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8 Fill in the blanks with the words and expressions from the list below.
DVD players, MP3 files, set up, the protected album, prevents, hotline, to pursue
Natalie Imbruglia fans are angry that her latest album will not play on some
CD players. The new CD, White Lilies Island, comes with special technology
which stops the CD being copied into 1) ___ However it also 2) ___ it being
played in some older CD and 3) ___, and certain PCs. Record company BMG has
admitted it is 'concerned' about the complaints and has 4) ____ a telephone 5)
___ to deal with people's questions. The company said that 6) ____ was a 'test'
but added that BMG would continue 7) ____ the use of technologies which would
stop CD copying. Sony has also been testing the technology, called Cactus Data
Shield, on the last album from boy band 'N Sync.
9 Find in the previous activity words or expressions which correspond
with the following definitions
1 ________ a special type of computer files which allows you to download music
through the Internet
2 ________ short for 'digital versatile disc players'. A DVD disc allows you to hear
sound or watch videos on your computer
3 _________ to make a device or computer program ready to work
4 ________ a telephone line that the public can use to contact an organization
about a particular subject
5 ________ the album that has been recorded with the use of technology that
stops it being copied
6 ________ to carry out, to follow
10 Fill in the correct word derived from the word in capitals.
NEW FORM OF MATTER CREATED IN LAB
Scientists have created a new form of matter, which they say could lead to new ways
of 1) ______ TRANSMIT electricity. The new matter is the sixth known form of matter
after solids, liquids, gases, plasma and a Bose-Einstein condensate, created only in
1995. "What we've done is create this new exotic form of matter," says Deborah Jin of
the University of Colorado.
Jin pointed out that her team worked with a super cooled gas, which provides little
opportunity for everyday 2) ______ APPLY. But the way the potassium atoms acted
suggested there should be a way to turn it into a room-temperature solid.
It could be a step closer to an everyday, 3) _____ USE superconductor - a
material that conducts electricity without losing any of its energy. "If you had a
superconductor you could transmit electricity with no 4) _____ LOSE," Jin said. "Right
now something like 10% of all 5) ______ ELECTRIC we produce in the United States
is lost. It heats up wires. It doesn't do anybody any good."
Superconductors could allow for the 6) _______ DEVELOP of magnetically
levitated trains. Free of friction they could glide along at high speeds using a fraction
of the energy trains now use.
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