Internet safety for children

_________________________ social networking sites and mobile phone texting have presented society with problems in how to protect children online. More and more _________________________ victims of Internet predators and bullies. Parents are finding it more difficult to ensure their kids are safe online. __________________ when Mum and Dad __________________ their child’s surfing with parental controls on the family computer. Today’s new mobile and networked __________________ dangerous threats to online kids. Two __________________ to teach children about cyber-safety. Internet safety will soon be taught in UAE schools, while in Indiana, USA, parents will attend an Internet Social Networking conference.

The UAE has launched a nationwide ____________________ educating students on how to use the Internet safely ____________________. Spokesman Jay Bavisi said: “Advances in instant communication media, including the likes of Twitter, Facebook, ____________________ services, drive ____________________ modern society. Parents, siblings, teachers and children alike will need to understand the dangers the connected world presents.” The Indiana conference ____________________ cyber-bullying, sexting and online child exploitation. Local attorney Steven DeBrota said: “The number one way to keep a kid safe is ____________________. If they do not believe automatically what people tell them, they will be safer.”

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Eye-tracking software will look at you shop

New computer software will soon be (1) _______________________, or on your eyes, when you go shopping. It is called the Sideways project because it (2) _______________________ your eyes as you glance at products on shelves. The researchers, from Britain's Lancaster University, told the BBC that the technology would be a (3) _______________________ before the end of the decade. Senior researcher Andreas Bulling said: "The system uses a single ordinary camera…[It] (4) _______________________ walking by and calculates where the eyes (5) _______________________ corners." This information is then used to flash up adverts related to what products you were (6) _______________________ you pass by video screens ahead of you.

Eye-tracking technology is being used in (7) _______________________ situations. One is to help motorists better identify cyclists on roads. Studies suggest drivers are (8) _______________________ spot pedestrians than people riding bicycles. This could (9) _______________________ of road deaths. Eye-tracking can also be used to allow people to use their eyes as a mouse to (10) _______________________ content on screens. Disabled people are already using this technology to (11) ______________________. Last month the tech giant Samsung launched a smartphone that monitors what users look at on-screen. Mr Bulling said: "It is (12) _______________________. I fully expect this technology to become available widely in the near future."

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Life near fast food restaurants unhealthy

New research in the USA says it is unhealthy _______________ with lots of fast food restaurants. A study by the University of Michigan said people _______________ walking distance of fast food restaurants have a 13 per cent higher chance of having a stroke. Lead researcher Dr. Lewis Morgenstern and his team analyzed _________________ the 1,247 people who had strokes in an area of Texas over a three-year period. The _________________ 262 fast food restaurants. The team compared the stroke victims’ social status with how close _______________ restaurants. He concluded there was a strong relationship between the distance someone lived to fast food restaurants and _______________ having a stroke.

A stroke is similar to a heart attack, _______________ the brain. Strokes are among the biggest killers in the USA. Many are the result of unhealthy eating. A _______________ large amount of fast food and other junk food increases the chances of having a stroke. Dr. Morgenstern’s research found that there _______________ 33 different fast food restaurants in an area. This puts people living nearby more at risk of a stroke. Dr. Morgenstern said he didn’t know whether it was _______________ food that increased the risk of stroke. He said fast food restaurants are more _________________ neighbourhoods where people are less educated and generally have unhealthier _________________ lifestyles.

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Optimism is good for our health

Scientists have discovered that people ______________________ about the future may ______________________. Their study, in the journal Nature Neuroscience, concluded that the reason many people always see light at the ______________________ may be because of an inability to sensibly deal with risk. They even say this over-optimism could ______________________ of the 2008 global financial crisis, with bankers failing to accept or see the riskiness of their investments. Report author Dr Tali Sharot of London’s University College ______________________ to measure the activity taking place in patients who were asked to think about their future. He found that negative _________________________ in the minds of optimists. In the study, Dr Sharot gave volunteers 80 ______________________ ranging from ______________________. These included getting divorced, having your car stolen and developing cancer. Many of the volunteers underestimated the chances of these situations happening to them. Dr Sharot said: "The more optimistic we are, ______________________ to be influenced by negative information about the future." He added: “Smoking kills messages don't work as people think their ______________________ are low. The divorce rate is 50%, but people don't think it's the same for them." He also said: “Seeing the glass as ______________________ empty can be a positive thing. It can lower stress and anxiety and be good for our ______________________.”

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First photos of Prince George

Britain's royal family released (1) ___________________ photos of Prince George on Sunday. The photos are a (2) ___________________ a royal photographer didn't take them. The photos came from the private family album of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge (William and Kate). George's grandfather Michael Middleton (3) ___________________. One photo shows one-month-old George with his happy parents. They (4) ___________________ a tree. Another snap includes the family dog. Portraits of royal babies (5) ___________________ taken in royal palaces by professional photographers. The photographer makes a special studio and background. Prince George's photos (6) ___________________.

Prince George (7) ___________________ the British throne. This means he will be king after his grandfather (Prince Charles) and his father die. Prince William said he is enjoying (8) ___________________ being a father, but is looking forward to when his son sleeps all night. He even joked that he wanted (9) ___________________ so he could get some sleep. William told reporters he is (10) ___________________. He changed George's very first nappy (diaper) but said his wife did most of the work in the middle of the night. William said his son reminded (11) ___________________ when he was a baby. He said of his son: "He wriggles around quite a lot, and he doesn't want (12) ___________________ much, which is a little bit of a problem."

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