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Key to sentence combinationCABLE CAR1.The empty cable car approaches, clanging its bell and swaying as thoughslightly drunk.ORAs the empty car approaches, it clangs its bell and sways as though slightlydrunk.2. The harsh and metallic grinding of the brakes drowns out the babbling ofpeople waiting in line.3. Most of them are tourists adorned with sunglasses and cameras who pressexcitedly to secure a good view.4.When one man whose stomach is swollen from too many lager beers refusesto move from a good vantage point and forces other passengers to squeeze past, he angers them.OROne man whose stomach is swollen from too many lager beers refuses tomove from a good vantage point and forces other passengers to squeeze past,which angers them.5. After the tourists are all crammed inside, the cable car lurches awayawkwardly from the station, heading down to Fisherman’s Wharf.6. At Fisherman’s Wharf it will pick up another batch of impatient passengersand struggle back up the hill.ROLLER COASTER1-3 The roller coaster, which made its appearance in 1884, is still one of the most exciting rides in an amusement park.4-9 Even the newer and fancier rides, which are like log flumes and screaming demons, fail to draw the crowds who line up to ride the roller coaster.10-12 Both the young and the old seem to enjoy the traditional roller coaster.12-23 Its open cars and steep inclines combine the simplicity of railroad with the sudden and stomach churning plunge of an Alpine ski jump and the winding swirl of a run for bobsleds.24-29 When the coaster starts slowly like a train pulling away from a station, the passengers who have waited in line for over an hour ready themselves for the first hill.30-32 The cars, whose wheels are clicking every inch of the way, jerk hesitantly as the coaster climbs to the summit.33-37 The passengers who have been waiting for this moment and are poised at the peak, brace themselves for the exhilarating downhill plunge.38-40 The cars dive, whipping them into a frenzy of screams and laughter.41-47 The coaster sweeps through the first valley and races on to the other dips and turns in a continuous flow of motion, which leaves the thrill seekers, whose knuckles are white from gripping the retaining bars, hanging in midair.48-53 Then the cars glide smoothly onto the last straightaway when the brakes gradually stop the ride that never fails to please and excite riders.THE COLONEL1-8 The artillery shells boomed in the distance, shaking the ground slightly and making bursts of light on the dark horizon.9-12 Tired of looking at maps and planning the attack on the next day, the colonel walked away from the headquarters.13-16 The colonel passed a group of young soldiers lying under a tree in the dark. 17-22 One of the soldiers was playing a harmonica, whose wounds were a strangely cheerful counterpoint to the ugly and menacing boom in the distance.23-26Silent and half asleep, the other soldiers lay around him like the spokes on the wheel.ORThe other soldiers lay around him like the spokes on the wheel, silent andhalf asleep.27-28 Not wishing to interrupt their rest, the colonel walked quickly by them.29-36 He stopped farther down the road and sat on a rock, listening to the cheerful and high-pitched tunes interrupted by the sporadic and distant boom.THE CHILDREN’S CRUSADE1-4 In northern France bands of children assembled under the leadership of Stephen of Cloyes, a shepherd boy who promised to lead them across the seato the Holy land.5-9 They wandered through the French countryside to Marseilles, a port on the Mediterranean, only to find that the sea did not open to let them pass.10-12 Some of the children returned home, but some fell into the hands of unscrupulous sea captains, who sold them into slavery in North Africa.13-14 The Children’s Crusade began and ended in 1212.15-20 It was a movement of children from France and Germany who were led to believe that like the children of Israel before them they could recovermiraculously the Holy land.21 Not a single child from either country ever reached the Holy land.22-27 In Germany, twenty thousand children mostly from the lower classes left their homes to follow Nicholas, a peasant boy and a visionary from Cologne.28-30 Nicholas believed that the Holy Sepulchre, Christ’s tomb, could be rescued from the Muslims only by crusaders who were innocent and pure of heart.31-35 Having struggled through the Rhine V alley and southern Germany, across the Alps and into Italy, Nicholas and his followers finally arrived at Genoa.ORNicholas and his followers struggled through the Rhine V alley and southernGermany, across the Alps and into Italy before they finally arrived at Genoa.36-39 Only one-third of the children survived the march because some died of died or hunger, and some were kidnapped by slave merchants.40-42 Those who survived the march either failed to find passage across the Mediterranean Sea or were shipwrecked during their journey.FISHING1-5 The boys leaned against the willow tree next to the steam, (their) fishing poles resting on sticks, (and their) eyes gazing at the bobbers floating on the ripples.6-8 While the morning had been cool and comfortable, the afternoon was growing sultry.9-12 Both boys had taken great pleasure in planning the trip and looked forward to Friday, their only day off from school all spring.13-18 The bass not having been biting，the boys spent most of the morning talkingand occasionally dozing off to dream of catching fish.19-24 Instead of taking the lines, the fish periodically teased the boys, nibbling at the bait, jumping within arms’ reach of the boys on the bank.25-28 Although the boys tried changing bait, rods and places, nothing worked.29-32 One tiny bluegill did strike late in the afternoon, but it fell off just as it was drawn near the bank.33That was the end.34-41 Their stomachs crying for food, their back burning from too much sun, and their legs stiff from sitting, the two boys gathered their gear and headed formhome.。