Keys to Text 8

Ex.8.3 a)

admonish	admonition	reserve	reservation
relate	relationship	eradicate	eradication
confront	confrontation	avoid	avoidance
honour	honour	promise	promise

Ex.8.3 b)

1. British Prime Minister David Cameron said today that the United Kingdom would double its current contribution to polio eradication.

2. Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught.

3. What began as an attack on the West by Osama bin Laden soon became a dramatic confrontation between Europe and America.

4. Jefferson's opposition to judicial review has not been accepted by history, but it still serves as an admonition against confusion between judicial and political functions.

5. The relationship between the two countries has improved.

6. Online reservations cannot be made on same day of travel.

7. Today, people in Japan, and Tahiti, hold on to their dignity and don't want their honour to be lost.

8. Germans and Finns who have a less but still strong level of uncertainty avoidance and a medium level of power distance have the need for clearly specified competence to avoid uncertainty.

Ex.8.4 a)

to fund	schools and roads
to abandon	violence
the massacre of	Jews
to order the prison	closed
to fight against	negative stereotypes of Islam
a beacon of	Islamic learning
to hit	the right note
to lay	the groundwork
to acknowledge	the past mistakes
a landmark	speech
to confront	its own shortcomings
reserve	final judgement

Ex .8. 4 b)

5. Almost three years later, however, the initiative launched in the Governor's Office that day has helped support dozens of energy programs and lay the groundwork for the nation's most oil-dependent state to potentially become its most energy self-sufficient

6. Gov.-elect Paul LePage hit the right note in his victory speech Wednesday in Waterville, when he summed up his reason for running with these words: “I ran for governor because I believe people of Maine need to be ahead of politics, even in Augusta.”

7. The World Council of Churches has lamented the "intolerable loss of life" in Thailand and asked for all parties to abandon violence

8. We'll reserve final judgment on multitasking until we've had more time to play with it, but for now, it works as well as can be expected. 

Keys to Text 9

Ex.9. 3 a)

a 650-kilograms satellite	200 exoplanet
900 kilometre above the Earth	a 27-centimetres device
a 5-year projects	a 30-years old researcher

Ex.9. 3 b)

1. The missile is reported to have a range of 2,400 kilometres with a 650-kilogram warhead.

2. I live in an apartment several kilometres away from a church or mosque.

3. Researchers expect that the genetic map specified in the first 5-year plan will be completed on time.

4. More than 10 exoplanets have been discovered in the recent few months alone.

5. Corot is a French mission, with some funding from ESA, that uses a 27-centimetre telescope.

6. The anthology of essays from under-30-year-old researchers brings fresh approaches to the challenges of universal health coverage.

Ex.9. 4 a)

multinational	space mission
measure	minute changes
to detect	planets
ground-based	telescopes
to carry	life
Earth-like	planets
Russian-built	Soyuz rocket
close	to impossible
a whole new phase of	research

Ex .9. 4 b)

1. Why is it difficult to detect planets orbiting other suns?

2. The Cassini-Huygens Mission to Saturn is a multinational space mission

between three space agencies and 17 nations, with a total cost of over $3 billion.

3. Many planetary scientists now believe that meteorites can carry primitive life from one planet to another.

4. Temperature control of a plethysmograph is used to measure minute changes in tissue volume.

5. 14 Jan 2009 for the first time, astronomers have measured light emitted from extra solar planets around sun-like stars using ground-based telescopes.