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Read the following article and answer the question. Article: English Language and Culture Program If you wish to improve your English-language skills as well as your understanding of the Canadian cultural context, the courses offered by ELC Evening are for you. Whether your goals are academic, business or immigration-related, there is a course to meet your needs. Evening course tuition:$490,0. All evening courses run for 10 weeks.A $50 discount is available to returning students or students attending two or more courses. ELC 550 Mondays, July 7 - September 22, 2008August 4 & September 11- HOLIDAY Mondays, October 6-December 15.2008 October 13-HOLIDAY This course is designed for non-native Englisli speakers who wish to take the 1ELTS (International English Language Testing System) exam.Each week, participants  focus on specific modules of the test (speaking, reading, listening, and writing) to develop and improve the skills they need to succeed on the exam. ELC 552 Tuesdays, Aprils8-June 10,2008 Tuesdays, October 7 - December.16, 2008 November 11 - HOLIDAY This course is designed for participants who wish to improve their fluency and expressiveness in English.Production skills will be targeted, including pronunciation, intonation, rhythm, and stress.Participants are required to complete weekly in-class assignments  , including speeches, monologues, interviews, and role-plays. ELC 554 Wednesdays, July 9 - September 10.2008 Wednesdays, October 8 -December 10.2008 This course is designed for non-native English-speaking university and college participants who wish to improve their academic leading and writing skills.This course gives participants the tools required for presenting information and building persuasive arguments in clear and cohesive written forms. ELC 555 Thursdays, July 10 - September 11, 2008 Thursdays, October 9 - December 11, 2008 This course is designed for non-native English speakers who are either working or planning to work in a business environment.Areas of focus include handling telephone conversations, networking, participating in meetings,... Question: A student who mainly wants to improve his spoken English can attend  _  . Answer:
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Read the following article and answer the question. Article: Dear MSN, I live in San Diego. I'm single and would like to meet people near me. Can I do this on the Internet? Searching in San Diego Dear Searching, On the Internet, you could easily go looking for love in all the wrong places, but here are lots of great ways to meet singles near you. The Web is a good place to start. MSN also has international sites for Europe, Australia and South America. There are several California-based MSN web communities where you can meet like-minded people near you as well as city-specific chat rooms for real-time interaction  . Hope for some clever friends. What about a little more excitement in your online interactions? Try the "Gaming Zone!" I also tried MSN Search, looked under the "Personal" heading and found "Relationships". Clicked on that, then found "Ads & Personals", by "Region" and found San Diego specific personal from there. Try it! Also, give "IRC" (Internet Relay Chat) and "Usenet Newsgroups" a shot. Many a net romance has started and then developed in these off-the-Web communities. If you'd rather make friends F2F (face to face), the Web has some helpful dating and redating tips. Question: Searching has written this letter with the purpose of   _  . Answer:
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Read the following article and answer the question. Article: About one million years ago, the Ice Age began. The Ice Age was a long period of time in which four great glaciers pushed southward to cover almost all the upper half of North America, and then melted away. Each glacier was a thick sheet of ice and snow that spread out from a center near what is now Hudson Bay in Canada. The winters were long, and the cool summers were too short to melt much of the ice and snow. The ever-growing sheet built up to a thickness of two miles at its center.    As all glaciers do, these great glaciers slid. They pushed down giant trees in their paths and scraped the earth bare of soil. Many animals moved farther south to escape. Others stayed and were destroyed.     When winters of little snow came, the summer cut into the edges of the ice sheets. As the glaciers melted, rocks soil and other things that had mixed with the ice and snow were left. New hills, lakes and rivers were formed.    The last of the great glaciers began its melting about 11, 000 years ago. Its melting formed the Great Lakes. These lakes today are little changed from their early sizes and shapes. The largest of the North American river systems was also influenced by the glaciers. This is the Mississippi-Missouri-Ohio system. These rivers were miles wide at first. Through the years they settled into  _ present channels. Question: The main idea of this passage is   _   . Answer:
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Read the following article and answer the question. Article: The top ten hottest English words in 2015 Selfie   is "taking a photo by yourself", Now "taking a selfie" is generally a way of self-expression. Budgetwife is the opposite of budget husband  . By name, you can see that the economy strength of budget male is not strong as the "diamond man"  , but he is both economically and emotionally reliable. Phubbing refers to impolite behavior that in social situations people don't pay attention to the people around, but just look at their mobile phones, we can call it "down". People are called phubber "down"  . Bromeo   are male girlfriends. He is one of your most loyal friends, will support you in every situation. "Fangirl" or "fanboy"   refers to those who are crazy about something or a star, even to the point of sanity. Gayriage   refers to two people of equal gender form of marriage. Two men to get married, the marriage is called gayriage. Mompetition, it is the competition between mothers, comparing whose child is more beautiful, more smarter, more fashionable. It can be compared two or more mothers, and the children being compared can be adult. Social bubble  , which means that some people seem to know many people, but only few people could be friends. After "financial bubble", "housing bubble", personal bubbles begin to hit career people. Question: What will the text talk about next? Answer:
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