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(5) early indications of the whereabouts of Osama Bin Laden before he was (6)captured. Researcher Kalev Leetar said the study could now help analysts (7) spot future trouble in potential hotspots around the world. Business strategists already do a similar thing to (8) advise their clients. ||  || //captured// //recent// //sources// //advise// //spot// //input// //data// //early// || (15) focused on one place. Leetar likened his predictions to weather forecasting, saying: “It’s never perfect, but we do better than (16) random guessing." ||  || //emotionsX//  //incredibleX//  //k////eyX//  //randomX//  //importance//  //focusedX//  //viewX//  //track// || Good things bad things ||   ||   ||   ||
 * 1. GAP FILL:** Put the words into the gaps in the text.
 * Researchers say they can use news stories to help predict the future. Scientists from the University of Illinois in the USA (1) input over 100 million news articles into a supercomputer for analysis. The stories went back as far as 1945 and came from many (2) sources, including the BBC and New York Times. The (3) data showed how much unrest and discontent there was in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya before their (4) recent revolutions. The computer also saw
 * Leetar explained the (9) importance of news to look into the future: “News gives you (10) incredible information about people places, and organizations. It also tells you about the relationships between them, about how people (11) view each other,” he said. Leetar used terabytes of data to look at three (12) key areas. One looked at the tone of the journalists’ writing. It used 1,500 different (13) emotions to build an assessment of a country’s stability. Secondly, it examined geocoding to (14) track references to people’s movement. A third technique was network analysis to show how much news channels
 * ||  || © 2004-2011 by [|Sean Banville] ||
 * 2. Listen and check your answers. ||  ||   ||
 * **3. THE FUTURE:** What are your predictions? Complete this table and share what you wrote with your partner(s). Change and share again.
 * **3. THE FUTURE:** What are your predictions? Complete this table and share what you wrote with your partner(s). Change and share again.
 * This year for you. I'll go to England / I'll have more age. ||  ||   ||
 * Your country ||  ||   ||
 * Sport ||  ||   ||
 * Inventions ||  ||   ||
 * The world ||  ||   ||
 * Your old age ||  ||   ||

4. Talk to your friend and complete the predictions.

By the year 2020 we will both have 25 years. In ten years' time we will both be working. By this time next week I will have english class and my friend will have english class too. This time tomorrow I will be at home and my friend at high-school musical.

//**INFOMAL E-MAIL**//

//From//: __alba@rules.com__ //To//: __susan@thebest.com__

Hi Susan,

How are you? I’m really happy because this month I’ve got the money I needed to buy a SLR camera. It’s fairly expensive; hopefully my mum has helped me to pay it.

This camera is amazing! I’ve never got a camera like this in my hands. The photos it takes are very sharp both day and night. You can also do quality videos. I feel like a professional when I use it. I’ve practiced a little doing a photograph session with a friend in the beach but I must practice more and read a book of a course of photography.

I’d like to see you soon!

Love,

Alba

__**TASK 1. Choose the best option.**__

Scientists have discovered that addictions may be (1). A team from Britain’s University of Cambridge found that siblings of drug addicts (2) the same brain abnormalities as their drug-using brothers and sisters. The research team said these abnormal brain structures are linked (3) poor self-control and drug dependence. The researchers suggest that addiction is (4) some ways a “disorder of the brain”. This may provide important new ways into helping people with problems of self-control when it (5) to addictions. The study sought to find out if drugs changed the “wiring” of the brain or whether the brains of drug addicts were wired (6) from birth. Lead researcher Dr Karen Ersche told the BBC: “It has (7) been known that not everyone who takes drugs becomes addicted.” She continued: “It shows that drug addiction is not a choice of lifestyle, it is a disorder of the brain and we (8) to recognise this. These brothers and sisters who don't have addiction problems, what they can tell us is how they (9) these problems, how they manage self-control in their (10) life.” Dr Ersche and her colleagues studied 50 pairs of siblings — one with a history of drug addiction and one with no experience (11) taking drugs. She compared these with 50 healthy people. She concluded: “We need to find out how these non-addicted siblings were able to resist (12) drugs.”
 * Put the correct words from the table below in the above article.**
 * 1. || **(a)** || **hereditary** || (b) || herald || (c) || herded || (d) || heresy ||
 * 2. || (a) || compare || **(b)** || **share** || (c) || repair || (d) || fare ||
 * 3. || (a) || as || (b) || at || **(c)** || **to** || (d) || up ||
 * 4. || (a) || to || (b) || of || (c) || by || **(d)** || **in** ||
 * 5. || (a) || arrives || (b) || leaves || (c) || goes || **(d)** || **comes** ||
 * 6. || (a) || difference || (b) || differs || (c) || differently || **(d)** || **different** ||
 * 7. || **(a)** || **long** || (b) || deep || (c) || wide || (d) || tall ||
 * 8. || (a) || must || (b) || need || **(c)** || **should** || (d) || necessary ||
 * 9. || (a) || overjoy || (b) || overkill || **(c)** || **overcome** || (d) || overplay ||
 * 10. || **(a)** || **daily** || (b) || nightly || (c) || afternoon || (d) || morning ||
 * 11. || (a) || as || (b) || for || (c) || to || **(d)** || **of** ||
 * 12. || (a) || users || **(b)** || **using** || (c) || use of || (d) || uses ||

__**TASK 2. TRUE / FALSE**__


 * a. || Scientists say that many addictions may be hereditary. || **T** / F ||
 * b. || Drug addicts can have the same brain abnormalities as their siblings. || **T** / F ||
 * c. || Abnormal brain structures usually results in better self-control. || T / **F** ||
 * d. || The study may be able to help people control themselves better. || **T** / F ||
 * e. || Everyone who takes drugs becomes addicted in some way. || T / **F** ||
 * f. || A researcher said addiction is a brain disorder and not a choice. || **T** / F ||
 * g. || The researcher said one in fifty of us are drug addicts. || T / **F** ||
 * h. || The doctor knows why some siblings of drug addicts are not addicts. || T / **F** ||

__**TASK 3. SYNONYM MATCH.**__ Match the following synonyms from the article.


 * 1. || discovered || **8.** || get over ||
 * 2 || siblings || **4**. || give ||
 * 3. || linked || **5.** || tried ||
 * 4. || provide || **7.** || decision ||
 * 5. || sought || **2.** || brothers and sisters ||
 * 6. || lead || **10.** || stay away from ||
 * 7. || choice || **1.** || found out ||
 * 8. || overcome || **6.** || head ||
 * 9. || colleagues || **3.** || connected ||
 * 10. || resist || **9.** || co-workers ||

//**DESCRIPTION OF A PERSON**//

My friend and classmate Alba is one of the most excelent people I've never known. I'll never meet someone like her!

Alba is short, but she's got an athletic body. Her hair is beautiful, long, smooth and blond. I love it, but she doesn't. Her eyes are big and blue. She's slim and good-looking. She can be a bit stubborn. It's difficult to change her opinion but she's tolerant.She's very outgoing and energetic, she doesn't stop doing things. She's very funny, generous and she knows how to listen and give advice to her friends. This is the thing I most like of her.

Alba loves animals. She's got a dog, "Terr", and she loves it as if it was her son. She's always playing with it. Sometimes she goes to his granfather's barn and she rides a black horse named "Dari". But she prefers to comb it. She loves dancing. Futhermore, she practises belly dancing. We met in September, in class. We quickly became friends. We're always talking about oir experiences and sharing problems. We always have good fun together.

To sum up, she's different from my other friends, I'm glad she's my friend.

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