Вопрос № 607271 - Английский язык

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Probably since the time of the first humans, people have eaten honey made by bees. For many thousands of years, they took the honey from bees’ nests in trees without understanding very much about the lives of bees. Slowly, however, people realized that it would be simpler to keep bees than to have to try to find their nests. At first they kept them in hollow parts of trees or small clay containers which they hung from the trees. Nowadays in most countries they are kept in wooden hives.

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Probably since the time of the first humans, people have eaten honey made by bees. For many thousands of years, they took the honey from bees’ nests in trees without understanding very much about the lives of bees. Slowly, however, people realized that it would be simpler to keep bees than to have to try to find their nests. At first they kept them in hollow parts of trees or small clay containers which they hung from the trees. Nowadays in most countries they are kept in wooden hives.

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Heat causes liquids to expand. This effect is used in the 1_______. An increase in air temperature 2_______ the liquid to expand in the heat sensor. This expansion causes the valve to close and consequently the 3_______ of hot water is reduced.
After a time, the temperature will go down and the liquid will cool and contract. The spring load will now be greater than the liquid pressure and the valve will open. Once again, the hot water flow 4_______.

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Exploration for oil around the Scottish shores has become a very big 1_______. This is an account of how oil is extracted from beneath the North Sea.
To get the oil out, four production problems will be used: huge structures, three made of concrete and one of 2_______, designed to work for 25 years or more. Instead of floating, they are planted firmly on the sea bed and designed to stand up to the worst of sea and weather. From each platform a series of holes is 3_______, some going almost straight down, others drilled at an 4_______ away from the platform so that a large volume of oil can be extracted. The oil does not lie there like a great swimming pool full of black liquid, it is trapped in small spaces between the porous rocks. To get as much as possible out many separate holes have to be drilled.

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They recently built a new swimming pool in the small town of Winter Park, Florida. It is one 1_______ deep at one end and 55 metres deep at the other. That was not the original 2_______: half the pool has been eaten by an enormous hole.
The hole has also eaten two businesses, 3_______, five cars, several trees, and a large piece of road. It was still growing yesterday.
Mrs Mae Rose Owens was the first person to see it, last Friday. As she looked out of her window  she saw a tree getting shorter and 4_______.
‘Suddenly the earth just opened up and down this tree went. I couldn’t believe it.’
The hole seems to be a result of the drought. Underground streams have dried out, making the subsoil contract.

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If silica is melted and allowed to cool slowly, the result is 1_______. Glass is more difficult to make than pottery, and the first all-glass containers did not appear until 1500 BC. Glass was made then by melting raw silica held by a glass thread on a sand core to form a bottle or shaping it in a mould. It was not until 2_______ that the technique of blowing glass was developed. A wine glass was made by blowing melted glass in a mould, adding a stem, shaping the foot and trimming. Press moulding is an even more 3_______ technique.
Glass-working tools include a blowpipe, rod, tongs, shears and rolling plate. Glass was originally melted in a furnaces were 4_______.