Complete the article. MACHU PICHU
We (16) …………………………………………. (know) about Machu Picchu for over a century now. Archaeologists (17) …………………………………………. (discover) this ancient Inca site in 1911. They (18) …………………………………………. (write) books and newspaper articles about their discovery, so people all over the world (19) …………………………………………. (read) about the site and (20) …………………………………………. (want) to see it for themselves. The first tourists (21) …………………………………………. (start) to arrive in the 1960s. Now, more than half a century later, millions of visitors (22) …………………………………………. (be) to Machu Picchu. Tourists from all over the world (23) …………………………………………. (see) this marvellous Inca city with their own eyes.
In recent years, Machu Picchu (24) …………………………………………. (become) one of the most popular tourist attractions in the world. Luxury’ hotels have been built not far from the site, while in the late 1990s, the Peruvian government (25) ………………………………………. (allow) the construction of a cable car for visitors. However, all this (26) …………………………………………. (do) a lot of harm to the site. It (27) …………………………………………. (pollute) the atmosphere and caused noise pollution around the ancient city. In an effort to protect the site, UNESCO (28) …………………………………………. (make) Machu Picchu a World Heritage site in 1983.

The following line from "the story of an hour" provides mrs. mallard's view of marriage: "there would be no powerful will bending hers in that blind persistence with which men and women believe they have a right to impose a private will upon a fellow-creature."which word emphasizes male dominance in marriage?

Page 1: page 2: "o father, all my life your fame as a fighting man has echoed in my ears — your skill with weapons and the tricks of war — but what you speak of is a staggering thing, beyond imagining, for me. how can two men do battle with a houseful in their prime? " —the odyssey, homer based on the two passages, how has telemachus changed since he first met up with odysseus?

Select the correct answer. what opinion about russian society does leo tolstoy express in this excerpt from the death of ivan ilyich? the awful, terrible act of his dying was, he could see, reduced by those about him to the level of a casual, unpleasant, and almost indecorous incident (as if someone entered a drawing room defusing an unpleasant odour) and this was done by that very decorum which he had served all his life long. he saw that no one felt for him, because no one even wished to grasp his position. only gerasim recognized it and pitied him. and so ivan ilyich felt at ease only with him. he felt comforted when gerasim supported his legs (sometimes all night long) and refused to go to bed, saying: "don't you worry, ivan ilyich. i'll get sleep enough later on," or when he suddenly became familiar and exclaimed: "if you weren't sick it would be another matter, but as it is, why should i grudge a little trouble? " gerasim alone did not lie; everything showed that he alone understood the facts of the case and did not consider it necessary to disguise them, but simply felt sorry for his emaciated and enfeebled master. once when ivan ilyich was sending him away he even said straight out: "we shall all of us die, so why should i grudge a little trouble? "—expressing the fact that he did not think his work burdensome, because he was doing it for a dying man and hoped someone would do the same for him when his time came. a. the peasant class in nineteenth-century russia was full of honest and compassionate people. b. educated professionals gained influence in russian society in the nineteenth century. c. in the nineteenth century, middle-class russians were rich and well-educated. d. peasants more readily accepted unpleasant facts of life, while the middle class tried to deny them.