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ANOREXIA

Anorexia is a dangerous eating disorder which often starts in the teenage years. In Britain 5 % of girls are anorexic and four out of ten teenage girls skip meals so that they can be thin like fashion models and pop stars. Anorexia is a medical condition and its full name is anorexia nervosa. People with anorexia try not to eat and they lose a lot of weight. They often feel fat even when they are very thin. They use other ways of staying thin, too, like taking laxative tablets (which make you go to the toilet more often) or by doing too much exercise. Anorexia is serious. Anorexics can become very weak and die. About 20 % of anorexics don't live more than twenty years after the anorexia starts and only 60 % of anorexics get better completely. Celebrities are particularly vulnerable because people are always judging their appearance. Christina Aguilera's video for the song Beautiful shows the effect of the pressure on young people to be thin. Scientists say that overweight teenagers should exercise, not diet, to become thinner. This is because even teenagers who diet sensibly are more likely to become anorexic than teenagers who don't diet at all.

1.What is the main idea of the text?

2. What do some girls do to look like fashion models or pop star?

3. How do people who suffer from Anorexia feel?

4. What do scientists say to overweight teenagers?

5. What do you think about this problem?

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THE MAKING OF MAUVE

Once upon a time, colour was for the rich. Dyes had to be painstakingly derived from plants or animals; quality was uneven and rich hues like purple were reserved for royalty. That all changed in 1856, when 18-year-old chemistry student William Perkin discovered some unexpected red crystals in the bottom of a test tube. While searching for a malaria cure in his tiny home laboratory, he had accidentally turned a noxious coal byproduct into a vivid purple that could be used to dye silk and other fabrics. In tribute to the Parisian fashion world, he named the first synthetic dye after the French name of a purple plant — mauve. Perkin had to overcome his chemistry colleagues' disdain for commerce — even his mentor dismissed the discovery as "purple sludge" — as well as the distrust of the tradition-bound dye industry. Perkin's creation took the European fashion world by storm once it was popularised by French Empress Eugenie, who thought the colour matched her eyes. Some stodgy satirists complained of the "mauve measles" epidemic. Others wrote gushing odes to the new shade. But fashion is fickle, and soon others were following Perkin's experiments, creating their own colours from petroleum byproducts. The market for natural dyes collapsed. By the time Perkin died in 1907, the British dye industry had been overtaken by Germany, which lured the world's best chemists to its factories in what Garfield calls "one of the first classic examples of brain drain".

1.What is the main idea of the text?

2. What was obtained from plants or animals many years age?

3. What were reserved for royalty?

4. Why was the first synthetic dye given a name of a purple plant?

5. What do you think about the text?

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DENTIST "DRILLED HEALTHY TOOTH TO PUNISH PATIENT"

A dentist drilled away almost half of a healthy tooth to punish a patient who owed him money, a disciplinary hearing was told yesterday. Neville Kan had not been paid $60 following the woman's previous visit to his surgery in Chiswick, west London, five years earlier. The General Dental Council in London heard that the patient, referred to as Mrs B, returned to the practice for treatment in January last year after losing a filling during a trip to Switzerland. Kan advised her that she also needed a small filling on the adjacent eye-tooth. But Mrs В said she was "horrified" to discover that he had bored away almost half of the eyetooth. "He said, 'Nothing lasts forever, I am not going to last forever...nothing in life is free. You owe me money'." Although her instinct was to flee, she said she was unable to do so because her gold crown was now drilled down to the root. "I couldn't run away from this man who was hurting me," she said. "I felt really degraded, dirty. It was almost like he had raped me," she said. "It was absolutely terrible. There were times I wanted to commit suicide." Kan who qualified in New Zealand 44 years ago, denies serious professional misconduct. The hearing continues.