Writing B2 - Skills Practice: Structure And Written Expression

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Writing B2 - Skills Practice: Structure And Written Expression

______ built in 1931, the Empire State Building has actually shrunk six inches.

____ farmers extra hours of light by which to harvest crops before frost and winter come.

Caffeine is primarily consumed in coffee and tea, _____ also found in cocoa, cola, and other soft drinks

Change, both good and bad, can create stress, ______, if sufficiently severe, can lead to illness.

_______ walking properly and has enough area to walk in, it should wear down the hoof as it regrows.

The reservoir created by the Three Gorges Dam will flood almost 1400 villages, ______ to relocate the villages’ nearly two million inhabitants

______ can consume 30000 plant species, 90percent of the human diet consists of only 20 of the available species

Further changes in the celestial constellations ______ the International Astronomical Union has been formed

Gustave Eiffel is famous for building the Eiffel Tower, ______ for designing the framework of the Statue of Liberty.

A little fat is essential for humans______ retain body heat, gives muscles energy, and keeps skin soft.

Elephant poaching ______ the international ban on ivory was established.

______ perceives the color black provided there is a complete lack of stimulation of the retina.

Like a mountain, the Empire State Building creates its own updrafts, ______ have been observed to fall up.

______ dugout canoes where the floodplains have dried into long stretches of dry sand.

When San Diego’s summer heat has withered most flowers, ______ bloom.

Although Congress passed an income tax law in1894, in 1895 ______ the law unconstitutional.

Parent flamingos lose their intense pink coloring until ______.

Champagnecan be purchased by Balthazar, ______ cannot be purchased in this amount.

_____ has a beautiful red coat, the red panda is called “hun-ho” or “fire fox” in China.

______ long enough, every Down’s syndrome individual gets Alzheimer’s disease.

The Great Plains in the Midwest of the United States _______ a rich, fertile farming area.

______ runs parallel to the coast of California for more than 600 miles.

________, one of the most famous presidents, was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.

The _______, the first daily newspaper in the United States, first appeared in 1793.

________ alcoholism are the slow destruction of the liver and possible death.

The Mayflower Compact, signed by the Pilgrims upon their arrival in Massachusetts in 1620, ______ their political and religious beliefs.

In a triathlon, the ______, bike, and run.

Red Ribbon Week, a national campaign to keep young people from using drugs, ______.

The Statue of Liberty, completed in Paris in 1884, _______ in New York Harbor in 1886.

By 1870, over 30 nations ______ their own postage stamps.

Humans living at high elevations ______ to the lower of oxygen in the air by producing more red blood corpuscles.

______, an author probably most famous for his tales of terror, also dabbled in some science fiction.

The tea plant, an evergreen shrub pruned to three to five feet high, ______ mild, semitropical climate in which to grow.

During the Middle Ages, ______, large sets of bells with as many as 70 bells, first became popular.

The _______ during an earthquake are caused by seismic waves.

The radiation piercing the atmosphere ______ of tanning or burning in humans.

Thomas Jefferson, _______ a personally designed and constructed lap-top desk, wrote the Declaration of Independence in the summer of 1776.

______, Jesse Owens won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin.

On November 19, 1863, Abraham Lincoln, speaking from notes on an old ________ the famous Gettysburg Address in only two minutes time.

John Butterfield ______ the Southern Overland Mail Company with two stagecoaches in 1858.