III YEAR - LESSON MATERIAL

Please print out the test below for 13th Nov. lesson.

I)                    Complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first sentence, using the word/words given. DO NOT CHANGE THE WORD/WORDS.

1)      I’m sure John stole the bag. MUST

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2)      As soon as I got home I started to study for the exam. NO  SOONER

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3)      Jane said,“I promise I won’t be late.” PROMISED

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4)      I wish  I hadn’t been so  rude. REGRET

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5)      Although  the weather was bad we still went out. DESPITE

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6)      The teacher gets very angry when  students constantly arrive late for lessons. WISHES

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II)                  Complete the text below by filling each gap with ONE WORD ONLY

A doctor (1) …………….  was being treated at an Ebola clinic run by British military medical staff in Sierra Leone (2) ……………….  died.

The death of Thomas Rogers Town (3)……….. Friday brings the number of doctors in Sierra Leone who have been killed (4) …………. the deadly virus to eight. He had worked at Connaught hospital in Freetown, the capital of the country (5) ……….. Ebola is spreading fastest. Ebola has now infected more (6) ……….. 17,500 people and killed about 6,200.

The high number of infections in healthworkers deters many from volunteering (7) …………work on Ebola wards, particularly local healthworkers. (8) …………………… foreign doctors and nurses who have become infected have (9) ……………..evacuated for treatment at better-equipped foreign hospitals, locals are almost always treated in their own countries. Facilities (10) …………… as the one at Kerry Town have been set up in an attempt to respond to that disparity.(11) ………………… has been established in Liberia and another is planned for Guinea.

A Cuban doctor being treated for Ebola at Geneva University Hospital has made a full recovery and left Switzerland to be reunited with his family, University hospital (12) ……………on Saturday.

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III)                Put the text below  into English

Quanto conta la statura nell’amore?Secondo una ricerca dello psicologo GertStulp dell’Università di Groningen gli uomini preferiscono le donne basse, non per una semplice questione di gusto, le motivazione di tale scelta sarebbero addirittura rintracciabili a livello genetico. Secondo lo studio dell’Ateneo olandese le donne basse tendono a scegliere uomini alti e gli uomini alti le donne basse. La teoria è stata confermata da un esperimento a cui hanno partecipato diecimila coppie inglesi.

 Inconsciamente l’altezza di un uomo rappresenta per la donna una protezione necessaria. Al contrario la bassa statura della donna rappresenta per l’uomo un’ideale di tenerezza e amore. Non è tutto. Sembra infatti che gli uomini tendano a preferire le donne più basse perché nel loro corpo c’è una maggiore presenza di estrogeni*, gli ormoni femminili che sono invece ridotti nelle donne alte.    * estrogen