Writing B2 - Skills Practice: Written Expression

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Writing B2 - Skills Practice: Written Expression

In addition to quitting smoking and controlling blood pressure and diet, people need to think about how ______________ stress to avert potentially fatal heart problems.

Rarely ________ now used for battle purposes.

Only recently _________ popular all over the country.

A motionless atom is colder than _________________.

According to a recent survey, were _________ of telecommuters to lose their jobs, they would look for other telecommuting positions.

In the sand of the northern California coast ____________ San Agustin, which is said to be loaded with gold.

When ______________ chest pain, some doctors recommend that they take one full 325- milligram aspirin.

Only in the Civil War ___________ killed or wounded.

There __________ called Epstein-Barr which leaves people feeling chronically fatigued and feeling as if they have a recurring case of the flu.

Lifestyle is more important __________ in a person’s lifespan.

There has been a string of recent technology advances aimed t building new engines which are more clean and efficient than _____________.

In the vessels of the vascular system of the giraffe _________ of valves that ensures a needed supply of blood to the head.

Should _________ help keeping their weight, blood pressure, pulse, and cholesterol down, swimming is an excellent activity.

A collision with another galaxy may be what _______, the Milky Way, may experience.

Scarcely __________ started building his theme park when he launched his first television program titled Disneyland.

Daylight saving time seems to reduce people’s exposure to crime, so were people to get home from work and school and complete more errands and chores in daylight, ____________ safer.

The hunting season for firearms is more restricted than _______ because hunting with firearms is more dangerous and less challenging.

Orthopedic and sports medicine specialists now realize that _________ people to get prolonged bed rest for acute and chronic back problems, they would heal less quickly.

Scientists now know that the lack of an embryonic thumb in birds is why ____________ almost impossible for birds and dinosaurs to be related.

There ________ launched in 1958 that fell back to Earth and burned up in the atmosphere.

In the halcyon days of the civil rights movement, a small group of dedicated lawyers, mostly black, ___________ carefully craft the strategy that led to the destruction of legal segregation.

The birth of swing music can be traced to Battle of the Bands competitions ____________ at the Savoy Ballroom in Harlem.

On October 28, 1886, the Statue of Liberty, a gift from the people of France, __________ in New York Harbor by President Cleveland.

While making the embarrassing mistake of wearing a scarlet garment instead of somber black, ___________, the atomic chemist and Quaker, discovered that he was color-blind.

_____________Lake Erie and the Hudson River, the Erie Canal opened in upstate New York in 1825.

Though racing toward the Milky Way galaxy at 300000 miles an hour, the Andromeda galaxy _________ with the Milky Way for about five billon years.

While ______________, Chu developed a way of trapping thousands of gas atoms using lasers.

If introduced into avocado groves, the seed and stem weevils, seed moth, and fruit fly __________ the avocado industry in California.

Although _____________ their jobs, a majority of workers expect to move on to other jobs within five years of starting their current jobs.

Most adults, including 78 percent of men and 61 percent of women, __________ that gender roles in marriage today are more equal than traditional.

While ____________ those who are not working members of the press, press pins provide access to a press box for media members.

_________________ New York and New Jersey, the George Washington Bridge opened to traffic in 1931.

While repositioning, cruise ships ___________ passengers for what is called a line voyage.

After ______ seven years to journey to Saturn, the spacecraft Cassini will spend four years exploring Saturn, its rings, and its icy moons.

Although applied for in October of 1793, Eli Whitney’s patent for his cotton gin ________ until March of the following year.

________________, honoring the African tradition of celebrating the harvest, is held December 16 through January 1 in the United States.

The four-character drama Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, __________ by Edward Albee, opened on Broadway.

_____________ famous civil rights leader, Martin Luther King, Jr. was named winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964.

The surgeon operating without delay on an inflamed appendix _______ a far more serious complication, which is the rupture of a germ-laden appendix.

Unless _____________ as injury-free as possible, older athletes can have their activity and quality of life affected.

_______________ is so perfectly with their environment is what makes Frank Lloyd Wright’s architecture so distinctive.

____________________ in the atmosphere is the temperature falling below freezing.

Subduction is the process _________ the ocean floor recycles itself.

The abundant grain harvest of North America can be credited to Norman Borlag, a little-known scientist ___________ modern strains of high-yield wheat.

Although seismologists know __________, they are unable to predict with accuracy when or where a tremor might occur.

Bees perform a complex dance ____________ other bees about the location of a good source of nectar.

Edmund Halley, who had discovered Halley’s comet in 1682, __________ before he could again see the comet whose return he had accurately predicted.

Some radioisotopes which ________________ as radioactive waste are now being used in experimental cancer therapies.

___________ floats or sinks is determined by its density rather than its weight.

_____________________ such a challenging science is that all theory is based on observations that cannot be replicated in a controlled environment.