As a result of the cut cables, germany lost its most secure long-distance communications system. the germans now had to rely on radio transmissions from their powerful wireless station at nauen, a few miles from berlin. which was exactly what the british military knew they would have to do. and once the germans began sending wireless messages, mi8, the british code breakers, began plucking them from the air. of course, all german correspondence was sent in a complicated cipher system, so that was when the hard work began for the code breakers of mi8. which type of structure is used in the text? problem and solution cause and effect chronological comparison and contrast

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