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1. How do you usually run information?
2. Are you the media addicted? How long can you live without the media?
3. Are you a media multitasker?
4. How does media-multitasking influence people?
5. How do high- and low- media multitaskers run information?
6. What problem do media-multitaskers suffer from?
7. What was recommended to media-multitaskers?
8. Who has more advantages: high- or low- media multitasker? Why?
Task 3. Find the paragraph that isn’t important for the whole text.
Text 9
Exercise 1. Make adverbs from the following adjectives according to the model and
translate them.
Adjective + ly
current, human, painstaking, fanciful, active, new.
Exercise 2. Read and translate the collocations.
Life expectancy, the rise would tail off, to reach the limit, human longevity, the only
way, genetic engineering, we could conquer death, to slow the process, limited
priority, long-term maintenance.
THE QUEST FOR IMMORTALITY
Scientific breakthroughs mean that life expectancy continues to rise every year.
But the medical advances which now make it possible to contemplate living to a very
great age – if not forever – also raise profound practical and ethical issues.
Over the past century, life expectancy in developed countries has risen at an
astonishing rate. In Britain, for example, the average mail lifespan went up from 48 in
1901 to 75 in 2000. (During the same time, the female lifespan rose from 49 to 80.)
Scientists have always imagined that this rise would tail off, but that does not seem to
be happening. Since 1840, people born in any year have, on average, lived three
months longer than those born the previous year – a consistent increase that still
holds true today. A paper published in Science magazine has warned that, at the
current rate, female life expectancy in developed countries could be as high as 101 by
2070.
We are lasting so much longer mainly because of better nutrition, better housing,
vaccination programmes and a dramatic reduction in infant mortality due to advances
in both pre-natal and post-natal care. Since there is only limited potential for further
advances in these areas, some scientists think we have almost reached the limit of
human longevity. Dr Jay Olshansky, of the university of Chicago, for example,
believes that the only way of adding to life expectancy now is to make old people live
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