Exercise 11: Listen to the following piece of news and complete each question with NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS.

Is Google a monopoly? Let`s talk about why some people think that it is. And when you talk about monopolies, the first thing you want to do is define what the market is. Let`s take it`s ad business. Google currently controls 37 percent of all digital ad sales in the U.S. and that`s almost double the next biggest company which is Facebook. That is a huge number for what is the single highest growing sector in all of advertising. So if you look at the market of online ad revenue, Google is 1._____. But if you ask Google, it will tell you that no. The market isn`t digital ad revenue. It`s actually all ads. It`s TV. It`s print. It`s billboards. So Google controls 37 percent of the digital ad market in the U.S. But if you expand it out to include the broader market of all ads in the U.S., it`s only about 2._____ percent but that`s still more than the entire print industry.And every year, digital ads are taking a larger and larger slice of 3._____. We`re not comparing Google to single companies here. We`re comparing it to entire industries. That`s how big Google is and that size is exactly what 4._____critics are pointing to when they say that Google is too big. They also say that Google highlights it`s own products and it`s search results over that of other companies. The 5._____of a Google search page is some of the most valuable in all of the internet. And over the last few years, Google has added more and more Google products to it here.Let`s take an example. Let`s type in 6._____. Literally the entire screen is either Google ads or Google shopping page. Now Google says it does this because this helps people find information faster and that it`s products are better than it`s competitors but other`s say that it makes competition with Google impossible. And those Google products that Google happens to highlight, they also happen to make Google billions of dollars in 7._____. Helping users but also helping Google.You can see that same dynamic play out with Chrome because Chrome is by far the biggest browser. Safari Internet Explorer, Firefox all combined make up about 20 percent of the browser market. Chrome alone has 8._____ times that number and controlling how the majority of people access the internet gives Google power. Power to do things like flip a switch and turn 9._____. Now Google says they did this because this is something that users want and it protects them. But Google`s ad block doesn`t filter out all ads, just harmful ones.And Google ads? They`re still acceptable. So did Google put ad block on Chrome because it helps it`s customers? Or because it helps it`s ad business? Look, people like Google and the products that they make and a lot of Google`s moves do make it easier for people to get information quickly and clearly. But this is the touch situation that anti-trust 10._____ find themselves in. Actions that might help users in some ways can also be a threat to fair competition. But here`s the question. With Google being so dominate, is there any room for the next Google? Is Google just too big?

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Exercise 12: Listen to the following piece of news and complete each question with NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS.

Thank you for taking 10 minutes to get up to speed on world events. I`m Carl Azuz.Despite the cool and rainy weather Saturday night, crowds still gathered in the streets of the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. They were remembering, 1._____ the victims of a shooting that took place there that morning. During worship services at the Tree of Life synagogue, a gunman entered the building and attacked. 2._____ were killed. Within minutes of receiving 911 calls, police arrived. They say they confronted a man armed with an assault style rifle as he was leaving. There was a shootout. Two police officers and two SWAT officers were wounded. And after he was shot multiple times, the suspect surrendered to police. Investigators say he had three handguns, in addition to the rifle and they believe he acted alone.The 3._____League, an organization devoted to protecting Jewish people and fighting all forms of hate, says Saturday`s shooting was the deadliest attack on a Jewish community in U.S. history. Investigators are treating it as a hate crime. A 4._____ official says the suspect made anti-Semitic statements during the shooting and had spoken out against Jews on social media. 5._____ says the crime he`s charged with could lead to the death penalty.Leaders and organizations from around the world, including the Rabbinical Assembly, U.S. President Donald Trump and Pope Francis all spoke out against anti-Semitism and offered condolences to the victims and their families.Updating another crime story. Investigators have also made an arrest in the case involving a number of suspicious packages that were addressed to more than a dozen 6._____ and critics of President Trump. Some of the packages carried pipe bombs, though none of them went off. A break in the case came last Thursday, when investigators traced five of the packages to a mail processing center near Miami, Florida. Then, they found a 7._____ on one of the bombs, and that led them to the suspect.The FBI says the 8._____ for the person responsible has ended, but police say Americans still need to be 9._____ because there could still be some packages in the mail. The FBI hasn`t said yet what they think motivated the suspect. His van was covered with pictures of politicians, and some of the Democrats had target signs on them.The suspect reportedly told investigators the bombs weren`t designed to actually harm anyone. But the FBI says they were not fakes. Police believe he was making the packages inside his van where officials found stamps, envelopes and 10._______.

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Exercise 13: Listen to the following piece of news and complete each question with NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS.

As rescuers are able to reach some of the areas that remain cut off with communication lines down and roads destroyed after the 1._____ which was devastating enough but the even more devastating tsunami that followed killing hundreds of people possibly more in the 2._____ of Palu. The videos that have been coming in just show a really horrific scene. People perhaps unaware as they`re driving in their cars or riding on their bikes with these huge waves, 3 meters or around 10 feet racing towards shore. Lifting up buildings, pushing cars and 3._____  at a very violent force inland basically destroying everything in their path. The President of Indonesia Joko Widodo was on the ground. He declared a state of emergency for Sulawesi. He ordered 4._____ to work day and night to evacuate people. You`re talking about almost 20,000 people 5._____  who are homeless. They need, you know, food and water and supplies to - - to make sure their conditions remain 6._____. Hospitals are also badly needed, supplies. The airport in Palu only 7._____ as of Sunday evening local time allowing limited flights for 8._____  l and supplies. But commercial flights that would carry 9._____  workers are not being allowed in. So the people who actually are going to help the victims on the ground are having to drive from airports that are seven, 10 or 12 hours away. Which means that help which is badly needed right now, very slow to 10._____  in. Will Ripley, CNN, Hong Kong. 

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Exercise 14: Listen to the following piece of news and complete each question with NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS.

Up next today, is there ice on the moon. A study recently published in the proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggest there is. The study was new but the data wasn`t. It came from 1._____ that was carried out in 2008 and 2009. It involved an instrument designed to detect the reflective properties of ice and also try to distinguish between whether it was looking at water or ice. Previous studies have suggested that ice could be present on the moon but they might have just detected unusually 2._____ soil there according to NASA. In the new study, scientists look at information gathered from the darkest and coldest parts of the 3._____. Places that never see sunlight and they concluded that they found 4._____  for ice in the moon`s frigid areas. Why might that matter? Well if there`s enough of it and no one knows how much there is. Researchers believe it could be a water source for a future moon mission. Scientists involved in the study are hoping another mission will carried out to examine the remote parts of the moon and better 5._____  . 10 Second Trivia. What kind of hurricane related history was made in 1950? Storms were named, the Saffir Simpson Scale was created, Hawaii was hit or a storm was seen from space. 1959 was the first year when storms started getting names. People in the U.S. state of Hawaii are 6._____  as the rain, wind and waves from Hurricane Lane lash the islands. The storm was expected to weaken as it approached Hawaii but as of yesterday afternoon, it was a Category 4 cyclone with wind speeds of 130 miles per hour. It`s center was still about 200 miles away from Hawaii but potentially damaging winds extended 7._____ from the middle of the storm and it was getting closer. 8._____  have already set in on the Big Island. The Central Pacific doesn`t see a lot of hurricanes in contrast to the Atlantic and 9._____ and Hawaii takes up a relatively small part of the sea. That`s why only two hurricanes have actually made 10._____ there since the 1950`s. Whether Hurricane Lane would actually do that wasn`t known. Hurricanes are hard to track and they are even different ways of modeling them. 

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