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Vocabulary
1 Use the clues to comptete the puzzle.
r. a website that features someone's personal
thoughts and opinions
z. a book read on a computer or a handheld
device
3.
an online bulletin board
4.
electronic or computerized
5.
a device that people listen to for music
and news
6. a color publication that comes out weekly
or monthly
7.
a publication people read every day to learn
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the most recent news
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8. a communication network that hosts
websites around the wortd
9.
an online page that people visit for
information
Grammar
Complete the sentences using the passive.
Ex: Mr. Ford founded the company in
ry26.
The company
was
founded in
ry26.
r. The editor doesn't write many articles.
Not many articles
the editor.
z.
Japanese
workers made the product.
The product
Japanese
worl<ers.
3.
A group
of banks organized the meeting.
He turns off the machines at night.
The machines
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at night.
I have contacted the client.
The client
I Complete the form using the passive.
7.
8.
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The meeting
of banks.
The engineer has fixed the photocopier.
The photocopier has
5.
The player
signed the contract today.
The contract today.
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Reading
4a Read the article. Then check the best headline.
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1. Newspaper Celebrates its Birthday
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z Newspaper Lets Readers Choose the News
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3.
Chile's
Journalists
Stop Writing Serious
News
Once Las Uhimas Noticias was considered a dull,
old-fashioned newspaper. That all changed when
LUN posted its newspaper online and added a page
view counter that tells editors which stories are the
most popular. Now LUN is Chile's most widely
read newspaper. The newspaper's employees call it a
revolution in journalism, but critics claim that the
paper no longer covers
"real
news."
Stories are ranked according to "clicks" and are
updated every hour. Ifan article gets a lot ofclicks, the
newspaper continues the story. If an article gets only a
few clicks or no clicks at all, the story is removed.
So what news did readers choose to click on when
world leaders arrived in Santiago for an important
trade summit meeting?
"Light
News"-one of the top
stories was about where a US politician went to dinner
and what he ate. Another popular story was about
whlch politicians gave the best tips to waiters.
Critics say that LUN no longer reports serious
news. Augustine Edwards, the managing editor
disagrees. Previously the journalists decided what
stories appeared in the paper, but with Edward's new
approach, the readers make the choices. He feels that
the readers' choices are a reflection ofthe changing
values and interests of Chileans.
. It's good for advertising, too. At other newspapers,
sales of advertisements are down, but not at LtlN.
The newspaper has begun to have ads on its
website that include animation, as well as actual TV
commercials.
One question
remains. Only
an estimated
40o/o of the
country has
Internet access,
and not all of
themrcad LUN.
So are the readert
choices really a
reflection of the
changing values and
interests of all the
Chilean people?
b tvtark the statements true
(f)
or fatse
(F).
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LUN has always been a very successful
newspaper.
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[U/V uses lnternet technology to find out
which stories are popular.
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3.
IUN's most popular articles are usually
serious stories.
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4.
Augustine Edwards thinks LUN is popular
because it reflects Chilean interests.
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5.
Advertising sales are down at lUlV.
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6. At least 6o0/" of Chileans don'f click on
their favorite stories.
e Read the article again and answer the questions.
r. Who normally chooses the news that we read
in a newspaper?'
Who chooses what news stories are published
in LUN?
What types of stories are the most popular with
lUlV readers?
4.
What do critics think about this plan?
How many people in Chite have access to the
lnternet?
UNIT 2
Vocabulary
Put the words in the correct order to comptete
the diatogs.
r. A: problem/what's/the
com puter./it's/my/workin g./isn't/it
turning/off/trylit
that/tried/l've
the/matter/whatb
car./so n's/ it's
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toy
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my
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the/dead/arelbatteries
right!
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the/what's/elevator/with
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wrong
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order/out/itt/of
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called/l/him/just
Grammar
2 Complete the sentences using who, whose,
that, or where.
r. An audience is a group of people
watch a show.
z. Tecwen Whittock is the man
cough can be heard on Who
Millionaire?
A studio is a place
shows are made.
many live TV
A contestant is someone
answers the questions on a game show.
5.
Fixis a verb means
find
a
sotution to o problem.
6. Who Wantsfio be a Mittionaire? is a game show
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has become wortd famous.
Complete the sentences with phrases from the
box. Use who, whose, that, or where to
join
the
two phrases.
wife won the lottery makes
jewelry
we stayed la.st year are always honest
looks best on you designed my house
you can swim allyear
movies always make money
r. I spoke to the architects
z. I like people
3.
That's the hotel
4.
Ella works in a factory
Laguna has a big beach
Thatb the man
Black is the color
Donna is the type of director
Wants to be a
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Reading
4a Read the article and circle the best
endings to complete the sentences.
r.
Janet Cooke was _.
a. a very poor woman
b. a
journalist
c. a newspaper editor
z. She invented a story about
a. a child living a difficult life
b. a man named
Jimmy
c. the government
3.
The city government
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a. fired Cooke
b. tried to find the boy
c. didn't believe the story
4.
Stephen Glass created
-.
a. a magazine
b. a false identity for himself
c. fake papers to pretend he was
telting the truth
5.
Stephen Glass was caught
a. quickly
b. by the police
c. after many years
6.
Jayson
Blair pretended to _.
a. interview many people
b. work for the New York Times
c. be a
journalist
Match the boldfaced words in the
story to the definitions.
r. people who break into
technological systems illegally
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was revealed
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top
journalist
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removed from a
job
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5.
demanded
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6. in a stressfuI situation
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b
When no news is real news-the'
journalists
who lied and got caught
Open a newspaper and you expect to read, more or less, the trud:-
So what happens when it turns out that journalists invent their
stories? Ask
Janet
Cooke or Stephen Glass or
Jayson
Blair. Ther-
all spent parts oftheir careers inventing stories before being
caught and ffred.
Imagine the scene: Washington
DC, 1980.Janet Cooke writes a
long article for The Washington
Posr describing the wodd of
eight-year-old
Jimmy,
a child
living in terrible conditions in the
poorest part of the city. She writes '
about every detail of his life, even dlscribing the "baby-smooth
skin of his thin brown arms."The siory shocks Washington, and
Cooke wins a Prth::zer Prize {or outstanding journalism. But when
the city government tries to find
Jimmy
to help him, Cooke goes
quiet. Under pressure, she eventually admits that
Jimmy
doesnt
exist.
Stephen Glass, a star reporter at
T h e Neu Rep u b I i c magazinq invented
stories fix years. "My Iife was one very
long process oflying and lying again to
work out how to cover those other lies,"
he says. Glass made great efforts to
avoid getting caught. He created fake
notes, fake faxes, fake email addresses;
he even designed a website for a company that didnt exist.
Eventually, he got caught when he wrote a story about a 15-year-old
boy at a conference of computer hackers. His editor insisted on
seeing the conference room. Of course, there was no conference
room. And no conference either. And no 15-year-old boy. Glass's
career as a journalist
was finished, but he wrote a novel about his life,
Tbe Fabulist.
The most recent case was
Jayson
Blair.
[27-yeorold journalist for the NezoYorA
Tirnes,Blair invented details for at least
36 of the 73 articles he wrote in his final
seven months with the newspaper. He
frequendy pretended that he was doing
interviews with people all over the US,
from Ohio to Texas, when in fact he was
simply inventing the stories in New York, or copying them from
other media. When the truth came out in2002,the media wodd
was shocked.
The message for us, the public? Dont beiieve everything
you read!
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3.
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UNIT 2
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ItXISLYlIT\trrI
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Grammar
Circle the correct words to comptete the
sentences.
L I drovelwas drivinq from Houston to San Diego
at
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n.ivt. this morning.
z. She failed the test because she didn't
und@the
instructions.
3.
He injured his l<nee while he
plavedlwas
playilg
soccer.
4.
I came to say good-night yesterday, but you
restedlwere restinq.
5.
We ate, paid the hiii, arrd
Ule1?t_i/r/9ri
qAhE horne.
6. How did vou knowlwere vou knowinq my name?
Complete the sentences with the simple past or
past continuous form ofthe verbs in parentheses.
Someone (steat) my
wa[let while I (not took).
(not know) you
(be)
in town.
5.
Eve
(not
take) the bus because
it
(be) a beautifuI day.
Complete the newspaper articles using the simple
past or past continuous form ofthe verbs in
parentheses.
.l11]111riili!,,arvay.'Ue
(+. be) very calm,"
iii;.11tstid,ithe
boy'srmother.
'llt ,,was
us, his family, who
(s. worry) all night."
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3.
we
burglar because we
(tisten)
to loud music.
side of the road.
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(not
hear) the
(drive) home when I
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jams make Angelenos feel at
A recent study determined',,iha!
the worst traflic in the United
Angelenos
average of 136
Learning to live
of Los Angeles
Only last week
hours
with
often
(see) a btack cat on the
Reading
4a Read the lnternet news articles. Then match each articte with a headline betow. Write the
headline on the line.
Nutritionist Brian Smith from the Cambridge Think
Tank on Diet and Health, says that children eat
too much fatty food. ln a two-year study of 900
schoolchildren aged 11 to 15, Smith and his team
found that children eat double the amount of fat
recommended by nutritionists. Hamburgers, fries,
chocolate, and soda were the biggest problems.
A taxi driver, John Manley, has saved the lives of a
husband and wife whose car crashed into a tree on
Friday night. Manley pulled the couple from the car
and drove them immediaJely to a nearby hospital in
his taxi. They are now in a stable condition.
ln the town of Louistown, one thousand homes
will be knocked down to build a shopping area
and parking lot. Supporters say that the shopping
area will revitalize the town center. They say new
housing will be built next year.
Painter Angela Witco has found a famous buyer
for her work. Rock star and art lover Lee Santana
bought Witco's painting Trees in Winter for an
undisclosed sum. He saw the painting in a small
art gallery and fell in love with it immediately. Witco
says she is extremely happy that her painting has
found a good home.
b Read the news stories again and answer the
questions.
r. Who did Brian Smith study?
z. What should children eat and drink less of?
3.
What two things wi[[ the town of Louistown
build in place of the houses?
Who did
John
Manley save?
Where did he take them?
7.
Where did Lee Santana see the painting?
8. How does Witco feel about selling her painting?
5.
6.
4.
When wiltthe new houses be buitt?
UNIT 2
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Complete the sentences with the correct form
of the verb in parentheses.
r. Last year, over $+ million
(spend) on computers.
I hurt my back white I
in the garden.
(work)
3.
When
(you realize) you had
this great talent for tennis?
4.
The car
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(stop) by the police
at 6:ro n.ru. They searched it immediately.
(not go) to the party
because I had too much work to do.
6. Penici[[in
(discover) by
accident.
7.
Who
(tatk)
to when I saw
you this morning? I've never seen her before.
8. They didn't hear the news because they
(travet) out ofthe country at
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that time.
(not know) you had the
same birthday as I do!
ro. This type of food can
(eat)
as an appetizer or as a main course.
Join
the sentence pairs to make single
sentences. Use who, that, where, and whose.
Change alon to fhe where necessary and detete
any unnecessary words.
Ex: The Vatican City is a state. The Pope lives
there.
The Voticon City is the state where the
Pooe lives.
r. Graceland is a place. Elvis Presley died there.
Franz Kafka was a writer. He wrote a story
about a man who became an insect.
St. Petersburg is a city. lt used to be catled
Leningrad.
4.
Rodin was a sculptor. He rnade The Thinker.
5.
Spider-Man
3
is a famous movie. lt cost $258
mittion to make.
Malibu is a beach in California. Hundreds of
celebrities live there.
Vivatdiwas a composer. His most famous work
was The Four Seosons.
lstanbul is a city. lt is built on two continents-
Europe and Asia.
Complete the second sentences to mean the
same as the first. Use the passive form of the
verbs in parentheses.
r. That's the boy! Someone gave him my bicycle.
That's the boy
bicycle!
(was) my
These are great stories. People te[[ them from
generation to generation.
These are the great stories
(totd) from generation to
generation.
He's an artist. People buy his paintings for
thousands of do[[ars.
He's the artist
(sotd)
for
thousands of dollars.
That's the old farmhouse. I was born there.
That's the old farmhouse
(was).
5.
it's a type of pen. You can use it underwater.
It's a type of pen
underwater.
These are the tourists. Someone has stolen
their bags.
These are the tourists
(been) stolen.
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5.
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9.
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(be)
6.
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4 What is the past tense form of these verbs?
Undertine the verb that does not belong.
r. sell teach buy fight
2. move own clean blow
l.
decide shout want swim
4.
know play fly grow
5.
cost cut run hit
6. come speak choose wake
wash draw mix kiss
b tvtatch the responses to the sentences in
Exercise
5a.
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a. Me, too. I think it'll be sunny.
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b. lt depends on the traffic, but I think 8:r5
wittbe OK.
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c. Oh dear. We need some copies for
this morning. Shoutd I ca[[ the IT
department?
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d. Great. l'[[ keep your phone number then.
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e. lt depends how expensive the black one
is.
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f. lt isn't working. I can't get any channels.
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S.
OK, I'll try that.
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h. OK, I'll put some more in!
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i. I think it3 great. I love the action scenes.
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i.
Me neither. We usually have to pay.
5a
7.
8.
9.
1(,.
get
deliver
bring
go
put
catch
forget
move
stop
shoot
show
think
Correct the mistake in each sentence by adding
the missing word.
r. My opinion, we should buy the black sofa, not
the blue one.
z. What you think of that new Angelina
Jolie
movie?
3.
You think we should leave at 8:oo, but I'm not
sure that.
4.
She said we could get into the game free, but
I don't think.
5.
I'd love to go to the beach, but it depends the
weather.
6. What's matter with your TV? The picture isn't
very good, is it?
7.
lf your computer isn't working, try turning off
and on again.
8. The photocopier is out order again.
9.
The problem with your printer is that it's out
paper!
ro. lf the microwave breaks down again, call us
and we can fix immediately.
6
Vocabulary
Complete the sentences with the correct words
from the box.
turn caused returned
take saved survived
r. A deer $ro,ooo worth of damage
when it wandered into a museum and broke
several rare glass vases.
z. A ferry boat captain an 11-year-
otd girt from Lake George today. The girl had
fallen in the water and couldn't swim.
3.
Mildred Pierce to her hometown
last month. She hadn't been there since 1945,
when she got married and moved away.
4.
Sox, a white and gray tabby cat,
a fatl from an eighth-floor window. lt stipped off
of a balcony but landed in a garbage dumpster
without injury.
5.
I once took a wrong in Boston
and got really lost. When I finatty stopped
to ask for directions I was in Cape May, New
Jersey!
6. Why don't you a fifteen-minute
break? You look a little tired.
UNIT 2