Task (1 point for this task) Find combinations that correspond to the definitions 1-10

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TASK 1. (1 point for this task)

Find combinations that correspond to the definitions 1-10

Gutter press- tabloids referred to as that by people who disapprove of them

Fortage - a recording of an event

Scop- an exclusive story, especially an exciting one that one news organization publishes or broadcasts before anyone else

A columnist-someone who writes articles that appear regularly, usually in the same place in the paper

5. paparazzo- a journalist, shooting stars, show business and other celebrities without the permission of the latter

Got slot-a religious programme

Infortainment-a mixture of information and entertainment.

Multimedia-the combining of TV, computers and telecommunications

The national flower of England is Rose

Jut set - celebrities, famous people

TASK 2. (1 point for this task)

Write six sentences with used to/didnt used to to describe how life has changed in your country/city/town over the years.

She used to live in Uzbekistan but now she lives in New York.

I used to drink coffee every morning but now I drink tea.

He used to play football professionally but he had to quit because of an injury

We lived on the coast for years but we didnt use to go to beach

I didnt use to read stories as a child, but he grew up to be a writer.

Anyway, that didnt use to be stop you.

TASK 3. (1 point for this task)

Read the text and make true or false

We may be able to learn vocabulary while sleeping 6th February, 2019

A new study shows that we could learn vocabulary while we are sleeping. This is great news for students struggling to learn a new language. It is also good for anyone who is trying to expand their knowledge of words. Researchers from the University of Bern in Switzerland have shown that it is possible to learn new information while we are sleeping deeply, and then recall this information when we need it after we wake up. This new information includes foreign language vocabulary. The researchers conducted tests on whether or not a person can remember new words and their translations while they were asleep. They said our sleeping brain is much more aware of the outside world than we thought. Researcher Marc Züst said, "language areas of the brain and the hippocampus - the brain's essential memory hub - were activated" after a person woke up. He said these areas of the brain allow us to remember vocabulary during deep sleep. The researchers said that during deep sleep, our brain cells are active for a short period of time - about half a second. The cells then enter into a period of inactivity - again, about half a second. The active state is called "up-state" and the inactive state is called "down-state." The "up-state" period is the time when our brain could learn new vocabulary. The researchers say more research is needed to be 100 per cent sure that we can learn vocabulary while asleep.

a) This story is great news for people struggling to learn a language. T / F

b) The research was conducted by researchers from a Swiss university. T / F

c) Researchers tested language translations while people were asleep. T / F

d) Our sleeping brain may be more aware of things than we thought. T / F

e) The hippocampus is the part of the brain used to forget things. T / F

f) In deep sleep, our brains are active for half-a second at a time. T / F

g) A sleeping period called "up-state" allows us to learn vocabulary. T / F

h) The researchers are 100% sure we can learn vocabulary while we sleep. T / F

TASK 4. (2 points for this task)

Write about the following topic:

What types of media systems are developing and what types are in crisis during a pandemic and as a result of quarantine? What is the reason for this? Write a 200-word essay.

Task 4

Public health experts around the globe are scrambling to understand, track, and contain a new virus that appeared in Wuhan, China, at the beginning of December 2019. The World Health Organization (WHO) named the disease caused by the virus COVID-19, which references the type of virus and the year it emerged. The WHO declared that the virus is a pandemic.

You can see where and how many cases of the illness have been reported in this map. The majority of the illnesses were initially in China, where the virus first emerged, but the rate of new cases there has nearly stopped. There are now many times more cases outside of China than there were inside of it at the height of the outbreak. There are large outbreaks of the disease in multiple places, including Spain, Italy, and the United States, which currently has the worst outbreak of any country in the world.

The virus spread undetected because CDC guidelines originally did not allow testing unless a sick person had been in a country with an ongoing spread of the virus or who had been in contact with someone with a confirmed case of the disease could be tested. That delayed the diagnosis of patients who did not have those risk factors. They’ve since updated the guidance to say that doctors can use their best judgment to decide if the patient should be tested.

Public health experts are struggling to slow the spread of disease in part because there are still a limited number of tests available. It took too long for the Food and Drug Administration and the CDC to develop and distribute a functioning test, and longer still for testing capacity to increase. In addition, public health agencies across the country don’t have the resources to get in touch with everyone who tests positive and find the people they may have exposed — a critical public health tool called contact tracing.

Experts say that the US needs to dramatically increase the number of tests done each week and scale up the contact tracing workforce in order to control the outbreak.