Learning a trade when you’re older can improve job prospects. ____________, it gives people a sense of achievement.

Tick the sentence which follows logically from the first sentence.

Subjects such as philosophy and sociology are popular choices at degree level.

Studying when you’re older should not be a problem.

Colleges recognise that not everyone can physically attend a course of study.

Going back to studying after a long gap can be problematic.

Distance learning has been greatly helped by the internet.

A recent article in Era magazine suggested ways to reduce inflation. The article suggested that the president reduce the federal budget. ___________________, it suggested that the government reduce federal, state, and local taxes.

The same article said that the causes of inflation were easy to find. ___________________, the cure for inflation was not so easy to prescribe.

Era also suggested that rising wages were one of the primary causes of inflation. ___________________, the government should take action to control wages.

In physics, the weight of an object is the gravitational force with which earth attracts it; ___________________, if a man weighs 150 pounds, this means that Earth pulls him down with the force of 150 pounds.

The farther away from earth a person is, the less the gravitational force of earth. ___________________ a man weighs less when he is 50,000 miles from earth than when he is only 5,000 miles away.

A tsunami is a tidal wave produced by an earthquake on the ocean floor. The waves are very long and low in open water, but when they get close to land, they encounter friction because the water is shallow. ___________________, the waves increase in height and can cause considerable damage when they finally reach land.