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Exercise 1:

The 1)__________ is held in her homeland this year, and the speaker is proud of this.

Only by eliminating conflicts and wars can countries cooperate on an 2)__________.

The UN is intended to resolve differences, promote well-being and extend 3)__________.

We live at a time of 4)__________ for the laws of war that forbid attacks on civilians.

Whether it is 5)__________ on schools or hospitals, families bombed in their homes, neighbourhoods

gassed with chemical weapons, 6)__________ areas deprived of aid, or mass rape of women, children and
men, we seem incapable of upholding minimum standards of humanity in many parts of the world.

As UN peacekeepers are often required to serve where there is little or no peace to be kept, they are often
dismissed as 7)__________.

UN peacekeepers are often deployed when governments struggle to 8)__________.

United Nations missions often represent the last and only hope for millions of people, which is therefore
considered a 9)__________.

Despite 10)__________ of women who can determine their own fate, they are still the main victims of war
and rape.

Women are at the 11)__________ of modern conflict, in the worst possible sense.

Exercise 2:

A time-lapse video on social media shows an 1)__________of a street in Hong Kong Sunday. Early in the
day, it fills with 2)__________who continue passing by that spot for hours and hours.

All I can say is that Hong Kong people, for the most part, are 3)__________.

Hong Kong is controlled by China but under an arrangement leftover from British times, in which Hong
Kong has more of a Western-style system, has a more free and 4)__________, and this proposal for an
extradition law would allow people to be taken out of that system, arrested and taken to mainland China in a
much less 5)__________for trial - that's what has been protested.

The other thing is that the dynamic has shifted because the government is on the 6)__________. They
miscalculated public opinion, and they had to make this embarrassing climbdown of 7)__________ the bill.

According to Charles Mok, a 8)__________in Hong Kong, the police were a bit concerned because of the
accusation of police 9)__________ on Wednesday, last Wednesday, when they tried to clear the area around
the legislative building.

I understand the general concern, that you would not, if you could avoid it, want to be taken out of Hong
Kong's 10)__________ and moved into China's less transparent system. But Chief Executive Carrie Lam,
the Hong Kong official who has been pushing this legislation, says it is not as bad as 11)__________.

Our proposal is based on existing legislation, with the relevant human rights safeguards and 12)__________
safeguards, including the role of the court and a 13)__________judicial system of Hong Kong being fully
maintained.
You're noting that a Chinese business executive was arrested in Canada on the request of the United States,
but the extradition has proven to be a rather 14)__________affair.

We are always in the minority. So that's why people want 15)__________, real democracy in Hong Kong.
But we didn't get that.

And in the meantime, there are a lot of these issues, including this current 16)__________ that would make
Hong Kong more like China, and that is our concern.

Exercise 3:

And after shaking hands, President Trump walked out of the 1)__________ and onto North Korean
3)__________.

The White House may have exaggerated the 4)__________ nature of this meeting, perhaps to 5)__________
if things had gone badly or if Kim had not shown up.

They agreed to restart talks over North Korea's 6)__________.

U.S. sanctions will remain 7)__________ against North Korea. But he did leave the door open to some
8)__________ in the future.

The president likes these 9)__________. He likes the spectacle. It's the 10)__________of the details where
he sometimes gets 11)__________.

They did not resolve the basic trade war between the U.S. and China, but they did agree not to
12)__________ it. They agreed to resume trade negotiations, which had been on the 13)__________ since
May when the Trump administration accused China of 14)__________ on earlier commitments.

He said Huawei is complicated, and it is. You know, U.S. security experts worry that the company, which
makes 15)__________ and a lot of the hardware behind high-tech communications networks, could become
a 16)__________ for spying by the Chinese government.

Trump says Mohammed bin Salman told him about the discipline that the Saudis themselves have
17)__________ to people who carried out Khashoggi's killing. But there was apparently no discussion of the
crown prince's own 18)__________. Trump and the crown prince ignored shouted questions about that
during their very 19)__________.

Exercise 4:

Hollywood movies have 1)__________ a future of 2)__________ and flying cars.

In the future, we are expected to witness a surging popularity of 3)__________ like robo taxis and an
emphasis on 4)__________.

5)__________ will require changes to air traffic control systems.

For high-speed travel, the ambitious Hyperloop could leave 6)__________ in the dust.

The lack of 7)__________ enables pods to reach great speeds.

The makers of 8)__________ are promising to slash travel times.

Despite skepticism, tech and engineering companies are 9)__________ the challenges of passsenger transit,
promising to 10)__________ us into the future.
Exercise 5:

Eleven countries have agreed to sign a major 1)__________ today. There were supposed to be 12 countries,
but the U.S. 2)__________. Many analysts said the Trans-Pacific Partnership, or the TPP, could not exist
without the U.S. But the other countries are 3)__________ anyway.

The Trans-Pacific Partnership took five years to 4)__________ between the U.S. and 11 other Pacific
5)__________ nations, from Australia to Vietnam to 6)__________ .

It will actually go down as one of the biggest 7)__________ mistakes the United States has ever made,
maybe even on par to the 8)__________.

Matthew Goodman, an Asia economics specialist at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, says
he's surprised the deal came together. He didn't think there was enough 9)__________ in the group.

Goodman says Canada wanted to add the words 10)__________ to the name of the trade deal. It's now the
CPTPP - quite a 11)__________.

There were 12)__________ from the Trump administration recently about rejoining the TPP.

Trump is hardening his 13)__________, with the U.S. renegotiating the NAFTA treaty and Trump
threatening to impose steep tariffs on 14)__________.

Exercise 6:

The first civil lawsuit to go to trial attempting to hold a company responsible for the opioid crisis
1)__________ in Oklahoma yesterday.

The case continued with Johnson & Johnson as the 2)__________. The state's legal team argued that the
company used 3)__________ that led to thousands of overdose deaths.

In legal terms, Oklahoma argued the company created a 4)__________ of opioid overprescribing.

The FDA label clearly set for the risk of 5)__________ that could lead to overdose and death.

Earlier in the trial, the state's expert witness Dr Andrew Kolodny testified that Johnson & Johnson did more
than push its own pills. Until 2016, it also profited by manufacturing 6)__________ and then selling them to
other companies.

Kolodny says that's why the company 7)__________ the risks to doctors of opioids in general, knowing that
almost any opioid prescription would benefit its 8)__________.

The trial also focused on the role of 9)__________.

The 10)__________ used in this case is not new. It was used in previous lawsuits involving tobacco, guns
and 11)__________, though with varying results.