Study the following passages taken from the text paying attention to the highlighted words. Try to guess the meaning of these words.

1. Land is affected by laws that regulate the orderly transfer of real estate.

a) made especially for smb

b) having to be done

c) well arranged

2. Land is the earth's surface extending downward to the center of the earth…

a) top part of smth

b) flat part of smth

c) obvious part of smth or smb

3. The term real estate includes also anything that is permanently affixed to the land.

a) fixed smth damaged

b) fixed one thing to another

c) put smth in an order

4. Items attached to the land by a root system are considered natural attachments.

a) connected

b) joined enclosed

c) in love

5. Artificial attachments are normally those things that have been placed on the land by people.

a) natural

b) not sincere

c) made by people

6. Improvements may be embedded in the land…

a) fixed firmly into a substance

b) down below the surface of a liquid substance

c) put into the ground and covered

7. This term broadens the definition of real estate to include the bundle of legal rights...

a) a number of things held together

b) a group of things dealt with at the same time

c) set of things that have been designed to fit inside each other

2. Read the following text. What is the product/service the real estate business deals with? What are the differences in the meanings of the terms ‘land’, ‘real estate’ and ‘real property’?

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