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The folowing text is for questions 1 and 4       Erlin and her friends went to car free day last month. They felt sad because they saw a lot of rubbish on the street, park and town square after the event finished. They saw several rubbish bins, but people didn’t throw the rubbish into the bins. Then they discussesd how to solve the problem. They decided to provide more rubbish bins. They also had a threatrical performance about not littering in the town square on the first Sunday, but people just enjoyed the show and still littered. On the second week, they campaigned not to litter at car free day, but people ignored them. Although they were tired they never gave up. On the third week, they asked their friends at school to have a flash mob at car free day. Erlin and her friends were happy because they succeeded in getting the people to collect the rubbish. People realized that they must not litter. 1.       Where did Erlin and ...

Read the text and answer questions 11 to 12. Leonardo da Vinci Leonardo da Vinci was born a son of a Florentine noble and peasant woman; he grew up in Vinci, Italy. He began to display his remarkable academic and artistic talents in his early age. In 1466, he moved to Florence where he entered the workshop of Verrocchio. His first work of significance was the “Adoration of the Magi” commissioned by monks of San Donato a Scopeto. Although unfinished, the work was a masterpiece and introduced several new ideas. He also pioneered the use of Chiaroscuro, the technique of defining forms through the contrast of light and shadow. This would be later used to great effect in the Mona Lisa. In 1482, he painted the famous artworks “Madonna on the Rocks” and also “The Last Supper”, which has been described as one of his greatest religious paintings. With Christ at the centre of the picture, it embodies great feeling and emotion as Christ is about to announce his imminent betrayal by Judas....

It's one of the tenses to express routine, reality, certainty that stay that way since the past time, present and maybe in the future time. Click this link to do the exercise of Simple Present Tense. https://www.englishgrammar.org/simple-present-tense-exercise-3/ https://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/tests/simple-present-1

Second person dies from mystery virus in China: official A second person has died in China from a mysterious SARS-linked virus that has stricken dozens and appeared in two other Asian countries, officials said. Local authorities said a 69-year-old man died on Wednesday in Wuhan, the central Chinese city believed to be the epicenter of an outbreak of a coronavirus from the same family as the deadly SARS pathogen. The outbreak has caused alarm because of the link with SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome), which killed 349 people in mainland China and another 299 in Hong Kong in 2002-2003. At least 41 people have been hit with pneumonia linked to the new virus in China, prompting authorities in Hong Kong to step up detection measures, including temperature checkpoints for inbound travellers. The Wuhan health commission said 12 people have recovered and been discharged from hospital, while five others were in serious condition. The man who died had become sick on December...