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For questions 1-8, read the text below and think of the word which best fits each gap. Use only one word in each gap.
When I first moved to a new city 1. work, I thought I would spend most weekends indoors, because I didn’t know anyone and the weather was often grey. Yet, after a few weeks, I started to notice how much daily life depended 2. small bits of technology that I had never really paid attention to before. The buses, for example, ran on a system 3. showed their exact location on an app, so I could decide whether to wait at the stop or walk to the next one. In the evenings, I would look up local events online, and although some of them were expensive, there were always free talks at the museum 4. concerts in the park. What surprised me most was how quickly I began to feel like a tourist in my own neighbourhood, as 5. each street had a story that belonged to the past as well as the present. One weekend, a friend from abroad came to stay, and we took a train to the coast, where the sea looked calm 6. the wind was strong enough to push sand into our shoes. We talked about climate change, which had seemed distant before, and we wondered what the beach might look like in twenty years, if people don’t act 7.. By the time we got back, it was late, but I knew I would explore 8..