The Impact of Social Issues: From Royal Marriages to AI

Posted on May 12, 2024 in English

Japan’s Ex-Princess

Facts

1. She will marry a commoner and will not lose her royal status.
2. This is because no boy has been born into the royal family in 45 years.

Corrections

1. False
2. False
3. False
4. False
5. Eastern
6. Loss – Loser
7. Abandon
8. Crisis
9. Sayako, who had a stylish necklace, wore a silk dress with pearls.
10. “If you close the door, she won’t hear us,” my father complained.
11. Henry’s new life is too hard for him. Henry’s new life isn’t easy enough.
12. The translator made a big spelling mistake.

Mobile Phones in Cinemas

Facts

1. Show business, the council members, and mobile phone companies are involved.
2. They want to modify anti-social behavior.

Corrections

1. True
2. True
3. False
4. False
5. Prohibit
6. Support
7. Behavior
8. Sensitive
9. Calls are being placed and received by New York.
10. Nikki, who is against the ban, sells cinema tickets.
11. New York will punish cinemagoers for anti-social behavior.
12. They will be punished for anti-social behavior during the movie.
13. a) The principal advantage is that you can take it with you to all sites and call wherever you want, whenever there is coverage. The disadvantage is that if you are on a prepaid plan, you always have to have a balance and use it so that they do not freeze it.

The Day Basketball Was Invented

Facts

1. He made them play a new game he had invented.
2. No, they didn’t. They tried to get the ball into the basket, no matter where they were standing.
3. The baskets had bottoms, and someone had to climb up and get the ball out each time a basket was scored.

Definitions

1. A) It is a place where people practice some sports.
2. B) Whistle
3. C) Work-out (idea), attempt (try), common (ordinary)

April Fool’s Day

Questions and Answers

1. How did the tradition of April Fool’s Day originate? People continued celebrating New Year’s Day on April 1, even when Pope Gregory XIII had changed the date to January 1st.
2. How can you play a trick on someone using new technologies? Give two examples. By sending an email warning that there is a virus in your computer or requesting your credit card number and personal details of your bank account.

Corrections

1. False
2. False
3. False
4. False
5. Fresh
6. Delete
7. Watch, glimpse, gaze, view
8. Or
9. When she arrived home, her husband hadn’t cooked dinner yet.
10. Someone showed them a picture of an attacking shark.
11. What did the email do?
12. He received an email whose content was spam.

Smoking in Pubs?

Facts

1. Because the government measures against smoking would be censored.
2. Because they are afraid to be considered an overprotective state.

Corrections

1. False. The government is going to forbid smoking in pubs.
2. False. They are examining plans to allow a smoking-carriage option.
3. False. The government had been worried about being accused of discriminating against smokers, particularly working-class Labour voters.
4. True. Smoking-related diseases kill more than 100,000 people a year and cost the National Health Service millions of pounds treating people with such diseases.
5. Allow – Permit
6. Plans
7. Staff
8. Doubtful, doubtless, doubting
9. Severe pressure is being put on Ministers by the lobby.
10. John, who was a heavy smoker, has given up smoking.
11. If people didn’t pay taxes, they might give up smoking.
12. A total ban on alcohol is planned by the government.
13. b) It’s very bloody. It will kill the people that live around them, like in restaurants and pubs, because the people not smoking will be dead from the people smoking.

A Life’s Ambition: To Cross the Border

Facts

1. They have no job, and many have no family left.
2. Spain does not have shelters and money for them.

Corrections

1. False; because they camp out in the woods near the border.
2. False; because the double three-meter-high barbed-wire fences that divide Spanish and Moroccan territories have not put them off.
3. False, because they have no job, and many have no family left.
4. True
5. Frontier
6. Shelters
7. Benefit
8. Permanent
9. These men and women cannot go everywhere.
10. If rich countries helped poor ones, the world would be beautiful.
11. The headlines have been hit for a new phenomenon.
12. For which Africans wait in the woods.
13. b) Now, we know that Africa is poor. They don’t have jobs, and many have no family left. They try to look for a better life, and Spain is a country that is near and more prosperous than theirs. So they go to Spain to catch a profit.

Artificial Intelligence

Facts

1. Because they have incorporated meaning and language in the process of translation.
2. By studying the human process for understanding.

Corrections

1. False, artificial intelligence is an area of research that goes back to the very beginnings of computer science.
2. True, chess programs can defeat almost all the best human players.
3. False, natural language processing becomes the key to translation.
4. False, as well as being important in itself for such applications as human-computer interaction through speech input.
5. Coherent
6. Key
7. Clutch, gear lever, headlight, boot
8. Hardly
9. Tasks that require human intelligence cannot be performed by computers at this moment in time.
10. These robots, whose reactions are almost human, can be considered intelligent machines.
11. Although she has never studied music, she can play the guitar.
12. We danced all night to the music of Shakira.

Teenage Menage

Facts

1. Firstly, because teenagers are killing other people on the road; secondly, because young drivers are dying on the road as well.
2. Because they have a somewhat childlike feeling about life.
3. Their own death and the killing of other people.

Vocabulary

1. A) Immature
2. B) Experienced
3. Endanger (take a risk), deadly (mortal), probably (likely)——-Domestic (external), trivial (serious)