Authentic 2021
Authentic 2021
Authentic 2021
5G could replace the need for 1)___________ by largely operating on the cloud.
Downloading a two-hour film on 5G would take around 2)___________.
For a world that is increasingly dependent on the internet just to function, it is vital to lower 3)___________.
The efficiency of 4)___________, like self-driving cars, depends on the speed of data transfer.
5)___________ is a technique employed to provide a personalised web experience.
6)___________ is exemplified as an event that requires 5G to operate effectively.
One of the main barriers to the development of 5G is 7)___________.
5G could cause network operators to 8)___________ their current business models.
In order to work properly, 5G needs a frequency with much bigger 9)___________. This is less of an obstacle in
China, who are taking a more 10)___________.
Big 5G 11)___________ are launched to put China at the forefront of equipment production for the new technology.
Exercise 2:
Hollywood movies have 1)__________ a future of 2)__________ and flying cars.
In the future, we are expected to witness a surging popularity of 3)__________ like robo taxis and an emphasis on
4)__________.
5)__________ will require changes to air traffic control systems.
For high-speed travel, the ambitious Hyperloop could leave 6)__________ in the dust.
The lack of 7)__________ enables pods to reach great speeds.
The makers of 8)__________ are promising to slash travel times.
Despite skepticism, tech and engineering companies are 9)__________ the challenges of passsenger transit,
promising to 10)__________ us into the future.
Exercise 3.
There's 1)_____________ around the world about what's happening in the Amazon right now.
Environmentalists say many of these are caused by 2)_____________ and loggers clearing forest land.
It stores vast amounts of carbon, and that's really crucial for 3)_____________.
According to 4)_____________ , there've been more than 74,000 fires this year.
I eventually came across a fire that was actually burning there, so I turned on my 5)_____________.
According to the 6)_____________, smoke from Amazon fires is actually reaching the 7)_____________ and also
Brazil's biggest city, Sao Paolo
He's weakened government environmental enforcement agencies; he's 8)_____________ two key foreign sources
of money for preservation projects, Norway and Germany; he's also 9)_____________ at satellite data compiled by
the government's monitoring agency.
The government's not interested in enforcing the legislation and strengthening all the strategies to combat
deforestation - like a 10)_____________ for people to go into the ground and to the forest without any kind of
control
Bolsonaro tried to row back from that remark somewhat today by posting an online video accusing the media of
11)_____________ those remarks. But the allegation's still out there, and it's causing a lot of astonishment and
also 12)_____________.
Brazil's environment minister had a taste of that during a U.N. climate change meeting here in Brazil this week,
where he was 13)_____________.
Exercise 4.
Listen to a piece of news about African swine fever and complete the blanks with NO MORE THAN FOUR
WORDS.
African swine fever, a complex icosahedral virus, causes a contagious, fatal disease for all infected
1)_________________and wild boar.
Symptoms of the disease involve high fever, lethargy, loss of appetite, 2)_________________, vomiting and
abortions or sometimes only sudden death.
The virus can spread via the bites of tick species, an important part of the infection cycle of 3)_________________,
or by feeding infected pork or pork products to pigs.
African swine fever first emerged in East Africa early in the 20th century, then spread through Sub-Saharan Africa
and into Europe.
As there is no vaccine for this disease now, 4) _________________ and culling of infected pig herds are crucial
measures to prevent the disease from spreading. 5) ____________and catering waste to pigs are prohibited.
Additionally, applying good 6)_________________is required.
The virus may exist in infected animals’ 7)____________________or infected 8)_________________ for weeks or
even months.
Scientific research was highly prioritized after the severe epidemic in wild boar in Europe. A
9)_________________is being developed to delete virus genes to improve pigs’ immune system.
Research on African swine fever virus must be conducted in 10)_________________.
Exercise 5:
Dozens of people have been 1)___________ in a college admissions 2)___________.
At least 50 people have been charged with participating in 3)___________ that involve cheating on college
entrance exams, like the SAT and ACT. Some of their children were admitted to 4)___________ colleges, including
Yale, Stanford, UCLA and the University of Texas, by bribing coaches.
We're talking about 5)___________- fake test scores, fake 6)___________, fake photographs, bribed college
officials.
Between 2011 and 2018, wealthy parents paid Rick Singer, the head of a foundation and a for-profit admissions
7)___________, more than $25 million.
Singer's foundation 8)___________ to be a charitable organization but was actually a front Singer used to
9)___________ the money that parents paid him.
Joseph Bonavolonta says more than 30 parents 10)___________ their wealth to cheat the system and set their
children up with the best education their money could buy.
None of the schools named in the 11)___________ are under investigation for fraud. The U.S. attorney's office
says college admissions officers were tricked.
In federal court, Rick Singer pleaded guilty to 12)___________, 13)___________, 14)___________ to defraud the
United States and 15)___________.
UCLA says it has placed its men's soccer coach on leave for allegedly taking bribes and, in a statement, says the
charges against him are 16)___________.
Exercise 6:
Facebook is now facing more 1)___________ over its advertising policies.
Facebook spends a large amount of money on settling lawsuits, which forces the company to 2)___________
demographic targeting in some areas.
Google has been hit by the EU with the third 3)___________.
4)___________ is mentioned as one of the key features to attract advertisers in the first place.
It’s been illegal under 5)___________ to disclose homes that are for sale to specific group of people. In other
words, it can be deemed as a 6)___________ against minority demographics.
Exercise 7:
There is an 1)___________ in the cosmos where time and space 2)___________.
Feryal Ozel is an 3)___________ at the University of Arizona.
Ozel says a black hole is like a 4)___________with such strong gravity that it 5)___________ everything.
It just distorts the space-time around it, and in the interior, it distorts it so much that even light is 6)___________.
In 2017, they used eight radio telescopes around the world to 7)___________ at the center of a galaxy around 50
million light years away, a place where a black hole is thought to be 8)___________.
Around the black hole, there's this sort of 9)___________.
Scientists plan to use more telescopes to get better 10)___________ of this black hole.
Exercise 8:
Co-teaching is a model of 1)_____________ in which two 2)_____________ work together in a classroom which
contains students of varying levels of need and ability.
There is no 3)_____________ between the roles of the teachers in the classroom.
Each team often comprises a 4)_____________ and a special education teacher.
The first teacher loves talking about individual students through all 5)_____________. She also appreciates
6)_____________ as a good way to help struggling students.
The second teacher compares co-teaching with something like 7)_____________.
Herdorn Middle School receives extra support to meet 8)_____________.
Teachers are confident that the 9)_____________ will be further narrowed.
The method helps dispel 10)_____________ before students start practicing.
By not 11)_____________ students, they can learn together and build on each other’s strengths.
Exercise 9:
Three Ivy League schools are alleged to have used 1)_____________ to limit the number of Asian-American
students admitted to their campuses.
This isn't the only complaint against Ivy League universities by the Asian-American 2)_____________.
Asian-American communities are going to continue our fight until you totally stop your 3)_____________ against
our children.
The group is now asking the government to investigate 4) _____________ at Brown, Yale and Dartmouth pointing
to a study that concluded Asian-Americans need to score higher than white, black and 5)_____________ students
on the SAT to get into these colleges.
The number of Asian-American students at these elite colleges still far 6)_____________ their representation in the
general population.
Aaron Lewis is a 7)_____________ at Newton South High School, and he's checking in with some of his seniors at
a 8)_____________.
Lewis says while some families are looking for any edge in the college 9)_____________, he never tells his Asian-
American students that they might benefit from not checking the box indicating their 10)_____________.
Isabella is Chinese Asian-American and says she thinks some Asian-American groups get too caught up on the
idea of discrimination at 11)_____________.
I'm pretty sure it does happen, but I think they're going a little too 12)_____________ with it.