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Text - Kids must start learning foreign languages by TEN to be able to speak like a native
New research from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) suggests that if people want to achieve native-like proficiency in a new language, they should start learning that language before the age of ten. The researchers added that children up to the age of 17 or 18 remain adept at learning grammar. There is bad news for those who want to pick up a new language beyond their late teens. The researchers say this is past the “critical period” when language-learning ability starts to decline. Researcher Joshua Hartshorne said: “As far as a child is concerned, it's quite easy to become bilingual... That's when you're best at learning languages. It's not really something that you can make up later”. The research was based on an analysis of results from a 10-minute online grammar quiz. Over 670,000 language learners of all ages participated in the test. Researchers measured the grammatical ability of people who started learning a language at different ages in their life. Professor Hartshorne focused on grammar rules that were most likely to confuse a non-native speaker as a measure of that person's proficiency. MIT researcher Josh Tenenbaum suggested people simply might be too busy to learn a language later in life. He said: “After 17 or 18, you leave home, you work full time, or you become a specialized university student. All of these might impact your learning rate for any language”.
Source: https://www.thesun.co.uk (adapted)
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Text - Kids must start learning foreign languages by TEN to be able to speak like a native
New research from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) suggests that if people want to achieve native-like proficiency in a new language, they should start learning that language before the age of ten. The researchers added that children up to the age of 17 or 18 remain adept at learning grammar. There is bad news for those who want to pick up a new language beyond their late teens. The researchers say this is past the “critical period” when language-learning ability starts to decline. Researcher Joshua Hartshorne said: “As far as a child is concerned, it's quite easy to become bilingual... That's when you're best at learning languages. It's not really something that you can make up later”. The research was based on an analysis of results from a 10-minute online grammar quiz. Over 670,000 language learners of all ages participated in the test. Researchers measured the grammatical ability of people who started learning a language at different ages in their life. Professor Hartshorne focused on grammar rules that were most likely to confuse a non-native speaker as a measure of that person's proficiency. MIT researcher Josh Tenenbaum suggested people simply might be too busy to learn a language later in life. He said: “After 17 or 18, you leave home, you work full time, or you become a specialized university student. All of these might impact your learning rate for any language”.
Source: https://www.thesun.co.uk (adapted)
The expressions: “before”, “researcher” and “different”, underlined in the text are respectively:
Text - Facebook boss apologizes in UK and US newspaper ads
Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg apologized for the data breach that was revealed last week. Mr. Zuckerberg took out fullpage advertisements in broadsheet newspapers in the UK and US to make his apology for the data privacy scandal. Zuckerberg was being criticized for being too slow to respond to the news. Personal data on up to 50 million users was used by a U.S. political consultancy called Cambridge Analytica. This company is accused of using the leaked data to benefit Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign. Zuckerberg said: “This was a breach of trust, and I am sorry... We’re now taking steps to make sure this doesn't happen again.” The apology made no mention of Cambridge Analytica. Mr. Zuckerberg agreed that Facebook could and should have done more to protect user data and to stop it being exploited. Reports are now circulating that Facebook was warned its data protection was too weak back in 2011. Mr. Zuckerberg delineated the actions Facebook would take going forward. He said: “We're investigating every single app that had access to large amounts of data before we fixed this. We expect there are others. And when we find them, we will ban them and tell everyone affected.” The value of Facebook has fallen by $75 billion this week; Zuckerberg's wealth fell by $10 billion. There has also been a surge in users abandoning their Facebook pages, in online calls to #deletefacebook.
Source: http://www.bbc.com (adapted)
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Text - Facebook boss apologizes in UK and US newspaper ads
Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg apologized for the data breach that was revealed last week. Mr. Zuckerberg took out fullpage advertisements in broadsheet newspapers in the UK and US to make his apology for the data privacy scandal. Zuckerberg was being criticized for being too slow to respond to the news. Personal data on up to 50 million users was used by a U.S. political consultancy called Cambridge Analytica. This company is accused of using the leaked data to benefit Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign. Zuckerberg said: “This was a breach of trust, and I am sorry... We’re now taking steps to make sure this doesn't happen again.” The apology made no mention of Cambridge Analytica. Mr. Zuckerberg agreed that Facebook could and should have done more to protect user data and to stop it being exploited. Reports are now circulating that Facebook was warned its data protection was too weak back in 2011. Mr. Zuckerberg delineated the actions Facebook would take going forward. He said: “We're investigating every single app that had access to large amounts of data before we fixed this. We expect there are others. And when we find them, we will ban them and tell everyone affected.” The value of Facebook has fallen by $75 billion this week; Zuckerberg's wealth fell by $10 billion. There has also been a surge in users abandoning their Facebook pages, in online calls to #deletefacebook.
Source: http://www.bbc.com (adapted)
Choose the closest meaning to the word “exploited” (underlined) used in the text.
Text - ‘Noah's Ark’ seed vault chalks up a million crop varieties
A special vault storing the world's most precious seeds has now amassed over one million different plant varieties. It recently took delivery of a consignment of seeds from 70,000 different crops. Global Seed Vault is buried deep in an icy mountain in the Arctic Circle area of Svalbard, Norway. It was started ten years ago to safeguard the future of the world's food supply. Climate change is causing more and more droughts around the world, which are threatening different species of plants. The vault holds back-ups of seed samples stored in other seed banks around the world. Hannes Dempewolf, a senior scientist at the Crop Trust, said: “Hitting the million mark is really significant.” Workers at the vault were not sure they would reach the million mark so soon. The crisis in Syria meant there was a shortfall of 90,000 seeds at the vault. The latest delivery to the vault included cereal staples. There were also more unusual crops like the onion potato from Estonia and the Bambara groundnut, which is being developed as a drought tolerant crop in Africa. Marie Haga, executive director of the Crop Trust, spoke about the importance of the vault. She said: “Safeguarding such a huge range of seeds means scientists will have the best chance of developing nutritious and climate-resilient crops that can ensure future generations don't just survive, but thrive.”
https://noah ‘s ark (adapted)
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