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28. ISLAND LIFE
Life on a small island may (1) very inviting to the tourists who
spend a few weeks there in the summer, but the realities of living on (2)
______is virtually a rock surrounded by water are quite different from what
the casual visitor imagines. (3 )__ ___in summer the island villages eire full
of people, life and activity, (4 )___ __the tourist season is over many of the
shop owners shut (5 )______ their businesses and return to the mainland to
spend the winter in town. (6 )______ to say, those who remain on the island,
(7 )______ by choice or necessity, face many hardships. One of the worst of
these is isolation, with (8) ______ many attendant problems. When the
weather is bad, which is often the (9 )______ in winter, the island is entirely
cut off; this means not only that people (10) _____ have goods delivered but
also that a medical emergency can be Fatal 1 1 )______ someone confined to
an island. At (12) ______ telephone communication is cut off, which means
that (13) word From the outside world can get (14) Isolation
and loneliness are basic reasons why so many people have left the islands For
a better and more secure life in the mainland cities, in (1 5 )______ of the fact
that this involves leaving “home”.

29. A SPORTING GOAL FOR WOMEN

Football is traditionally, a man’s sport, but now the women are muscling
in on their act, or so it (1 )______ . So many top male íootballers have been
transferred (2) ______ astronomical sums of money that the game has
become more a high-powered business than a sport. This is (3) ______ the
women come in, more motivated, more interested in the game (4) ______
than in promoting themselves and generally better behaved both (5 )______
and oíĩ the pitch. (6) ______ a strong contrast to (7) ______ male
counterparts’ greed and cynicism. Indeed, according to FIFA, the world
football governing body, the future of football belongs to women, and the
organisation has (8) ______ out to actively promote women’s football.
Perhaps, in (9 )______ of the fact that women are half the world’s population,
this is how it should be. In the USA, many members of national women’s
football teams are (10) ______ known than male footballers, and some
proíessional female players in (11) ______ North America and Europe have
attracted lucrative sponsorship deals. Generally, two problems beset
women’s football: the need to be (12) ______ more seriously and for more
íunding to be made available. (13) ______ these have been achieved (14)
______ with the blessing of FIFA, we should see lootballers who are
accessible, cooperative, decent and sporting in (15) ______ of the spoiled
mercenary star boys of sport.

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