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2 unrrs 85 AND 86 Complete the article, using suitable forms of the words in brackets. ] Fake fashions (0) It. is. said that... (it say / that) most designer goods sold in street markets these days are fakes. It isn't surprising; most designers only sell their goods through upmarket shops. There is even more of a problem on the Internet. In June 2008 a French court found eBay guilty of allowing fake goods to be sold on their website. The court (1)... (have / eBay / pay) €40 million to the luxury brands Louis Vuitton and Christian Dior in compensation. Of course, the people who buy these items often don’t know that they are fakes. A man who paid £500 for a ‘Rolex watch’ only discovered it was a fake when he (2)... (have / it / repair) by a local jeweller. People often find that clothes are fakes when they @ (need / wash). They wash them and discover that they shrink or the colour changes ~ something that would never happen with a real designer product. c (t/ often / argue) that designer brands are much too expensive. People don't like paying such high prices and don’t seem to care that designers are losing money. But the truth is that buying fake goods does have serious consequences because the people who deal in these fakes are often serious criminals. They (5) : a (have / the goods / make) in small factories in the Far East or South America and then import them to Europe and the USA, Some of the people making the goods (6).......... . (think / be) children who work in terrible conditions for almost no money. They are the ones who pay the real price for our fake designer clothes. 6 Complete the text using the phrases from the box. A plane carrying 15 members of the government to a conference in Brussels (w l-Kngwin.t0. have. experienced a small-scale fire earlier this moming. The plane (2), about 20 minutes into its journey when the fire occurred in the luggage area. It @). how the plane caught fire, but initial eye- witness accounts confirm that a trail of smoke @ coming from the under-carriage. The fire © rapidly under control, but the pilot ©. make an emergency landing. Five people O. treated for shock. The plane ®. with business people flying to Belgium. All 209 passengers (9). stay behind for questioning after landing at a military airport in northern France. Police (10). treating the incident as suspicious.

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