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4. What did Edgar Caycc bolievo?
A. Atlantis wasn’t a true story.
B. Aircraft were used a very long time ago.
c. Atlanteans couldn’t have used ships.
D. The sea level would riso in the 19605.

5. Why do some people say that Plato’s dates were wrong?
A. because he was not an archaeologist
li. because he lailed to consider one important issue
c. because he used a different numbering System from ours
D. because complcx societies are thought to ha ve developed later
6. What happened in Santorini?
A. An ancient civilisation lived there.
B. Part of the island collapsed into the sea.
c. The people of Thera destroyed it.
D. Plato lived there when he wrote about Atlantis.
7. What is the belicf of some modern historians?
A. The Pillars of Hercules are in the middle of the Atlantic.
B. Atlantis cannot be found in such a large ocean.
c. Plato’s story is completely inaccurate.
D. Atlantis may be located near the Straits of Gibraltar.

8. Where was the latest search for Atlantis carried out?
A. on an underwater island
B. in the Azores
c. in the Canaries
D. at a number of diíTerent locations

The following text was vvritten by Bill Bryson, an American who vvrites about
his fellow Americans, mainly for a British audience. Read through the text
quickiy and choose the best ansvver A, B, c, or D, to the following questions.
THE CONVENIENCE SOCIETY, OR CON FOR SHORT

The other day I took my younger children to a Burger King for lunch and
there was a line of about a dozen cars at the drive-through window. Now, a
drive-through window is not a window you drive through, but a window you
drive up to and collect your food from, having placed your order over a
speaikerphone along the way; the idea is to provide quick takeaway food for
those in a hurry.

We parked, went in, ordered and ate and came out again. all in about ten
minutes. As we departed, I noticed that a white pickup truck that had been
last in the queue when we arrived was still four or íĩve cars back from
collecting its food. It would have been much quicker if the driver had parked
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