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Weekly news from UK

BAD WEEK FOR:
Black men in USA; according to a Washington report there are now more black men in American prisons than there are in higher education. In 1980, there were 143,000 black men in prison, compared with 463,700 at university. But by 2000 the black prison population had rocketed to 791,600, while the number in higher education had risen to only 603,032.

Marrying in Shanghai, China, which now costs eight years' salary of an average Chinese worker. The China Daily said the average cost of getting married in Shanghai was 150,000 yuan ($18,000) - double the amount five years ago - while the average urban worker earned 1,530 yuan ($184) a month.

BMW, after the first Rolls-Royce to be made under its ownership broke down on a test drive in Germany. German newspapers described it as a serious blow to Germany’s national pride.

Eli Lilly, the pharmaceuticals company, which may be taken to court by an English family over the name chosen for its new impotence drug, Cialis. "We are horrified, " said Mr Cialis. "It’s like being called the Viagra family."

Prince Harry, who has failed two of the three AS levels he took at Eton College last term.

Hundreds of people, who were injured in an annual stone-throwing festival in India. About 600 people were hurt, 9 of them seriously, during the ancient ritual at the village of Pandhurna in which rival villagers hurl stones at each other across a river.

An Iranian man, who cut off his seven-year-old daughter's head after suspecting she had been raped by her uncle. A post-mortem, however, showed the girl was still a virgin. "The motive behind the killing was to defend my honour, fame, and dignity," a newspaper quoted the father as saying.

GOOD WEEK FOR:
A Yemeni man, who divorced his first wife because she was loud and argumentative. He has now picked a deaf and mute woman as his new bride.

Film censors in New Zealand, who are to receive allowances of $1000 to pay for piano lessons and exercise classes to help them cope with the stress of watching pornography ever day.

Coincidence, after the winning numbers on the New York lottery of September 11 came up as 9-1-1.

Virgin Atlantic Airways, which is to replace tables in its newest planes because passengers have broken them during illicit love-making. The $200 million Airbus A340-600, which was introduced several weeks ago, has a "mother and baby room" with a plastic table meant for changing nappies. But passengers have destroyed them by using them for sex.

Christopher Reeve, who has regained some movement seven years after being paralysed in a riding accident. The 49-year-old Superman star can now move his fingers and toes and has become sensitive to touch.

Big spenders, after Waitrose (a supermarket chain) unveiled a new loaf of bread which sells for ё10 (US$15). The hand-kneaded Poilane sourdough loaf is made from just flour, salt and water, but its manufacturers say it has superior taste and health-giving properties.

A 42-year-old United Arab Emirates man, who finally got his high school diploma after sitting for the exam 17 times. "Thank God," the paper quoted the father of five as saying. "I intend to go to university and want to specialize in IT."

A diver in Florida, USA, who has discovered the treasure of a lifetime, a 40.2-carat emerald embedded in a conch shell.

Swedish police, who must wish all criminals were as naive as the Halmstad robber. The 47-year-old man walked into the post office of the small town in southern Sweden, told the cashier he was armed and demanded a bag of cash plus 350 million crowns ($37.2 million) to be paid into his bank account, whose number he handed her on a piece of paper. Police had no trouble tracking him down and made a speedy arrest.

WHAT DO THE BRITISH THINK?
40% of Britons would oppose military action against Iraq. 36% would support an attack.

PICTURE OF THE WEEK: And You Think You're Having A Bad Day At Work !!
Although this looks like a picture taken from a Hollywood movie, it is in fact a real photo, taken near the South African coast during a military exercise by the British Navy. It has been nominated by Geo as "The photo of the year". Click here

STATISTIC OF THE WEEK:
Fewer than 5% of British children walk or cycle to school, compared with 80% twenty years ago.

STORY OF THE WEEK:
Trevor Tasker’s steamy online romance took a turn for the worse when he flew to the US to marry his cyber girlfriend. Instead of the 30-year-old beauty he was expecting, Tasker, 27, was greeted at the airport by 65-year-old Wynema Shumate, who weighs 20 stone (130kg). Worse, when she took him back to the flat, he discovered that she kept the dead body of her former flatmate in her freezer. Shumate was jailed, and Tasker has vowed never to go online again!

So, that is the news for this week.

So, that is the news. How did you find last week's "Food" homework?

PART A:

meat

fish

vegetables

veal
mutton
venison

cod
plaice
salmon

carrot
aubergine
cauliflower
spinach
onion

PART B:

bitter sharp / unpleasant
sour for example, fruit which is not ripe
hot, spicy for example, a strong Indian curry
sweet like a beautiful, ripe strawberry
bland rather negative, very little flavour
salty a lot of salt
sugary a lot of sugar
sickly far too much sugar
savoury pleasant, slightly salty or with herbs
tasty has a good taste / flavour
tasteless no flavour at all

PART C:

  1. a dish you have after the main course, for example ice-cream. A desert (or pudding / sweet / afters)
  2. very heavy and hard to digest (begins with "s"). Stodgy
  3. cooked with heat coming from above (for example, a sausage or burger). Grilled
  4. cooked in the over, with a little fat or oil (for example, a whole chicken). Roasted
  5. that something is not cooked enough. Underdone or undercooked

And the two riddles?

Riddle 1:

A clever thief in the olden days was charged with treason against the king and sentenced to death. But the king
decided to be a little lenient so he let the thief choose his own way to die.

What way should the thief choose? The answer is "to die of old age".

Riddle 2:

It is in a rock but not in stone,
It is in marrow but not in bone.
It is in a bolster but not in bed.
It's not in the living, and not in the dead.

What am I? The letter r

This week's homework is about the Environment:

PART A: What word matches these definitions? The first letter is given.

Example: A valley with steep sides. gorge.

  1. A very large sea - o____
  2. Land with sea on all sides - i_____
  3. Where a river meets the sea - m_____
  4. A river that flows into another river - t_____
  5. Where a river starts - s_____
  6. A river of ice - g_____
  7. The top of a mountain - s_____
  8. Where land meets sea very steeply - c_____
  9. A small stream - b_____
  10. Land with sea on three sides - p_____

PART B:

Use the words in the table to complete this text about environmental problems.

conditions destruction farming over-fishing
disposal greenhouse heavily layer
over-populated polluted resources  

Pollution is a major problem of our times. Air, water and land are all polluted. Poor waste(1)________is to blame for many of the problems and the situation is particularly acute in(2)________industrialised and (3)_________regions. Pollution of the atmosphere has led to the destruction of the ozone(4)________and to the(5)________effect. Other environmental problems have been caused by too rapid a use of(6)________. There are far fewer fish in the sea because of(7)________and the(8)________of the rainforests is having unforeseen ecological consequences. Battery(9)________provides a lot of food but involves keeping animals in unnatural and unhealthy(10)________.

PART C:

What are the opposites of the adjectives below?

  1. a deep river
  2. a gentle slope
  3. a rocky beach
  4. a rough sea
  5. an extinct volcano

And now I have a horrible riddle for you to try to solve. This drove me crazy for 15 minutes!

There are five houses in five different colours starting from left to right. In each house lives a person of a different nationality. These owners all drink a certain type of beverage, smoke a certain type of cigarettes, and keeps a certain type of pet. No two owners have the same of anything...the question is …WHO OWNS THE FISH?

These are the clues:
The Brit lives in the red house.
The Swede keeps dogs as pets.
The Dane drinks tea.
The green house is on the immediate left side of the white house.
The green house's owner drinks coffee.
The person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds.
The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill.
The man living in the centre house drinks milk.
The Norwegian lives in the first house.
The person who smokes Marlboro lives next to the one who keeps cats.
The person who keeps horses lives next to the person who smokes Dunhill.
The person who smokes Winfield drinks beer.
The German smokes Rothmans.
The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
The person who smokes Marlboro has a neighbour who drinks water.

I will be very impressed if you can solve this riddle!

All the best
Gennadiy

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