24. Replace the noun development in the following sentences with its synonyms from the following list of words: evolution, result, construction, advancement, change, progress. 1. As the developments from the earthquake became clear, less loss of life than feared was found. 2. The housing development destroyed one of the last natural habitats of the Greater Spotted Woodpecker. 3. Her career development had accelerated with each promotion. 4. Darwin found some cases of accelerated development in some species on his travels. 5. The development of the factory over time caused the territory it was leasing to be increased on several occasions. 6. The development of flight is believed to have come from the development of land-based reptiles in the dinosaur era. 7. The development of fighter planes has reached such a level that human pilots are hardly able to pilot them.

Match the definition to the word for a better understanding of the paragraph. 1 money does not buy happiness or security. 2john ringling, one of the five brothers of the ringling brothers circus, started out in 1884 with a trained horse and a performing bear. 3for over forty years, he worked hard at the family enterprise, bought up smaller circuses, and imported new acts. 4in the 1920s, he was rated as one of the world's wealthiest men and owned every sizable circus in the country. 5over 5,000 people were on his payroll, and over 240 railroad cars were in his retinue each time the circus moved. 6at the time of his death, however, he was a nervous, unhappy man; he was also bankrupt and beset by lawsuits. 7his carefully built circus empire passed into alien hands. 8all those years of work had turned to dust. 1. business organization alien 2. group beset 3. without funds to pay debts retinue 4. troubled or harassed enterprise 5. strange; belonging to another person, place, country, or thing bankrupt