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1. BBC Newsround. November 16 2010

Congratulations to Prince William and his girlfriend Kate Middleton – they’re getting
married next year! The Royal wedding will take place during spring or summer 2011 in
London, after the couple got engaged while on holiday in the African country Kenya.
Prince William gave Kate his mother’s engagement ring, because he said both women
were very special to him and it was a way of bringing them together. Kate says she’s
happy but slightly daunted about joining the Royal family.

The Royal wedding will take place

At the end of 2011.

While the couple are on holiday.
In Africa.
In early or the middle of 2011.

2.B.B.C. Newsround. November 17 2010

A rare pink diamond has been sold for a world record-breaking 29 million pounds. It’s
the highest sum of money that a jewel has ever been snapped up for at an auction. The
stone went up for sale at Sotheby’s in Geneva, Switzerland. The “fancy intense pink”
diamond is about the size of a large marble – it’s rare for a pink diamond to be this big.
Well known London jeweler Laurence Graff bought the sparkly rock and named it “The
Pink Graff” – after himself! New owner Mr. Graff said: “It is the most fabulous diamond
I’ve ever seen in the history of my career and I’m delighted to have bought it.”

The diamond is unusual because of

Its color.
Its size.
Its age.
Its name.

3.B.B.C. Newsround. Jan 12 2011

A military sniffer dog that went missing more than two years ago has been reunited
with her trainer. Sarbi’s handler lost sight of her when the pair was caught in an
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thought she was being looked after by Afghans, before being found a year later by
American troops. Her trainer had assumed she was dead, but now she has been
reunited with him and is back home in Australia. Sarbi is now being tested to find out if
she is fit enough to return to work.

Sarbi is currently

With her trainer.

With the American troops.
With Afghans.
Working again.

4.B.B.C. Newsround. Jan 11 2011

Scientists have discovered the smallest planet ever to be found outside our solar
system. Kepler-10b is 1.4 times bigger and 4.6 times heavier than Earth, although it
could not support life. That is because daytime temperatures there are over 1,300 C –
hot enough to melt iron and hotter than molten lava. It’s 560 light years away from
Earth and has a solid and rocky surface. It was discovered using NASA’s Kepler
telescope. The telescope detected the planet orbiting a star hundreds of light-years
away.

It would not be possible to live on the new planet because

It is too far away from Earth.

It is too rocky.
It is too hot.
It is too small.

5.CBBC Newsround. Jan 19 2011

A powerful earthquake measuring 7.2 has struck the south-west of Pakistan near the
border with Afghanistan. The quake, which was felt as far away as India’s capital and
Dubai, happened more than 50 miles underground. This suggests the damage above
ground will be limited. The earthquake hit in the early hours of Wednesday morning. It
is thought the 109,000 people living in the region would have felt strong shaking.

We know that the earthquake

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Caused a lot of destruction.

Happened below the earth’s surface.
Was not very strong.
Happened in an uninhabited area.

6.CBBC Newsround. Jan 21 2011

If you enjoy borrowing books from your local library, you can imagine how annoying it
would be if the council decided they wanted to close it down! That’s exactly what has
happened at Stony Stratford library in Milton Keynes. So to show their anger, the locals
have borrowed all 16,000 books. They hope by emptying the shelves, the council will
realize how important the library is to the local community. Now it seems the council is
rethinking whether or not to shut it down.

The council

Is angry with the locals.

Will definitely close the library.
May not close the library.
Has emptied the shelves.

7.CBBC Newsround. Jan 25 2011

Two British people are feared dead in the explosion at Domodedovo airport in Russia’s
capital city, Moscow. Yesterday’s terrorist attack killed 35 people and injured more
than 100. The President of Russia has launched a major police investigation and he
vowed he’ll track down whoever was behind the attack. The blast happened in the
baggage reclaim area of Domodedovo airport, 25 miles from the city centre.
Ambulances rushed to the scene to treat the injured. U.K. Prime Minister David
Cameron said: “We should never allow the terrorists to win.”

It appears that

The attackers have been found.

The attack happened in the city centre.
A police investigation is underway.

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The President will investigate the police.

8.CBBC Newsround. Jan 31 2011

A hill climber has survived after falling 1,000 feet down a mountain in Scotland. Adam
Potter, 35-years-old, said he thought he would die as he fell down the steep slope after
slipping. But rescuers in a Royal Navy helicopter found him standing up reading a map
when they arrived on the scene at Sgurr Choinnich Mor Mountain. Mr. Potter is now
recovering in hospital in Glasgow and he’s said he hopes to be back in the mountains in
a few weeks.

The hill climber Adam Potter

Is not expected to survive.

Will not climb in the future.
Was found on his feet.
Was found unconscious.

9.The Chicago Sun Times. Jan 25 2011

Police are looking for the body of a late beloved Italian TV host after visitors at the
cemetery found his tomb broken into and his coffin missing. Generations of Italians
grew up watching Mike Bongiorno as he hosted quiz shows and other entertainment
programs during the fledging days of television in Italy. Bongiorno died in 2009 at the
age of 85. Police in Arona, a town in northern Italy, said officers are still investigating at
the Dagnente cemetery and would not comment. Italian news reports said a local man
who came to the cemetery to visit a family grave noticed Bongiorno’s tomb was open
Tuesday morning and the coffin gone.

Which of the following is true?

The body of Mike Bongiorno was stolen by a family member.

Mike Bongiorno had appeared as a TV host in the early days of TV.
Mike Bongiorno was a well-known news presenter.
The body of Mike Bongiorno was removed from his coffin.

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10.The Chicago Sun-Times. Jan 24 2011

A marauding monkey that terrorized resort towns in central Japan last year by biting
nearly 120 people has escaped captivity. Officials in Mishima City said the monkey
slipped out of the government-run nature park it had been kept at since its capture
last October when a keeper was cleaning its cage. The city published an emergency
notice urging residents to lock their doors, though no new attacks have been reported.
The fugitive monkey, known as “Lucky”, is a type of macaque that is one of the most
common wild animals in Japan. They are considered a nuisance in rural areas, where
they damage crops and steal food. Lucky has proved a tough catch in the past, avoiding
citywide monkey hunts during its previous two month biting spree.

It appears as though the monkey

Escaped last October.

Has now been missing for two months.
Is a rarity in Japan.
Is aggressive towards people.

11.The Guardian. Feb 4 2011

The prime minister of Burma’s outgoing military government has been appointed as
president, handing a key junta member the top job in the post-election administration.
Thein Sein, 65, is the country’s first civilian president after nearly 50 years of military
rule. His appointment by parliament is the latest step in Burma’s self-declared
transition to democracy after elections in November. Critics have condemned the
process as a sham aimed at cementing military rule. The military’s delegates in
parliament and their civilian allies hold an 80% majority in the new legislature, which
chose the president from a pool of three vice-presidents named yesterday. Thein Sein
is the most prominent of the three and was seen as a shoo-in for the head of
government.

Burma’s authorities have claimed that

It is becoming a democracy.
The elections were a sham.
Military rule is now stable.

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The new president is only temporary.

12.Damain Carrington. The Guardian. Feb 3 2011

Billions of trees died in the record drought that struck the Amazon in 2010, raising
fears that the vast forest is on the verge of a tipping point, where it will stop absorbing
greenhouse gas emissions and instead increase them. The dense forests of the Amazon
soak up more than one-quarter of the world’s atmospheric carbon, making it a
critically important buffer against global warming. But if the Amazon switches from a
carbon sink to a carbon source that prompts further droughts and mass tree deaths,
such a feedback loop could cause runaway climate change with disastrous
consequences.

The potential danger is that

The Amazon could absorb too much carbon.

The Amazon could produce carbon.
The Amazon could absorb oxygen.
Another record drought is expected in 2011.

13.Cara Anna. New Zealand Herald. Feb 9 2011

Chinese officials said today they were preparing for a “severe, long-lasting drought” in
the key wheat-producing eastern province of Shandong, with no rain in sight until mid-
month and possibly beyond in the parched region. On Tuesday, the UN food agency
warned that the months- long drought was putting pressure on wheat prices in China,
the world’s largest wheat grower. Average flour prices rose more than 8 percent in
January from the previous two months. As the drought continues, the focus will be on
whether China, which is largely self-sufficient in wheat, will reach out for imports and
how that would affect global prices for the staple, which has already risen about 35
percent since mid-November. China’s national weather bureau forecasts little if any
rain for the Shandong region through Feb. 17.

As a result of the drought, it is possible that

Many people will leave Shandong.

The price of wheat will drop internationally.
China may have to buy wheat from abroad.

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The UN will put pressure on wheat prices.

14.B.B.C. News. Feb 2 2011

Denmark is to build an underwater tunnel to Germany, cutting road and rail journey
times between Western Europe and Scandinavia. The Danish parliament rejected plans
for a bridge across the Fehmarn Strait in favor of the tunnel, deciding it would be safer
and greener. Denmark and Germany agreed on the need for the 18km link in 2008.
Construction of the Danish-funded tunnel is to begin in 2014 and should be completed
within six years. A budget of 32bn kroner (4.2bn euros ) has been drawn up. The tunnel
will be built between the Danish island of Lolland and the German island of Fehmarn.
Both islands are already connected by bridges to the rest of their respective countries.
When the tunnel is completed, the duration of a rail journey between Hamburg and
Copenhagen will be cut from about 4.5 to three hours, the project’s website says.

It is believed that the proposed tunnel

Will lengthen the journey from Hamburg to Copenhagen.

Will be completed in 2014.
Will be environmentally friendly.
Will be too expensive to build.

15.First News. Feb 4 2011.

The lost ‘eighth wonder of the world’ has been re-discovered at the bottom of a lake in
New Zealand, 125 years after it was thought to have been destroyed. Colored steps
known as the Pink Terraces, once New Zealand’s most treasured tourist attraction,
were found at the bottom of Lake Rotomahana this week. Scientists from both New
Zealand and America discovered the colored steps during an attempt to map the lake
floor. Images were taken by robots beneath the lake revealing a pink colored staircase,
covered in a brown sediment 60 meters below the surface of the lake. The Pink and
White Terraces were thought to be destroyed and lost forever in the eruption of Mt.
Tarawera in 1886, which was also responsible for the deaths of 100 people.

The ‘eighth wonder of the world’

Has been discovered for the first time.

Has been lost forever.

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Used to attract visitors.

Was being searched for by scientists.

16.First News. Feb 4 2011.

More than 190,000 people, including celebrities and public figures, have signed a letter
of petition to try to help save England’s forests. The Government is thinking about
privatizing large areas of our native woodland, which means they would sell the forests
to private owners. At the moment the Government owns 18% of England’s forests and
spending cuts could mean that some, or all of this, is sold. A bill is being presented
before the House of Lords to get permission to sell, although it is hoped that a letter of
petition will help stop the sale.

The report states that

England’s forests are owned by private owners.

England’s forests will be destroyed.
A letter will not prevent the sale.
Famous people are helping to prevent the sale.

17.CBBC Newsround. Feb 7 2011.

A politician with cerebral palsy has claimed other MPs mocked his disability during a
debate in Parliament. Conservative MP Paul Maynard has accused Labour MPs of
“pulling faces” at him as he tried to speak. It’s unclear if they were making fun of his
condition –or just trying to distract him, as MPs often do to each other. On Monday
Mr. Maynard said he had no further comment to make after an interview with ‘The
Times’ newspaper. He won’t be making an official complaint to the Speaker of the
House of Commons, John Bercow.

Mr. Maynard believes that the other MPs

Were laughing at his condition.

Were sympathetic towards his condition.
Understand his condition.
Resent his condition.

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18.B.B.C. News November 18 2010.

Venezuela has deported three suspected left-wing rebels to Colombia, a sign of

improving relations. Colombia says one belongs to the Farc rebel group, while the
other two allegedly belong to the ELN. Earlier this year, then Colombian President
Alvaro Uribe alleged Venezuela was harboring rebels. The deportations came a day
after Colombia promised to extradite a drug suspect, Waled Makled, to Venezuela
rather than the United States. Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez had expressed
concern that a trial in the U.S. for the Venezuelan national might be used to wrongly
implicate his government in drugs trafficking. M. Makled, who is accused of smuggling
tons of cocaine into the U.S., has alleged he was supported by Venezuelan officials.

Colombia accused Venezuela of

Drug trafficking.
Hiding rebels.
Deporting rebels.
Extraditing drug suspects to the U.S.

19.CBBC Newsround. Jan 27 2011.

Famous Faces, including Sienna Miller, say they believe newspaper reporters illegally
listened to their mobile phone messages to try to get information. And they’ve decided
to take The News of the World newspaper to court. Investigations first started more
than three years ago when a reporter was caught trying to listen in on members of the
royal family to find stories. The owners of the paper say they’ve always given police all
the information they have and dismissed anyone involved. But Metropolitan police
detectives have now launched a new inquiry into allegations of phone hacking at the
News of the World.

It is believed that newspaper reporters

Are investigating the royal family.

Have been breaking the law.
Are giving information to the police.
Are taking ‘The News of the World’ to court.

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20.CBBC Newsround. Feb 4 2011.

Four thousand soldiers have been sent to northern Queensland to help with the clean-
up after Cyclone Yasi lashed the Australian state. Hundreds of rescuers are using
chainsaws to cut through fallen trees, power lines and wreckage to reach towns cut off
by the storm. At least one person is now known to have died. Australia’s Deputy Prime
Minister Wayne Swan called Tully a ‘war zone’ after a 30-minute tour of the town.
Officials have called for people to remain calm while they wait for rescuers to reach
them. Hundreds of millions of pounds worth of banana and sugar cane crops have
been destroyed by the cyclone. Cyclone Yasi is being called the country’s worst storm
in 100 years.

It appears that

There were no deaths during the storm.

Towns have been isolated by the storm.
The Australian Prime Minister has visited the area.
It will be impossible to rescue people.

21.Dan Collyns. B.B.C. News November 21 2010.

Yale University has promised to return thousands of archaeological pieces taken from
Machu Picchu nearly a century ago, Peru’s president has said. The relics from the 15th
Century Inca citadel have been the focus of a bitter dispute lasting more than seven
years. Peru says the arte-facts were loaned in 1911 but never returned. It filed a
lawsuit against the university in 2008.
The agreement comes after a concerted media campaign by Peruvian President Alan
Garcia and his government. Marches fronted by ministers and the president himself
were staged in Lima and Cuzco. Mr. Garcia even appealed directly to his U.S.
counterpart, Barack Obama, to intervene.

The original agreement between Peru and Yale University was that

Yale would keep the arte-facts.

Yale would borrow the arte-facts.
Peru would donate the arte-facts to Yale.
Yale would pay for the arte-facts.

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22.The Guardian. Jan 9 2011.

At least 11 people have died in new battles with security forces in Tunisia after four
weeks of unrest, it was reported today. The interior ministry said eight people were
killed over the weekend in the western towns of Thala and Kasserine. Protesting
against joblessness and other social problems has damaged many cities in the country
since 17 December, when a 26-year-old graduate set himself on fire when police
confiscated his fruits and vegetables for selling without a permit. Mobs have since
attacked public buildings and the local office of the party of President Zine El Abidine
Ben Ali.

The clashes with Security forces in Tunisia

Began over the weekend.

Are occurring only in Thala and Kasserine.
Have caused unemployment.
Were set-off by the actions of the graduate.

23.Miles Brignall. The Guardian. November 13 2010.

For several years ‘Guardian Money’ has highlighted how little of the purchase price of
Christmas cards goes to the charity concerned, but two years ago we found what we
thought might be the best Christmas card ever – one in which the charity received
100% of the purchase price.
The Sreepur Village charity, two hours north of the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka, cares
for nearly 100 destitute mothers and 500 abandoned children. Started 25 years ago by
former British Airways flight attendant Pat Kerr, it now helps fund itself from the sale
of Christmas cards created by the women in and around the village. At the heart of the
project is the paper-making facility. The community’s mothers have been trained to
produce it from locally grown material.

Sreepur Village charity differs from a lot of other charities in that

Its resources are not locally produced.

It gets the full return from its sales.
It is supported by a paper-making business.
It charges a higher price for what it produces.

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24.Matt Sedensky. NZ Herald. Jan 11 2011.

Adam Martin doesn’t fit in here. No one else in this nursing home wears Air Jordans.
No one else has stacks of music videos by 2Pac and Jay-Z. No one else is just 26. It’s no
longer unusual to find a nursing home resident who is decades younger than his
neighbor: About one in seven people now living in such facilities in the U.S. is under 65.
“It’s just a depressing place to live,” Martin says. “I’m stuck here. You don’t have
privacy at all. People die around you all the time. It starts to get really depressing
because all you’re seeing is negative, negative, negative.” The number of under-65
nursing home residents has risen about 22 percent in the past eight years to about
203,000, according to an analysis of statistics from the Centers for Medicare and
Medicaid Services. That number has climbed as mental health facilities close and
medical advances keep people alive after they’ve suffered traumatic injuries.

Among the reasons given for keeping people under 65 in nursing homes is

There is a reduction in psychiatric facilities.

They are less likely to be depressed than in hospital.
To prevent feelings of isolation.
To further medical understanding of the ageing process.

25.B.B.C. News. Jan 10 2011.

An Indian shaman who allegedly forced women to drink a potion to prove they were
not witches has been arrested. Nearly 30 women fell ill after they were rounded up in
Shivni village in central Chhattisgarh state on Sunday and made to drink the herbal
brew. A senior police officer told the BBC that six villagers had also been arrested.
Witch hunts aimed at women are common in east and central India, and a number of
accused are killed every year.

According to the report

Six villagers from Shivni village were accused of witchcraft.

Suspected witches are sometimes murdered.
The 30 women were willing to drink the brew.
Police officers are often sent on witch hunts.

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26.Jonathan Watts. The Guardian. Jan 14 2011.

China took a step towards a smog-free future today with the announcement of a wide
new set of pollution controls. For the first time, the Ministry of Environmental
Protection added ammonia nitrogen and nitrogen oxide to its list of reduction targets.
As part of efforts to cut these emissions by 1.5% this year, the ministry said greater
efforts will be made to cut vehicles’ exhausts and to tackle the worst polluting
industries, such as paper-making, textiles and chemical plants.
In a website report, environmental minister, Zhou Shengxian said the government will
increase investment in waste-treatment plants and tighten standards for approval of
construction projects. Few details were provided, but the announcement comes ahead
of China’s new five-year economic plan, which is expected to ramp up environmental
protection.

We can deduce from the report that in China in the future

It will be more difficult to begin building projects.

Less people will own cars.
The number of waste-treatment plants will be reduced.
More people will be working in textile factories and chemical plants.

27.Helen Pidd. The Guardian. Feb 2 2011.

It took German police five hours to evict tenants from one of Berlin’s last former
squats today after angry residents booby-trapped the house. There were dozens of
arrests after 2,500 police officers were deployed in a huge operation to clear the Liebig
14 commune in the eastern district Friedrichshain. The 25 residents had refused to
leave after losing a lengthy legal battle that has become a focus point for the anti-
gentrification movement in Berlin and other German cities. Six men and three women
were found in the property when the police and bailiffs finally gained entry using axes
and sledgehammers to break through barricades of barbed wire, sharpened metal
poles and concrete blocks.

It appears that

The police didn’t need to use force to enter the property.

The police were unable to evict the tenants.

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There is a movement in favor of illegal occupants in several German cities.

There is very little support for illegal occupants in many German cities.

28.Xan Rice. The Guardian. Feb 3 2011.

Severe drought in Somalia has left nearly one in three children acutely malnourished in
some areas – double the normal emergency threshold – and caused a sharp rise in
food prices. An estimated 2.4 million people –about a third of Somalia’s population –
require humanitarian aid after the failure of recent rains, according to the U.N. This
figure is up from 2 million six months ago. Though fighting continues in many areas of
the country, drought has overtaken insecurity as the main reason for people being
displaced. In the most striking sign of the emerging crisis, the exodus from conflict-
racked Mogadishu in recent years has reversed, with thousands of people leaving the
countryside for the capital in search of food and water over the past two months.

The main reason for movement of the population in Somalia is

The ongoing conflict.

A lack of humanitarian aid.
An increase in the population.
A lack of rain.

29.The Florida Times-Union. Jan 25 2011.

Food stamp use has more than doubled in Duval County over the past five years. That
grim statistic is twice the national average and is the second highest in a study of 22
cities nationwide, according to a report released Monday. The report, issued by the
Food Research and Action Center, an anti-hunger advocacy group, showed Jacksonville
as second only to Las Vegas in the growth in people who depend on the federal
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, which is commonly called food stamps. It
looked at a geographically balanced cross section of urban areas.

The report claims that

Duval County has the largest number of food stamp users in the USA.
Las Vegas has the largest number of food stamp users in the USA.
Jacksonville has the largest growth in food stamp users in the USA.

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Las Vegas has the largest growth in food stamp users in the USA.

30.Richard Goldstein. The New York Times. Jan 23 2011.

Jack LaLanne, whose obsession with grueling workouts and good nutrition,
complemented by a salesman’s gift, brought him recognition as the founder of the
modern physical fitness movement, died Sunday afternoon at his home in Morro Bay,
Calif. He was 96. The cause was respiratory failure resulting from pneumonia, his
family said. A self-described emotional and physical wreck while growing up in the San
Francisco area, Mr.LaLanne began turning his life around, after hearing a talk on
proper diet when he was 15. He started working out with weights when they were an
oddity, and in 1936 he opened the prototype for the fitness spas to come –a gym, juice
bar and health food store- in an old office building in Oakland.
“The Jack LaLanne Show” made its television debut in 1951 as a local program in the
San Francisco area, then went nationwide on daytime television in 1959. Long before
Richard Simmons and Jane Fonda and the Atkins diet, Mr.LaLanne was a national
celebrity, preaching regular exercise and proper diet. Expanding on his television
popularity, he opened dozens of fitness studios under his name.

Jack LaLanne, the founder of the modern fitness movement

Died as a result of heart problems.

Followed in the footsteps of other health celebrities.
Invented weights and weightlifting.
Showed ability at marketing.

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