VOCABULARY Match nine of the words below with meanings 1-8. Check the meaning of all the words.

Describing houses and rooms

1. uncomfortably small

2. very small

3. quiet

4. far from other places

5. modern

6. in a good location

7. in very bad condition

8. large (two words)

B. VOCABULARY AND GRAMMAR

 III  Match the words with their definitions.

 IV  Fill in the gaps with the words in the box.

      1.   There is a …………………. that human ageing may be delayed or even reserved.

      2.   The experiments have …………………. that there is a strong relationship between family background and children’s academic success.

      3.   Today scientific progress is mostly defined in terms of technological ……………….

      4.   There are a number of technological …………………. in our classroom.

      5.   The …………………. of the research will make great contributions to reforming our educational system.

      6.   To make sure that the first results weren’t just an accident, you need to repeat your …………………. several times.

 V  Choose the best answer (A, B, C or D).

      1.   I am interested in natural science ………………. like Chemistry and Physics.

            A. subjects                  B. objects                    C. topics                      D. themes

      2.   Steam engine has been known as a remarkable ………….. in science and technology.

            A. breakdown             B. break-up                 C. breakthrough          D. outbreak

      3.   We will ………………. chips in the brain to control devices in the future.

            A. implant                   B. add                         C. include                    D. attach

      4.   The ………………. of penicillin, one of the world’s first antibiotics, marks a true turning point in human history

            A. generation              B. exploration             C. invention                D. discovery

      5.   The group of doctors has spent 8 months …......…. the side - effects of this new vaccine.

            A. having examined                                        B. to examine

            C. examining                                                   D. to have examined

      6.   The doctor said that this disease ………………. prevented by vaccine.

            A. can                          B. can be                     C. could                      D. could be

      7.   Her teacher told her that there ………….. still room for her improvement in her work.

            A. has been                 B. had been                 C. is                             D. was

      8.   A mechanical calculator which could do additions or subtractions very quickly was ………………. by Little Pascal.

            A. found out               B. discovered              C. found                      D. invented

      9.   Science and technology have  ………………. the life safe, secure and comfortable.

            A. transformed            B. made                       C. done                       D. changed

      10. Facebook was built on the ….............. of earlier social network sites like MySpace and Bebo.

            A. succeed                  B. successful               C. successfully            D. success

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Study: False News Spreads Faster and Farther than Truth

A study has found that false news stories posted on Twitter travel much faster and reach far more people than true ones. The new research also showed that people – not automated robots sometimes called “bots” – were mostly responsible for spreading false news.

The study was done by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) Media Lab. Results were reported in the publication Science. It was one of the biggest efforts yet to study the effects of social media on the spread of real and false news. Twitter cooperated with the study. The company gave the MIT Media Lab access to its data and provided money for the project.

The team researched stories posted on Twitter since the service began in 2006. It identified and examined more than 126,000 stories tweeted by about 3 million people through the end of 2016. The stories chosen had been investigated by various independent fact-checking organizations to decide whether they were true, false, or a mix of both. Nearly two-thirds of stories were found to be false, while about one-fifth were true. The rest were mixed.

III. Complete the following sentences with the correct form of the words in brackets.

1. There are many ................................... differences between the two communities. (culture)

2. Street are decorated with........... lights and red banners. (colour)

4. There were lively.............. New Year all over the town. (celebrate)

5. When we heard she’d got the job, we all went off for a .................... drink. (celebrate)

6. It is.............. in America to eat turkey on Thanksgiving Day. (tradition)

7. What forms of.......... do you participate in during the festival? (entertain)

8. The hall looked very ............with its Christmas tree. (festival)

9. Her eyes were......... wide with when she heard the news. (excite)

10. The Chinese New Year marks the...........................of spring and the start of the Lunar New Year. (begin)

EX 3: Complete the following sentences with the correct form of the words in brackets.

1. There are many ................................... differences between the two communities. (culture)

2. Street are decorated with lights and red banners. (colour)

3. Hoa is a good singer. She always ……….very well (perform)

4. There were lively New Year all over the town. (celebrate)

5. When we heard she’d got the job, we all went off for a .................... drink. (celebrate)

6. It  is in  America  to  eat  turkey  on  Thanksgiving  Day. (tradition)

7. What forms of _____do you participate in during the festival? (entertain)

8. The hall looked very _____with its Christmas tree. (festival)

9. Her eyes were wide with when she heard the news. (excite)

10. The Chinese New Year marks the...........................of spring and the start of the Lunar New Year. (begin)

II. Complete the following sentences with the correct form of the words in brackets.
1. Street are decorated with ________________ lights and red banners. (colour)
2. There are many ________________ differences between the two communities. (culture)
3. She gave a wonderful ___ as the Iron Lady – the former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. (perform)
4. There were lively New Year ________________ all over the town. (celebrate)
5. It is ________________ in America to eat turkey on Thanksgiving Day. (tradition)
6. What forms of ________________ do you participate in during the festival? (entertain)
7. The hall looked very ________________ with its Christmas tree. (festival)
8. Her eyes were wide with ________________ when she heard the news. (excite)
9. The Chinese New Year marks the ________________ of spring and the start of the Lunar New Year. (begin)

II. Complete the following sentences with the correct form of the words in brackets.
1. Street are decorated with ________________ lights and red banners. (colour)
2. There are many ________________ differences between the two communities. (culture)
3. She gave a wonderful ___ as the Iron Lady – the former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. (perform)
4. There were lively New Year ________________ all over the town. (celebrate)
5. It is ________________ in America to eat turkey on Thanksgiving Day. (tradition)
CAN LAM GAP

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions.

How is the news different from entertainment? Most people would answer that news is real but entertainment is fiction. However, if we think more carefully about the news, it becomes clear that the news is not always real. The news does not show us all the events of the day, but stories from a small number of chosen events. The creation of news stories is subject to specific constraints, much like the creation of works of fiction. There are many constraints, but three of the most important ones are. commercialism, story formulas, and sources. Newspapers, radio, and TV stations are businesses, all of which are rivals for audiences and advertising revenue. The amount of time that the average TV station spends on news broadcasts has grown steadily over the last fifty years - largely because news is relatively cheap to produce, yet sells plenty of advertising. Some news broadcasts are themselves becoming advertisements. For example, during one week in 1996 when the American CBS network was airing a movie about the sinking of the Titanic, CBS news ran nine stories about that event (which had happened 84 years before). The ABC network is owned by Disney Studios, and frequently runs news stories about Mickey Mouse. Furthermore, the profit motive drives news organizations to pay more attention to stories likely to generate a large audience, and to shy away from stories that may be important but dull. This pressure to be entertaining has produced shorter, simpler stories. more focus on celebrities than people of substance, more focus on gossip than on news, and more focus on dramatic events than on nuanced issues.

As busy people under relentless pressure to produce, journalists cannot spend days agonizing over the best way to present stories. Instead, they depend upon certain story formulas, which they can reuse again and again. One example is known as the inverted pyramid. In this formula, the journalist puts the most important information at the beginning of the story, than adds the next most important, and so on. The inverted pyramid originates from the age of the telegraph, the idea being that if the line went dead halfway through the story, the journalist would know that the most crucial information had at least been relayed. Modern journalists still value the formula for a similar reason. Their editors will cut stories if they are too long. Another formula involves reducing a complicated story into a simple conflict. The best example is "horse race" election coverage. Thorough explication of the issues and the candidates' views is forbiddingly complex. Journalists therefore concentrate more on who is winning in the opinion polls, and whether the underdog can catch up in the numbers than on politicians' campaign goals.

Sources are another constraint on what journalists cover and how they cover it. The dominant sources for news are public information officers in businesses and government offices. The majority of such officers try to establish themselves as experts who are qualified to feed information to journalists. How do journalists know who is an expert? In general, they don't. They use sources not on the basis of actual expertise, but on the appearance of expertise and the willingness to share it. All the major news organizations use some of the same sources (many of them anonymous), so the same types of stories always receive attention. Over time, the journalists may even become close friends with their sources, and they stop searching for alternative points of view. The result tends to be narrow, homogenized coverage of the same kind.

Which of the following best expresses the essential information in the highlighted sentences "Thorough explication of the issues.... than on politicians' campaign goals. " in the passage?

A. Journalists focus on poll numbers instead of campaign issues because it is easier

B. Journalists are more interested in issues and candidates' views, but viewers are more interested in who is winning

C. During an election campaign, journalists mainly concentrate on "horse race" coverage

D. Candidates' views and how they are explained by journalists can have a big effect on poll numbers