Ex2. 1. Exceeded/ surpassed 2. Up to 3. Fell 4. In line Ex3. 1. High 2. Wildest 3. General 4. Clear 5. Unrealistic 6. Different Ex4. 1. In 2. To 3. Up 4. Below 5. With 6. Of 7. Up 8. For EXPERIENCE Ex1. 1. Have 2. Learn 3. Gained 4. Brings 5. Share 6. Based on Ex2. 1. E 2. D 3. B 4. F 5. A 6. C Ex3. 1. C 2. D 3. A 4. B Ex4. 1. Traumatic 2. Bitter 3. Satisfying 4. Memorable 5. Fascianating 6. Formative 7. Exhiliarating EXPLANATION Ex1. 1. Hear 2. Gave 3. Owe 4. Demand 5. Defies 6. Think of Ex2. 1. A very detailed 2. The most likely, any other possible 3. An immediate 4. No apparent 5. Convincing 6. Logical Ex3. 1. A word of 2. By way of 3. Some sort of Ex4. 1. C 2. E 3. D 4. A 5. B
miles (300,000 kilometers) per second takes just over one second to travel between the earth and the moon; light from the sun takes about eight minutes to reach the earth. Light from our nearest neighbor in space, a star called Proxima Centauri, which is the sun that is closest to our own sun, travels for 4.5 years before it reaches the earth. This is how vast the space is that surrounds us. And then there is the intergalactic space, whose vastness defies all comprehension. Light from the galaxy closest to our own, the Andromeda Galaxy, takes 2.4 million years to reach us. Isn't it amazing that your body is just as spacious as the universe? So your physical body, which is form reveals itself as essentially formless when you go deeper into it. It becomes a doorway into inner space. Although inner space has no form, it is intensely alive. That “empty space”
Spielberg's E . T dies before our eyes but is reborn through alien magic and a boy's love. S i r Lancelot, remorseful over having k i l l e d a gallant knight, prays h i m back to life. C l i n t Eastwood's character in Unforgiven is beaten senseless by a sadistic sheriff and hovers at the edge of death, thinking he's seeing angels. Sherlock H o l m e s , apparently k i l l e d with Professor M o r i a r i t y in the plunge over Reichenbach Falls, defies death and returns transformed and ready for more ad ventures. Patrick Swayze's character, murdered in Ghost, learns how to cross back through the veil to protect his wife and finally express his true love for her. CHANGE Heroes don't just visit death and come home. T h e y return changed, transformed. N o one can go through an experience at the edge of death without being changed in some way. In the center of An Officer and a Gentleman, Richard Gere survives a