Empar+Martínez

__TASK 1. Choose the best option.__ = = Scientists have discovered that addictions may be (1)**HEREDITARY**. A team from Britain’s University of Cambridge found that siblings of drug addicts (2)**SHARE** the same brain abnormalities as their drug-using brothers and sisters. The research team said these abnormal brain structures are linked (3) **TO** poor self-control and drug dependence. The researchers suggest that addiction is (4)**IN** some ways a “disorder of the brain”. This may provide important new ways into helping people with problems of self-control when it (5)**COMES** 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) **DIFFERENTLY** from birth. = = Lead researcher Dr Karen Ersche told the BBC: “It has (7)**LONG** 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)**NEED** to recognise this. These brothers and sisters who don't have addiction problems, what they can tell us is how they (9)**OVERCOME** these problems, how they manage self-control in their (10)**DAILY** life.” Dr Ersche and her colleagues studied 50 pairs of siblings — one with a history of drug addiction and one with no experience (11) **OF** 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)**USING** drugs.” = = Put the correct words from the table below in the above article.

= = TASK 2. TRUE / FALSE
 * 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 3. SYNONYM MATCH. Match the following synonyms from the article. = = = = =EMAIL TO MY FRIEND =
 * a. || Scientists say that many addictions may be hereditary. || T ||
 * b. || Drug addicts can have the same brain abnormalities as their siblings. || T ||
 * c. || Abnormal brain structures usually results in better self-control. || F ||
 * d. || The study may be able to help people control themselves better. || T ||
 * e. || Everyone who takes drugs becomes addicted in some way. || F ||
 * f. || A researcher said addiction is a brain disorder and not a choice. || T ||
 * g. || The researcher said one in fifty of us are drug addicts. || F ||
 * h. || The doctor knows why some siblings of drug addicts are not addicts. || F ||
 * 1. || discovered || a.**FROUND OUT** || get over ||
 * 2 || siblings || b.**BROTHERS AND SISTERS** || give ||
 * 3. || linked || c.**CONNECTED** || tried ||
 * 4. || provide || d**.GIVE** || decision ||
 * 5. || sought || e. **TIRED** || brothers and sisters ||
 * 6. || lead || f.**HEAD** || stay away ||
 * 7. || choice || g. **DECISION** || found out ||
 * 8. || overcome || h. **GET** **OVER** || head ||
 * 9. || colleagues || i. **CO-WORKERS** || connected ||
 * 10. || resist || j.**STAY AWAY** || co-workers ||

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 *  - MacBook Air- Is beautiful, portable, lightweight and fine.
 *  - MacBook Pro- Is a new model they have out for sale, includes process last generation Intel.
 *  - iMac- Is the computer I fell in love as soon as I saw it it's enormous, it's all wireless.

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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. ||  ||   || (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." ||  ||   || 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) **imput** 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
 * **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.
 * **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 **Study Bachiller** ||  ||   ||
 * Your country **Valencia / Spain** ||  ||   ||
 * Sport **run and swimming** ||  ||   ||
 * Inventions **nothing** ||  ||   ||
 * The world ||  ||   ||
 * Your old age ||  ||   ||

4. Talk to your friend and complete the predictions.

By the year 2020 we will both have **finish the university** In ten years' time we will both be **work** By this time next week I will have **leson in my class** and my friend will **lesson with me** This time tomorrow I will be **Valencia class**and my friend **Valencia class**