| The National Maritime Museum is set in | |
B12 | the ___________________ surroundings of | BEAUTY |
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| Greenwich park. | |
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| Within the complex of the museum there | |
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B13 | is a wide _________________ of objects, | VARY |
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| displays and paintings. The collections | |
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| relate to the shipping, astronomy | |
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B14 | and ____________________. | NAVIGATE |
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| The museum tells the story of figures of great | |
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B15 | ____________________ to Britain’s history, | IMPORTANT |
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| such as Lord Nelson and captain James Cook. | |
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| Galleries and exhibitions are often updated | |
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B16 | to bring back into view __________________ | DIFFER |
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| parts of the huge hidden collections of the | |
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B17 | museum which is _______________ all over | FAME |
| the country. | |
В18 | This visit will be an ___________________ | FORGET |
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| experience. | |
Mrs Garstin was a hard, cruel, managing and ambitious woman. Coming to Hong |
Kong on her marriage, she found it hard to reconcile herself to the fact that her social |
position was | A21 | _______________ by her husband’s occupation. |
Of course everyone was very kind, and for two or three months they went out to |
parties almost every night, but she understood quickly that as the wife of a |
bacteriologist she was of no particular consequence. |
“It’s too absurd,” she told her husband. “There’s hardly anyone here that one would |
bother about for five minutes at home”. |
“It is rather funny when you think of all the people who used to come to our house at |
home that here we should be | A22 | _______________ like dirt,” she said, |
laughing in | A23 | _______________ that what she said might not seem snobbish. |
She was the daughter of a solicitor in Liverpool, and Bernard Garstin had met her |
there. He had seemed then a young man of | A24 | _______________ and her |
father said he would go far, but he hadn’t. |
He was painstaking, industrious and capable, but he had not the will to advance |
himself. Mrs Garstin despised him. But she recognized that she could only achieve |
success through him, and she set herself to drive him on the way she desired to go. |
She discovered that if she wanted him to do something which his sensitiveness |
revolved against she had only to give him no peace and eventually, exhausted, he |
would give | A25 | ________________. |
Still he made no headway as a leader. But he | A26 | _______________ |
any disappointment he may have felt, and if he reproached his wife it was in his |
heart. |
His daughters had never looked upon him as anything but a source of income; and |
now, understanding that through his | A27 | _______________ money was less |
plentiful, the indifference they had felt for him was tinged with contempt. |
He was a stranger to them, but because he was their father they | A28 | __________ |
it for granted that he should love and cherish them. |
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