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coal, (3) ... , a wind farm produces no air pollution and the wind itself will never run
out.
(4) ..., a wind farm only works well when it is built in the right place. Wind plants
generate electricity only when the wind blows, (5) ... if there is no wind, there is no
electricity. On the other hand, (6) ... there are many advantages, there are (7) ... some
problems, (8) .. noise and the way the turbines spoil the look of the countryside. (9) ...
wind farms are often built on mountains or near the sea, the people who visit these
places often feel that they have been spoilt by the wind turbines. One solution to this
problem may be to avoid building the farms on land, and where possible to build them
on the man-made islands out at sea (10) ... , (11) ... this is a solution for countries with
long coastlines, it is obviously not the answer anywhere.
(12) ... visitors to the areas with wind farms usually complain of the noise and the
spoilt view, people who live nearby get used to wind farms. They may (13) ... be
problems with wildlife. Birds, (14) ... are often killed by the turbines. (15) ... there are
problems with wind farms, they are clearly better for the environment than most other
forms of power stations.
10. Fill a, b, c into the numbered gaps of the following text.
a. Thai women would interpret a loud voice as anger, and too many facial or hand
gestures might be a signal that someone wasn’t quite right in the head.
b. Because they come from a very expressive culture, they will respond better to a
louder tone, more inflection, and more expressive gestures.
c. People from these cultures do not make lots of noise in public, nor do they use
many hand gestures when speaking.
Many cultures are quiet and reserved. (1) ...Others wave their arms. Students
who seem apathetic in a classroom may not be apathetic but may have been taught to
sit still and not to speak in such a formal setting as the classroom. On the other hand,
students in some parts of the United States have even been taught that it is acceptable
to challenge the teacher’s opinions during classes, which is a huge contrast. Richard
Gesteland observed that in an attempt to set up a business office in Thailand for a US
company the interviews with the men were going fine, but the women were not
responding to him well at all. He asked for help from the human resources consultant,
who “began talking around the issue politely.” The advisor let Gesteland know that he
was talking too loudly, using too many animated facial expressions and hand gestures.
(2) ... Likewise, trying to negotiate in a quiet, calm way with people from Egypt, might
lead them to the conclusion that what is being said is really not important. (3) ...
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