In the fragments “some recent data suggests that as economic growth has picked up” (lines 47-48) and “Beijing has high ambitions for a much cleaner energy economy, driven not least by the levels of air pollution in many of the major cities” (lines 49-51), picked up and driven by mean, respectively,
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In the fragments “some recent data suggests that as economic growth has picked up” (lines 47-48) and “Beijing has high ambitions for a much cleaner energy economy, driven not least by the levels of air pollution in many of the major cities” (lines 49-51), picked up and driven by mean, respectively,
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In terms of numerical reference, one concludes that
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Q705569
Concerning the renewable energy industry, the author affirms that it
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Q705568
According to the last paragraph, the author believes that the
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In the phrase “with many others carelessly throwing food away” the phrasal verb throwing food away could be replaced by
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Based on text CB1A5AAA, judge the following items.
The author of the text suggests that the old-fashioned way of sending messages on postcards can be as dangerous as sending them through cyber-café computers.
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Based on text CB1A5AAA, judge the following items.
The author is critical of people who should be, but are not, thankful for the work intelligence and security agents do.
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Based on text CB1A5BBB, judge the following items.
The author defends the idea that the fight against organized and sexual crimes has diverted invaluable but scarce resources from what should be America’s secret services’ main goal: the combat against terrorism.
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Based on text CB1A5BBB, judge the following items.
The idea expressed in “Counter-terrorism (…) is pre-emptive” (l.31) can be also found in the following proverb: It is better to prevent than to cure.
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Based on text CB1A5BBB, judge the following items.
GCHQ experts decided to stop producing academic papers about code-breaking techniques only in the two last decades of the last century.