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is using  E-tickets to travel on BA domestic tlights. Customers   9      ....
      with hand baggage who can book over the phone and check          10      .....
      in at a kiosk,  using a BA Executive Club card for identitication.  11...............
      The traveller may only needs to touch the screen to contirm or change   12..............
      their Seat betore being issued a boarding card. On someday       13      .....
      travellers can also check in for the return tlight.  It’s not    14      .....
      as totally hassle-free yet,  but it's pretty close.              15      .....

      25.               RACE AGAINST TIME
       Soon a rather low sound was being heard and the float plane     0.   b ein g
      appeared, ílying towards us.  It landed gently on the lake, turned   00   ..............ỵ ..........
      and then came slovvly up along the landing stage. We loaded      1  ...............
      equipment while Jim was been talking with the pilot, vvanting    2.................
      to know how about the vveather was ahead of us. The pilot said   3      .....
      that the conditions in the valley were all right at the moment for   4    .....
       landing and taking  it off,  but that the vveather was rapidly   5     .....
       getting more worse and we would have to get away as quickly as   6     ....
       possible. We all worked silently for quite a while, because of we   7    ......
       did not want to waste time. Pinally the plane was being  ready.  8     ....
       Jim he also boarded it so that there was one less person to take   9    ......
       on the next trip. The plane moved over the surtace of the water   10    .....
       and rose into the air. The plane came back on the tlme and ít was   11..............
       Chris’ turn to go, with the rest of the film gear.  Unless the plane   12..............
       was not back in time, we vvould be in trouble. The clouds       13      .....
       were getting so thicker and blacker. We began to be anxious     14      .....
       about our saíety and whether the plane would be back to pick us up.  15   .....

       26.         SPACE: FAR OUT FOOD

       The world may not need another recipe book,                     0.........ỵ ....
       but that’s not to say there isn’t no room for                   00     ..............n o
       one on other planets. Scientists at New York’s                  1  ...............
       Cornell University are being developing 100 recipes             2.................
       for astronauts dining on the Moon or the Mars.                  3      .....
       The recipes which will be based on íresh produce that           4      .....
       can be grown up inside sealed greenhouses                       5      .....
       (also under the development at Cornell). These                  6      ....
       bio-regenerative life-support Systems will grow                 7      ......
       crops such as the soya, rice, tofu, carrots and                 8      ....
       basil, and will also support plants and algae                   9      .....
       that can be recycle bodily wastes inside                        10      .....
       the so sealed ecosystem. These new recipes                      11..............
       will surely make up life on other planets                       12..............

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