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T h e idea is to clim b E verest w a s fĩrst brought up in 1990. 6 ....................
T h e S ingapore M ountaineering Pederation, w as being established 7 ....................
in 1 9 9 3 and a perm it for the clim b w a s tinally given in M ay 1994. 8 .....................
T h e S ingapore E verest team , vvhich com prises of eight 9 .....................
clim bers and a support team , left for K atm andu in early 1 0 ...................
M arch. a relatively very young team with the a verag e ag e of 1 1 ..................
m em bers being at about 3 0 years old and w hose m em bers 1 2 ..................
com e from all the w alks of llfe. T h e journey will be gruellỉng 1 3 ...................
and m em bers are tully a w a re of that they m ay not succeed, 1 4 ...................
or m ore w orse, survive. O u r hopes and prayers will follow them . 1 5 ..................

23. FLOOD AND DROUGHT

lf the experts could not a g re e on it the reason for the w orst 0 ...........it......
tloods of the century in northern Europe, they are no vviser 0 0 ........ ỵ .....
about the drought which it is taking place in the South. T h e 1 ....................
people are looking forw ard at the sky for the rain clouds which 2 ....................
never com e. A lot of people think it m ight be such a good idea if 3 ......................
the planes do not fly o ver their a reas so they do not trighten o f 4 .....................
the clouds aw ay. In so m e a reas the drought that has been going 5 ....................
on for fĩve long years. Svvimming pools in resort areas lie em pty 6 ....................
b ecause o f residents have to put up with daily vvater cuts up 7 ......................
to 16 hours. O n the other hand, in the northern part of Europe, 8 ......................
thousands o f residents h ave been left vvithout som e hom es and 9 ......................
have had to stay in other p eople’s hom es. M an y íarm ers have lost a 1 0 ..................
lot of m oney b ecause their crops vvhich w ere destroyed and could 1 1 ..................
not be sold Although so m e tarm ers tried to get back to their 1 2 ...................
tarm s they w e re not allovved to by the police. B esides from the 1 3 ..................
beautiíul flow ers, fruit and veg etab les w ere also so badly hít that 1 4 ..................
nothing could h ave be saved. Everyone in both the northern and 1 5 ..................
Southern part o f th e continent will be relieved w hen it is all over.

24. E-TICKET

T h e idea o f ticketless travel has been around us for a long tim e. 0 ........... u s .
Erequent tlyers, especially those clever enough to be able to travel 0 0 .........ỵ
with the hand -lu gg ag e only, have been looking fon«ard to the era 1 .................
of the E (for Electronic) ticket that it replaces m essy pieces 2 .................
bits of paper with a svvipe of a credit card and a touch of a 3 ...................
screen. N ow th e tim e has com e. A berdeen airport w as the only 4 ..................
first British A in«ays b ase to use of the new electronic ticketing 5 .................
System , closely be followed by other U K airports. BA has 6 .................
now been installed IB M developed electronic ticketing kiosks 7 ...................
across its entire dom estic netvvork. A lready one traveller in ten 8 ...................

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