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Christopher Columbus was born in the seaport town of Genoa in Italy, about the year 1451. He was only 14 years old when he first sailed to the East. His life on the sea, talks with sailors and the results of science made him sure that the earth is round. He wanted to reach India by a westward voyage. He also wanted to discover a new and shorter way to the East.
Columbus set sail with his crew on the 3rd of August, 1492. He was on the ocean for ten weeks. After many hardships he and his sailors saw land. The land was America.
Columbus continued his explorations but he always thought that the islands he had sailed to were the West Indies and he died never knowing that he had discovered a new continent.
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Columbus was sure that _____.

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Christopher Columbus was born in the seaport town of Genoa in Italy, about the year 1451. He was only 14 years old when he first sailed to the East. His life on the sea, talks with sailors and the results of science made him sure that the earth is round. He wanted to reach India by a westward voyage. He also wanted to discover a new and shorter way to the East.
Columbus set sail with his crew on the 3rd of August, 1492. He was on the ocean for ten weeks. After many hardships he and his sailors saw land. The land was America.
Columbus continued his explorations but he always thought that the islands he had sailed to were the West Indies and he died never knowing that he had discovered a new continent.
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Columbus was sure that _____.

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In old Roman legends, Mercury was the swift-footed messenger of the gods. The year on the planet of Mercury is only 88 earth days.
Mercury always keeps one side towards the sun. On this side it is always day, on the other side it is always night. We see only the lighted side.
Mercury appears to us like a yellowish-orange star. The nearest planet to the sun, it is always seen near the sun, either before sunrise or soon after sunset. People sometimes call Mercury the morning or evening star, though it is really a planet.
On its lighted side Mercury’s temperature is about 300 degrees Centigrade. But the dark side is deathly cold — about 150 degrees below zero. So Mercury is probably the coldest, as well as the hottest of the planets.       
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Mercury is seen near the sun _____.

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The English Sunday is no longer the quiet day of rest it was in the past. Writing letters, reading novels, playing the piano or violin, riding a bicycle or motorcycle, visiting picture galleries, exhibitions, museums or the Zoo, going to an afternoon or evening concert, all that is no longer considered improper. Even some cinemas are now open on Sundays and most of the West End restaurants give some music during the dinner hours.
But in many other respects, things have remained as they were. People do not go to business on Sunday; only a few small shops are open; no letters are delivered in London, except by “Express Sunday Delivery”. The railways, trolley-buses and trams run less frequently than on week-days. A few Sunday newspapers only are published; the theatres and music halls are closed.
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The theatres and music halls _____.

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One day, some Americans were having dinner at a hotel in London. When the fish was put on the table, a young man said: “Let’s examine the fish carefully. Perhaps we’ll find a diamond in it.” Everybody began to laugh, but an old man said: “Yes, I’m sure we have all heard such stories. Let me tell you what happened to me once.”
“When I was a young man,” he began, “I worked for a big company in New York; and I was sent to England to do some work there. I was in love with a beautiful girl, and before I left for England, we decided that we would be married when I returned home.
“I stayed in England for two months. I sent letters to the girl almost every day, but I didn’t receive any answers. And before I left for home, I bought a beautiful diamond ring for her. “On the ship one morning, a telegram was brought to me. It told me that the girl was going to be married to another man, I was so angry that I threw the diamond ring into the sea.
“My friend came to the port to meet me, and he invited me to dinner. When we were sitting down at the table and I was eating fish, I suddenly felt something hard in my mouth. What do you think it was?”
“The diamond!” all the Americans cried.
“No,” the old man answered. “It was a fish bone.”
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When a story-teller was a young man _____.

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 One of Mark Twain’s hobbies was fishing. He went fishing even in the closed season, when fishing was not allowed. Like all fishermen, he sometimes invented stories about the number of fish he caught.
One hot day during the closed season, Mark Twain was fishing under a low bridge. A man who was walking across the bridge noticed Mark Twain and began to watch him. At last he asked, “Have you caught many fish?”
“Not yet,” Mark Twain answered. “I have only just begun. But yesterday I caught thirty great big fish here.”
“You were very lucky,” the man said. “Do you know who I am?”
“No,” Mark Twain said. “I don’t think I ever met you before.”
“I’m the fishing inspector in this place. Do you know that this is the closed season?”
Mark Twain understood how foolish he had been. “Do you know who I am?” he asked.
“No, of course not,” answered the inspector.
“I am the biggest liar on the Mississippi,” Mark Twain told him.
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The man who stopped to talk to Mark Twain was _____.