Английский язык для студентов технического вуза: Средства массовой информации. Мир продвинутых технологий - 27 стр.

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8 Match people with accidents and scandals that happened to them.
Variants in the second column may be used more than once.
1) John Kennedy
2) Joe Kennedy a) drug overdose
3) Kathleen Kennedy b) plane crash
4) Rosemary Kennedy c) assassination
5) Robert Kennedy d) skiing accident
6) Edward Kennedy e) car accident
7) Patrick (Edward’s son) d) trial for rape
8) WK Smith (Edward’s nephew) f) trial for drug addiction
9) David (Robert’s son) g) mental institution
10) Michael (Robert’s son)
11) John (JKF’s son)
Who was killed due to political reasons: 1)………..; 2) ………; 3)…….. .
LISTENING
9 You will hear an interview with Nigel Dempster, a journalist who writes
the most famous gossip column in Britain for the Daily Mail. Choose the
correct answer A, B or C. You will hear the recording twice.
1 The Daily Mail’s gossip column is concerned to:
A entertain readers.
B inform people.
C reveal some secret to public.
2 People whose names appear in the Diary:
A don’t want their names appear in the paper.
B ask the Daily Mail to publish about them.
C are not against talking about them.
3 People in Britain enjoy gossip more than people in other countries.
A They have structured class system and too reserved for gossip.
B They do not pay attention to gossip at all.
C They have a small country and are interested in what is happening around.
4 Is it difficult to get new information about the Royals?
A The journalists follow them everywhere to have something to write about.
B Enough stories come out from the Royal Family’s staff.
C Public figures give the important information about them themselves.
5 Foreign magazines and newspapers report about the Royal Family:
A partially inaccurate information.
B amusing stories.
C total invention and explicit stories.