Review Test 1,2, and 3. For Ms Rosemary

Review Test 1:

1. the relationships between
2. An addition
3. time
4. True
5. supporting details

Review Test 2:

1. before
2. also
3. one
4. then
5. final
6. second
7. B
8. after
9. A
10. also

Review Test 3:

1. after
2. first
3. then
4. as
5. later
6. B

Final exam. Advances in tecnology. For Ms Kristi.

People in today's society are always looking for ways to improve their life styles. That's why we cannot imagine ourselves without technological advances. The rapidness of development and research is so impressive, and I can predict that it will be faster in the 21st century. The advances in technology are affecting our society in both positive and negative ways, and affecting the way individuals communicate, learn, and think.

I believe, technologies have been invented to fulfill our desire for speed and convenience. It makes our lives easier. We wake to an alarm clock, cook breakfast on an electric stove, and go to work or school by car. We communicate with each other by cell phones. We work on computers, and may be watch television or listen to music before going to sleep.

Technology has not been used only for peaceful purposes. It is also used for development of weapons. Every day a new and destructive weapon is invented. Like nuclear weapons that are the most devastating of weapons. And we can all remember the horrible picture from Hiroshima. Furthermore, the nuclear weapons are unsafe even before they explode. As stated in New York Times. "The studies have been prompted in part by recent reports that significant leaks of radiation occurred over long periods from the nation's nuclear weapons plants in the states of Washington, South Carolina, Colorado and Ohio. Some people who live near the plants contend that their communities suffered unusual numbers of cancers and birth defects."

There are some technological advances that have both positive and negative consequences in the same time. For example: robots and machines. They help to save time and money, and they do their work more perfectly then a person can do it. According to USA Today "Standing about 5 feet tall, the hospital's new Rounding Robots have computer screens for heads and real-time video cameras for eyes and ears. Doctors can operate them by remote control to examine patients from another building or even another country." However the use of robots and machines results in job losses.

Technology is a very important part of our lives. No matter what we do, we have to use technological advances. Yet we have to be careful using them. We have to take advantage of them and avoid the disadvantages.

Home work, Chapter 5, For Ms Rosemary.

Practice 1:

1. also
2. For one thing
3. In addition
4. First
5. Third

Practice 2:

1. Previously
2. Then
3. during
4. before
5. while

Practice 3:

A-Main idea: America's most popular meat a hundred years ago was pork for several reasons.

1. Pigs grew quickly.
2. Pigs required almost no attention.
3. Pigs could be cheaply preserved.

B-Main idea: Various theories explain the again process.

1. Our bodies simply wear out.
2. As cells repeatedly.....
3. Our body chemistry loses its delicate balance over the years.
4. Our bodies tend with age to reject some of their own tissues.

Practice 4:

Main idea: The 1960s were a time of profound events in America.

1. In 1963, the assassination of president John Kennedy.
2. In 1965, urban riots moved the long simmering issue of racial equality onto center stage.
3. In 1968, spread across the country, centering on college campuses.

Practice 5:

Many people through three stages in reacting to their unemployment.

1. They experience shock followed by relief.
2. A strong effort to find a new job.
3. Self-doubt and anxiety.

Practice 6:

There are several steps to remembering your dreams.

1. Make up your mind to remember your dreams.
2. Put a pen and o notebook near your bed.
3. Turn off your alarm before you go to sleep.
4. When you wake up and remember a dream, write it immediately.

Practice 7:

1. A
2. A
3. A
4. B
5. B
6. B
7. A
8. B
9. A
10. B

Implied Main Ideas: Test A

A-

1. A
2. D
3. B

B-

1. D

Home Work. For Ms Kristi

Writing Assignment 1:

Here is my first hour of an average day:

When I get up in the morning, I first take a bath, then I wear my clothes for work. Next I prepare breakfast, and while we are having breakfast, my husband and I talk about the programme of our day. Finally we go to work.

Writing Assignment 3:

Description of a day:

I don't know how to describe the day I was coming to the USA. I was confused. I had mixed feelings. First I was very exited, because I was going to start a new life. Then I felt sad, especially because I had to leave my mum, my dad, all my family, and my friends. But most of all I was scared of the unknown that awaits for me the USA.

Reading Comprehension, Pages 165-67 For Ms Rosemary

1. B
2. A
3. C
4. A
5. A
6. D
7. A
8. A
9. D
10. B

The definition of justice according to the dictionary is: "The maintenance or administration of what is just especially by the impartial adjustment of conflicting claims or the assignment of merited rewards or punishments." We all desire to live in a just world. However, justice can not be always attainable. Here is the example of Sami Al Hajj, the only journalist among of the 779 known detainees in Guantanamo Bay.

"The journalist, Sami al-Hajj, was working for Al Jazeera as a cameraman when he was stopped by Pakistani forces on the border with Afghanistan in late 2001. The United States military accused Mr. Hajj of, among other things, falsifying documents and delivering money to Chechen rebels, although he was never charged with a crime during his years in custody." As stated in New York Times.

Sami Al Hajj is a Sudanese journalist for the Al Jazzeera network. He was born in khartoum, on February 15, 1969. He received his Bachelor's Degree in English literature from a university in India in 1993. He got married to Asmae , a girl from Adrebedjan, in 1998. They had a boy, Mohamed, in 2000, and they were having a normal life.

In December 2001 Aljazeera sent Sami to cover the war against the Taliban. He was in his way to do his job, when he was arrested in the Pakistani border with Afganistan. He was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camp for over six years. He was interrogated for more then 200 times. He was beaten. He witnessed guards flushing the Qur'an down a toilet. He has been sexually assaulted. And for more then six years his wife was deprived from her husband, and his son was deprived from his father.

After all this Sami was released without charge on May 1, 2008. They said it was a misunderstanding. They had mistaken him for another Sami who worked for Aljazeera, and had an interview with Osama Binladen. Sami was an innocent man who suffered for no reason. Even if Sami is a free man, the damage this experience caused is still affecting his life. He still suffers from depression, and is losing the will to live.

When we hear stories like this we doubt that justice exists, or we can say :"OK, life is not fair, it happened all the time." But we can not imagine that it may happened to us or someone we care about. I think that we have to say No to the injustice with a very lowed voice, so the rest of the world can hear it. Because there are so many people getting away with crimes they have committed, and many others are accused of offences they haven't done.