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in the jewellery market because they recycle materials. Reading and understanding
2 Choose the best answer to the questions.
1 What happens when Gina Cowen goes looking for glass on a beach? (a) She gets bitten by crabs. (b) She gets burnt.
(Yes, she says she burns her shoulders.)
(c) She always finds a better piece than the last time. (d) She finds time passes slowly.
(No, ―she loses her sense of time‖ means that time passes very quickly so she is not conscious of how it passes.)
2 Why is red glass special compared to other types of glass? (a) It‘s smoother.
(No, sea glass of any colour can be smooth over the years.) (b) It‘s probably older.
(Yes, Cowen says there is a strong chance that it could be centuries old.) (c) It‘s more beautiful. (d) It‘s harder to find.
3 What does Cowen do with most of the jewellery she makes? (a) She sells it to private customers.
(Yes, the passage says ―she works mostly to commission‖.) (b) She exhibits it in galleries. (c) She keeps it in her room. (d) She sells it in a London shop.
(Well, some of her designs were sold in London Liberty, but she sells most of her designs privately.)
4 When did Cowen get interested in sea glass?
(a) When she wrote an article about it for a newspaper. (b) When she saw a collection in a glass cabinet. (c) While walking along a beach in South Africa.
(Yes, she found some glass there and started a collection.) (d) When she found out about the Victorian glass industry. (No, she found out about this later in Britain.) 5 Where does the best sea glass come from? (a) South Africa.
(b) Liberty in London. (c) Fiji and Majorca.
(Cowen has good sea glass from these islands, but it seems that the best is from British beaches.) (d) Beaches in England.
(Yes, Seaham Beach in Britain is her ―favourite hunting ground‖ and her Victorian sea-glass collection
from British beaches is ―most stunning‖, so the implication is that, for Cowen, British beaches are
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where the best sea glass comes from.)
6 Why will sea glass become rarer than diamonds? (a) People will stop making glass.
(b) It will eventually be transformed into sand. (c) More and more glass is being recycled.
(Yes, this means that old glass is made into new glass instead of being dumped in the sea. As a result,
sea glass will become rare.)
(d) People will be prepared to pay a lot of money for it. 7 What did a 15-year-old girl manage to do? (a) She sold her collection of sea glass on eBay.
(b) She sold photographs of her collection of sea glass.
(No, she took photos in order to illustrate the collection to help to sell the sea glass – she didn‘t sell the photos.)
(c) She sold Cowen some sea glass for more than it was worth.
(Yes, the girl sold it on eBay and Cowen says she paid too much for it.) (d) She collected a lot of sea glass on a school trip.
8 Why is sea glass more ecological than diamonds and gold? (a) Getting it doesn‘t damage the environment.
(Yes, the passage refers to serious ecological problems with extracting gold and mining diamonds, whereas because sea glass is waste material collecting and using it is actually clearing up the beach
environment.)
(b) It can be used for a variety of purposes. (c) It is a naturally occurring product.
(No, sea glass does not occur naturally. it is glass that has been dumped into the sea by people as rubbish.)
(d) It can be recycled more easily. Dealing with unfamiliar words
3 Match the words in the box with their definitions.
1 to become or to make something become active, successful, or popular again (revive) 2 very impressive or beautiful (stunning)
3 to hang something from something else (suspend) 4 a formal agreement to get married (engagement)
5 the way that the level of the sea regularly rises and falls during the day (tide) 6 to be in charge of something or to be in a position of power (preside) 7 the process of getting rid of something (disposal) 8 very bright (luminous)
4 Complete the sentences with the correct form of the words in Activity 3. 1 To celebrate our engagement we had dinner in the best restaurant in Paris. 2 The lamp was suspended from an iron hook in the middle of the ceiling. 3 Someone needs to think about the disposal of all these waste products.
4 I‘ve been asked to preside at next week‘s meeting of the recycling committee.
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