Exercise 6: Listen to the following piece of news and complete each question with NO MORE THAN FIVE WORDS.

Chances are you might have heard about China’s new social credit system. You know…the thing people are calling a scary 1.__________ right out of George Orwell's book '1984.'

But what would you say if I told you that a 2.__________ system is NOT actually a thing in China — well not yet at least.

Basically it's meant as a tool of enforcement by getting people to 3.__________ their behavior and people and also legal entities like companies. And although it has its problems, it does 4.__________. And in China, the world’s 5.__________ and second-largest economy, there hasn’t been anything like that. So their proposal? The social credit system.

On June 14, 2014, the Chinese government formally announced its plans to create their social credit system, a policy it deemed essential in 'building a 6.__________ '

So this social credit system is kind of presented as 7.__________ of China's trust-based and supposed 8.__________ problems. And under their proposed system, all behavior, not just financial, would be considered relevant in your ranking. So if you’re caught doing things like spending too much time playing video games, 9.__________, or posting things deemed inappropriate on social media, you could 10.__________.

Your answers:

Source: https://youtu.be/_Z2F86v0-YE (0:00 – 3:13)

Exercise 7: Listen to the following piece of news and complete each question with NO MORE THAN FIVE WORDS.

What’s the 1.__________for the Mona Lisa? Is it really that much better than da Vinci’s Lady with Ermine?. There’s one more 2.__________.

 And it might never have happened if the Mona Lisa hadn’t disappeared. Before Mona Lisa became a 3.__________, one critic made her a work of art worth taking. And he was so 4.__________insanely in love with the painting. Walter Pater’s 1873 book, 5.__________ was key. Here is the epic 6.__________at the center of his 7.__________Mona Lisa.

 “The 8.__________of Greece”

This was the 9.__________of all time. Other critics jumped on — Mona was a 10.__________painting that they could analyze.

Your answers:

Source: https://youtu.be/d2wy7Fp2fqw (0:00 - 2:18)

Exercise 8: Listen to the following piece of news and complete each question with NO MORE THAN FIVE WORDS.

What if you extend the logic in the other direction? All objects with mass exert some amount of 1.________.  At the very least, there’s the 2._________ and a star that planet orbits.  The most likely way a moon could get its own moon is by 3.________.

If a moon obtained its own little moon, the planet could 4._________ its orbit enough to make it collide with the main moon or the planet. With enough distance between a moon and its host planet, there’s no 5._________ why this can’t happen somewhere . The 6._______ ________we put into orbit around our moon don’t get thrown off by the Earth because it’s not strongly affected by the moon. In fact, Jupiter’s moon Callisto, 7.________ Titan and Iapetus, and, even our own moon — all fit the conditions to have maybe had little moons of their own once upon a time. The moon of  Kepler-1625b may be a perfect candidate for 8. __________ we could observe from Earth.  Discovering 9.________ could tell us more about the formation of planets and planetary systems in general, particularly how close orbiting bodies affect one another. Sub-moons and 10.________ have been considered to be the name of these moons.

Your answers:

Source: https://youtu.be/bEJRFqeOOfg

Exercise 9: Listen to the following piece of news and complete each question with NO MORE THAN FIVE WORDS.

You’ve stealthily descended into the darkness of a vampire cave, setting a 1. ________ _________ as you go. When the sun reaches the right angle in the sky, a focused beam of light will 2._________ along the mirrors. The diffuser must be wall-mounted, but the walls are crowded with 3.________, which you don’t dare disturb. The light will enter through the southwest corner at a 45 degree angle and bounce off the perfectly smooth 4._______ until it hits one of the other three corners. You could probably find the corner it will hit by drawing a 5.________ _________ of the room and tracing the path of the light.You could also tackle this problem by examining smaller rooms, and you’d find a lot of 6.__________. Let’s draw the chamber on a 7. _________, with the Southwest corner at the point (0,0). Since the light travels at a 45 degree angle, it always crosses the 8.________ of a unit square. Traveling 1 meter horizontally changes the x coordinate from even to odd or 9._______ _______. Traveling 1 meter 10.__________ changes the y coordinate from even to odd or conversely.

Your answers:

Source: https://youtu.be/P4-n0IMQSrQ

Exercise 10: Listen to the following piece of news and complete each question with NO MORE THAN FIVE WORDS.

This panic-inducing episode of coming face-to-face with the creatures from nightmares may involve visual or 1. __________. Dr. Mitchell was 2. __________to observe patients in a state of sleep paralysis. In 3.__________, the mare is responsible for visiting sleepers and sitting on their rib cages.Greeks believes Mora 4.________ you. During a normal REM cycle, you're experiencing a number of 5. ________ in the form of a dream,and your brain is unconscious and fully asleep. During your dream, special 6.__________ called REM atonia are released,

which paralyze almost all of your muscles.You're dreaming and your muscles are paralyzed during an episode, only your brain is conscious. This is what causes you to imagine that you're having an encounter with a 7. __________. REM atonia makes your breath becomes more 8._________ and rapid.Your brain being wide awake while your body is in an REM sleep state 9._________ a response for you to take in more oxygen.Struggle for air while your body sleeps creates a perceived sensation of pressure on the chest or 10.__________.

Your answers:

Source: https://youtu.be/Ub8Wj_tJhdQ