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LOSING YOUR IDEIITITY You are who you are - that is obvious, isn't it? Not so in the case of over 10 million U5 citizens a year. These people have been robbed of their identity. Their credit card or social security number has been illegally obtained in orderto buy goods or claim benefit in their name. Most victims are not even aware of the crime until their accounts have been emptied and huge debts have been run up against their name. In our World Report this month, we look into identity theft, a new wave of crime that is sweeping the globe. On CD, we feature profiles of Hugh Laurie, star of the popularTV series House, and the tropical island of Barbados. We hear from an expert on 5t George and from residents of Tacoma and New York. Guitarist Joe Bonamassa talks about the blues and we listen to the first few pages of best-selling book Marley & Me, by John Grogan.
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Ralph Fiennes is the star of The Constant Gardener, this month's Speak Up movie,
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Gl EASY ENGLISH On CD, we feature a profile of British actor Hugh Laurie, star of TV's Dr House, and we visit the Caribbean island of Barbados, plus our usual Easy English features.
20 NEXTFEST Wired magazine recently celebrated its third futuristic fair, NextFest.
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12 PEACE MOM Cindy Sheehan lost her son in the Iraq War and is now demanding answers from the US government. 14 CRIME IN THE COMPUTER AGE With over 10 million cases reported last year, identity theft has become the number one crime in the US.
18 RALPH FIENNES Stoic and smouldering, Ralph Fiennes excels at playing complex characters.
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We look at the contemporary meaning of England's patron saint, St George.
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Tacoma, in the US north-west, is finally stepping out of the shadow of its more famous neighbour, Seattle.
32 THE TOWER OF BABEL Can English revive the monolingual, pre-Babel paradise of biblical lore?
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New York City boasts many fine examples of Art Deco architecture.
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Guitar wizard Joe Bonamassa was discovered by blues legend BB King.
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The opening pages of Marley & Me, author John Grogan's best-selling account oflife with his beloved dog.
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4G THE LAST LAUGH Two scathing jokes about a lawyer and an adulterous husband.
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ILanguage level: IBASICI
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accept the obvious, ignores orders to stop investigations, and eventually reveals the truth. Executive producer Paul Attanasio, inspired by the New York Times' Diagnosis Column, wanted to create a medical version of the American hit series CSI. The show's principal writer David Shore decided, however, to focus on the characters of the medical team. House, an infectious disease specialistS, bullies and argues 9 with his group of young colleagues, especially Dr Eric Foreman (who regularly questions10 House's ability). House also ignores hospital administrator Dr Lisa Cuddy's frequent reprimands. He has just one friend who he confides in, Dr James Wilson.
Antipatico, arrogante, directo y a menudo brutal, el personaje del doctor House, interpretado por Hugh Laurie, es poco convencional. Quizas por eso la serie triunfa en todo el mundo. Descubrimos sus secretos.
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Hugh Laurie stars as Dr Gregory House in the successful US series House. Each episode focuses on a patient who is dying ftom a rare disease 3; Dr House and 4 SPEAK UP
Hugh Laurie, 47, star of the hit TV series, House. Opposite: Dr House with (clockwisel his colleagues Foreman, Cameron, Wilson, Cuddy and Chase.
his team of experts must discover the cause and find a solution. He's arrogant and cruel. He's a grumpy', middle-aged man, who is crippled 5 and walks with the aid ofa walking stick6 • This is not the recipe 7 for a successful American TV show: so why is House a worldwide success? It's the eccentricity and genius of Dr House, a man who is ready to risk his career for his patients. He refuses to
The creator of the series, David Shore, modelled the doctor's character on Sherlock Holmes (even the name 'House' is a synonym of Ho(l)mes). Both men have supreme deductive powers, are addicted to drugs'!, and play musical instruments. Arthur Conan Doyle in fact based the character of Holmes on the famous medical diagnostician Joseph Bell. Hugh Laurie won the starring role in the hit series when producer Bryan Singer saw his audition: "This is what the show needs," he declared, "a real American actor!" Hugh Laurie, an Englishman who does an excellent American accent, isn't embarrassed, but he feels guilty12 because he now earns'3 far more than his father, a real doctor. ~
1 DRY: sardonico, sarcasrico 2 NO TIME TO WASTE: sin riempo que perder 3 DISEASE: enfermedad 4 GRUMPY: malhumorado 5 CRIPPLED: discapacirado 6 WITH THE AID OF A WALKING STICK: apoyandose en un basron (IiL: con la ayuda de...) 7 RECIPE: recera 8 INFECTIOUS OISEASE SPECIALIST: especialisra en enfermedades conragiosas 9 TO BULLY, TO ARGUE: inrimidar, discurir 10 TO QUESTION: poner en duda 11 ADDICTED TO DRUGS: drogodependieme 12 GUILTY: culpable 13 TO EARN: ganar WHO IS HUGH LAURIE? 1 ANKLE: robillo 2 COMEDIAN: comico 3 PUBLIC SCHOOL: escuela privada ROWER: remero 5 CREW: rripulacion 6 TO LOSE NARROWLY: perder por poco 7 TO GIVE UP: dejar 8 LIGHTHEARTED THRILLER: novela policiaca enrrerenida
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EXERCISES
Listening Questions
1) Decide whether the following facts are true or false according to the profile on the successful TV series House. A. Dr House is usually very honest with his TRUE/FALSE patients. B. The narrator believes that Dr House is a typical American TV show character. TRUE/FALSE c. The producer was inspired by another medical TV programme. TRUE/FALSE D. Dr House fights and argues with all his medical colleagues in the hospital. TRUE/FALSE E. The characters Dr House and Sherlock Holmes have only one thing in common. TRUE/FALSE F. The creator of Sherlock Holmes based his character on a real doctor. TRUE/FALSE G. Hugh Laurie's accent in the series is a mix of British and American. TRUE/FALSE 21 Place the following topics into the order in which they appear in the report. A. Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes. B. The American hit TV series C51. c. Reasons for the success of House. D. Hugh Laurie wins the part as Dr House. E. Dr House's colleagues. F. What happens in each episode. G. Dr House's physical appearance.
Hugh Laurie says he is best known as a pair of ankles' in the Stuart Little movies [pictured right): he was the adopted mouse's father. The truth is that Laurie has been a 2 successful comedian in Britain for over 20 years: he starred with Stephen Fry in the British comedy shows A Bit of Fry and Laurie and Jeeves and Wooster. He also appeared in Rowan Atkinson's BBC series Blackadder. The Boat Race
Laurie was born in Oxford on June 11th 1959. He went to the exclusive 3 public school Eton and studied Archaeology and Anthropology at Cambridge. 4 He was a successful rower at school and university; his crews 6 narrowly lost the 1980 Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race.
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Glandular fever forced him to give up? rowing, so he joined the university's Footlights Revue - an annual show which has produced many stars such as Monty Python's John Cleese and the actress Emma Thompson. In fact, Laurie and Emma Thompson produced the 1980 Footlight revue called The Cellar Tapes with Stephen Fry. Laurie has also written a novel, The Gun Seller, a light-hearted thrillers.
3) Write the correct adjective in the gaps provided. The first letter of each adjective is given to help you. A. Dr House has a dry, kl smile. B. Hugh Laurie stars in the IsI _ US series House. c. He's a grumpy, 1m) man, who is crippled and walks with a stick. D. The show's [pI writer decided to focus on the characters of the medical team. E. Both Holmes and House have lsI deductive powers. F. Hugh Laurie feels IgI _ because he now earns more than his father, a real doctor.
Answers 1)A. True, B. False, c. False, D. False, E. False, F. True, G. False 2) F, G, C, B, E, A, 0 3) A. cynical, B. successful, c. middle-aged, D. principal, E. supreme, F. guilty
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EASY EIICLISH /
STRANGE STORIES
BY JOHN RIGG
ILanguage level: I BASIC I
It's aStrangll, Strange Worlill Este mes, nuestras historias sorprendentes son variadas: de un polemico sistema para fomentar el reciclaje de basuras a un restaurante londinense en el que se cena a oscuras.
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Rubbishl Is recycling your rubbish' too much trouble for you? Well, look oue! Local councils 3 in England are spying on residents' rubbish bins 4 : small electronic sensors record and then transmit information about the contents of the bins to a central database. Conservative Mp s Andrew Pelling says: "It's Big Brother gone mad 6 • Not even the old Soviet Union 6 SPEAK UP
intruded into people's private lives in this way!" Councils claim the sensors will improve? efficiency and resolve disputes over ownerships of bins. However, experts say that the government plans to limit the amount of non-recyclable rubbish that people can leave, and will fine 9 those who exceed the limits. So, next time you are in Britain, be careful what you put in your bin!
British engineers say they can use street vibrations from footsteps10 to produce clean energy. "Each footstep gives us 5 to 7 watts ofenergy," says Claire Price of the Pacesetters Project, "and a city's pedestrians will provide1' enough energy to power its lights." Special hydraulic generators under the floors in busy public spaces - such as underground stations - will capture the energy. The team is also planning to use the vibrations from cars and trains. The initial idea came from engineer Jim Gilbert, who developed special shoes for the army'2: these generated energy to power soldiers' mobile phones. ~
1 RUBBISH: basura 2 LOOK OUT: ~ iculdadol 3 LOCAL COUNCIL: ayuntamiento 4 BIN: cubo 5 MP (=MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT]: dipurado 6 TO GO MAD: volverse loco 7 TO IMPROVE: mejorar 8 OWNERSHIP: propiedad 9 TO FINE: mulrar 10 FOOTSTEP: pisada 11 TO PROVIDE: suminisrar 12 ARMY: ejerciro
In the Dark Dans Ie Noir is a London restaurant with a difference: the dining room is completely dark. Customers first select from the menu in the restaurant bar, then they form a human chain, arms on shoulders' , and walk into the darkness of the dining room. Blind2waiters 3 guide customers to their table, help them to sit and find their cutlery', after which the waiters serve the food and customers try and find their mouths with their forks. The restaurant is not very expensive, by London standards: a three-course dinner costs you around £45 per person, and gives you a unique chance to explore the tastes of its Frenchinspired food, especially ifyou choose the surprise menu. The first Dans Le Noir restaurant was opened in Paris and was a great success. Its motto was provided by William Shakespeare: "There is no darkness but ignorances."
Miami Vice Are you one of those lazy people who never want to get out of bed? Then B.E.D. is the place for you! This Miami restaurant has no tables and no chairs: customers sit on beds surrounded by their friends and enormous cushions. They serve themselves from buffet stations and listen to music played by top DJs. The restaurant's clients include George Clooney, Jennifer Lopez and Britney Spears.
Bed and Breakfast The Mighty Oak Tree Climbing Companl in Nanswhyden, Cornwall, must be the most unusual- and insane?
- bed and breakfast in the world. There's no building, just a field and some very tall trees. First an expert gives a lesson in how to climb high into the trees, then it's time for a barbecue at ground level with organiser Bethany Stock. When it gets dark, the guests climb high into the treetops where they struggle onto their hammocks B about 15 metres above the ground. Guests must keep their harnesses9 and safety ropes'o on all night in case they fall. One customer, George Hurley, reports: ''Amazingly'', I slept. I didn't think I would, and waking up with the birds singing around us ... Well, I was terrified up there, but it was unforgettable'2!"
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EASY ENGLISH /
LANGUAGE
BY JOHN RIGG
Drugs ILanguage level: I BASICI
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Este mes, ademas de examinar terminos relacionados con la medicina y las consultas medicas, nos ocuparemos tambien de algunas palabras que en ingles tienen varios significadoso
Once the doctor decides on a course of treatment6 , he or she will prescribe a drug? No, that doesn't mean cocaine: a drug is a general term for medicines in English, so the doctor may prescribe an antibiotic or another medicine. Take the prescriptionS to a chemist's or pharmacy (in the USA). In America you will also find drugstores. Drugstore was originally a synonym for pharmacy, but today most drugstores sell a wide variety ofproducts.
Medical Matters Ifyou become ilP while in Britain, where do you go for treatment? Well, when it's serious, go to the nearest hospital's Emergency department - the British haveA&E departments (A&E stands for 2 Accident and Emergency), while Americans have Emergency Rooms: remember ER, the famous TV show. Ifit isn't an emergency, go to a doctor's surgery (in Britain) or a doctor's office (in the USA). The use of surgery in the sense ofan office is confusing: a surgeon 3 is a doctor who operates on patients in a hospital's operating theatre4 (in the UK) or operating room (in the USA). Incidentally, dentists and vets (veterinary surgeons) also work in a surgery, though a vet actually operates on animals in his surgery. Note that it is the patient who visits the doctor, and not the doctor who visits the patient, unless there is an
emergency and the doctor makes a house callS. A doctor examines the patient or gives him a check-up: he - or she - takes his temperature, checks his blood pressure and so on.
The Video Pill Ifa patient has a serious illness, then a pill won't be sufficient and specialist tests will be necessary. These include xrays, various scans9 and possibly a video pill. What's that? It's a camera which has the form and size ofa pill. The video pill is swallowed'o and transmits images from inside the patient's body. It's a substitute for uncomfortable internal tests such as colonoscopies. UK hospitals are testing the video pill at present" and it should be available next year.
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relationship) . Unfortunately, things go wrong. The girl goes offwith another man (leaves him), so the boyfriend goes to pieces (has a mental breakdown3 ). Yet life goes on (continues), even though it's touch andgo (an uncertain situation) for a while.
Burn, Baby, Burnl Burn is another example: you burn wood' or coals on a fire. The fire burns out when there's no more wood or coal. Life is very stressful today and many people suffer from burnout: they are so exhausted, they don't have the energy to go on. Record companies are also stressed out: they're losing money because so many people are illegally downloading music from the internet and burning their own CDs'. Finally, a piece ofadvice7 : ifyou are thinking of making big changes in your life, don't burn your bridgesthat is, don't eliminate the possibility ofareturn.
Gol Gol Gol The English language loves to take a simple word and give it multiple meanings. Take go, for example, which doesn't only mean to leave or travel fromAtoB. We meet a man in the street who complains' his car won'tgo: that means he can't start the engine. The man is
very angry; in fact, he goes bananas, that is, he becomes crazy. That's just the beginning: a bomb goes off, or explodes, and yet fires go out, or stop burning. Food goes off, too, but that means it's rotten2 • A young man can ask a girl to go out with him (be his girlfriend). They then go steady (have a long-term
1 TO COMPLAIN: quejarse 2 ROITEN: podrido 3 MENTAL BREAKOOWN: crisis nerviosa 4 WOOD: madera 5 COAL: carb6n 6 TO BURN ONE'S OWN CD: grabar su propio CD 7 PIECE OF ADVICE: consejo
EASY EIIGLISH /
TRAVEL/eON C02
BY JOHN RIGG - SPEAKER JUSTIN RATCLIFFE STANDARD BRITISH ACCENT
ILanguage level: I BASICI
Barbados Con una temperatura media de 28 grados cendgrados y una costa salpicada de playas cristalinas, Barbados es una isla, amante del 'calypso' yel ron, que vive del turismo. Life on the island of Barbados. Below. right: cricket was introduced by the English. The best Barbadian cricketers play for the combined West Indies' team.
although Barbadians, or 'Bajans', also speak a Creole dialect which uses English words with African grammatical structures. Visitors will be surprised to find Bridgetown's Trafalgar Square and its imposing statue of Lord Nelson. Place names 9 are also strangely familiar. There's a stretch of rocky coastline 10 called Scotland, while there are resorts with names like Brighton, Worthing and Hastings.
arbados is the perfect destination for a holiday with its golden beaches, relaxed resorts 1 and friendly people. Barbados is part of the West Indian archipelago and, while its rocky 2, eastern coast faces the wild Atlantic Ocean, the southern and western coasts offer sheltered 3 beaches, transparent water and average temperatures of 28° centigrade. Each year thousands of 10 SPEAK UP
tourists arrive at the island's international airport, near the capital Bridgetown.
The island is nicknamed 4 'Little England' and is a wonderful mixture ofEnglish tradition and African spiceS. Here you can enjoy exotic dishes such as spicy pork stews 6 and flying fish 7, alongside the typically English baked beanss on toast. The official language is English,
Visitors can tour the island's many historic sites, visit pirate caves II and enjoy short cruises 12 around the island. The more adventurous can take a submarine tour and see the island's incredible coral fauna. There are bus services to most places, or visitors can rent a car or motorcycle. Drivers should avoid another of the island's attractions: Bajan rumthough a visit to a distillery, such as Mount Gay, not far from Bridgetown, is recommended. Finally, as the sun sets 13, everyone goes to the colourful rum shops, the Barbadian equivalent of the English pub, to enjoy a pleasant evening among friends. ~
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ISLAND CULTURE Amerindians, the first people to inhabit the island, travelled from Venezuela in canoes around 1600 BC'. The first Europeans to reach the island were the Portuguese: in 1536 A0 2 Portugese explorer Pedro Campos named the island Los Barbados because of the hanging beardlike roots 3 of the island's fig trees'. English settlers s arrived in 1627 and later brought 70,000 African slaves to work on sugarcane plantations and the island became the world's top sugar producer. .....
In the 1930s all Barbadians won the right to vote in free elections and the island itself won freedom from Britain in 1966. The British influence, however, remains evident in the many Georgian and Victorian houses on the island, and in cricket, Barbados' national sport. I!III!'-I!IP.WI 1 Bcl= BEFORE CHRIST!: ames ~ de Crisco 2 AD 1= ANNO DOMINII: despues de Cristo 3 HANGING BEARO-LIKE ROOTS: rakes colgames en forma de barba 4 FIG TREE: higuera 5 SETILER: colono
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resort, especially with its golden (BEACHES / TEMPLES). Some place names are [IDENTICAL / SIMILAR) to those in the United Kingdom. Barbados is a favourite place for (BRITISH / AMERICAN) tourists. Visitors can tour the island's (MANY / FEW) historic sites. [FOOTBALL / CRICKET) is Barbados' national sport. If you're feeling adventurous you can go on a (SHORT CRUISE / SUBMARINE TOUR).
2) Match the adjectives with the nouns to form common collocations. All are used in the report. A. golden 1. dishes B. transparent 2. water c. average 3. beaches D. exotic 4. coastline E. official 5. language F. rocky 6. temperature 3) Insert the correct verb: the first letter of each is given to help you. All examples come from the original report. A. Every year thousands of tourists (a) at the island's international airport. B. Here you can (e) exotic dishes. c. Visitors will be surprised to (f) _ Bridgetown's Trafalgar Square. D. Visitors can (t) the island's many historic sites. E. The most adventurous can (t) a submarine tour. F.... Or Irl a car or motorcycle.
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Answers 1) A. beaches, B. identical, c. British, D. many, E. Cricket, F. submarine tour 2)A3, B2,c6,D1, E5, F4 3) A, arrive, B. enjoy, c. find, D. tour, E. take, F. rent 4)A. Grenada, B. Aruba, c. Trinidad, D. Guadeloupe, E. Jamaica, F. Martinique
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INTERVIEW BY LORENZA CERBINI
I Language level: [INTERMEDIATE I
CINDY SHEEHAN VS GEORGE WBUSH
A raiz de un tragico suceso, la muerte de su hijo en la guerra de Irak, Cindy Sheehan se ha convertido en una conocida activista contra este conflicto y la.polltica exterior de EE UU. En esta entrevista nos explica sus razones. n the last rwo-and-a-half years Cindy Sheehan has been transformed from being an anonymous housewife into an international celebrity. The reason is simple: her high-profile opposition to the war in Iraq. Speak Up recently caught up with 1 her in New York, where she was signing copies of her latest book, Peace Mom: A Mother's Journey through Heartache 2 to Activism. We asked her when she had decided to become an activist:
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after my son Casey was killed in Iraq. He was killed April 4th, 2004 and on July 4th, 2004 was the first time I spoke.
CAMP CASEY The world's media began to take an interest in Cindy Sheehan when she and a group of&iends started camping outside President George W Bush's Below: Activist Cindy Sheehan set up a 'Camp Casey' outside the White House.
ranch in Crawford, Texas. We asked her to describe her memories of her first night there: Cindy Sheehan: It was hot, there was a
lot of press 3 there, about seven of us spent the night, we just had lawnchairs 4 and one flashlight 5 and a five-gallon bucket to use to go to the restroom in 6 ... but I remember it was also a very beautiful night. There was a lot ofstars out and we just stayed up all night talking about what we were doing.
LIAR! LIAR! SO what exactly is she trying to obtain with her campaign? Cindy Sheehan: I want justice
for my son's death. George Bush lied? to the country, he lied to me, he lied to my son. My son is dead and I want somebody to be held accountable 8 for that. The rest of the world often sees the United States as a violent and dangerous country. Does Cindy Sheehan agree 9 with that view? Cindy Sheehan: I think that what is the most dangerous is our government. Our government is trying to take our rights away from us, you know, we do have high crime rates 10, but the true enemy of our country right now is the Bush administration. ~
1 TO CATCH UP WITH: quedar can ~ 2 HEARTACHE: pena 3 A LOT OF PRESS: muchos medias (periodfsticosJ 4 LAWNCHAIR: silla de jardfn 5 FLASHLIGHT: linrerna 6 FIVE-GALLON BUCKET TO USE... IN: cuba can cinco litros de agua para ir aJ lavabo 7 TO LIE: menrir 8 TO BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE: asumir la responsabilidad 9 TO AGREE: estar de acuerdo 10 HIGH CRIME RATE: alto fndice de criminaJidad.
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Internet tiene muchos aspectos positivos, pero tambien sus lados oscuros. Uno de ellos es la cantidad de cn'menes que se cometen en la red: de fraudes bancarios a robos virtuales de tarjetas. Explicamos como protegerse. ost of us still picture criminals as daring 1 bank robbers or sly burglars but, while such traditional members • of the criminal fraternity are still with us, today's robber 2 uses electronics and the internet to strike from the safety of his computer. With the rise of personal compurers, electronic banking, email and web sites, has come a new wave offraud and theft 3 that is growing so rapidly it is about to surpass 4 drug trafficking as the top priority oflaw enforcement agencies in the US - and increasingly around the world.
METHODS AND SCAMS
WHAT IS IDENTITY THER? Identity theft is the new crime of the information age. Most ofus are at risk without even knowing it, as criminals track 5 anyone with a credit card, bank account or social security card to collect personal and financial information that will enable them to pose as that person and obtain credit cards, loans 6 and benefits in the victim's name. By the time most people find our, it is too late, and their accounts have been emptied, large debts run uP? against cards they didn't know existed, and huge loans taken ours and defaulted on 9. " SPEAK UP
debts, cash in 12 a loan and run. While they recede 13 into the darkness, the victim is left with a financial loss that is potentially enormous. Worse still, your credit rating 14 will be ruined for years. There are even cases where people have been bankrupted 15 or arrested for acts carried our in their name.
Identity theft is the new crime of the information age. Many government agencies such as the US Postal Service advertise ways to prevent such fraud.
In an age of easy credit and slopplo ID checks, the criminal need not even be a computer expert to use your account data and personal details to receive a credit card and obtain a loan. They simply fill in the forms - with your details - change the mailing address so you remain in the dark'\ run up huge
Identity theft takes many forms, both online and offline. A rather simple method is called 'shoulder surfing', whereby criminals try to catch your PIN code number as you withdraw money from the cash machine or try to overhear your conversation when you give credit card details to a hotel or car rental company. The latter happens especially in holiday areas, but private homes are a prime target too, with criminals sifting through your garbage 16 in search of old bank statements 17. In addition to this 'dumpster diving', they also steal your mail, again looking for statements or any other documentation containing your personal ID. ~
1 DARING: arrevido. osado 2 BANK ~ ROBBER: arracador 3 THEFT: robo 4 TO SURPASS: sobrepasar. superar 5 TO TRACK: perseguir 6 LOAN: presramo 7 TO RUN UP DEBTS: acumular deudas 8 TO TAKE OUT A LOAN: obrener un presramo 9TO DEFAULT ON: dejar de pagar 10 SLOPPY: descuidado 11 TO REMAIN IN THE DARK: no enrerarse 12 TO CASH IN: cobrar 13 TO RECEDE: desvanecerse 14 CREDITRATING: c1asificaci6n de crediro 15 TO BANKRUPT: arruinar 16 TO SIFT THROUGH YOUR GARBAGE: escudrifiar en la basura 17 BANK STATEMENT: exrracro bancario
Another infamous method involves bribing'S waiters, hotel clerks or shop attendants to run your credit card through a so-called 'skimmer' as they process your payment. The skimmer doesn't actually take any money from your account, but it does record all your credit card details for later use. The fastestgrowing scams 19, however, involve the internet, whose easy access to information has given criminals a relatively riskfree and anonymous way of hacking into bank accounts and making withdrawals. It pays to be particularly wary20 of receiving 'phishing' emails that look just like a real bank's or credit card company's site, and request you to 'confirm' your account details by entering them into a field on the web site. Falling into this trap21 means doing the skimmer's 16 SPEAK UP
job. Real banks never approach customers this way, but even ifyou receive a letter or a call from your bank it is best to veriry things by calling your nearest branch22 or going there in person.
THE INTERNET We spoke to Jay Foley, Executive Director of the Identity Theft Resource Center who advise US citizens on how to avoid and respond to identity theft. In her words, "The internet is a wonderful tool for the thief. He can use it to research victims, scam thousands of people out of their personal information and make purchases 23 with their cards. He does research 24 on what the current and former identity documents look like so that he can forge fakes to be used in his thefts. From his perspective, the
biggest advantage of the internet is that it affords him a high degree of autonomy during his operations, as well as making him more mobile."
WHY IS IT HAPPENING? Identity theft is now the fastest growing crime. It grew by 79 per cent between 2002 and 2003, and in the USA alone it is estimated that someone becomes a victim to it every 79 seconds. Last year, over ten million cases were reported in America, with a combined value of$53 billion. Most victims are ofworking age, as they are most economically active and have a greater number ofbank accounts, plastic cards and mortgages25 , but it also happens to pensioners, who are especially vulnerable to benefit fraud. The scale is now such that the authorities are taking it very seriously. In 2004 President Bush signed The Identity Theft Penalty Enhancement Act, which raised the prison sentence for the crime by two years. More recently, the US created the world's first Identity Theft Task Force, aimed exclusively at improving ways of tracking, catching and convicting the intricate international networks ofcriminals involved in this often highly sophisticated racket.
RESPONSIBILITY While efforts to catch ID fraudsters and tighten ID protection are intensifYing, many believe the answer lies in making the financial companies responsible for reimbursing26 victims. Commercial interests in extending loans has made them sloppy in terms of security and identification procedures. It is argued that greater liabiliti 7 will be an incentive for them to improve security just as credit card companies have done. The latter are liable for all but the first $50 of fraudulent transactions with one of their cards, so they have developed highly effective security methods designed to detect and prevent fraud. Giving those in the best position to fight this new wave of crime the incentive to do so seems the ultimate solution to this problem, but in the meantime it is up to us to protect our personal and financial data as well as we can. sobornar 19 SCAM: esrafa cuidadoso 21 TRAP: rrampa BRANCH: PURCHASE: compra 24 RESEARCH: invesrigaci6n 25 MORTGAGE: hiporeca 26 TO REIMBURSE: reembolsar 27 LIABILITY: responsabilidad
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Su versatilidad y el acierto a la hora de escoger papeles han hecho que el actor Ralph Fiennes este considerado uno de los mejores interpretes tanto de cine como de teatro. Su carrera sigue en muy buena racha. e is the ultimate villain' and romantic idol in one. Ralph Fiennes' chiselled features 2 lend themselves well to playing ambiguous characters. Whether cold and cruel or love-sick and tortured, he always adds a recognisable, human touch. His complex portrayal of brutal SS officer Amon Goth in Schindler's List (1994) and his multi-layered role as Count Laszlo de Almasy in The English Patient (1996) - two ofhis best performances to date - both deservedly won him Academy Award nominations.
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This summer he forgoes J all his usual subtlety to reprise his most diabolical role as Lord Voldemort in Harry Potter and the Order ofthe Phoenix. Does he do his evil character justice'? "When children were introduced to Lord Voldemort, they looked suitably terrified, which gave me great gratification," he said of his first outingS as the Dark Lord in Harry Potter and the Goblet ofFire.
FAMILY TIES Ralph (pronounced 'Rafe') Fiennes, the eldest ofsix children, comes from a high-
profile family. His father is a photographer, his mother a writer, sisters Martha and Sophie are a director and a producer. Ofhis brothers, Magnus is a composer, Jacob a gamekeeper6 and Joseph a successful actor. The famous explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes is his cousin and he is eighth cousin to Prince Charles. Three of the Fiennes siblings have worked together twice: once on historical drama Onegin (1999) and recently on Chromophobia. Martha directed, Ralph acted and Magnus wrote the score.
STAGING ACAREER Fiennes started his acting career on stage. He trained at the Royal Academy ofDramatic Art and for years he played at the Open Air Theatre in London's Regent's Park. He joined the Royal Shakespeare
Main: Ralph Fiennes with Jennifer Lopez in Maid in Manhattan. Above (clockwise): The English Patient, Oscar and Lucinda and The Constant Gardener.
Company in 1988. Sam Mendes directed him in Troi/us and Cressida in 1990. His film debut came in 1992 in Wuthering Heights. He played Heathcliff, a role perfectly suited to his talents. Over the next years, parts in Schindler's List, Quiz Show (1994), The English Patient, Oscar andLucinda (1997) and The End of the Affair (1999) gained him widespread recognition. Subsequent appearances in films such as Spider (2002) and The Constant Gardener (2005) have consolidated his reputation. He has also done his share of commercial blockbusters 7 with mixed results. The misguided 8 attempt to adapt sixties TV series The Avengers in 1998
failed at the box office. He was not too disappointed. "I think it's a badge ofhonour to have a real flop on your resume," he said. On the other hand, romantic comedy Maid in Manhattan (2002) and RedDragon (2002), in which he played a serial killer, both performed respectably.
REAL-LIFE ROMANCES Fiennes was married for four years to actress Alex Kingston, best known as Dr Corday in hit TV series ER. Last year, he ended a 10-year relationship with Francesca Annis, a respected British actress 18 years his senior. To date, he remains unattached, as the gossip columns9 gleefully report his alleged bachelor antics 10 , including a highly-publicised mile-high tryst11 with a flight attendant and a Belgian hotel swimming pool romp12.
While the tabloids'3 are in a frenzy about his private life, his professional life is going strong, on stage and on screen. He was nominated for a Tony award for his performance in Faith Healer on Broadway and he has a number offilms in the pipeline1', including Bernard and Doris, with Susan Sarandon, and In Bruges, with Colin Farrell. First, however, his next appearance as the world's most evil wizard should not disappoint. ~ 1 VILLAIN:
malo de la pelicula 2 CHISfacciones marcadas 3 TO FORGO: renunciar a 4 TO DO JUSTICE: esrar a la alrura 5 OUTING: represenraci6n 6 GAMEKEEPER: guardabosque 7 HE HAS DONE ••• BLOCKBUSTERS: ha acruado ram bien en varias pelfculas de gran presupuesro 8 MISGUIDED: desacerrado 9 GOSSIP COLUMN: prensa amarilla 10 BACHELOR ANTICS: fechorias de solrero 11 MILE-HIGH TRYST: rener relaciones sexuales en un avi6n 12 ROMP: encuenrro sexual 13 TABLOIDS: prensa sensacionalisra (liL, de pequeno ramano) 141N THE PIPELINE: en proyecro
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f you want to see what the world of tomorrow will look like, then you should check our' 'NextFest', an event staged 2 by the cult technology magazine Wired. Wired was founded in San Francisco in 1993 and the first two editions of NextFest were held 3 there. For the third edition, which took place late last year, the exhi-
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words of Reactrix, "Advertising is no longer a spectator sport,"
, - BALLROOM DANCE ROBOT So, you're not a very good dancer? No problem! Researchers at the Kosuge and Wang Lab in Japan developed two battery-powered prototypes with sensors capable of anticipating and matching their partners' steps, In the future this technology could be used for more practical tasks. like assisting the infirm and elderly" with walking.
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2 - THE BIOSUIT And if you're planning to go the moon, then this is the suit for you. Ultra-thin layers of flexible materials protect astronauts from pressure changes, extreme temperatures and radiation outside the spacecraft. 3-BRAINBALL The desire to win in sport can be stressful, but 'Brainball' is different. In this game [pictured top] two players sit across a special table wearing the brainwave-detecting
headbands, The headbands monitor each player's stress level and report the data to a computer that directs the ball away from stressed-out player, toward the calmer one. So. if you want to win, you have to relax!
Sadly, there will still be wars in the future. The US military proudly presents its "fully integrated modular combat system," B~LLROOM OANCE: baile de salon TASK: tarea ELDERLY: anciano ULTRA-THIN LAYER: capa muy fina BRAIN-WAVE••• HEADBAND: cima en la cabeza que capra las ondas cerebrales DEPTHS: fondo TO HANDLE: resistir TV AD: anuncio de televisi6n SHOP-PING MALL: centro comercial
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,- THE EXOSUIT And if you're planning to visit the depths of the Ocean, then this suit can handle pressure of up to 1,500 pounds [680 kg) per square inch, 5-REACTRIX If ever you've wanted to appear in a TV ad , then now is your chance! Reactrix [abovel specializes in creating interactive ads for shopping malls, movie theaters and other public spaces. Reactrix projects advertising images onto the floors of these spaces in 3D-second increments. Consumers step on the images to interact with them, Not surprisingly, people who participate actually remember the ads, In the
THE FACE OF THE FUTURE 1 - GENERAL ELECTRIC PLASTIC
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In Mike Nichols' memorable 1967 movie The Graduate there's a scene in which the young Dustin Hoffman has to choose a career. A friend of his father advises him: "Ben, I'm just going to say one word to you: plastics." 40 years on, plastics are still seen as a product of the future. but today its applications are quite different. The shiny, durable, pigment-infused GE Lexan Slx plastic from General Electric, for example, gives manufacturers an opportunity to eliminate paint from cars and their factories.
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At NextFest you will find humanoid robots with the face of Albert Einstein. Space traveF also features B, with Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic company already taking reservations for holidays in space. All this and more at NextFest... Don't miss the next one! ~ 5 LINE-UP: lism de exposirores 6 DECID-
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The Novomer company is also in the plastics market. It is busily making polymers and plastics from carbon dioxide and other renewable materials. Its novel polymers have unique oxygen and water barrier capabilities that support food packaging and durable film applications. Novomer's materials will be pricecompetitive in the specialty plastics and materials markets.
3-THELAPTOPORCHESTRA If much of today's music is already composed on computers, then what will things be like tomorrow? Well, in this exhibit, 15 laptop computers have been put together to produce a "laptop orchestra," with a conductor podium. Each laptop, which produces both sounds and visual shapes, can be activated or deactivated. This makes it possible to generate an endless number of different compositions.
4 - WIND ENERGY Finding alternative energy sources will be a key part of the future. With this in mind, General Electric was present at NextFest with 1.5 megawatt [MW] wind turbines that can be used for producing electricity both for homes and businesses.
5 - THE KRONOS PROJECTOR If you don't like a video, you don't need to change channels, you simply alter the video! By touching the Kronos Projector's spandex surface, you can
send the video pLaying under your paLm backward and forward in time.
6 - THE WALKING ROBOT Who says that robots have to Look Like machines? The Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology [KAISTI has, for example. added an Albert EinsteinLike head [made by Hanson Roboticsl to the body of Hubo. a dynamic biped body developed in the KAIST lab. This robot is advanced in both motion and emotion!
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flippane moments, with regard to St George, I always refer to him as a very early example of political spin 3 because you see, George became the patron saint ofEngland in 1415, at the time of the Battle of Agincourt. Now we were having a little bit of trouble 4 with France at the timeI mean, what changes! - and Henry decided that probably, well I like to suggest that he thought that the patron saints that we'd held before that were a bit of wi mps 5, considering the pressure we were under at that time, and he wanted to look for a more militant saint, one that would more easily identify with allegedllEnglish values 7 • And St George had appeared in our pantheon of saints from the earlier experience of those who went on the crusades. And he was always held to be a very fairL..-_-'
minded charactd, in raj military sense ot °hndlYhb.e fair, hbe wasbconsidbered 9to , dnh utto every rave an e a t Isrepuration ofgiving his riches'o away to the poor, which he did before in fact he was beheaded" for challenging'2 the then Emperor's, Diocletian's, request, or requirement, that Christianity cease 13 and that all Roman citizens return to Roman values. So there were a lot of things there about him that then appealed at that time and he's been our patron saint ever since.
AND THE DRAGONP Little is known of the real-life St George. As is the case with King Arthur, the modern-day myth is probably an amalgam of different historical figures. It is probable, however, that he came from the Near East, or Middle East. It is said that George was a skilled cavalryman 14 in the Roman army who rebelled against the emperor and consequently lost his head on 23rdApril,303AD. Hundreds of years later, obscure George became St George, and his legend began to spread'5 across the world. The most powerful part of the story is undoubtedly the tale of heroic St George fighting and killing a dangerous dragon and rescuing'6 a beautiful princess, although this is undoubtedly apocryphal. St George has never been a highranking saint. In 1969, the Catholic Church even downgraded St George to the lowest category of saints! Nevertheless, he remains patron saint in
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many countries, including Georgia, Greece and Germany, as well as Lithuania, Palestine and Portugal. St George is also the patron saint of riders17 , soldiers and archers 18 , farmers, butchers'9 and Boy Scouts. Wherever he was really born, St George was certainly not English and never set foot in England. Perhaps this explains why St George's Day (23rd April) has never become as popular with the English as St Patrick's Day is with the Irish. Or is it just natural English modesty and reserve? There is another factor: the English flag has too often been associated with a more aggressive side of Englishness. But that is changing, says John Clemence: John Clemence: Well, I would have
hoped that we'd got well past that stage20 . Yes, of course, it was associated with
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hooliganism abroad and so on, but only two or three years ago we had the Commonwealth Games here and England, like it or lump it', England puts a team in and they need their own flag and what was very interesting at those games is that you would see people of all religions and backgrounds in this country wrapping themselves in the flag at the success of the game. And that was very encouraging. It's often said to me that political movements, British National Party or whatever, run around threatenin~2 everybody with the flag of St George. They don't, acruallf3, they run around with the union fla~4! So it's unfair, in a way. It may suitS one or two politicians not to see a rise ofEnglish consciousness, given that the United Kingdom is devolved26 , but that's a different matter, but the flying of a flag to say that you're English cannot be offensive.
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11 Indicate whether the following sentences are true or false. A. According to the narrator, people are more familiar with the Union Jack than St George's flag. TRUE/FALSE B. St George became patron saint because a more militant figure was required at the time. TRUE/FALSE c. St George became patron saint in the fourteenth century. TRUE/FALSE D. St George was historically considered to be both fair and brave. TRUE/FALSE E. We have a lot of information about the real-life St. George. TRUE/FALSE F. He does not hold a very high rank for the Catholic Church. TRUE/FALSE G. St George's Day in England is much more popular than St Patrick's Day in Ireland. TRUE/FALSE 21 Choose the best option in each case. A. St George became famous thanks to King Henry the [FIFTH / SIXTH). B. Henry believed that the existing saints were [CORRUPT / WEAK). C. St George remains a patron saint in [MANY / VERY FEW) countries. D. St George [OFTEN / NEVER) visited England. E. The English flag is often wrongly associated with (PATRIOTIC / AGGRESSIVE] behaviour. F. John Clemence argues that the British National Party uses ITHE UNION JACK / ST GEORGE'S FLAG). G. He believes that flying a flag to show your national identity (CAN / CANNOTI be offensive. 31 Write the correct adjective in the gaps provided. The first letter of each word has been given to help you. All examples are taken directly from the report. A. The flag was an Ii) symbol for the early Christian crusades. B. St George could have been an early example of (p) spin. c. Henry was looking for a more lml _ saint. D. Little is known of the (r) St George. E. It is said that George was a [sl _ cavalryman. F. The English flag has often been associated with a more (al _ side of Englishness.
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21 A. Fifth, B. weak, c. many, D. never, E. aggressive, F. Union Jack, G. cannot
31 A. important, B. political, c. militant, D. real-life, E. skilled, F. aggressive
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Tacoma es una ciudad joven, con poco mas de un siglo de existencia, hasta ahora a la sombra de la carismatica Seattle. Sin embargo, esta ciudad esta poniendose de moda gracias a una industria potente y el trabajo de artistas de talento.
taken from 'Tacobet' - the Native American name for Mount Rainier, clearly visible some 50 miles (80 kilometres) to the southeast. When Tacoma was chosen as the western terminus of the Northern Pacific Railroad, it even became known as the 'City of Destiny'. Yet this was not to be. Jane Shafer, a volunteer at the Washington State History Museum, says that "Seattle had better publicity people 4 " and Tacoma got left behinds. This continued in the twentieth century. She grew Up6 in the town and remembers what it was like when she was a teenager: Jane Shafer (Standard American accent): There were
eattle, Washington in the USA's Pacific Northwest is known the world over, thanks to grunge music, Boeing aircraft, Starbucks coffee, Amazon.com and Microsoft. Relatively few people around the world have heard of its neighboring' city, Tacoma, which has tended to stand in Seattle's shadow 2 • Yet
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Above: The New Tacoma Convention Center. Opposite: Tacoma at night (top); Tacoma Art Museum Icentrel; and a panel from Dale Chihuly's Bridge of Glass and the Bridge and Museum of Glass.
several department stores 7 ~L--..&:.:.;::""j in downtown Tacoma, all of which are gone now. A big change came along when they built a mallS to the south ofhere... Tacoma Mall, I guess it's called, it may have a new name by now. But the department stores disappeared one by one! And for a long time the main street in downtown Tacoma, Broadway, was just empty. ~ 1 NEIGHBORING: vecino 2 TO STAND
all that appears to be changing. Historically, Tacoma should have been the major city and Seattle the minor one. It was founded as a logging and shipping settlemene in 1864. Its unusual name was
~ IN SOMEONE'S SHADOW: ser eclipsado por 3 LOGGING AND SHIPPING SETILEMENT: cenero de exploraci6n foresral y rranspone maririmo 4 PUBLICITY PERSON: direcror 0 agenee de publicidad, relaciones pubJicas 5 TO GET LEFT BEHIND: quedarse arras 6 TO GROW UP: crecer 7 DEPARTMENT STORE: grandes almacenes 8 MALL: cenero comercial
FROM GANG WARFARE••• Seattle became particularly trendy in the 1990s and this actually helped its less fashionable neighbor. When property prices 9 in Seattle became increasingly expensive, people started looking Below: the Murray Morgan Bridge and Tacoma's Union Station building. where native glass artist Dale Chihuly has created several stunning installations (pictured on previous pages).
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21 Tacoma became known as the City of Destiny A. because many people from the East dreamed of going there. B. as it was the western terminus for the North Pacific Railroad. c. because it had very good "publicity people". 31 What happened in Tacoma some years ago, according to Jane Shafer? A. A new mall meant the end of the smaller department stores. B. The city became more prosperous with the new mall. c. Tacoma's main street became trendy because of its new shops. 41 Tacoma's revival began to take place when A. property in neighbouring Seattle became
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51 Penny Grellier argues that A. Tacoma has always been a more
interesting city than Seattle. B. the city was dangerous and only became
attractive recently. c. artists can't afford to live anywhere else except Tacoma.
61 What has happened to Tacoma in recent years? A. Its population has grown and a new cultural life has started up. B. Some industry has shifted back from Seattle. c. It has become something of a futuristic city.
71 How does Penny Grellier describe the new architecture? A. Very much influenced by the glass works
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BI Combine the different companies with each of the American cities where they are based. Those referring to Seattle are mentioned at the start of the report. A. Seattle B. San Francisco (Silicon Valleyl c. New York City D. Chicago Starbucks Sara Lee McDonalds Apple Yahoo Boeing MTV Polo Ralph Lauren Morgan Stanley IBM Google Amazon
CI Insert the correct past tense or past participle verb form in each case. The first letter of each word is given to help. A. Seattle is lkl the world over. B. Its unusual name was It I from ·Tacobet'. c. When Tacoma was lei as the western terminus... D. She IgJ up in the town and remembers what it was like... E. Seattle (bJ particularly trendy in the 1990s. F. Tacoma (b) as a really industrial city. G. The museum areas are III by the colorful Bridge of Glass. OJ Seattle is the largest city in Washington State, but its capital is Olympia. Match these other US capital cities with their corresponding states. A. Arizona 1. Providence B. Mississippi 2. Indianapolis c. Rhode Island 3. Austin D. Ohio 4. Phoenix E. New Mexico 5. Jackson F. Arkansas 6. Santa Fe G. Texas 7. Little Rock H. Indiana 8. Columbus
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tive to visitors, explains Penny Grellier, volunteer at the Tacoma Art Museum: Penny Grellier (Standard American accent): Well, Taco-
ma began as a really industrial city and it hasn't been until. .. probably only 10 years ago that it really wasn't a very attractive area to come to. It's getting a lot better because it used to be fairly dangerous, there was a lot of gang activity in Tacoma. And so people weren't focused on things like art, they were focused on not being shot and things like that! So ...
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A lively statue situated at the entrance to Tacoma's Union Station building. When Tacoma was chosen as the western terminus of the Northern Pacific Railroad. it became known as the 'City of Destiny'.
mous local glass artist Dale Chihuly. The bridge also links the city's downtown and port areas. Penny Grellier says that the new Tacoma hasn't forgotten its industrial past: Penny Grellier: But in the architecture that's going up now, you see this kind of marriage between modern art, or architecture, and what already exists here. For instance, the design ofthis museum, the architect, Antoine Predock, wanted to make it a very modern structure. Kind of like1': here's the new Tacoma, and then also include a lot ofwindows, not only for natural light, but so that you could see what came before, all these old factory15 buildings and the layour16 of the city. ~
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Dickens Cames Alive new attraction allows visitors to step back in time 1 to Victorian England, complete with sounds and smells. Dickens World (www.dickensworld.co.uk) in Kent features streets, alleys 2, courtyards 3 , docks', shops and a restaurant, all themed around one of Britain's best-loved authors, Charles Dickens. The Haunted House is home to the ghosts of Ebenezer Scrooge and children can play .... in 'Fagin's Dens'. Built on the site of the former Royal Dockyard which employed Dickens' father, .4-==-,.?l"." Dickens World is situated at Chatham Mar itime, a mile from Chatham and Rochester stations and 15 minutes from the new Eu rostar link at Ebs fleet, which also opens this month.
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LIVERPOOL GALA Liverpool's neo-classical St George's Hall reopens, appropriately, on St George's Day, after a 1O-year, £23 million makeover 9 . The Grade 1 listed building 10 has been painstakingli 1 restored and has a new visitor centre which will offer 'living history tours' to tell the story of the hall. Built from 18421856, it was a venue for musical events and also housed the Civil and Crown Courts 12. Queen Victoria considered it "worthy of Athens." The gala event on 23 April will include a concert in the Small Concert Room and a citywide bell-ringing 13 symphony.
GUITAR TOWN Enormous guitar sculptures are popping up all over Austin, Texas. The 3m tall statues will appear in front of the city's landmarks until autumn 2007 as part of a project known as Austin GuitarTown. Presented by Gibson Guitar, the brightly-painted guitars display the work of local artists and will be auctioned off for charity. Well-known actors and musicians including Dennis Quaid, Billy Bob Thornton and ZZ Top (pictured] have joined in support.
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On 25 April, Australia celebrates ANZAC Day, its most important national occasion. It marks the anniversary of the first military action fought by Australia and New Zealand in the First World War. On that date in 1915, the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC] landed at Gallipoli, hoping to eliminate Turkey from the war. Instead, they met with fierce resistance and both sides suffered many casualties 6 until the allied forces were eventually evacuated. Since 1916, Australia has commemorated lives lost not only in the
First World War, but also in all subsequent military operations involving Australians. Sydney's celebrations this year start with a Dawn Service 7 at 4.30am at the Cenotaph at Martin Place. Events include a wreathS-laying service and the ANZAC Day March.
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1 TO STEP BACK IN TIME: rerroceder eI riempo 2 ALLEY: callej6n 3 COURTYARD: pario 4 DOCK: muelle 5 DEN: guarida 6 CASUALTY: baja, perdida 7 SERVICE: ceremonia 8 WREATH: corona 9 MAKEOVER: resrauraci6n 10 GRADE 1 LISTED BUILDING: edificio declarado de parrimonio nacional 11 PAINSTAKINGLY: laboriosamente 12 COURT: juzgado 13 BELL-RINGING: campanalogfa 14 TO POP UP: aparecer
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THE FUTURE OF
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el ingles el idioma que nos conducid. a tiempos prebabelicos, cuando la humanidad hablaba un mismo lenguaje? De momento, aseguran que una quinta parte de los habitantes del planeta maneja bien esta lengua. fifth of the planet speaks English competently. Another sixth is learning. 80 per cent of computer information is in English, as are Deutsche Bank board meetings'. Yet the notion of one language for all sounds familiar. Remember Genesis, chapter II? Humans build the Tower of Babel up to heaven. God doesn't like it. He replaces the single language that let us cooperate with today's multilingual babble 2 • Can English recapture monolingual paradise?
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COCAINE GLUE Automated translators, like Babel fish (this strange name comes from Douglas Adams' science fiction comedy, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) s~em to offer instant solutions. But here's a typical computer translation: "I apologize for my (bad) English: I am Italian and as it's know, nobody is perfect. Kindly, is it comprehensible what do I have written?" In Brazil's Fortaleza Airport, you'll find Bleedint Jar and Cocaine Glue' on the drinks menu: meaningless translations for jar ofsangria and
Genesis, Chapter 11 And the whole earth was of one language, and
of one speech.... And they said. Let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven.... And the Lord said, Behold, the people have all one language; and now nothing will be restrained from them. Let us go down, and there confound their language. that they may not understand one another's speech, So the Lord scattered them abroad: and they left off to build the city. Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth.
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Coca Cola. Worst still, Pepsi's logo, Come alive with Pepsi, was translated into Chinese as "Pepsi brings dead ancestors 5back to life."
FALSE FRIENDS It's easy to be fooled by 'Spanglish' expressions. US immigration has created many hybrids. Hispanic communities have produced dictionaries to help you suifear the web, deletear a document and vacuumear your carpet6 • There's even a Hollywood film called Spanglish. Footing means basis in English (eg 'on a firm footing'); if you exercise by running, you are jogging. You cannot play basket or volley; the spons are basketball and volleyball.
CONFUSING MIXTURES The French love inventing nouns. Un parking is a carpark and un relooking is a makeover', while un destockage is a clearance sales. These are not English, but 'Franglais' . The Dutch learn English in elementary school and watch undubbed 9 films. Yet even they make mistakes. "That can," instead of "That's possible." "I hate you welcome," for "I welcome you." A Dutch prime minister confused undertaker'O with entrepreneur. The University of Delft awards" a large sausage for the worst 'Dunglish' errors. (WOrstis Dutch for sausage.)
NEW ENGLISHES Linguists speak of New Englishes: the healthy12 diversity ofworld English. But, as the pressure to learn English grows, these half-baked'3 versions are proliferating. Computers can't learn for us - not yet. With untrustworthy'4 translation engines, dodgy'5 internet courses and troublesome'6 false friends, the monolingual dream still sounds like the babble ofBabel. ~
1 BOARO MEETING: reunion de la junta directiva 2 BABBLE: parloteo J BLEEDING: sangrante 4 GLUE: pegamento 5 ANCESTOR: antepasado 6 TO VACUUM YOUR CARPET: pasar la aspiradora por la a1fombra 7 MAKEOVER: reestructuracion 8 CLEARANCE SALE: liquidacion 9 UNDUBBED: sin doblar 10 UNDERTAKER: director de funeraria ~
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ew York City is home to many amazing' things, not least Art Deco architecture. Examples range 2 from the world-famous Chrysler and Empire State Buildings to less wellknown murals and interiors. Glen Leiner, executive director ofthe Art Deco Society of New York, runs 3 tours designed to promote awareness 4 of this unique style, but he is also actively involved in preservation campaigns. The term Art Deco wasn't in fact coined s until 1966, but it referred to a style that had come into existence in 1925, at a Paris exhibition, the Exposition Internationale des Arts Decoratifs et Industriels Modernes. The modern style soon crossed the Atlantic, to the United States, which was enjoying an economic boom in the 1920s. That came to a dramatic halt with the Wall Street Crash of 1929 but, remarkably, says Leiner, that didn't spell the end 6 ofArt Deco:
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Glen Leiner (Standard American accent): We, of course, had the Great Depression, 1929, that started right here in New York, and the response to the Great Depression in this country consisted of the New Deal. The New Deal programs that were initiated under President Roosevelt, beginning in 1933, and I'd like to think that that's a very special American contribution to the world of Art Deco because during
those years the government sponsored a lot of architecture projects: bridges, highways, public housing?, schools, hospitals, a whole wealth of architectures was sponsored and funded by the government and it happened allover the country, not just in New York or the big cities. Civil works projects were initiated, we had waterworks\ hydroelectric dams'o, harbors'" just a whole range of types of projects were begun between 1933 and the start of World War Two and that was all done under the scope'2 of the New Deal government programs and the aesthetics that were dicta.ted by those programs were distinctly American. We had a lot of buildings that might look like the Novecento architecture that you see in Milan and might be similar to the French Art Deco, but it was very economical, very rational, very clean.
THE EMPTY STATE BUILDING The Empire State Building, for example, opened in 1931, but many of its offices remained unoccupied until the Second World War - so much so in fact that it was nicknamed'3 'The ~
1 AMAZING: increfble 2 TO RANGE: ~ variar 3 TO RUN: organizar 4 AWARENESS: consciencia 5 TO COIN: acufiar 6 THAT OION'T SPELL THE ENO: no significo el fin 7 PUBLIC HOUSING: vivienda de proteccion oficial 8 A WHOLE WEALTH OF ARCHITECTURE: un gran nillnero de obras de arte arquitectonicas 9 WATERWORKS: central depuradora 10 DAM: presa, dique 11 HARBOR: puerto 12 UNDER THE SCOPE: bajo el ambito
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11 Choose which of the options is correct. A. The term Art Deco was first used in the (1920s/1960s!. B. The Wall Street Crash was a (FATAL BLOW / DRAWBACK) for the Art Deco movement. c. The New Deal (HELPED / DIDN'T HELP) the Art Deco style architectural programmes. D. The government sponsored (ONLY PRIVATE / MAINLY PUBLIC! building projects. E. Glen Leiner says that Art Deco architecture was (PURELY / PARTICULARLY) American. F. The Empire State Building remained empty for around (FIFTEEN / THIRTY! years. 21 Place the topics into the order in which they appear in the original report. A. The Great Depression. B. The Radio City Music Hall c. The Art Deco Society of New York D. The empty Empire State Building E. President Roosevelt F. Ralph Walker, the architect. G. The Paris International Exhibition. 31 Are the following sentences true or faLse? A. New York City has many Art Deco buildings. TRUE/FALSE B. Art Deco coincided first with an economic upturn in the USA. TRUE/FALSE c. Art Deco buildings were mainly built on America's east coast. TRUE/FALSE D. The Art Deco movement only lasted till about 1939. TRUE/FALSE E. Donald Deskey designed many buildings for the telephone company. TRUE/FALSE F. He was also one of America's great TRUE/FALSE industrial designers. 41 Indicate which of these buiLdings does not correspond to the architecturaL styLe. A. ART DECO: Bauhaus Archive, ChrysLer Building, Christ the Redeemer B. BAROQUE: Manchester Town Hall, St Paul's Cathedral, Piazza San Pietro c. GOTHIC: Notre Dame, Burgos Cathedral, Bellas Artes Palace D. RENAISSANCE: St Peter's BasiLica, CoLogne CathedraL, The EscoriaL E. ROMANESQUE: Santiago CathedraL, Winchester Cathedral, Toledo Cathedral
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Empty State Building'. Art Deco effectively came to an end with the advent of the war, but the buildings are still standing. In conclusion, we asked Leiner to name the most important Art Deco architects:
bronze and glass in innovative ways that had not previously ever been done. So he's one of my heroes. Donald Deskey was a great designer. He created Radio City Music Hall at Rockefeller Center. He not only designed the interior space, but he also designed all of the furnishings 17 that went into the space and he was an industrial designer of that time 18 , and one of the great industrial designers in America, so he's very important.
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JOE BONAMASSA
Nino prodigio de la guitarra, 10 descubri6 nada mas y nada menos que B.B. King. A los doce anos ya daba conciertos en directo y hoy, sin cumplir los treinta, es una estrella del 'blues'. Entrevistamos a Joe Bonamassa. ven though he isn't yet 30, rock and bluesman Joe Bonamassa is one of the most respected guitarists around. BLues wax magazine voted him 'Blues Artist of the Year' two years in a row', while he was recently appointed to the Board of Directors 2 of the Blues Foundation. Bonamassa grew up in Ithaca, New York, and first picked up a guitar at the age offour - which wasn't surprising, seeing as 3 his father owned a guitar shop. But, as he explained when he
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covered by BB King when I was 12 and I was his opening actS and I think his tour manager said, "Hey, I think your opening act tonight is a 12-year-old kid!" So he came out and saw me and he invited me on a tour that summer and... and he really is the reason why I'm sitting here. I mean,
without BB King and a few other people, you know, I wouldn't have gotten the big break that I got, you know, back at that age and I wouldn't have had the career I've had, so it's like I really do owe him6 •.. when I try to pass that same kind of open-door, giving kind of mentality down 7 to like my opening acts, if they're good, and... and I try to help as many people as I can because I was helped by like the best.
THE RELEVANCE OF THE BLUES And yet Joe Bonamassa is no traditionalist, as is evident from his latest album YOu 6' Me, which was released on the Provogue label and distributed by Edel. In addition to Bonamassa's own compositions, this 12-track set con-
tains covers of songs by blues legends like Charley Patton and Sonny Boy Williamson, but there's also one of a song by Led Zeppelin. For Bonamassa, there's a connection: Joe Bonamassa: I can trace the origins of hip-hop and heavy metal, rock'n'roll: all the music that's on the radio today can be linked8 with the blues. You start with Robert Johnson, who influenced Muddy Waters, who influenced Eric Clapton, who influenced Jimmy Page, who made the first, quote unquote 9 , 'heavy metal record', which kind of influenced Black Sabbath, who kind of influenced Metallica, who kind of influenced System ofa Down. Boom! Then you go, you know, Muddy Waters to BB King to
James Brown to Sly Stone to like The Commodores, the Funkadelic, to Dr Dre, to 50 Cent, to Boom! Blues. All of this stuWO you could trace back". I think it's the most relevant music that we have, as far as being the grandfather, or the great-grandfather, of what we listen to today, bur I think, as far as it being an art form today, I think the art in it is slowly kind of dissipating, which is... what I'm trying to do, is remind people that you can still do something relevant with it, you know, and I think guys like John Mayer are good'cause he's trying to revitalise it, and there's Derek Trucks and Government Mule and all this stuff that's doing blues-based rock stuff that's still blues, but it's, you know, outside the box'2, and trying to keep it in the media, which is the fans going, "Hey, there's something new and exciting." ~
1 IN A ROW: seguidos 2 BOARD OF ~ DIRECTORS: junta directiva 3 SEEING AS: ya que 4 BREAK: oponunidad 5 OPENING ACT: telonero 6 I REALLY DO OWE HIM: Ie debo muchfsimo 7 I TRY TO PASS ••• DOWN: intento transmitir la misma mentalidad abiena y generosa 8 TO LINK: conectar, relacionar 9 aUOTE, UNaUOTE: entre comillas 10 STUFF: (aquf) musica 11 TO TRACE BACK (TO): remontarse a 12 OUTSIDE THE BOX: no convencional
EXERCISES
Listening Questions
11 Indicate whether these statements are true or false. A. Joe Bonamassa was recently made sole director of the Blues Foundation. TRUE/FALSE B. He got his first great opportunity when he was still a boy. TRUE/FALSE C. He is very grateful to all those who helped him at the beginning of his career. TRUE/FALSE D. He doesn't playa traditional type of blues music. TRUE/FALSE E. His album You & Me includes all his own material. TRUE/FALSE F. He says that artists like Government Mule also playa kind of unconventional blues. TRUE/FALSE
21 Insert the correct preposition/conjunction from the list below, All sentences appear in the original report. Two of the words do not apply, A. BLues Wax magazine voted him 'Blues Artist of the Year' two years _ _ a row. B. Bonamassa was recently appointed _ _ the board of directors... c. He grew _ _ in Ithaca, New York. D.... which wasn't surprising, seeing _ _ his father owned a guitar shop. E. SO he came out and saw me and he invited me _ _ a tour that summer... F. I wouldn't have gotten the big break that I got, you know, _ _ at that age... G. All the music that's on the radio can be linked the blues. from of
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31 The article uses the expressions, 'seeing as' and 'as far as', Write the correct word in the gaps to match these expressions with 'as' in context. A. As as he arrives, we'll leave for the party. B. We can go in, as as you don't mind sitting in the front row. c. As _ _ as I'm concerned, there's nothing we can do to help him. D. This is as as the weather gets here; that's all the sun you can expect. E. As as lecturing, I do journalistic work from home - I'm a busy man. F. As _ _, I haven't found anyone to replace him, but I'll keep looking!
Answers 11 A. False, B. True, c. True, D. True, E. False, F. True 21 A. in, B. to, c. up, D. as, E. on, F. back, G. with 31 A. soon, B. long, c. far, D. good, E. well, F. yet
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SPEAKER CHUCK ROLANDO STANDARD AMERICAN ACCENT
ILanguage level: IINTERMEDIATE I
JOHN GROGAN
Ellibro del periodista John Grogan, en el que rinde tributo a su perro labrador, Marley, ~e ha convertido en un superventas en Estados Unidos. Este es un extracto de un relata sabre el amor a los hijos y a los animales. e were young. We were in love. We were rollicking' in those sublime early days of marriage when life seems about as good as life can get. We could not leave well enough alone 2. And so on a January evening in 1991, my wife of fifteen months and I ate a quick dinner together and headed off t0 3 answer a classified ad4 in the PaLm
Beach Post. Why we were doing this, I wasn't quite sure. A few weeks earlier I had awoken just after dawns to find the bed beside me empty. I got up and found Jenny sitting in her bathrobe6at the glass table on the screened porch? ofour little bungalow, bent over8 the newspaper with a pen in her hand. here was nothing unusual about the scene. Not only was the PaLm Beach Post our local paper, it was also the source9of half of our household income. We were a two-newspaper-career couple. Jenny worked as a feature writer'o in the Post's "Accent" section; I was a news reporter at the competing'1 paper in the area, the South FLorida Sun-SentineL, based an hour south in Fort Lauderdale. 40 SPEAK UP
We began every morning poring over12 the newspapers, seeing how our stories were played13 and how they stacked up to the competition14 . We circled, underlined, and clipped1s with abandon16. But on this morning, Jenny's nose was not in the news pages but in the classified section. When I stepped closer, I saw she was feverishly'? circling beneath the heading "PETS-DOGS." "Uh," I said in that new-husband, still-treading-gently18 voice. "Is there something I should kn ow.~" She did not answer. "Jen-Jen~'" "It's the plant," she finally said, her voice carrying a slight19 edge20 ofdesperation. "The plant?" I asked. "That dumb 2' plant," she said. "The one we killed." The one we killed? I wasn't about to press the poine2, but for the record 23 it was the plant that I bought and she killed. I had surprised her with it one night, a lovely large dieffenbachia with emerald-and-cream variegated leaves. "What's the occasion?" she'd asked. But there was none. I'd given it to her for no reason other than to say, "Damn, isn't married life great?"
he had adored both the gesture24 and the plant and thanked me by throwing her arms around my neck and kissing me on the lips. Then she promptlys went on to kill my gift to her with an assassin's coldhearted efficiency. Not that she was trying to; if anything, she nurtured26 the poor thing to death. Jenny didn't exactly have a green thumb 2? Working on the assumption that all living things require water, but apparently forgetting that they also need air, she began flooding 28 the dieffenbachia on a daily basis. "Be careful not to ovetwater it," I had warned. "Okay," she had replied, and then dumped on 29 another gallon. The sicker the plant got, the more she doused30 it, until finally it just kind of
melted 31 into an oozing32 heap. I looked at its li mp 33 skeleton in the pot by the window and thought, Man, someone who believes in omens 34 could have a field day with 35 this one. Now here she was, somehow making the cosmic leap 36 oflogic from dead flora in a pot to living fauna in the pet classifieds37 . Kill a plant, buy a pupplB. Well, of course it made perfect sense. I looked more closely at the newspaper in front of her and saw that one ad in particular seemed to have caught her fancy39. She had drawn three fat red stars beside it. It read: "Lab puppies, yellow. AKC purebred 40 . All shots 41 . Parents on premises 42 ."
"So," I said, "can you run this plantpet thing by me one more time43 ?,' "You know," she said, looking up. "I tried so hard and look what happened. I can't even keep a stupid houseplant alive. I mean, how hard is that? All you need to do is water the damn" thing." Then she got to the real issue: "If I can't even keep a plant alive, how am I ever going to keep a baby alive?" She looked like she might start cryIng. The BabyThing, as I called it, had become a constant in Jenny's life and was getting bigger by the day'5. When we had first met, at a small newspaper in western Michigan, she was just a few months out of college 46 , and
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1 TO ROLLICK: diverrirse 2 TO LEAVE WELL ~ ENOUGH ALONE: dejar las cosas como esran 3 TO HEAO OFF TO: ponerse a 4 CLASSIFIEO AO: anuncio de la secci6n de Clasiftcados 5 OAWN: amanecer 6 BATHROBE: albornoz 7 SCREEN EO PORCH: porche acrisralado 8 TO BENO OVER: inclinarse 9 SOURCE: Fueme 10 FEATURE WRITER: arriculisra 11 COMPETING: rival 12 TO PORE OVER: esrudiar, escudriiiar 13 HOW... WERE PLAYED: como se habfan rerocado nuesrros arrfculos 14 HOW THEY STACKED ... COMPETITION: como diFerfan de los de la comperencia 15 TO CLIP: corrar 16 WITH ABANDON: a rodo rirmo 17 FEVERISHLY: febrilmeme 18 STILL-TREADING-GENTLY: que alll1 iba con cuidado 19 SLIGHT: leve 20 EDGE: roque 21 DUMB: esnJpido 22 TO PRESS THE POINT: insisrir 23 FOR THE RECORD: que consre 24 GESTURE: deralle 25 PROMPTLY: inmediarameme 26 TO NURTURE: cuidar 27 DIDN'T EXACTLY HAVE A GREEN THUMB: las plamas no se Ie daban muy bien, precisanleme 28 TO FLOOD: inundar 29 TO DUMP ON: verrer 30 TO DOUSE: mojar 31 TO MELT: lit., derrerjrse 32 oozING: rezumando agua 33 LIMP: musrio 34 OMEN: presagio 35 TO HAVE A FIELD DAY WITH: rener mareria para esrudiar 36 LEAP: salro 37 PET CLASSIFIEDS: anuncios c1asiftcados de animales domesricos 38 PUPPY: cacho rro 39 TO CATCH 5.0'5 FANCY: lIamar la arenci6n 40 PUREBRED: con pedigrf 41 SHOT: vacuna 42 PARENTS ON PREMISES: se ha criado en la misma casa que sus padres 43 CAN YOU ... TIME: ,me puedes volver a explicar esro de la plama y eI animal' 44 DAMN: maldiro 45 BY THE DAY: cada dfa 46 JUST... OUT OF COLLEGE: recien graduada
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A) Choose the best answer for each question. 11 What do Jenny and her husband do? A. They both work on the same newspaper. 8. They work for two different newspapers in the same area. c. They work for two newspapers in different areas. 2) Why had he bought Jenny the plant in the first place? A. It was a belated birthday present. 8. She had always wanted that type of plant. c. There was no particular reason for the present. 31 How does the husband react to the idea of having a dog? A. He sees a direct link between wanting a pet and a plant. 8. He realizes that it will be good practise for when they have a kid. c. He sees no logic from first wanting to have a plant and then a pet dog. 4) When the couple got married ... they were living in South Florida. 8. they were still students in Michigan. c. they were living 24 hours' drive apart. A.
5) Generally speaking, what was the couple's reaction to having kids? A. Neither of them felt very inclined to try it. 8. They wanted to have them one day but were scared of the idea. c. Jenny was more enthusiastic than he was. B) Connect the words from the two columns to make commonly used collocations, all of which appear in the story. A. early 8. local c. household o. daily E. field F. real G. perfect I. good 1. day 2. income 3. practise 4. issue 5. sense 6. days 7. paper 8. basis
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serious adulthood 47 still seemed a far distam concept. For both of us, it was our first professional job out of school. We ate a lot of pizza, drank a lot of beer, and gave exactly zero thought 48 to the possibility of someday being anything other than young, single, unferrered 49 consumers of pizza and beer. U t years passed. We had bare1lo begun dating 51 when various job opportunities - and a one-year postgraduate program for me - pulled us in differem directions across the eastern United States. At first we were one hour's drive 52 apart. Then we were three hours apart. Then eight, then twenty-four. By the time we both landed 53 together in South Florida and tied the knot 5" she was nearly thirty. Her friends were having babies. Her body was sending her strange messages. That once seemingly55 eternal window of procreative opportunity56 was slowly lowering 57 . I leaned 58 over her from behind, wrapped 59 my arms around her shoul-
ders, and kissed the top of her head. "It's okay," I said. Bur I had to admit, she raised 60 a good question. Neither of us had ever really nurtured a thing in our lives. Sure, we'd had pets growing up, but they didn't really coun t. We always knew our parems would keep them alive and well. We both knew we wanted to one day have children, bur was either of us really up for the job 61 ? Children were so... so... scarl 2. They were helpless 63 and fragile and looked like they would break easily ifdropped 64 . A little smile broke out 65 on Jenny's face. "I thought maybe a dog would be good practise66 ," she said. ~
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Britain's Most Controversial Poet ony Harrison is probably Britain's most famous and controversial poet. In celebration of his 70th birthday, Viking are publishing Collected Poems, the first complete edition of his poetry, from The Loiners (1970), through his film and theatre work, to his most recent book, Under the Clock (2005). Fascinated by class, classical literature and language, he has written, in sometimes very crude 5 language, about subjects from censorship and kinky6 sex with African rent boys 7, to the Bosnian War. Harold Pinter called him "brilliant, passionate, outrageous 8 , abrasive, but also immeasurably9 tender10 ." ,
Building British History Published to tie in with 11 a new BBC TV series, How We Built Britain [Bloomsbury) is the social history of the UK as seen through its buildings. Written by one of the BBC's most famous journalists, David Dimbleby, the book looks at 1,000 years of buildings that defi ne the country, from cathedrals to flats, from stately homes 12 to 13 terraced houses.
Sounding out Phil Spector In December 2002, the legendary record producer Phil Spectorcreator of the famous 'wall of sound' studio production style of the 1960sgave his first major interview for 25 ~. .. MK:k~ '~ years, In hiS Los - Angeles castle, to music journalist Mick Brown. Building on that famous interview, Brown now explores the life and times of Spector in Tearing Down 14 the Wall ofSound[Bloomsburyl.
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In January 2006, The Artic Monkey's Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not, became the fastest-selling debut album in UK music history. The four-piece from Sheffield had achieved hugeB popularity without a record label9 , allowing fans to download their music. Even before they had a record deal, the band played sold-oueo gigs". Their no-nonsense'2approachto indie rock is matched by their disregard'3 for the industry. In January they scooped'4 two Brit Awards, but didn't pick them up: they recorded their acceptance speeches on video, dressed as characters from the Wizard of Oz and the Village People. This month they release Your Favourite Worst Nightmare, preceded by a single, Brainstorm.
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friend Mary Jane Watson. The only other notable cast member is Theresa Russell, ex-wife of the cuttingedge 3 filmmaker Nicholas Roeg and lead 4 in much of his best work throughout the eighties. With his double life now known to Mary Jane and the news that an escaped convict was actually the killer of his beloved uncle, Spiderman's life has become fraught with 5 complications. To make matters worse, another potential love interest enters his life. Film blogs are aflutter with 6 how Spiderman will be able to cope with these stick/ situations. So far, however, Spiderman 3's marketing department has been adept in keeping the mystery alive until the international release date on 4 May.
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Gama Golf: consumo media (11100 kill): de 5.2 a 8.3. Emisi6n media de CO2 (g/km): de 138 a 197. @iPad cs una marca registrada de Apple Inc.
Existen otros autom6viles parecidos con reproductores mp3 integrados. Pero no son un Golf con un iPod®. Ya sabes a 10 que nos estamos refiriendo ... Nuevo iGolf. EI autE!ntico iPod iXl • Y el autentico Golf. Equipamiento de serie del nuevo iGolf: llamas de aleaci6n, faras antiniebla, volante de cuero, Climatic, radio-CD con 8 altavoces, 6 airbags, ASS, ESP, un ano de seguro a todo riesgo gratis" y... c6mo no, iPod'" Nano 8 Gb con conexi6n en apoyabrazos delantera. Hay un iGolf desde 17.620 €'.
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·PVP recomendada en Peninsula y Baleares (IVA, transporte. impuestQ de matriculaci6n y Plan Prever incluidasJ. ··Incluye segura a todo ricsgo el primer ailo con franquicia de 360 € ofrecido por Zurich Seguros. aplicable a toda la gama Golf hasta 140 CV para clientes con edad a partir de 23 aiios rinanciando la compra con Volkswagen Finance EFC S.A. Oferla Volkswagen Finance EFC S.A. valida hasta e130/06/2007.
