatt was a nineteenth century American painter and printmaker. She lived in France and was a member of the Impressionist group of artists there. Cassatt's subjects, unlike the street scenes and crowds painted by many Impressionists, were primarily mothers and children in quiet moments of repose.  a) quiet b) Repose 8) Select the word that means lacking social grace. What are good manners? Opinions can vary. In days gone by, ladies were warned that revealing too much ankle when lifting their long skirts was gauche. To this day, etiquette books instruct readers on which utensils to use when eating which foods. But the basic principle behind good manners is courtesy: strive to make other people feel comfortable.  a) Gauche b) manners 9) Select the word that means a fixed idea about a group that may be unfair or untrue. American runner Anne Garrett didn't take up running until age seventy-two. At eighty, she set a national record for the half-marathon in her age group. She defies the stereotype that older people don't exercise, although she urges kids to run, too.  a) Stereotype b) exercise 10) Select the word that means the right to vote. The Twenty-Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution extended suffrage to Americans aged eighteen to twenty-one. Advocates of the change argued that since eighteen-year-olds were fighting in the military, they deserved to participate in the political process. Before that, only people aged twenty-one or older could cast ballots in the nation's elections.  a) nation's b) Suffrage

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