Text 1: The Christmas Holidays

1. A: You've just come back from your holiday over Christmas. Where select do did was you go?
2. B: Well I went back to England. At first I went for a select wedding of the friend friends wedding friend's wedding ,
3. which was select in at on the end of November, and then I decided to stay for Christmas because it's such a long way back to England.
4. I select had has have a really good time.
5. A: select What How Where did it feel going back to England?
6. B: Great. It was really good to select see look at watch all my friends and family and it was also quite nice
7. select but because and my boyfriend who's a New Zealander came to visit.
8. It select is were was the first time he'd been to England, so it was great to
9. show select him he his all the tourist sights
10. select to from in London. We also went to Paris.

Text 2: Computers

11. I wrote my first program for a computer when I select was had were thirteen years old.
12. A program select tell tells told a computer to do something. My program told the computer to
13. play select a the any game. This computer was very big and slow.
14. It didn't select still already even have a computer screen. But I thought it was wonderful. I was just
15. a kid, but the computer select did does do everything I told it to do. And even today, that's
16. select what why how I love about computers. When I write a good program, it always
17. select work worked works perfectly, every time.
18. The computer was our toy. We grew up select with on by it. And when we grew up, we
19. brought our toy with select us ours me . Now the computer is in our homes and in our offices.
20. It select changed is changing has changed our lives and it is changing them again, because
21. now the computers select come are coming came together to make a new system.
22. In select the that this system, computers all over the world are beginning to work together.
23. Our computers select will be must be should be our telephones, our post office, our library, and our banks. When we talk about this new system, we call it the Internet.

Bill Gates The Road Ahead. Penguin 1995. © Microsoft Corporation. Permission sought.

Text 3: Tramping - walking in New Zealand's forests and mountains

24. New Zealand's select busy busier busiest tourist season is generally in the warmer months from around November to
25. April, though of course there's some exceptions - ski resort towns, select obviously however then , will be
26. packed out in winter. The most busy time to be travelling in New Zealand is select during while after the summer school holidays from around 20 December to 30 January. To a lesser extent Easter weekend, Labour Weekend in late October, and the May and August
27. school holidays select is are aren't also busy periods. If you're travelling during
28. the school holidays, when New Zealanders as well as visitors are out on the road, remember that select all each every
29. type of accommodation and transport is select probably likely possible to fill up, especially the more
30. select economical cheap expensive places, so plan ahead. It may be more pleasant to visit New Zealand
31. select either neither both before or after this hectic period, when the weather is still warm and there
32. select are aren't is as many other travellers around.
33. New Zealand is not like some other countries, though, select where when which the weather is so miserable at some
34. times of the year that there's no select reason point use in going.
35. You select will won't should need warmer clothes in winter but there are
36. select many a lot much other things to see and do in New Zealand all year around.

Peter Turner et al. New Zealand Travel Survival Kit. 8th edition. © Lonely Planet 1996. Reproduced with permission of Lonely Planet Publications.

Text 4: Planning a night out

37. A: Hi. How are you?
    B: I'm good
    A: Very good. So, listen. We select go are going to go will go out tonight. That's the plan, right?
    B: Yeah, that's the plan.
38. A: OK. So have you thought about what sort of thing select you'd like you like you liked to do?
    B: Well, I rather fancy seeing a movie actually and maybe have dinner.
39. A: Yes, food select sounds tastes is good. I was actually thinking about
40. select seeing to see see a play.
B: Oh really?
41. A: Yeah, I select haven't seen didn't see won't see anything live for a long time.
    B: That's a good idea. What would you like to see?
42. A: Well, it's funny. The other day on Sunday I select listened have listened was listening to the radio. Amanda Jones came on. She's directing a play called
    'The Birthday Party'.
    B: I've heard it's really good.
43. A: And I thought it could be a good bet. It's also on at the Maidment, so it's a select low reasonable cheap price.
B: Oh right. So how much is that?
A: Umm, well, it's $18 if you're under 25.
B: That's not us then, is it?
A: No, it doesn't really matter
44. B: We could select have to have having something to eat first.
45. A: Yeah, yeah, that'd be good. We select could must will go to Ken's Yakitori quite early, like, round 6:30.
46. B: Ok, well, select it's that's you're great. So what time would you like to meet?
47. select Will Shall Do we meet in town or
48. should I select get drop pick you up?
A: We'll meet at Ken's.

Text 5: The Case for an Increased Greenhouse Effect

49. The earth has an average surface temperature of about 15°C, although the temperature on the surface select changes varies lasts from -60°C to 80°C.
50. The planet is in a heat balance. Light energy released by the sun select warm up warms up warming up the surface of the earth;
51. as a result, heat energy is select released releasing release from the earth's surface into space, cooling the earth down.
52. If the earth had select no any not atmosphere around it, the surface would be about
53. 33°C colder select on average by average in average . This is
54. select because why so the gases trap heat energy. Light energy can pass through the gases but heat energy
55. cannot get out again select too easily so easily so easy . As with the glass in a gardener's greenhouse
56. select which what it lets in light but holds back heat, the earth's atmosphere warms up. This is known
57. select as by from the greenhouse effect. The power of the greenhouse effect is
58. select noticed shown found by earth's neighbour, the planet Venus. Venus is nearer to the sun than we are and if it
59. lacked an atmosphere, it select would have had would be would have an average surface temperature of 37°C.
60. However, its atmosphere select makes up comprises consists 96% carbon dioxide. When a recent space craft landed, it found a surface temperature of 428°C!

Tomkins, S., M.J. Reiss & C. Morris Biology at Work. © CUP 1992. Reproduced with the permission of Cambridge University Press

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