(Test 2 week 17)

Task 1 skip

Task 2 skip

Task 3
A. T, F, T, F
B. Shelter for the Homeless, an issue of six stamps, building homes, information, the UN, governments, institutions, worldwide

Task 4 skip

Task 5
A. medals table
a. USA; gold 39, silver 25, bronze 33, total 97
b. Russia; gold 32, silver 28, bronze 28, total 88
c. China; gold 28, silver 16, bronze 15, total 59
B. F, T, F, T, F, F

Task 6 skip

Task 7
high, downturn, investment, reforms, terrorism, slowdown, 7.3 percent, 10, 8, similar, cars, houses, tours, internal, money, markets, barriers, domestic

Task 8 skip

Task 9
1. He was a suspect in connection with the “I Love You” computer virus that has damaged millions of computers worldwide.
2. They seized the telephone, computer magazines, and wiring.
3. No.
4. a Swedish teenager who was a computer whiz

Task 10
A. 1D, 2A, 3C, 4B
B. C, B, D, A
C. fallen, criticize, sensitive, confidence, probe, question, independent, so, forward, principal, broadcaster, envied, cherished
D. skip

Task 11 dictation

Newspapers are one of the main sources from which we learn what is going on-in world politics, science, local government, the arts, fashion, food, education, and sports. The papers we choose show our interests and usually the politics which we believe in. There are nine national daily newspapers in Britain, of which five are tabloids and four are quality papers. Do these newspapers really serve the people they are written for? Many people question the objectivity of newspapers. How objective are they? We might be better able to judge if we understand how a newspaper is produced. Reporters, of course, are the source from which the facts must come, but there are many other people who are involved in and influence newspapers.

Part 2

Speaking to researchers and experts on climate, health, and energy here at the summit, one gets the distinct impression that this is a science conference disguised as a political meeting. Every one of what the UN calls its five “we have” themes-water, energy, health, agriculture, and biodiversity-requires the world’s scientific community to come up with the means to achieve sustainable development, and researchers meeting here in Johannesburg know it. Many express dismay that too much of the summit was dominated by political speeches and that not enough had been heard from the researchers whose discoveries and inventions will help shape sustainable development into the future. Geoff Sacks, the special advisor to the UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, says major investment to develop new technologies is needed. There’s also an urgent need for better monitoring systems to keep track of the earth’s dwindling biodiversity and water resources. And the chief scientific advisor to the World Bank, Bob Watson, told me the agreements to allow scientists to move forward on sustainable development are already there. The conventions on biological diversity, on desertification; agreements on forests, climate change, and water; are all in place-some were agreed back in the 1980s. What’s needed now, he said, is the financial commitment, especially from rich states, to make those agreements work.