random.

A) True B) False

A) True B) False

A) True B) False

A) True B) False

dryness or wetness.

A) True B) False

Money, no matter how much of it we have, does not flow like the milk of human kindness is meant

to. It stutters and starts; it sows resentment and poisons relationships. Today’s liberating loan is

the root cause of tomorrow’s trauma. Even when money is freely given, hidden non-financial costs

almost always arise – costs that tend to be far larger than the original cash sum.

People guard their money closely, use it to equate value in unconnected areas and manipulate it

for power – and so it is never what it seems. It is the most toxic influence in our lives. It affects

portions of humble pie along the way. The cost of a loan is not simply the figure that’s transferred

happens.

Our relationship with money is irrational, and it’s not to our credit as a species. It’s high time we

re-examined it and put it in its rightful place. Money makes the world go around, but it also restricts

our friendships, our choices and our potential. Maintaining friendships across the money divide is

Americans find nothing shameful in being open about money, but here in the UK the sting of class

infects the whole business. Maybe it’s time we changed our attitude.

a. It is culpable for destroying goodness even in the kindest of souls.

b. One has to be aware of the pitfalls which arise when an unspoken agreement is

c. The reasons behind the scale of its destructive power are incomprehensible.

d. It is arguably responsible for having the most toxic effects on human beings.

b. Say that our financial literacy state is abysmal.

c. Show concern with our illogical attitude to money.

d. Compare people with drastically different income to different species.

a. It might be healthier due to the Americans’ frankness.

b. She despises how the Americans show off their wealth.

c. She doubts it will be viable in the UK because of class differences.

Smoke and the fragrance of roasting quail float up from long charcoal grills lining the perimeter

of Suqei-Attarine, the Market of Scents, in Alexandria, Egypt. lt is October, the season when quail

fly south from Europe, tire over the Mediterranean Sea, land on beaches, and are easily trapped .

Along pavements men sit on benches and puff apple-cured tobacco through water pipes. Some

play dominoes. Above us hang the purple flowers of jacaranda trees.

Nearly half the world's population lives in cities. The number of megacities - those with

populations of more than ten million -will exceed two dozen by 20 IS, up from fourteen in 1995.

But what is it that draws people to cities like bees to pollen?

"the mother of towns, the abode of the good and godly, the homeland of wisdom." My travels will

end in New York City, a modern epicentre of finance and culture. New York, writes Joan Did ion,

is "an infinitely romantic notion, the mysterious nexus of all love and money and power."

Alexander's engineers realised that Mediterranean currents running west to east would keep the

port navigable and free of Nile River silt. They also knew that the Island of Pharos, if joined to the

mainland by the construction of a pier, would offer an effective wave breaker. In the 14th century

it collapsed during an earthquake, and the Egyptians built a fortress here using, some accounts say,

stones from the lighthouse. From my waterside cafe table I can see the fortress where team

B.C. But Alexandria's library was on a scale new to the Mediterranean world, and the city was

notorious for its aggressive pursuit of texts. Mohen Zahran the project manager talks about

reviving "the lighthouse of knowledge". The new library, he says, "will encourage the peace and

exchange of ideas throughout the region and provide a place for scholars of diverse backgrounds

to meet."

Scholarly pursuits had immediate commercial applications. Translations helped Alexandrians to

better understand their trading partners, and new maps enabled traders to calculate distances more

accurately. lt was this wealth of knowledge that helped Alexandria to establish itself as one of the

richest cities of its day.

companionship. They are where new ideas trigger changes in sciences and art, where cultures meet

and evolve. But why and where do cities, these centres of trade and knowledge, grow? What causes

white (or light), red, green, yellow, and blue. If it had four terms, they were for black, white, red,

term” is. In the Yele language in Papua New Guinea, for example, there are only basic color terms

for black, white, and red. But there’s a broad vocabulary of everyday objects — like the sky, ashes,

and tree sap — that are used as color comparisons that cover almost all English color words. There

are also languages like Hanunó’o from the Philippines, where a word can communicate both color

and physical feeling. They have four basic terms to describe color — but they’re on a spectrum of

neatly into a color chip identification test.