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Write down your answers with capitals T or

A. True or false?
The Twilight Queen

1. 2. 3. 4.

Stephenie Meyer writes books about vampires but she has never seen a horror movie herself.

J.K. Rowling has made young adult publishing popular once rnore afterthe success of the Twilight Saga began to fade. The main character of the Twilight Saga, Bella, is a great role model for modern girls.
Both Stephenie Meyer and J.K. Rowling have created world in which readers can lose themselves.

The Left-handed Advantage

5. 6. 7. 8. 9.

Right-handed people have more mental disabilities than left-handed people. Faurie and Raymond found no support that lefties thrive in primitive societies with higher levels of violence.

The ability to speak lies in the left side of the brain.

Right-handed people make up the middle ground. Health problems are related to birth stress.

I'm planning to retire to Mars

10. 11. 12.

Musk was already a millionaire at the age of

17

According to Musk space travel did not have to be difficult and expensive.
Musk doesn't believe in getting things done quickly,

The Devil is in the Detail

13. 14. 15.

'The industry is, of course, tightly regulated' means that a srnall rnistake will not have huge consequences. The public's view of the national DNA database is irrationally fearful.
According to the writer, the private sector should perhaps not have a role in law enforcement.

Part B: The glossary

choose the right translation for the words in bold type. usE cAplrALS.

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
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Musk's nascent fleet of working space rockets are already being built
The fourth film is slated for a release this year.

They use their right hands for scooping peanut butter from a tube.

she's credited with single-handedly shoring up young adult publishing

All forensic labs in the UK have to be accredited and conform to rigorors standards.
lt was flagged as a close but not perfect match.

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lt is part of a process of wresting the future of space travel out of the har government bodies,
Being left-handed can also offer intellectual prowess.

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L L 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15.

To say they are poorly written is to miss the addictively febrile sweetness owhich they run. The anomaly is left-handed people make up the extremely gifted and the extremely com promised. Those were the internet, the transition to a sustainable energy econorry a-'rl space exploration. The story has gained the patina of myth. You've got to have a lot of caveats in the reporting and interpretaticn o't^e results. lt may be exacerbated by an almost mystical belief in the molecules o3\,,elt is this desire to keep things pretty that makes Meyer so palatable tc r-er readers.

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Part C - Glossary
Fill in the gap - choose from the list below

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. B' I' 10' 11. 12.

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A(n) (algemeen verbreid) and 'unjustified'faith that human genome sequencing is going to cure the world. This is something most experts would (uiflachen).
Her publisher must be rubbing their hands in (brijdschap). Expert witnesses educate the jury, so they (begrijpen) exacily what the evidence is. She was educated at Brigham University where she (studeren) Englist" Left-handed athletes (het goed doen) in sports involving direct one-to-cr-e contact.

The 'prosecutor's (denkfout)' has compromised the use of DNA eviderce ,3r fair trial.
lt was accepted by a(n) (stagiair) who'd dug the manuscript out of the slush pite.

She has the (handigheid) of building worlds in which everyone wants to hide. They took an interest in the (onevenredig) high number of left-handed athletes. The story did not lose its gawky, (bekentenis-) quality.

lf any one of these pathways is (bederven) during pregnancy, then lefthandedness becomes a cosmic dice game. These samples have been secretly submitted by the (beheerder) of the database as a quality control test.
Mistakes can (in gevaar brengen) the use of DNA evidence during a trial.

14. 15.

She (als hoofdvak studeren) in English literature at Mormon Brigham

University.

C: Choose from:

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B

knack heir apparent

To plug the gap To read confessional swab To appreciate To muck up To thrive fare abstinence To comprornise fallacy shuttlecock

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teetotaller
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intern custodian

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Language Organizers
D. Complete the

following sentences with of or from

Two or three (1) ... the samples LGC receives each year been secretly submitted as a quality controltest. Finding and removing the human

.(2) ... the police have

tissue

(3) ... objects isn't always straightforward.

The police took his photograph, his fingerprints, and a swab .. (5) ., his cheek.

(4), . ,. the inside

A few months after, it was flagged as a close but not perfect match to the profile (6) ... the probable killer . ..(7)... Colette Aram, a 16-year-old hairdresser (8) ... Nottinghamshire.

E. Match:
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group hypothesis frequent

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flee

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trying to get
likely pack

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scooprng

thrive population combat assurnption severe

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F: Match the description with the right words:

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15.

To be as good or important as someone or something else. A giant snowball of ice and dust that revolves around the sun. When it gets near the sun, ice melts and looks like a tail.

A law or set of laws.

The process of becoming more important, powerful, or successfulthan before.

A strong feeling in society that beng in a particular situation is something to be

ashamed of, Unlucky

A sudden eruption of energy in the solar atmosphere lasting minutes to hours, from which radiation and particles are emitted.
A field of interest or study

A bright streak of light in the sky caused by a meteoroid or a small icy particle as it burns up entering Earth's atmosphere.
To start something To make somebody very angry One celestial body cuts off the light of another the sun for a brief moment.

like when the moon covers

The outmost layer of the solar atmosphere characterized by low densities and high temperatures.
Moving or behaving in an awkward or clumsy way

To take someone away by force.

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corona legislation

to confirm
flare to abduct eclipse

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to incense
independent realm

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to rival
solstice ascent meteor hapless gawky

to ignite
comet current

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orbit stigma

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