Card # 1 Group # Full name modern life

3. Thanks to discoveries and inventions .......
A) the countryside is also polluted.
B) the whole world suffers a lot.
C) we can see and hear the events in the remotest part of the world.
D) farmhouses are now more boring.
E) people have little chance of education.
GESTURES
A gesture is any action that sends a visual signal to an onlooker. To become a gesture,
an act has to be seen by someone else and communicate some piece of information to
them. It can do this either because the gesturer deliberately sets out to send a signal-as
when he waves his hand - or it can do it only incidentally - as when he sneezes. The
hand wave is a Primary Gesture, because it has not other existence or function. It is a
piece of communication from start to finish.

gesture: movement of the hand or head visual: related to seeing
onlooker: viewer/ spectator to communicate: to pass on
deliberately : on purpose, intentionally to set out: to begin
wave: movement incidentally: by chance, accidentally

Complete the sentences with a suitable form of the words defined above
1. A band played and .... waved and cheered as men.
2. Some museums have prudently kept a collection of mistaken purchases, and even
bought some forgeries .......
3. The government has ....... to take effective precautions prevent the use of drug
among the young.
4. There was no looking back; I wanted to remember Fiona as she was the last time we
met, standing in the doorway of the croft, her black hair blowing in the breeze as she
.... me goodbye.
5. They tackled their political, tactical and strategic problems swiftly and directly; and,
....... their poll ratings rose strongly.

READING COMPREHENSION

1. We can infer from the passage that every act .......
A. has to mean something.
B. sends a message.
C. is a signal
D. should be seen.
E. is not a gesture.