The most common (1) for carrying out a detailed medical examination of a dead person – a post-mortem or autopsy – is when it is necessary to (2) the cause of death. In some circumstances, a doctor may be allowed to perform a post-mortem in pursuit of medical (3) The examination is usually performed by a pathologist, and (4) . dissection of the body, and tests done on blood, tissues and internal organs, but sometimes it is performed by a doctor.

Twelve hundred miles east of Australia (1) the islands of New Zealand. Long before they were (2) by Europeans, a Polynesian race of warriors, the Maoris, had sailed across the Pacific from the northeast and established a civilization (3) for the brilliance of its art and the strength of its military (4) When Captain Cook visited these islands towards the end of the 18’h century, he (5) that the population numbered about a hundred thousand.

With today’s incredible (1) of technological change a lot of age-old human skills may be getting left behind or (2) out. It’s not just that if you buy a laptop today it’s obsolete within (3) than a year and the rest of the world has moved on; it’s more that, as workers get more expensive and equipment gets cheaper, companies are spending more on machines rather than people. Fewer people, therefore, are being (4) in necessary skills.

Very intelligent people often make the (1) of assuming that other people’s minds work in the same way as theirs do. Economists, for example, create mathematically-based models on the (2) that people act rationally as far as their own economic 3 are concerned. You don’t have to look much further than family and friends to see how off the (4) this idea is. The problem with a lot of such scientifically-based theories is that they are not friendly to facts that don’t (5) the case.

Today we (1) Aesop’s fables with childhood, and the Victorians are largely (2) for that. There were at least seven separate (3) or retellings in the l91 h century, all targeted at children. Rewritten as parables, they were seen as an effective way of communicating Victorian morality. Yet, in antiquity, Aesop wasn’t read by children: (4) the talking animals and the sometimes childlike atmosphere of the tales, the setting was perceived at the time as being political.