1. Read the paragraph below and write a summary in no more than 80 words. (10 marks)

South Korea is planning to move its capital from Seoul to a new site in the middle of the
country. Although Seoul has been the capital since the fourteenth century, the city of
over 20 million is now very crowded, and also close to the hostile armies of North Korea.
The new capital is planned to cost $45 billion, with construction finishing by 2012. There
is, however, strong opposition to the project, since similar schemes in other countries
have taken far longer and cost much more than originally planned. Australia, for
example, took over 70 years to finish building Canberra, while Nigeria has never
completed its planned new capital, Abuja. Both Brazil and Malaysia have found that the
building of new capitals (Brasilia and Putrajaya) can sharply increase the national
burden of debt.

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