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Newspaper publishers in the United States have long been enthusiastic users and distributors of weather maps. Although some newspapers that had carried the United States Weather Bureau's national weather map in 1912 dropped it once the novelty had passed, many continued to print the daily weather chart provided by their local forecasting office. In the 1930's, when interest in aviation and progress in air-mass analysis made weather patterns more newsworthy, additional newspapers started or resumed the daily weather map. In 1935, The Associated Press (AP) news service inaugurated its WirePhoto network and offered subscribing newspapers morning and afternoon weather maps redrafted by the AP's Washington, B.C., office from charts provided by the government agency. Another news service, United Press International (UPI), developed a competing photowire network and also provided timely weather maps for both morning and afternoon newspapers. After the United States government launched a series of weather satellites in 1966, both the AP and UPI offered cloud-cover photos obtained from the Weather Bureau.

In the late 1970’s and early 1980's, the weather map became an essential ingredient in the redesign of the American newspaper. News publishers, threatened by increased competition from television for readers' attention, sought to package the news more conveniently and attractively. In 1982, many publishers felt threatened by the new USA Today, a national daily newspaper that used a page-wide full-color weather map as its key design element. That the weather map in USA today did not include information about weather fronts and pressures attests to the largely symbolic role it played. Nonetheless, competing local and metropolitan newspapers responded in a variety of ways. Most substituted full-color temperature maps for the standard weather maps, while others dropped the comparatively drab satellite photos or added regional forecast maps with pictorial symbols to indicate rainy, snowy, cloudy, or clear conditions. A few newspapers, notably The New York Times, adopted a highly informative yet less visually prominent weather map that was specially designed to explain an important recent or imminent weather event. Ironically, a newspaper's richest, most instructive weather maps often are comparatively small and inconspicuous

The author uses the term "Ironically” in the passage to indicate that a weather map's appearance_____________.

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This is the most interesting film I have ever seen.

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These customers grumbled about the food. They didn't seem to be pleased.

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I hope you won't take it_____________if I suggest an alternative remedy.

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The total cost to renovate the building was $20 million, _____________double the original estimate.

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He suffered from depression_____________by overwork and ill-health.

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(A) Hardly he had arrived (B) at the airport when he (C) realized that he (D) had forgotten his wallet.

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I think the_____________thing would be to catch a bus home. I’m tired of walking.

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He behaved_____________nothing had happened.

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David:" _____________". - John: "Thanks. I'm glad to hear that".

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My grandfather is getting old and forgetful. _____________, he is experienced.

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"Would you like to attend the party with me, Mary?", said John.

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I did a business administration degree at Bristol University and then worked for a credit card company for eight years. During this time, I was assistant marketing manager. I gained a lot of useful experience doing this job, but in 1997,1 decided that I needed a change. I moved to Thomson Holidays where I have worked as a manager ever since. My main job is to think up new and interesting ideas for holidays.

When I'm working from my office in the UK, I arrive at 9 a.m. First I answer my emails, then plan the day. My role is to investigate new projects for Thomson Holidays in our Mediterranean resorts. I am responsible for coming up with ideas, developing them and evaluating their success.

We have lots of meetings in the office which involve the marketing department, holiday reps and people that we bring in from outside such as entertainment organizers. The aim is to develop an exciting idea into a realistic and workable project.

Once a month I spend a few days overseas checking possible resorts, meeting with reps to develop their roles and working out how events should be sold to the customer. I work with resort supervisors, use their local knowledge of bars and clubs for venues, talk through new ideas and find out how existing ones are working. I also meet holidaymakers.

I have to be very open-minded because ideas come from anywhere. I love my job because I get to travel and I am working on a project that everyone loves.

What do we learn about the writer in the first paragraph?

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They decided to tie the knot after they had loved each other for 10 years.

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Sailing tourism (26) _____________to any holiday where the main purpose of the trip is to sail or learn how to sail. Sailing tourism has two broad (27) _____________, which are defined by the type of boat used: a yacht (which is also used as overnight accommodation) or a dinghy (a smaller boat without berths - therefore overnight accommodation is (28) _____________land).

Yacht sailing holidays tend to be either bareboat charters, where the boat is hired - without crew - and can be sailed to any chosen destination, or flotilla, where all boats in the flotilla follow a pre-planned route. Dinghy sailing holidays are most (29) _____________to be combined (30) _____________a sailing course. As with most niche markets, there are scant data available regarding the sailing tourism sector. However, it is estimated that around 10 million sailing holidays are taken each year.

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