RENDERING. Богатова С.М - 5 стр.

sleep plays in normal daily brain functions and many people actually        years longer than those born in 1960, the World Bank said in a report
reduce their brain power by getting too little sleep.                       issue yesterday.
       One in three adults admit that they do not get enough sleep, and            LISBON, Portugal (Reuters) – Antonio Gutteres, Portugal’s
lack of sleep is leaving millions of people without the energy to work      prime minister, faces a struggle to deliver promised reforms of taxa-
as hard as they should. Although a large number of people say that they     tion, social security and health service after his socialist party failed to
need to be mentally alert in their work, over half of the people inter-     win an absolute majority in Sunday’s general election
viewed say that they sleep just under 7 hours a night during the week. On          LONDON (Reuters) – John Stonehouse, former British cabinet
the other hand, most of the people interviewed say that they sleep more     minister who faked his death by drowning, was freed from jail yester-
than seven hours a night at the weekend. This suggests that a signifi-      day after serving three years for theft, fraud and deception
cant number of people try to catch up on their sleep at the weekend in-
stead of getting enough sleep during the week, when they most need it.            EXERCISE 5. Find the main idea of the whole article, make
                                                                            up a title for it.
       3) News article:
                                                                                    The Sun, the best selling British tabloid newspaper, is not ready
       JAY GARNER, the retired American general in charge of re-
                                                                            yet to stop displaying the topless «Page Three Girls»
building Iraq, held a big meeting with some of the country's prospec-
                                                                                    The word from the Sun’s headquarters in London on Wednesday
tive leaders on Thursday April 24th. A number of prominent Iraqis
                                                                            was «no change at the moment» despite overnight remarks from the
were invited to a heavily guarded conference centre in Baghdad. The
                                                                            paper’s owner Rupert Murdoch, in Australia that the bare-breasted pho-
event followed a massive religious celebration by hundreds of thou-
                                                                            tographs might be phased out because readers’ tastes had changed.
sands of Iraq's Shia Muslims, who took part in a pilgrimage once sup-
                                                                                    There has been intense debate about putting topless girls in the
pressed by Saddam Hussein. This has increased concerns among mem-
                                                                            newspapers over since Stephane Rahn posed for the Sun in 1970, ex-
bers of the invading coalition that some Iraqis may use religious or-
                                                                            posing the first two of approximately 16,000 breasts that have appeared
ganisations to try to establish a fundamentalist government, like that in
                                                                            ever since.
Iran. Coalition officials believe that most Iraqis would prefer secular
                                                                                    Traditionalists on the paper say the photographs are a vital part
government to an Islamic republic. America has warned Iran not to in-
                                                                            of a formula that sells 3.7 million copies of the Sun a day.
terfere in its plans to establish a democracy.
                                                                                    In his remarks to the shareholders of his global media company,
                                                                            News Corp. Ltd., Mr. Murdoch said that the topless models would be
      EXERCISE 4. Find the main idea in each of the following
                                                                            brought back if sales dropped without them. «If there was any threat to
leading sentences (the first paragraph of a news story).
                                                                            that, they’d return pretty quickly», he said.
      EXAMPLE
      UGANDA (UPI) – Underscoring the virtual breakdown of law                                                  ***
and order in Uganda, foreign diplomats have demanded greater military              In divided Europe, America and Russia would never let a war
protection for both their embassies and families and indicated they         like Yugoslavia’s start, let along rage this far. Now that the cold war is
might quit the troubled country if they did not receive it.                 over, it is up to Europeans themselves to do what they can to stop the
      Foreign diplomats demanded military protection.                       fighting their fellows have been foolish enough to start.
                                                                                   They have four means at their disposal: talks, sanctions, peace-
      WASHINGTON (AP) – The life expectancy of Asian children
                                                                            keeping and arm intervention. With Yugoslavia, the last is foolhardy
has increased sharply over the past two decades and a child born in
                                                                            and none of the others is foolproof.
Asia in 1985 could expect to live an average of 56 years – almost ten
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