Duolingo English Test Practice Test 50

Elena decided to quit her job in finance and open a tiny bookshop, a choice her parents found baff. Pineapples grow from a single plant that takes nearly two years to produce one sin fruit. Instead of buying more shelves, why not donate the books you have never ope and gain some space at home? Cyclists in Copenhagen enjoy wide, separate lanes, which helps explain why nearly half of all commuters travel by bicy there. Unfortunately, the tickets for tonight's match were sold out within an hour of going on sa. Local councillors plan to plant five hundred trees along the main road to reduce noise and impr the air.

Hidden deep inside a mountain, one of the world's largest seed banks stores millions of samples from crops grown around the globe. Kept at extremely low temperatures, the seeds can remain via for decades or even centuries, offering a kind of insur policy against war, dise, or natural disa. Countries regularly send fresh samples of their local crop varie, ensu that a rare type of wheat or rice is never lost forever even if it disap from the fields where it once grew. Scientists occasionally with seeds to rest crops after confl have destroyed local farms and food supplies.

For thirty-eight years, Desmond delivered post on foot across the same hillside neighbourhood, and in that time he came to know its shortcuts better than anyone alive. He could cut through six different gardens, hop over two low fences and save nearly twenty minutes on his round, a route no map would ever show. Colleagues often Select…askedaskasking him to explain his route. Neighbours grew used to seeing him appear briefly through their back gardens, and most simply waved rather than asking why a postman was crossing their vegetable patch. Over the decades, Desmond delivered wedding invitations, exam results and, more than once, letters informing a family of a death, and he learned to read the weight of an envelope almost like a fortune teller. When a new sorting system threatened to reassign him to a van route on the other side of town, several residents wrote letters of protest to the postal service on his behalf. Management eventually relented, partly, Desmond suspects, because nobody else could complete his route in the time he did. His supervisor Select…keptkeepkeeping a photo of Desmond's medal on the office wall. He kept a small notebook of birthdays and anniversaries mentioned to him over the years, quietly Select…timingtimetimes his deliveries so a card might arrive exactly on the right day. Desmond retired last spring, and the sorting office has yet to Select…findfindsfinding anyone able to match his old delivery time.