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The British Empire was once home to third of the 【M1】______
world’s population.But，with the return of Hong Kong and its six
million inhabitants to China，only 180，000people in 12populated
territories now themselves as British colonial subjects.【M2】______
Britain’s imperial expansion，which continued for 400years，
was motivated by the desire to acquire the wealth，and to 【M3】______
maintain the British navy’s control of the seas.Today，that flow
of wealth has reversed and most of the ’dependent territories’，【M4】______
as these colonies are known，require some financial support from Britain.
It was with the granting of independence to India in 1947Britain【M5】______
started to dismantle its empire.It was relative easy to give independence【M6】______
to the larger colonies -indeed，most campaigned vigorously for self -rule—
but the small dependencies，which were less economically viable，preferred【M7】______
to remain beyond British rule.【M8】______
Most are still unwilling to cut these old ties，chiefly for financial
reasons.Since 1990，Britain has provided its dependencies with 153million
in aid，and for many this money is a lifeline.Even Britain’s rich【M9】______
territory ，Bermuda，wants to maintain its links with the UK.In
a referendum in 1995voters overwhelmingly rejected dependence.【M10】______
Bermuda is Britain’s oldest colony and it earns much of its income
through banking and other financial services.

The job of check-in clerks at Heathrow，or any airport，【M1】______
is not a glamorous or particularly satisfactory one.The work 【M2】______
is mechanical and repetitive：cheek the ticket against
the passenger list，tear out the ticket from its folder，
allocate the chair，etc.The only variety in this routine occurs 【M3】______
when things go wrong—when flights are delayed or cancelled
because of bad weather or strikes or technical hitches.Then
the checker bores the full brunt of the customers’fury 【M4】______
without able to do anything to alleviate it.【M5】______
Cheryl Summerbee，a checker for British Airways in
Terminal One at Heathrow，did not complain of boredom.
Though passengers who passed in her hands took 【M6】______
little notice of her，she took a lot of notice of them.She
injected interest into her job by making quick assessment 【M7】______
of their characters and treating them accordingly.Those
who were rude or arrogant or otherwise unpleasant she put in
uncomfortable seats，near to the toilets.Seat allocation was 【M8】______
a fine and delicate art to her.
Summerbee was very much in favour of love.On the shelf under
her counter she kept a Bills and Moon romance to read in those slack
periods.She firmly believed that it was love that made the world go
around and she did her bit to keep the globe spinning on its axis 【M9】______
by her discreet careful management of the seating on British Airways【M10】______