PTE -Reading Blanks - April 2019

in the 250 years of its active evolution funerary Violin moved from the formula to the personal. It is clear from the earliest _____________ of the form that its role during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries was largely heraldic: to ___________ the continuity of the social structure. The few works that have survived from this period are often _____________ unemotional and at times overtly __________.

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Alaska's Aleutian Islands have long been accustomed to shipwrecks. They have been part of local consciousness since a Japanese whaling ship ran _____________ near the western end of the 1,100 mile (1,800-km) volcanic archipelago in 1780, inadvertently naming what is now Rat Island when the shop infestation ___________ ashore and made itself at home. Since then, there have been at least 190 shipwrecks in the islands.

aground scurried

While Florey researchers have also created a genetic test for PD (10% of PD cases are caused by genetic factors), this new test has broader _______________ by screening for many different types of PD and monitoring treatment, as well as measuring the ______________ of drugs being developed to treat the disease. Dr Qiao-Xin Li and colleagues from The University of Melbourne and the Mental Health Research Institute of Victoria, along with professor Malcolm Home from the Howard Florey Institute, found people with PD had low levels of the brain-secreted protein "alpha-synuclein" in the blood, ______ people without PD had high levels of the protein. Professor Home said the test they developed measured alpha-synuclein levels in blood. "Currently there is no specific PD diagnostic test so doctors rely on their observations to make a diagnosis, which means some patients may not be prescribed the most suitable medication and around 15% of those _______________ may actually be suffering from something else," Professor Home said. "Further studies are required to establish whether this test can __________________ between people who are responsive to treatment and those who are not," he said. The researchers are now conducting a large - scale study to determine the effectiveness of the test, to discover whether it is applicable for all types of PD, and to find out if it can measure the rate of ________________ and severity of the disease.

application effectiveness while diagnosed distinguish progression

Leonard Launder, chief executive of the company his mother founded, says she ways thought she "was growing a nice little business." And that it is. A little business that _____________ 45% of the cosmetics markets in US. department stores. A little business that sells in 118 countries and last year grew to be $3.6 billion big in sales. The Launder family's shares are worth more than $6 billion. But early on, there wasn't a _______________ business, there weren't houses in New York, Palm Beach, Fla., or south of France. IT is said that at one point there was one person to answer the telephones who __________ her voice to become the shipping to billing department as needed. You more or less know that Estee Lauder story because it's a chapter form a book American business folklore. In short, Josephine Esther Mentzer, daughter of immigrants, lived above her father's __________ store in Corona, a section of Queens in New York City. She stated her _________________ by selling skin creams ______________ by her uncle, a chemist, in beauty shops, beach clubs and resorts. 24 No doubt the potions were good - Estee Lauder was a quality ________________ - but the saleslady was better. Much better. And she simply ___________ everyone else in the cosmetics industry. She _________ the bosses of New Fifth Avenue in 1948. And once in that space, she ___________ a personal selling approach that prved as ________ as the promise of her skin __________ and perfumes.

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The Eiffel Tow3r was the tallest building in the world when it was completed in 1889. It was built for the World's Fair to _________________ that iron could be as strong as stone while being infinitely lighter. And in fact the wrought-iron tower is twice as tall as the masonry Washington Monument and yet it weighs 70,000 tons less! It is repainted every seven years with 50 tons of dark brown paint. Called "the father of the skyscraper," the home Insurance Building, ____________ in Chicago in 1885 (and demolished in 1931), was 148 feet tall and 10 stories. It was the first building to effectively employ a supporting ___________ of steel beams and columns, 15 allowing it to have many more windows than traditional masonry structures. But this new construction method made people worry that the building would fall down, leading the city to halt construction until they could ____________ the structure's safety. In 1929, auto tycoon Walter Chrysler took part in an intense race with the Bank of Manhattan Trust company to build the world's tallest skyscraper. Just when it looked like the bank had captured the _____________ title, workers at the Chrysler Building jacked a thin sprie hidden inside the building through the top of the roof to win the contest.

demonstrate constructed skeleton investigate coveted

In our studies, those people on a higher-protein _______ lost the same amount of weight as those on higher - carbohydrate diet. This is because the two diets offered an equal amount of fat. However, body composition (that is, the ratio of fat to muscle) __________________ greater improvement among those people on the higher - protein diet. When the __________ in other studies were allowed to ear until they were no loner hungry, those in the higher- protein diet loss more weight that those on the higher carbohydrate diet, even after more than a year. The reduction in hunger and the beneficial effect on muscle provided by the higher-protien diet is mostly related to its protein content., while the enhanced fat-loss seems to be related to its lower amounts of carbohydrate. The diet is healthy because its protein comes from lean red meat fish, chicken and low-fat dairy products, all of which provided good nutrition. A high-protein diet in which the protein comes from protein powders and supplements is unlikely to be healthy unless the _______________ are fortified with vitamins and minerals.

diet showed/observed participants supplements

Arab students will be able to sign up to study at a ___________ for the business courses in their own language. The Edinburg Business School __________ the project at a reception in Cairo on Saturday. It is hoped the course will _________ links between the university and the Arab business world. A university spokeswoman said: "the Arabic MBA will ___________ the profile of Heriot-Watt University and the Edinburgh Business School among businesses in the Arabic-speaking world and will create a strong network of graduates in the _____________. "The fist ______________ of students is expected later this year. Professor Keith Lumsden, director of Edinburgh Business School, said "Arabic is a major global language and the Arab world is a centre for business and industrial development. We are proud to work with Arab International Education to meet the demands of the region.

distance announced improve raise region intake

C. S. Lewis or Jack Lewis, as he preferred to be called, was born in Belfast, Ireland (now Northern Ireland) on November 29, 1898. He was the second son of Albert Lewis, a lawyer, and Flora Hamilton Lewis. His older brother, Warren HAmilton LEwis, who was known as Warnie, had been born three years ___________ in 1895. LEwi's early childhood was relatively happy and carefree. In those days Northern Ireland was not yet __________ by butter cicvl strife, and the Lewises were comfortably off. The family ome, called little Lea, was a large gabled house with dark, narrow passages and an overgrown garden, which Warnie and Jack played in and _____________ together. There was also a library that was crammed with books - two of Jack's favorites were Treasures Island by Robert Louis Stevenson and the Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett. This somewhat idyllic boyhood came to an end for lewis when his mother become ill and died of cancer in 1908. Barely a month after her death the two boys were sent away from home to go to boarding school in England. Stricts rules and hardm _______________ headmaster, and he missed Belfast terribly. Fortunately for him, the school closed in 1910, and he was able to return to Ireland. After a year, however, he was sent back to England to study This time, the ________________ proved to mostly positive. As a teenagrr, Lewis learned to love poetry, especially the works of Virgil and Homer. He also developed an interest in modern languages, mastering French, German, and Italian.

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And if the voice of an anime is not heard as message but as art, interesting things start to happen. Nature is no longer an alien __________, but instead something immediately beautiful, an _____________ opus with space for us to join in. Bird melodies have always been called songs for a __________. As long as we have been listening, people have presumed there is music coming out of those __________ scissoring beaks.

enigma exuberant reason presumed scissoring

Nature is no longer an alien _______________ , but instead something immediately beautiful, and exuberant ___________ with space for us to join in. Bird melodies have always been called songs for a _____________. As long as we have been listening, people have presumed there is music coming out of those scissoring beaks.

enigma opus reason

How does outer space affect the human body? Researchers already know that spending long period of time in a zero-gravity ____________ - such as that inside the International Space Station (ISS) - results in loss of bone density and _________ to ______________ . That's partly why stays aboard the ISS are __________ at six months. And now, a number of NASA astronauts are reporting that their 20/20 _________ faded after spending time in space, with many needing glasses once the returned to Earth.

environment damage the body's muscles capped vision

Living in a weightless ____________ for long periods of time can also result in bone mineral loss and _________ atrophy as well as dangerous exposure to the sun's radiation, and it is because of these health hazards that stays on the International Space Station are ______________ to six months.

environment muscle restricted

Fancy a locust for lunch? Probably no, if you live in the west, but elsewhere it's a different story. Edible insects - termites, stick insects, dragonflies, grasshoppers and giant water bugs - are on the menu for an _______ 80 percent of the world's population. More than 1000 species of insects are served up around the world. For example, "kungu cakes" - made from midges - are a ___________ in parts of Africa, MExico is an insect-eating - or entomophagous - hotspot, where more than 200 insect species are consum. __________ is so high that 40 species are now under _______, including white agave worms. There caterpillars of tequila gaint-skipper butterfly ________ around $250 a kilogram. Eating insect makes ____________ sense. Some contain more Protein than meat or fish, The female gypsy moth, for instance , is about 80 percent protein. Insects can be a good ________ of vitamins and minerals too: a type caterpillar (Usta terpsichore) eaten in Angola is rich in iron, zinc and thiamine. What do they taste like? Anst have lemon tang, apparently, whereas giant water bugs tater of mint and fire and pupae of watermelon. You have probably, inadvertently, already tasted some of these things, as insects are often accidental tourists in other types of food. The US food and drug Administration even issues guidelines for the number of insect parts allowed in certain foods. For example, it is _________________ for 225 grams of macaroni to contain up to 225 insect fragments.

estimated delicacy Demand threat fetch nutritional source acceptable

For many first-year students, the University may be their first experience living away from home for a ___________ period of time. It is a ___________ break from home. In my point of view, this is the best thing that you can do. I know you have to fend for yourself, cook and clean after yourself, basically look after yourself without your parents but the truth is - some time in your life you are going yo have to part with lovely mummy and daddy. But there are only just a phone call away and it is really good to have some quality time without them. The first few weeks can be a ________ period. There may be concerns about forming a friendship. When new students look around, it may seem that everyone else is self-confident and __________ successful! The reality is that everyone is having the same concerns. Increased personal freedom can feel both wonderful and ____________. Students can come and go as they choose with no one to "hassle" them. The strange environment with new kinds of procedures and new people can create the sense of being on an emotional roller coaster. This is normal and to be expected. You meet so many more people in the hall then f you stayed at home. the main points about living away 12 from home are: no parents! You don't have to tell them where you're going, who you're going with, what time you'll be coming. why you're going etc.etc. You earn various social skills; you have to get along with your roommates living with them can present special, sometimes intenses, problems. Negotiating respect of personal property, personal space, sleep,and relaxation needs, can be a complex task. The complexity increase when roommates are of different ________ with very different values.

extended definite lonely socially frightening backgrounds

Almost all public spaces nowadays have advertisemnet s in sight, and all forms of media, from newspapers to the cinema to the internet, are __________ with adverts. This all - pervasive presence reflects the value of advertising to us. Without it, businesses of all types and sizes would _________ to inform potential customers about the products or services they provide, and consumers would be unable to make informed assessments when looking for products to buy and servings to use. Without advertising, the promotions pf products and ____________ that contribute to our physical and psychological 18 well-being - medicines to treat minor ailments, insurance schemes to protect us, clothes and cosmetics to make us look and feel better - would be ____________more problematic than it is. And without advertisements and the ____________ represented in them, the world would be a far duller place.

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None of the books in mu father's dusty old bookcase were _____________ . Yet while I was growing up, I never saw anyone take one down. Most were ____________ tomes-a comprehensive of civilization, matching volumes of the great works of western literature, numerous others I can no longer _________ - that seemed almost fused to ___________ the bowed slightly from decades of _____________ support.

forbidden massive recall shelves steadfast

DNA barcoding was invented by Paul Hebert of the University of Guelph, in Ontario, Canada, in 2003. His idea was to _____________ a unique identification tag for each species based on a short ___________ of DNA. Separating species would then be a simple task of sequencing this time bit of DNA. Dr hebert proposed part of a gene called cytochrome c oxidase I (COD) as suitable to the task. All animals have it, It seems to vary enough, but not too much, to act as a reliable marker. And it is easily __________________, because it is one of a handful of genes found outside the cell nucleus, in structures called mitochondria. Barcoding has taken off rapidly since Dr Hebert invented it. When the idea was proposed, it was expected to be a boon ________ to taxonomists trying to name the world's millions of species. It has, however, proved to have a far wider range of uses than the merely academic - most promisingly in the __________ of republic health. One health-related project is the Mosquito Barcoding Initiative being run by Yvonne - Marie Linton of the Natural History Museum in London. This aims to barcode 80% of the world's mosquitoes within the next two years, to help control mosquito-borne diseases. Mosquitoes are _________________ for half a billion malarial infections and 1m deaths every year. they also _________________ devastating disease such as yellow fever, west nile fever and dengue. However, efforts to control them are consistently ______________ by the difficulty and expense of identifying mosquitoes - of which there are at least 3,500 species, many of them hard to tell apart.

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That's not the original question: Shark bite numbers ________ steadily over the part century as human reproduced exponentially and _______ more time at the seashore. But the numbers have _____________ remained unvaried over the past five years as overfishing _____________ the shark population near shore and swimmers ______ about the risks of wading into certain areas.

grew spent remained thinned learned

The horned desert viper ability to hunt ar night has always puzzled biologist. Though it lies with its _______ buried in the sand, it can strike with great precision as soon as prey appears. "sometime you even see the snake fly up and whirl round in the air to strike a mouse passing behind it, "says Bruce Young, a biologist at Wash burn University in Topeka, Kansas. Now, Young and physicists Leo van Hemmen and Paul Friedel at he Technical University of Munich in Germany have developed a computer model of the snake's auditory _________ to explain how the snake "hears" its prey without really having the ears for it. Although the vipers have internal ears that can hear frequencies between 200 and 1000 hertz, it is not the sound of the mouse scurrying about that they are detecting. "The snakes don't have external _______, "says van Hemmen. "So unless the mouse wears boots and starts stamping, the snake won't hear it".

head system eardrums

Away from the rumble of Shanghai's highways and the cacophony of the shopping districts, stroll down side streets filled with rows of tall brick _____________. In the early evening or on a weekend morning, you'll hear the ____________ of classical music drifting form a piano, played by a 10-year old or a grandmother in her seventies. ____________ down another alley toward ________ _____________ and you'll hear Beethoven or Mozart flowing from a violin or perhaps a cello, accordion or flute. In china, classical music is _________ as mightily as the 1812 Overture. It's fortissimo in Shanghai, home to china's oldest orchestra, forte in Beijing and other lively cities, and on a crescendo in farther-flung areas. Commanding Y100-200 ($12.50-%25) per hour, private music teachers in Shanghai ca readily earn more than five times the average per capita monthly income.

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The inevitable consequences ____________ rampant corruption, an absence of globally competitive Chinese companies, ____________ waste of resources, rampant environment ____________ and soaring inequality. Above all, the monopoly over power of an ideologically bankrupt communist party is ____________ with the pluralism of opinion, security of property and vibrant competition on which a dynamic economy depends. As a result, Chinese development remains parasitic on know-how institutions developed elsewhere.

include chronic degradation inconsistent

Founded after World War II by 51 "peace-loving states"combined to oppose future aggression, the UN now counts 193 member nations, _______________ its newest members, Nauru, Kiribati, and Tonga in 1999, Tuvalu and Yugoslavia in 2000, Switzerland and East Timor in2002, Montenegro in 2006, South Sudan in 2011. United Nations Day has been observed on October 24 since 1948 and celebrates the objectives and accomplishments of the organization, which was established on October 24, 1945. The UN __________ in peacekeeping and humanitarian missions across the globe. Though some say its ___________ has declined in recent decades, the United Nations still plays a tremendous role in world politics. In 2001 the United Nations and Kofi Annan, the secretary - general of the UN, won the Nobel Peace Prize "for their work for a better organized and more peaceful world." Since 1948 there have been 63 UN peacekeeping __________; 16 are currently under way. Thus far, close to 130 nations have contributed personnel at various times, 119 are currently providing peacekeepers. As of 31 August 2008, there were 16 peacekeeping operations underway with a total of 88, 230 personnel. The small island nation of Fiji has taken part in virtually every UN peacekeeping operation, as has Canada.

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In the last years of the wheat boom, Bennett had become ____________ frustrated at how the government seemed to be encouraging an _______________ farming binge. He went directly after his old employer, the Department of Agriculture, for _______________ people. Farmers on the Great Plains were working _______________ nature, he __________ in speeches across the country; they were asking for trouble. Even in the late 1920s, before anyone else sounded an alarm, Bennett said people had sown the seeds of an epic disaster. The government continued to insist, through official bulletins, that soil was 7 the one "resource that cannot be exhausted." To Bennett, it was arrogance on a grand scale.

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In the fast-changing world of modern healthcare, the job of a doctor is more and more like the job of chief executive. The people who run hospitals and physicians' practices don't just need to ____________ _______________. They must also be _____________ to balance ______________, _______________ a large and diverse ____________ and make difficult _______________ and legal ______________.

know medicine able budgets motivate staff marketing decisions

By 2025, government experts day, America's skies will swarm with three times as ________ planes, and not just the kind of traffic flying today. There will be ____________ of tiny jets, seating six or fewer, at airliner ____________, competing for space with remotely operated drones that need help avoiding medair ______________ and with commercially operated rockets carrying ________ and tourists into space.

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Walt disney world has become a pilgrimage site partly because of the luminosity of it's cross- cultural and _________ and partly because its ____________ aspects apparel powerful to real needs in the capitalist ________________. Disney's marketing is unique because it captured the symbolic essence of _______________ but the company has gained access to all public communication media. Movies, television shows, comic books, dolls, apparels, and _______________ film strips all point to the parks and each other.

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Stress that tense feeling often connected to having too ________ to do, Too _______ bill to pay and not _________ time or money is a common emotion that knows few _________. About three-fourths of people in the United States, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, South Korea and the United Kingdom say they ____________ stress on a daily basis, according to a _________. The anxious feeling are even more intensely than those in other countries polled. People in the US cite financial pressure as the top worry. About half the people in Britain said they frequently or sometimes felt life was beyond their control, the highest level in the 10 countries surveyed.

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Down the road, the study authors write, a better understanding of sharks ____________ may help scientists learn more about what drives their choice of things like prey and _____________. Some sharks are shy, and some are outgoing, some are ______________, and some prefer to stick close to what they know, information that could prove useful in making sense of larger species-wide behavior patterns. Sharks killed four people and injured 58 others around the world in 2006, a comparatively dull year for dangerous encounters between the two species. Shark bite numbers ____________ steadily over the last century as humans reproduced exponentially and ___________ spent more time at the seashore. But the numbers have been ___________ over the past five years as overfishing ___________ the shark population near shore and swimmers have ___________ about the risks of wading into certain areas, Burgess said.

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The first banks were ________ the religious templates of the ancient world, and were probably established sometime during the third fill _____________ B.C. Banks probably ___________ the invention of money. Deposits initially consisted of grain and later other goods including cattle, agricultural implements, and eventually precious _______ such as gold, in the form of easy-to-carry compress plates. Temples and palaces were the safest places to store gold as they were constantly attended and well built. As sacred places, temples ________ an extra deterrent to ______________.

probably millennium predated metals presented would-be

Two decades ago, Kashmir houseboat-owners rubbed their hands every spring at the _____________ of the annual influx of _____________. From May to October, the hyacinth-choked _____________ of Dal Lake saw flotillas of vividly painted shirkaras carrying Indian families. Carpet-sellers ____________ their skills, as did purveyors of anything remotely embroidered while the houseboats initiated by the british Raj provided unusual accommodation. The economy boomed. Then, in 1989 separatist and Islamist militancy struck and everything changed. Hindus and countless KAshmiri business people bolted, at least 35,000 people were killed in a decade, the laske risked their _______ - proved in 1995 when five young Europeans were kidnapped and murder.

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Impressionist painters were considered __________ in their time because they broke many of the roles of picture-making set by earlier ___________. They found many of their ___________ in life around them rather than in history, which was then the accepted ______________ of subject matter.

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The two researchers showed that __________ the wolves was ___________ with increased growth of willow and cottonwood in the park. Why? Because grazing animals such as elk were __________ sites from which they couldn't easily escape, the scientists ________. And as the woody plants and trees grew taller and thicker, beaver colonies expanded,.

reintroducing correlated avoiding claimed colonies

Stress is what you feel when you have to handle more than you are used to. When you are stressed, your body _________ as though you are in danger. It makes ___________ that speeds up your heart, make you breathe faster, and give you a burst of energy. This is called the fight - or - flight stress ______________. Some stress is normal and even useful. Stress can help if you need to work hard or react quickly. For example, it can help you win a race or finish a _________ job on time. But if stress happens too often or lasts too long, it can have bad effects. It can be linked to headaches, an upset stomach, back pain, and trouble sleeping. It can weaken your immune system, making it harder to fight of ____________.

responds hormones response important disease

Surely, reality is what we think is it; reality is __________ to us bu our _______________. To one ___________ or another, this view of reality is one many of us hold, if only implicitly. I certainly find myself thinking this was in day-to-day life; it's easy to be ___________ by the face nature reveals directly to our senses. Yet, in the decades since first encountering Camus Test, I've learned that modern science tells a very different story. To overarching lesson that has __________ from scientific inquiry over the last century is that human experience is often a _________________ guide to the true nature of reality.

revealed experience extent seduced emerged misleading

Remember when universities were bursting at the seams with students sitting int he aisles, balancing books on their knees? No more, it seems. E-learning is as likely to stand for empty lecture theatres as for the internet ___________, which has greatly increased the ___________ and range of course materials available online in the past five years. " the __________ now is to simply think, "everything will be online so I don't need to go to class", "said Dr Kerri-Lee Krause, of the centre for the study of higher Education and the University of Melbourne. The nation's universities are in the process of opening the doors for the new academic year and , while classes are generally well ____________ for the early weeks, it often does not last. There is concern at the university level about student ___________ dropping and why students are not coming to lectures", Dr Krause said. But lecturers pride - and fierce competition among universities for students - mean few are willing to acknowledge publicly how poorly attended many classes are.

revolution volume temptation attended attendance

Music was important to the ancient Egyptians as it is in our modern society. Although it is thought that music played a ________ throughout the history of Egypt, those that study the Egyptian writings have discovered that music _________ to become more important in what is called the 'pharaonic' period of their history. This was the time when the Egyptian dynasties of the pharaohs were _____________ (around 3100 BC) and music was found in many parts of everyday Egyptian life.

role seemed established

Your teenage daughter gets top marks in school, captains the debate team, and volunteers at a _____________ for _______________ people. But while driving the family car, her text-messages her best friend and rear-ends another vehicle. How can teens be so clever, __________________ and __________________ - and reckless at the same time? Easily, according to to physicians at children's Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School (HMS) who have been exploring the unique structure and chemistry of the adolescent brain. "The teenage brain is not just an adult brain with fewer miles on it, "says Frances E. Jensen, a professor of neurology. "It's a paradoxical time of __________________. These are people with very sharp brains, but they're not quite sure what to do with them."

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Over the past ten years, Australian overseas departures have grown from 1.7 million to 3.2 million. This represents strong average, annual growth of 6.5 per cent. This paper analyses outbound travel demand to each resident to each destination country using the travel demand models of short-term resident departures. The models are _______________ in terms of a double logarithmic linear functional form, with overseas departures as the dependent ___________ and real household disposable income, prices of travel and accommodation in Australia, and overseas and the exchange rate as independent variables. The models were _______________ using historical times series data from 1974 to 1998. The _______ were obtained from several ____________ such as the world tourist organization, Australian Bureau of Statistics, World Bank and International Monetary Fund. The results * suggest that the estimated elasticity parameters are consistent with standard economic theory. The number of short-term resident departures is positively influenced by per capita real household disposable income; and the price of domestic travel and accommodation, are negatively influenced by the price of travel and accommodation overseas. The estimated demand ___________ were used to develop the Tourism Forecasting Council's long-run forecasts. The forecasts suggest the number of short-term resident departures will increase strongly over the next ten years, largely due to the strength of the Australian economy, competitive travel prices, and Australians' interest in ___________ different cultures and lifestyles.

specied variable estimated data sources models experiencing

With its capacity for bringing down governments and scarring political careers, the onion plays an explosive role in Indian politics. This week, reports of rising onion prices have made front-page news and absorbed the attention of the governing elite. The most vital ingredient in Indian cooking, the ________ element which all dishes begin and, normally, the cheapest vegetable available, the pink onion is an essential item in the shopping basket of families of all classes. But in recent weeks, the onion has started to seem an unaffordable _____________ for India's poor. Over the past few says, another sharp _________ in prices has begun to unsettle the influential urban middle classes. The sudden spike in prices has been caused by large exports to neighboring countries and a shortage of __________.

vital basic luxury surge supply

Icing and anti-inflammatories will help _______ the pain and swelling. Vigorous massage _____ the knot ____ the muscle will help it _____ relax and ease the pain. Meanwhile, work on strengthening and stretching your hip, hamstring and lower-back muscles. ______ stretching, focus on the hamstring stretch, the hip & lower-back stretch, and the hamstring & back stretch. For strengthening, try side leg lifts.

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