At the 1972 Summer Olympic Games in Munich, Olga Korbut won a silver medal on the uneven parallel bars, gold medals on the balance beam and floor exercise, and another gold in the team competition. Korbut stood out in Munich not only for her exciting routines and unusual moves, but also for her youth and small stature. The 17-year-old stood 1.5 metres and weighed 38 kilograms when most of the reigning champions were mature adults in their late 20s. Korbut was also different from the stereotypical Soviet athlete because she showed emotion while competing, crying when she made a mistake or smiling happily when she did well. Her skill and charm brought a great deal of attention to gymnastics, and she was invited to tour the United States in 1973. The American Broadcasting Company — ABC — chose Korbut as their athlete of the year, and the Associated Press awarded her the Babe Didrikson Zaharias Trophy, which had not been given to a competitor from the Soviet Union or its satellite countries since 1931. It is clear from the passage that Olga Korbut ..........  

The creation of "speaking, moving, living, human creatures" is the work of the novelist as defined by the English writer Anthony Trollope, His tales of the imaginary cathedral town of Barchester are peopled with unforgettable human beings. The reader follows the lives and experiences of Mrs Proudie, Mr Slope, Dr Stanhope and Signora Neroni from one book to another, watching their characters develop as they grow older, sharing the author’s quiet amusement at their shortcomings and his sympathy for their sorrows. Trollope depicted the clerical society and political life of Victorian times with both humour and pathos. Trollope was a large man with a hearty, enthusiastic manner and a booming voice.. One of his friends said that "he came in at the door like a frantic windmill.” He was an entertaining companion, full of high spirits, joking and playful. It is hard to believe that this big, intense man had been wretchedly unhappy in his youth, neglected and mistreated by his teachers and despised by his fellow students because of his poverty.       The author describes the town of Barchester as............  

The creation of "speaking, moving, living, human creatures" is the work of the novelist as defined by the English writer Anthony Trollope, His tales of the imaginary cathedral town of Barchester are peopled with unforgettable human beings. The reader follows the lives and experiences of Mrs Proudie, Mr Slope, Dr Stanhope and Signora Neroni from one book to another, watching their characters develop as they grow older, sharing the author’s quiet amusement at their shortcomings and his sympathy for their sorrows. Trollope depicted the clerical society and political life of Victorian times with both humour and pathos. Trollope was a large man with a hearty, enthusiastic manner and a booming voice.. One of his friends said that "he came in at the door like a frantic windmill.” He was an entertaining companion, full of high spirits, joking and playful. It is hard to believe that this big, intense man had been wretchedly unhappy in his youth, neglected and mistreated by his teachers and despised by his fellow students because of his poverty.     We understand from the passage that Trollope's characters of Barchester

The creation of "speaking, moving, living, human creatures" is the work of the novelist as defined by the English writer Anthony Trollope, His tales of the imaginary cathedral town of Barchester are peopled with unforgettable human beings. The reader follows the lives and experiences of Mrs Proudie, Mr Slope, Dr Stanhope and Signora Neroni from one book to another, watching their characters develop as they grow older, sharing the author’s quiet amusement at their shortcomings and his sympathy for their sorrows. Trollope depicted the clerical society and political life of Victorian times with both humour and pathos. Trollope was a large man with a hearty, enthusiastic manner and a booming voice.. One of his friends said that "he came in at the door like a frantic windmill.” He was an entertaining companion, full of high spirits, joking and playful. It is hard to believe that this big, intense man had been wretchedly unhappy in his youth, neglected and mistreated by his teachers and despised by his fellow students because of his poverty.       The author finds it surprising that Trollope ........... .  

In the days when a circus travelled in wagons in the United States, its caravan would often halt at daybreak at the edge of a new town. The performers would put on their most splendid costumes. Workmen would groom the animals. The wagons, horses, camels and elephants would be lined up in parade formation. At the end would be placed a steam calliope — a noisy musical instrument added to the circus world in the 1850s. Its band blaring and its calliope screaming, this gaudy parade would march down the main street, telling everyone the circus had come to town. Crowds would race behind the parade to the vacant lot where the big top was to be raised. Such colourful processions were the beginning of the grand and glorious free street parades that were long the great attraction of circus day in every part of the United States. To a limited extent, the tradition of the circus parade persists in a few cities.   From the passage, we learn that circus parades ............  

In the days when a circus travelled in wagons in the United States, its caravan would often halt at daybreak at the edge of a new town. The performers would put on their most splendid costumes. Workmen would groom the animals. The wagons, horses, camels and elephants would be lined up in parade formation. At the end would be placed a steam calliope — a noisy musical instrument added to the circus world in the 1850s. Its band blaring and its calliope screaming, this gaudy parade would march down the main street, telling everyone the circus had come to town. Crowds would race behind the parade to the vacant lot where the big top was to be raised. Such colourful processions were the beginning of the grand and glorious free street parades that were long the great attraction of circus day in every part of the United States. To a limited extent, the tradition of the circus parade persists in a few cities.     According to the passage, circuses ...........                

In the days when a circus travelled in wagons in the United States, its caravan would often halt at daybreak at the edge of a new town. The performers would put on their most splendid costumes. Workmen would groom the animals. The wagons, horses, camels and elephants would be lined up in parade formation. At the end would be placed a steam calliope — a noisy musical instrument added to the circus world in the 1850s. Its band blaring and its calliope screaming, this gaudy parade would march down the main street, telling everyone the circus had come to town. Crowds would race behind the parade to the vacant lot where the big top was to be raised. Such colourful processions were the beginning of the grand and glorious free street parades that were long the great attraction of circus day in every part of the United States. To a limited extent, the tradition of the circus parade persists in a few cities.     The author points out that circus parades ...........  

Before the Portuguese discovered Brazil, it was the home of 4 million or more native peoples, who were divided into two fairly distinct racial and cultural groups. The thinly scattered Paleo-Americans, who were similar in many respects to the North American Plains Indians, occupied the colder and drier lands. They lived mostly by hunting and gathering. The tropical forest tribes were located in the jungles of the Amazon and along the Atlantic coast. Living in villages of as many as 3,000 people» they were expert fishermen and farmers who also manufactured hammocks, canoes and balsa rafts, blowguns for hunting and warfare, and well-crafted pottery. Their staple food was cassava, a shrubby plant widely grown for its large, starchy roots, which is still an important part of the Brazilian diet. Because they occupied the most accessible and fertile lands, the tropical forest Indians were the main targets of early European settlement. They were soon exterminated by war, disease and enslavement. The more isolated and warlike Paleo-Americans survived for several more centuries, and today a few bands still live in remote parts of the Amazon.     We can infer from the passage that in Brazil..........  

Before the Portuguese discovered Brazil, it was the home of 4 million or more native peoples, who were divided into two fairly distinct racial and cultural groups. The thinly scattered Paleo-Americans, who were similar in many respects to the North American Plains Indians, occupied the colder and drier lands. They lived mostly by hunting and gathering. The tropical forest tribes were located in the jungles of the Amazon and along the Atlantic coast. Living in villages of as many as 3,000 people» they were expert fishermen and farmers who also manufactured hammocks, canoes and balsa rafts, blowguns for hunting and warfare, and well-crafted pottery. Their staple food was cassava, a shrubby plant widely grown for its large, starchy roots, which is still an important part of the Brazilian diet. Because they occupied the most accessible and fertile lands, the tropical forest Indians were the main targets of early European settlement. They were soon exterminated by war, disease and enslavement. The more isolated and warlike Paleo-Americans survived for several more centuries, and today a few bands still live in remote parts of the Amazon.     According to the passage, of the two racial groups present at the time of the Portuguese discovery of Brazil, ...........  

Before the Portuguese discovered Brazil, it was the home of 4 million or more native peoples, who were divided into two fairly distinct racial and cultural groups. The thinly scattered Paleo-Americans, who were similar in many respects to the North American Plains Indians, occupied the colder and drier lands. They lived mostly by hunting and gathering. The tropical forest tribes were located in the jungles of the Amazon and along the Atlantic coast. Living in villages of as many as 3,000 people» they were expert fishermen and farmers who also manufactured hammocks, canoes and balsa rafts, blowguns for hunting and warfare, and well-crafted pottery. Their staple food was cassava, a shrubby plant widely grown for its large, starchy roots, which is still an important part of the Brazilian diet. Because they occupied the most accessible and fertile lands, the tropical forest Indians were the main targets of early European settlement. They were soon exterminated by war, disease and enslavement. The more isolated and warlike Paleo-Americans survived for several more centuries, and today a few bands still live in remote parts of the Amazon.     The author informs us that the tropical forest Indians...........