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Last November, the U.S. engaged in its midterm

elections, with the Democrats performing better than
expected and holding the Senate. CNN’s John King CNN
offers some Political Insight into the pressing issues
surrounding the election and what may influence
people’s votes.
The midterm election came in the midst of
FBI’s probes into Donald Trump and potential
wrongdoings. The agency searched Donald Trump’s
Mar-a-Lago office. We take a look at The House
of Trump and see how lavish this exclusive resort
actually is.
On the other side of the pond, the U.K. is going
through a political shift of its own. Rishi Sunak
becomes the third prime minister in 2022, taking
over when Liz Truss stepped down after just 45 days.
Join us in taking a look at The New British PM.
Following up from the momentum of liberating
Kharkiv, Ukraine has now driven Russia out of
Kherson, with the Russian forces retreating across the
Dnipro. However, even with the Russians gone, there
is plenty of work to be done in rebuilding—and not
just the buildings. We take a look at the Aftermath of
Occupation and how the cities are made livable again
and children traumatized by war are rehabilitated.
Twitter is in turmoil ever since the world’s richest
man completed his takeover of the company. Elon
Musk caused controversy by deciding to charge $8
per month for a blue check. There have also been a
number of layoffs and resignations since Musk took
control. So, the question remains as to whether The
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And what really you [really] feel as soon as
you step into Daxing is the sleek,5 modern
design. This was done by the late architect
Zaha Hadid, but what officials are really
touting6 about this airport is the technology.
As soon as you walk in, right when you’re

checking in your bag, facial recognition
starts. It continues as you’re walking
through security—security that they say is
a lot quicker and more efficient because of
technology. They didn’t go [in]to too much
detail about that, but the facial recognition
technology continues as you’re in …
ready to board at your gate. They’ve got
screens that are taking in your image, and Vocabulary
they continue all the way up until you go
1. hub [h9b] n.
through and board your plane.
2. serenity [s4`r5n4ti] n.
High-Tech Hub
3. koi [k76] n.
1 4. concourse [`k3n~k7rs] n.
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5. sleek [slik] adj.

Language Notes Mason bought himself a sleek sports car.
1. late 6. tout [ta8t] v.
1. The movie’s director touted the amazing special
effects that were used.
s The necklace that Rita wears used to belong to her late
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s Andrew was late for work because his alarm didn’t go
800 pond—not what you think about when you
off.
4 think about the chaos that often comes with
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air travel. This is one of five [of] what they’re 3.
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s The castle was built during the late 1500s.
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Beijing Daxing Airport. It’s just opened up to 4. Zaha Hadid
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The Nuts and Bolts of the Mar-

a-Lago Resort
The New
British PM
Rishi Sunak Takes Over as Britain ’s

Leader after Liz Truss Resigns
Aftermath of
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Ukraine Rebuilds Cities and
People in Liberated Regions
Elon Musk Completes His

Twitter Takeover
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NBA Kherson Residents Celebrate
CNN Liberation from Russia
UNIT 8 Track 8 Track 18 The World’s Longest Passenger

Train Launches
The Noise of Nothing
“Challenger” Space Shuttle Debris
Found Undersea
NASA Reveals the Eerie Sounds of a
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for North Korean Denuclearization?
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WORDS
IN THE
NEWS Collapsed FTX owes nearly $3.1
HEADLINE
billion to top 50 creditors
FTX 50 31
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STALEMATE 29
Sam Bankman-Fried
[`stel~met] n.
FTX
NEWS Spotlight on Malaysia’s king to resolve

HEADLINE
election stalemate
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Al-Sultan
Abdullah
Anwar Ibrahim
cryptocurrency [~kr6pto`k-4nsi] n.
outright winner [~a8t`ra6t] [`w6n0] phr.
exchange [6ks`t]end.] n.
coalition [~ko4`l6]4n] n.
bankruptcy [`b1;k~r9p(t)si] n.
hung parliament [h9;] [`p3rl4m4nt] n.
criminal misconduct [`kr6m4ny] [~m6s`k3n~d9kt]
uncertainty [~9n`s-t4xti] n. phr.
political bloc [p4`l6t6k4l] [bl3k] phr. digital asset [`d6d.4ty] [`1~s5t] phr.
impasse [`6m~p1s] n. implode [6m`plod] n.
appointment [4`p76ntm4nt] n. tumble [`t9mb4l] v.
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STUMP UPSET
[st9mp] v. [`9p~s5t] n.
NEWS Wordle that stumped British players NEWS Saudi Arabia stuns Lionel Messi’s
HEADLINE HEADLINE
crowned Cambridge Dictionary’s Argentina in one of the biggest
‘word of the year’ upsets in World Cup history
Wordle
Wordle 2022 Qatar
Josh Wardle word 11

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5 5 homer
65,000 2022
Trending topics in World Cup 2022

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[`hom0]
home run
stoppage time
4 armband
1
LGBT
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Words with the highest spikes in 2022

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[`t1s4t] thrilling win

tacit bayou
[`ba6u]
3 WAGs
2
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caulk humor 5
[k7k] [`hjum0]
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Kherson Residents The World’s Longest

Celebrate Liberation1 Passenger Train Launches
from Russia
You gotta take a look at this. It’s the mind-
boggling 8 maiden 9 run of the world’s longest
passenger train. Switzerland debuted the amazing,
technical, transportational feat10 to celebrate the
175th anniversary of the country’s first railway
system, and the crowds that flocked and gawked11
at this modern marvel were not disappointed. The
engine twisted and turned through the majestic,
mountainous Albula Line, pulling the whopping12
100 cars stretched out to a length of almost 1.2
For the people of Kherson—euphoria.2 Eight dark miles long. That’s scary long!
months of oppressive 3 Russian occupation 4—
over. Their troops [were] greeted as conquering5
heroes. Residents cut off from the world—no
internet, no electricity, no water and no TV—[are]
gathering in the city’s central square, coming over
to hear our broadcast. This is what liberation looks
like. This is what liberation feels like. The people of
this city tried to resist6 the Russians. The Russians
suppressed7 them. This is what Ukrainians are like
when their suppression comes off.
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“Challenger” Space Shuttle 1. liberation [~l6b4`re]4n] n.

liberate [`l6b4~ret] p. 34
Debris13 Found Undersea 2. euphoria [ju`f7ri4] n.
3. oppressive [4`pr5s6v] adj.
People were rebelling against the oppressive
regime.
4. occupation [~3kj4`pe]4n] n.
5. conquer [`k3;k0] v.
The nation has conquered the enemy’s lands.
6. resist [r6`z6st] v.
Protesters are trying to resist the police.
7. suppress [s4`pr5s] v.
suppresssion [s4`pr5]4n]
The dictator has suppressed the people.
A research team probing14 the depths of the Atlantic 8. mind-boggling [`ma6nd~b3g4l6;] adj.
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for World War II artifacts made a shocking discovery
instead—a 20-foot-long piece of debris from the The mind-boggling television series Severance was
a big hit.
Space Shuttle Challenger. The team came across
it while filming the upcoming History Channel 9. maiden [`medx] adj.
documentary, The Bermuda Triangle: Into Cursed The new cruise ship has made its maiden voyage.
Waters. The Challenger shuttle exploded shortly
after liftoff in 1986, claiming16 the lives of the seven 10. feat [fit] n.
crew members onboard. The documentary team has 11. gawk [g7k] v.
People gawked at the exhibits in the museum.
turned over their [its] sober17 findings to NASA, which
is now considering what to do with the artifact to
12. whopping [`w3p6;] adj.
properly honor the memory of the mission. The diamond sold for a whopping $15 million.
13. debris [d4`bri] n.

14. probe [prob] v.
The spy plane was probing the enemy’s air space.
15. artifact [`3rt6~f1kt] n.

16. claim [klem] v.
The tornado claimed dozens of lives as it tore
through the small town.
17. sober [`sob0] adj.

Visiting the war memorial was always a sobering
moment.
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Rishi Sunak Takes Over as Britain’s Leader after Liz Truss Resigns
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE REPORTER
Mr. Sunak, are you confident you’ll

be …
BIANCA NOBILO, CNN CORRESPONDENT
After making the runoff 1 in the

second leadership contest in as
many months, it’s second time
luck y for Britain’s new prime
minister, Rishi Sunak, but that is
where his luck runs out.
Sunak inherits 2 an economic

nightmare stoked 3 by soaring
inflation, war in Europe [and]
a par t y at its lowest level of
popularity in a generation—eating
itself alive [and] changing prime
ministers at a pace never seen.
LIZ TRUSS, PRIME MINISTER OF THE UNITED KINGDOM
I am resigning.
The last, Liz Truss, became Britain’s

shortest-serving leader ever at a
mere 4 six weeks. But the former
chancellor5 has not sugarcoated6
the challenges Britain faces,
assuring7 that he has the economic
credentials 8 to steer 9 the nation
through the crisis.
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1980 5 12 Hampshire, CNN

England
MBA
Goldman Sachs
2009 Akshata
Murty
2015 Richmond
Member of Parliament
2018 Parliamentary Under
Secretary of State CNN
2019 Chief Secretary to the Treasury

2020 Chancellor of the Exchequer
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second time lucky

Vocabulary
2022 7 Deputy Chief Whip
Chris Pincher 1. runoff [`r9n~7f] n.
Sajid Javid
2. inherit [6n`h5r4t] v.
Boris Johnson Laurie inherited a company that was bleeding money
when he became CEO.
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Liz Truss 10 3. stoke [stok] v.
The political commentator stoked tensions with his
tweets.
second time lucky
third time lucky
4. mere [m6r] adj.
(the) third time’s the charm
Augustus quit his job after a mere four weeks.
5. chancellor [`t]1ns4l0] n.
6. sugarcoat [`s8g0~kot] v.
Language Notes Paul didn’t sugarcoat things when he told his parents
he was moving out.
1. eat sb. alive
7. assure [4`]8r] v.
Roger assured his boss that he would have the work
finished on time.
• The basketball team ate its rival alive, winning by a
wide margin. 8. credential [kr6`d5n]4l] n.
9. steer [st6r] v.
• The tough-talking boss ate people who disappointed The soccer team’s coach steered the club to the league
him alive. title.
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RISHI SUNAK, CONSERVATIVE PARTY LEADERSHIP CANDIDATE
We have to be honest …
LIZ TRUSS, CONSERVATIVE PARTY LEADERSHIP CANDIDATE
Well, I’m being honest!
RISHI SUNAK, CONSERVATIVE PARTY LEADERSHIP CANDIDATE
… but borrowing your way out of inflation

isn’t a plan. It’s a fairy tale.
The predictions 10 he made about the

impact of Truss’s tax-cutting economic CNN
plans were vindicated.11
Born to parents of Indian descent, 12

Sunak is Britain’s first person of color to
become prime minister, but his path to
power is a tale as old as time—educated
at one of Britain’s most exclusive 13
schools, Winchester College, on to Oxford
University like over half of the country’s
prime minister[s] [and] then into the
finance industry.
After being praised for slick14 performances

during the pandemic, he was tipped15 to
become the next leader. Then, his political
fortunes16 took a nosedive.
Sunak’s resignation as chancellor in the

last days of the Boris Johnson government
was seen as being instrumental 17 in
Johnson’s downfall.18 Then, Sunak lost the
leadership contest to replace Johnson
after his popularity had taken a battering,19
with many Johnson supporters blaming
him for Johnson’s end.
The London police had fined him for

attending an illegal gathering in lockdown,
and his wife, Akshata Murty—the daughter
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of the Indian billionaire founder of Infosys—

came under fire for her non-domicile20 status
sparing21 her a huge tax bill on her massive
foreign income.
Sunak ranks among the U.K.’s richest and has

been labeled22 out-of-touch with ordinary
voters.
RISHI SUNAK, INTERVIEWEE, “MIDDLE CLASSES: THEIR RISE AND SPRAWL”
I have friends who are, you know, working

class but … I’m not working class, but I mix Vocabulary
and match, and then I go to see kids from 10. prediction [pr6`d6k]4n] n.
an inner city state school and tell them, you 11. vindicate [`v6nd4~ket] v.
know, to apply to Oxford … The engineer’s claim about the bridge being unsafe was
vindicated after it collapsed.
Infosys
12. descent [d6`s5nt] n.
consulting outsourcing 13. exclusive [6k`sklus6v] adj.
Narayana Only members are allowed into the exclusive club.
Murthy
14. slick [sl6k] adj.

The car salesman had a slick approach when it came to
Language Notes talking to buyers.
2. (as) old as time 15. tip [t6p] v.

as adj. as ...
for sth. to V.
+ as old as time
The young politician is tipped to be the president one
day.
• The history of the successful hotel chain is a tale as
old as time.
16. fortune [`f7rt]4n] n.
17. instrumental [~6nstr4`m5nty] adj.
3. take a nosedive The scientist was instrumental in the discovery about
nosedive [ `noz~da6v ] atoms.
take a nosedive 18. downfall [`da8n~f7l] n.

• The value of the company took a nosedive. 19. battering [`b1t4r6;] n.
20. domicile [`dom4~sa6l] n.
4. come under fire 21. spare [sp5r] v.
under fire Kevin was spared paying the repair bill on his car as his
come insurance covered it.
be
• The brand has come under fire for underpaying its 22. label [`leb4l] v.
staff. The mayor was labeled corrupt by the papers.
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BIANCA NOBILO, CNN CORRESPONDENT CNN
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This 2001 BBC documentary clip when he BBC
was still at university later went viral,24 and
it didn’t help. He’s since walk[ed] back that
comment, but this didn’t help, either.
Now, Sunak leads Britain at a time when

millions fear they won’t be able to afford
their food and heating this winter.
KEVIN HOLLINRAKE, BRITISH CONSERVATIVE MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT
I think Rishi does have the characteristics25 CNN
that will … could restore faith in our party.

Yes. I mean, I think he’s demonstrated
that. You co[uld] … judge people on their
Vocabulary
actions—it’s not their words.
23. clip [kl6p] n.
BIANCA NOBILO, CNN CORRESPONDENT 24. viral [`va6r4l] adj.
The moment calls for a shrewd26 political The embarrassing viral video of the drunk celebrity spread
through social media.
operator, a powerful communicator [and]
a unifier.27 Sunak will be tested and judged 25. characteristic [~k5r6kt4`r6st6k] n.
immediately. 26. shrewd []rud] adj.
Del made a shrewd move in selling the goods he bought
for more than he paid.
27. unifier [`jun4~fa60] n.

walk back walk (all) over
• The singer walked • Olive’s classmates

back the comments walked all over her.
that he made.
1. What is mentioned as causing the economic

walk [w7k] nightmare in Britain?
v. (A) High unemployment
(B) A trade war
walk out walk through (C) The closure of some factories
(D) Soaring inflation
• Workers at the • Sue walked Roland 2. Which statement is true about Sunak?
factory have walked through the basics
out because of the of video editing. (A) He is the second person of color to become U.K.
poor conditions. prime minister.
(B) He attended Cambridge University.
(C) He is of Indian descent.
(D) He previously worked as a lawyer.
Ans: 1. D 2. C
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BRIAN TODD, CNN CORRESPONDENT
With a stunt2 where he carries an actual

sink into the building …
ELON MUSK, CEO, TWITTER
You just can’t help it, but that’s OK.
… and a tweet saying “the bird is freed,” the

world’s richest man takes control of one
of the world’s most powerful social media CNN
companies.
Elon Musk—the flamboyant, 3 51-year-old

CEO of Tesla and SpaceX—spent about
$44 billion to purchase Twitter, and for his CNN
money, he’ll get to make what analysts say

could be enormous 4 changes to his new
SpaceX
company and to the social media ecosystem.
SARA FISCHER, MEDIA REPORTER, AXIOS
The Elon Musk–Twitter takeover has caused

so much upheaval 5 in the overall social
media sphere.6 Axios
Musk has said that he might change Twitter’s

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so-called content moderation 7 policies,
meaning he’d loosen them to allow more
free speech. He’s complained before about
Twitter censoring 8 so much content, and
Musk’s critics worry about what may lie
ahead.
JESSICA GONZÁLEZ, CO-CEO, FREE PRESS
I don’t think we actually want an anything-

goes Twitter because we’ve seen that white
sink
supremacists9 and conspiracy theorists10 are
sink sink
willing to use the platform to spread lies in let that sink in
and disinformation, to suppress people of
meme
color from voting and to spread hate and 10 27
harassment11 campaigns.
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Vocabulary
But Musk may be dialing some of that back.
1. takeover [`tek~ov0] n.
He recently said he doesn’t want Twitter
2. stunt [st9nt] n.
to become what he called a, quote, “free-
3. flamboyant [fl1m`b764nt] adj.
for-all12 hellscape,”13 where anything can be The dancer wore a flamboyant dress with feathers on
it.
said with no consequences, and he’s just
announced the formation of a new content
4. enormous [6`n7rm4s] adj.
moderation council. Gina baked an enormous cake for Carmen’s birthday.
Another major potential change that

5. upheaval [~9p`hiv4l] n.
millions are watching for—who will and
6. sphere [sf6r] n.
won’t be allowed on Elon Musk’s Twitter.
7. moderation [~m3d4`re]4n] n.
Specifically, will the former president come
8. censor [`s5ns0] v.
back? The movie was censored in some countries because of
scenes of violence.
Elon Musk has said that when he buys the 9. white supremacist [hwa6t] [s4`pr5m4s6st] n.
platform, he would bring Donald Trump’s
10. conspiracy theorist [k4n`sp6r4si] [`qi4r6st] n.
account back.
BRIAN TODD, CNN CORRESPONDENT 11. harassment [h4`r1sm4nt] n.

In May, Musk told the Financial Times he 12. free-for-all [`frif0`7l] adj.
The Black Friday sale often becomes a free-for-all frenzy.
thought Twitter should not have banned14
Trump after the January 6 attack on the
13. hellscape [`h5l~skep] n.
Capitol.15 14. ban [b1n] v.
Luke was banned from driving by the police.
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15. Capitol [`k1p4ty] n.
Language Notes
1. anything-goes
anything goes
• There were no rules at the club, so anything goes.

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2. dial back
dial [da6l]
CNN dial back/down
• The politician tried to dial back his rhetoric.
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ELON MUSK, CEO, SPACEX AND TESLA SpaceX
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I think that was a mistake because it alienated a
large part of the country.
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Donald Trump responded to Musk’s takeover by

posting a message today on his own social media
platform, saying he’s happy that Twitter is, quote,
“now in sane 17 hands.” Twitter will now be led by
one of the quirkiest18 business titans America’s ever Axios
known.
Elon Musk, with over a hundred million followers,

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can be somebody that can drag anyone through
[into] a Twitter fight, and he’s proven that he’s not
afraid to do it.
Musk once tweeted a photo that’s since been

deleted comparing Canadian Prime Minister Justin
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Trudeau to Adolf Hitler. He’s made misleading 19
claims about the COVID pandemic on Twitter. Why
should the average consumer care that Elon Musk
will lead Twitter?
BRIAN FUNG, CNN CORRESPONDENT

CNN
Many of its users are government officials or
government accounts or politicians or business
leaders. You know, that could have really important
effects on how the rest of us perceive20 many of
these topics that have so many influential people
engaging21 on [in].
Donald Trump, like he has before, hinted 22 today

that he will not return to Twitter even if Musk lets
him and will stick to his own platform, Truth Social,
but if Trump does that, he’ll be willingly giving up
a massive social media audience. Trump had more
than 88 million followers on Twitter. On Truth Social,
he’s got about four million, Wolf.
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Vocabulary Language Notes
16. alienate [èli4~net] v. 3. drag sb. into sth.

Troy had a bad attitude and tended to alienate people. drag drag sb. into sth.
17. sane [sen] adj.

The nuclear project should be put in the hands of a sane • Fred always dragged his brother into trouble.
man.
4. stick to
18. quirky [`kw-ki] adj.
stick to
Luna is known for the quirky clothes that she wears.
Stick with it!
19. mislead [~m6s`lid] v. • Most of the food on the menu was unhealthy, so
The newspaper headline was misleading. Doug stuck to the salad.
20. perceive [p0`siv] v.

Many people perceive the mayor to be corrupt.
21. engage [6n`ged.] v.

The class engaged in a debate about politics.
22. hint [h6nt] v.

The musician hinted that he had a new album coming out.
1. What has Elon Musk previously complained about
Twitter?
(A) The character limit for tweets
Twitter 2022.11.3 (B) The Twitter video player
(C) The lack of ads on Twitter
(D) Twitter censoring content
Barack Obama 2. Which of Musk’s tweets was deleted?

@BarackObama 133.4
(A) One supporting the January 6 attack
Elon Musk (B) One insulting Jack Dorsey
@elonmusk 115.4 (C) One spreading COVID-19 conspiracy theories
(D) One comparing Justin Trudeau to Adolf Hitler
Justin Bieber
@justinbieber 113.8
Katy Perry censor ecosystem enormous

@katyperry 108.9 flamboyant harassment mislead
Rihanna
@rihanna 107.1
3. The celebrity was accused of ___________
Cristiano Ronaldo towards his ex wife.
@Cristiano 104.6
Taylor Swift 4. It took a long time to hike up the ___________

@taylorswift13 91.5
mountain.
Lady Gaga
@ladygaga 84.9 5. Some parts of the song were ___________ when
it was played on the radio.
Narendra Modi
@narendramodi 84.1
Ans: 1. D 2. D 3. harassment 4. enormous 5. censored
Ellen DeGeneres
@TheEllenShow 77.2
21
Cracking English
Roger
I had to push Roger out the door before he ate too many samples
and outgrew his tux. before
before
I want you to stop him before this gets out of control.
You offered her a job before talking to me?
You have to finish your work before you take the afternoon off.
before
before The
European Commission raised particular concerns about the expanding use of facial recognition
technology and said new restrictions might be needed before it was “everywhere.” NYT , 2-16-
2020
Vietnam is getting old before it gets
Manfred Peng rich. The Economist , 11-8-2028
Greece must recognize Macedonia’s new name, the Republic of North Macedonia, before
the nations’ decades-long dispute can end. NYT , 1-12-2019
long before before long long before Long

before Squid Game became the most watched TV show on Netflix, Korean TV shows and bands
had conquered markets in Asia and beyond. NYT , 11-3-2021
Netflix
before long Before long, entrepreneurs were leasing Manhattan
apartments for $4,000 a month and bringing in twice that amount by listing them on Airbnb
a few nights at a time. Bloomberg News, 4-22-2020
Airbnb
before prior to ahead of in the run up to by the time

by the time at the time at a time
before but not before You ran away,
but not before you told me you love me. after
following be followed by in the face of
in the wake of in the aftermath of
last past recent
last past recent

last year 1 1
22
in the last year = in the past year for digital innovation. Reuters, 5-9-2019
The 27 other EU nations [ ]
finally agreed late last year to a detailed withdrawal plan with while + with + Placating nativists at
May’s government. AP, 6-15-2019 27 home while ensuring the country remains open to foreign talent will
Over the last few be one of Mr. Wong’s greatest challenges in the years ahead. The
years, you’ve seen a fork in the road between the winners and Economist , 6-30-2022 [ ]
the losers. NYT , 2-3-2020 [
] you Language has been a contested issue
in the past years in Ukraine for decades, with allegiances and resentments tending
in past years to be stirred up for political advantage ahead of elections or during
past week revolutions. The Economist , 8-25-2022
summer decade century
the this these in the past decade this past
September over these past years The announcement every time at the (same) time meanwhile on the other
of the quota was delayed until Monday in an apparent move to hand simultaneously I once cringed and struggled at
avoid criticism during this past weekend’s Group of 20 summit in banquets, feeling simultaneously embarrassed and humiliated but
Osaka. AP, 7-2-2019 [ ] [ ] also obligated to please. NYT , 11-30, 2019 [
G20 ]
past events studies
elections colleagues generations
Women are far more
educated than they were in past generations. NYT , 6-16-2021 ”It’s easy with retrospect to say.”
in retrospect in
recent Japan hindsight back then trace back to
drastically cut back its catch in recent years after international anytime soon
protests escalated. AP, 7-2-2019 in the months and years ahead the deadline looms
recent controversy awaits
In recent months in Brazil, as a result in
similarly to the U.K. and the U.S., Black working-class people have the end eventually ultimately turn out only to
been disproportionately affected by COVID-19. Huffington in the end at the end
Post , 6-11-2020 of
time capsule
when ... at a time when ... ... in the

1990s, when ... ... late last year when ... ... about 15 years ago
when ... The passage of the law comes at a time when
Singapore has been making efforts to position itself as regional center
23
UNIT 3 SOCIETY
9-10 MON-TUE / Track 3 Track 13
Over 150 Die in Crowd Crush at

Korean Halloween Party
tried to climb over walls. It was so crowded,

in fact, that by the time emergency crews
got there, they struggled to reach people in
LAILA HARRAK, CNN ANCHOR need, and as CNN’s Will Ripley shows us, it
South Koreans are demanding answers was a massive6 crowd in a narrow7 space.
from authorities1 after at least 154 people
WILL RIPLEY, CNN CORRESPONDENT
died in a crowd surge. Many want to know
This is one of the alley[s] 8—the alley [is]
why there was very little crowd control
actually right next door, just down the
during the large Halloween celebrations.
block from where this happened. This was
The area was bringing … brimming2 with
3
supposed to be packed9 tonight, and you
partygoers, making it hard to move or
can see that it’s completely shut down.
breathe. Many people fell over and were
This space [is] maybe six and a half feet
trampled 4 by others around them. Some
across, guys. Can you imagine being stuck
were so desperate 5 to get out [that] they
in the middle here with literally thousands
of people in this small area packing and
pushing you?
24
Tragedy in Seoul Society
CNN
Vocabulary
1. authority [7`q7r4ti] n.
2. brim [br6m] v.
The museum was brimming with visitors on its opening
day.
3. partygoer [`p3rti~go0] n.
4. trample [`tr1mp4l] v.
Duncan got angry when his dog trampled the
flowerbed.
CNN
5. desperate [`d5sp4r4t] adj.
People were desperate to escape the sinking ship.
6. massive [`m1s6v] adj.

A massive sinkhole opened up in the town.
7. narrow [`n5ro] adj.

Seoul Halloween crowd crush The caver had to crawl to get through the narrow
passage.
8. alley [`1li] n.
2022 10 29
9. packed [p1kt] adj.
10 pack
50 The nightclub is packed as there is a popular DJ on.
4 5 DJ
300 6 7
158
crowd crush
crowd surge
crush crowd crush stampede
surge [st1m`pid]
crowd
domino effect
surge
asphyxia
confined
trample
injury
struggling to breathe
getting light-headed
losing consciousness
25
It’s hard to wrap your mind around
how terrifying 10 that must have been
for those people who were essentially11
crushed to death or for those who
slipped12 and fell and had people piling
up on top of them.
Some people [were] so desperate, you

know, [that] they were trying to climb
up these walls here, just jumping and
grabbing for anything they could to get
up above the crowd of people.
There’s [There are] a lot of questions

that need to be answer[ed] here in
South Korea. Why were so many people
allowed to pack into a narrow space like
this? Where was the crowd control? The
… tho[se] … some of the images that
we’ve been showing you—they were
from an hour [or] two hours before this
deadly incident. 13 Was there nobody
sounding the alarm saying, “Hey, too
many people. Let’s clear ’em out before
something horrible happens”? I mean, / NASA/JPL-Caltech
these are the really tough questions that
they’re having to ask here.
But tonight, as you see, it’s all about …

well, most people who were here last
night want nothing to do with this place
now. It’s empty, aside from a handful14
of reporters and the police blocking off
the area—and of course, those shoes
and the pieces of people’s Halloween
costumes just sitting in trash bags. [I]
guarantee15 you, a lot of the pieces of
costumes there come from people who
didn’t make it out alive.
26
Tragedy in Seoul Society
Vocabulary
Major deadly incidents in South Korea
10. terrifying [`t5r4~fa66;] adj.
The terrifying roller coaster was a popular attraction at
the theme park.
Sinking of the
11. essentially [6`s5n]4li] adv. Daegu
ferry MV Sewol
subway fire
12. slip [sl6p] v.
Karen injured her back when she slipped on the ice. 2014
2003 304
193
13. incident [`6ns4d4nt] n.
14. handful [`h1ndf4l] n.
a handful of
15. guarantee [~g5r4n`ti] v.
Sampoong Department Store
The salesperson guaranteed that the car was the best
on the market. collapse
1995 502
Language Notes
1. wrap one’s mind around
wrap/get one’s head around
• Bella couldn’t wrap her mind around the scientist’s

theories.
1. What are Koreans demanding to know?
(A) Why ambulances were arriving late
2. pile up (B) Why that location was selected for the party
pile (C) Why the party was allowed
up (D) Why there was very little crowd control
2. How did people try to get away?

• Mickey’s work is piling up as he has missed a few (A) Climbing walls
days of work.
(B) Breaking into restaurants nearby
(C) Jumping into the river
(D) Climbing a lamppost
3. sound the alarm
sound alarm
alley brim massive
partygoer slip trample
raise the alarm
• The guard sounded the alarm that there was an
intruder in the building. 3. Many people were __________ to get a photo
with the celebrity.
4. aside from 4. Rory got mugged when walking down a dark

aside aside from __________ .
except for apart from 5. Several people were __________ as the crowd
rushed to the stage.
• Aside from Jim, nobody in the group of friends was a
vegetarian. Ans: 1. D 2. A 3. desperate 4. alley 5. trampled
27
UNIT 4 BUSINESS
11-12 WED-THU / Track 4 Track 14
The Nuts and Bolts of the Mar-a-Lago Resort1

BRIAN TODD, CNN CORRESPONDENT LAURENCE LEAMER, AUTHOR, “MAR-A-LAGO: INSIDE THE GATES OF POWER
2 3 AT DONALD TRUMP’S PRESIDENTIAL PALACE”
From the ornate, multi-chandeliered
Donald J. Trump Ballroom to gold- Trump’s office is right above this golden,
trimmed4 sitting and dining rooms, [there grand8 ballroom.
is] new focus tonight on the layout5 inside SARAH BLASKEY, COAUTHOR, “THE GRIFTER’S CLUB”
Mar-a-Lago—Donald Trump’s 20-acre Those areas are private. They’re accessible9

expanse 6 on South Ocean Boulevard in only to the family and then, also, the staff
Palm Beach. that keep it clean and that kind of thing.
A new inventory7 says federal investigators BRIAN TODD, CNN CORRESPONDENT
took seven boxes of documents and other The sheer 10 opulence 11 of the 114-room
items from Donald Trump’s office at Mar-a- mansion12 is what stood out to people we
Lago. Where would they have to go to find spoke to who’ve been there and written
them? about it.
28
The House of Trump Business
Vocabulary
Mar-a-Lago 1. resort [r6`z7rt] n.

2. ornate [7r`net] adj.
The room was decorated with ornate glassware.
Marjorie Merriweather Post

Palm 3. chandeliered [~]1nd4`l6rd] adj.
Beach 1927 5,810 The chandeliered ballroom looked very beautiful.
1985 1,000
8 residence
convert
4. trim [tr6m] v.
Mar-a-Lago Club Marian wore a dress trimmed with purple.
5. layout [`le~a8t] n.
appreciate 1,600
6. expanse [6k`sp1ns] n.
7. inventory [`6nv4n~t7ri] n.
8. grand [gr1nd] adj.
A grand fountain was at the front of the hotel.
9. accessible [6k`s5s4b4l] adj.

The airport lounge is accessible only to members.
10. sheer []ir] adj.

The teacher got annoyed with his students for their
sheer cheek.
11. opulence [`3pj4l4ns] n.

12. mansion [`m1n]4n] n.
CNN Language Notes

J.
1. nuts and bolts
nut bolt
nuts and bolts
ins and outs
• The documentary explored the nuts and bolts of the

White House.
• Sam took the new coworker around the office to

show her the ins and outs.
2. stand out
stand out
from
CNN
• The painting stood out to visitors to the gallery
because of its size.
29
LAURENCE LEAMER, AUTHOR, “MAR-A-LAGO: INSIDE THE GATES OF POWER AT DONALD TRUMP’S
PRESIDENTIAL PALACE”
Well, it’s not like Trump Plaza or Trump buildings in New

York with his name splashed13 everywhere. It’s just gold. It’s
gold, gold, gold.
BRIAN TODD, CNN CORRESPONDENT CNN

14 15 16
Gold-plated and wooden crests abound. [There is]
a room with marbled,17 Middle East decor18 [and] busts19
bookending20 the fireplace and the unforgettable billiard
room21 with a portrait of a younger Donald Trump wearing V
a V-necked tennis sweater.
LAURENCE LEAMER, AUTHOR, “MAR-A-LAGO: INSIDE THE GATES OF POWER AT DONALD TRUMP’S
PRESIDENTIAL PALACE”
Mar-a-Lago is a monument 22 to Donald Trump. Why did

he … does he have to be there? Why would he want to
be there when he was president? Because he needs to
constantly be celebrated.
CNN
There’s an elegant outdoor dining terrace,23 but wherever

you dine at Mar-a-Lago …
MICHAEL D’ANTONIO, AUTHOR, “THE TRUTH ABOUT TRUMP”
They always serve his kind of food. There’s a lot of beef

on the menu. You don’t have to get a salad if you’re not
interested, and I think there’s always plenty of ketchup for
whatever he’s eating. CNN
Author Laurence Leamer has written a book on Mar-a-

Lago and says he’s been on the estate24 several times. What
struck Leamer is how close the family quarters25 are to an
often crowded area.
30
The House of Trump Business
LAURENCE LEAMER, AUTHOR, “MAR-A-LAGO: INSIDE THE GATES OF POWER

Vocabulary
AT DONALD TRUMP’S PRESIDENTIAL PALACE”
The family quarters is [are] just up the hall 13. splash [spl1]] v.
The logo of the company was splashed on the front of
from the place where everybody’s having the building.
dinner. It’s kind of extraordinary.
14. gold-plated [`gold`plet6d] adj.
BRIAN TODD, CNN CORRESPONDENT Daniel bought a gold-plated watch to wear.
All this luxury [is] accessible to people who
can afford steep26 membership fees … 15. crest [kr5st] n.
16. abound [4`ba8nd] v.
MICHAEL D’ANTONIO, AUTHOR, “THE TRUTH ABOUT TRUMP” Pink and purple abound in Carmen’s bedroom.
When he became president, Donald Trump
and his children doubled the entrance fee 17. marbled [`m3rb4ld] adj.
The marbled bathroom looked very classy.
in order to join Mar-a-Lago from 100,000 to
200,000. I think it’s worth noting that those 18. decor [de`k7r] n.
fees are the same today. 19. bust [b9st] n.
20. bookend [`b8k~5nd] v.
A pair of statues bookended the entrance to the
museum.
21. billiard room [`b6lj0d] [rum] n.

CNN 22. monument [`m3nj4m4nt] n.
23. terrace [`t5r4s] n.
24. estate [6`stet] n.
25. quarter [`kw7rt0] n.
26. steep [stip] adj.
The price of tickets to the basketball game was steep.
Words to describe mansions
sumptuous gorgeous
[`s9mp(t)]4w4s] lavish [`g7rd.4s] posh
[p3]]
[`l1v6]]
extravagant palatial
[6k`str1v6g4nt] stately [p4`le]4l]
luxurious
[`stetli] [l9g`.8ri4s]
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Vocabulary
… including a $14,000 annual fee to stay a
27. encounter [6n`ka8nt0] n.
member. Weddings, birthday parties, bar
28. applause [4`pl7z] n.
mitzvahs and bat mitzvahs are often booked
29. addicted [4`d6kt6d] adj.
at Mar-a-Lago. Joseph is addicted to buying new sneakers.
DONALD TRUMP, 45TH PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
Come on inside.
Language Notes
3. hot ticket
The annual New Year’s Eve party [is] said
to be a hot ticket, and there’s always the
chance of a surprise encounter.27 • The Christmas party is always a hot ticket.
MICHAEL D’ANTONIO, AUTHOR, “THE TRUTH ABOUT TRUMP”
Anyone who’s booked a room there might

get to meet the former president because
he loves to pop in. He loves to hear the
applause. 28 It’s something he’s obviously
addicted29 to.
1. Where in Mar-a-Lago is Trump’s office?
(A) Near his bedroom
CNN (B) In a private building
(C) Next to the dining room
(D) Above the ballroom
2. What happened when Donald Trump became

president?
(A) He lowered the entrance fee.
(B) He doubled the entrance fee.
CNN
(C) He gave Mar-a-Lago to his son.
(D) He sold Mar-a-Lago.
addicted bookend bust

estate marbled splash
3. Jeff keeps a(n __________ of a former president

in his office.
4. Rick is __________ to the new cell game that he

downloaded.
bar mitzvah and bat mitzvah
mitzvah [`m6tsv4] bar mitzvah 5. The team’s sponsor was __________ on the front
coming-of-age ritual of its shirts.
bat mitzvah 13 12
Shabbat Ans: 1. D 2. B 3. bust 4. addicted 5. splashed
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/
Whitney Houston is one of the most

spectacular music stars in history, and her
amazing life and career is brought to the big
screen in I Wanna Dance with Somebody. The
movie chronicles1 the life of the singer dubbed
“The Voice” from her humble beginnings as a
New Jersey choir girl to her becoming one of
the best-selling artists of all time.
The rise to fame is a tricky one, and I Wanna

Dance with Somebody offers a no-holds-barred2
snapshot of a calling3 built on the back of hard
work and overcoming adversity.4 Audiences are
taken on an emotional journey through Whitney
Houston’s trailblazing 5 career. And of course, Vocabulary
a movie about one of pop’s biggest icons isn’t 1. chronicle [`kr3n6k4l] v.
complete without a soundtrack full of the 2. no-holds-barred [~no~holdz`b3rd] adj.
superstar’s biggest smash6 hits!
3. calling [`k7l6;] n.
Naomi Ackie, a rising star in the showbiz
4. adversity [1d`v-s4ti] n.
world, stars as Whitney Houston. She is joined
by veteran 7 actor Stanley Tucci as her record 5. trailblazing [`trel~blez6;] adj.
producer, Clive Davis. 6. smash [sm1]] adj.
7. veteran [`v5t4r4n] adj.
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UNIT 5 SOCIETY
13-16 FRI-MON / Track 5 Track 15
Ukraine Rebuilds Cities and

People in Liberated Regions
CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR, CNN CORRESPONDENT
On the outskirts 2 of Kyiv, the bridge into

Irpin in the Bucha district was a lifesaver3 CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR, CNN CORRESPONDENT
for those who managed to flee the early Mykhailyna, the deputy5 mayor of the Bucha
Russian advance. In the seven months since region, is taking us to meet residents who
these scenes, the horrors of what those are rebuilding. But throughout this heavily
4
troops left behind have been fully exposed, destroyed residential area, it’s a race against
and residents have been quietly rebuilding. winter as temperatures start to plunge6 and
MYKHAILYNA SKORYK, DEPUTY MAYOR, BUCHA CITY blackouts 7 continue. Money is tight, but
And … spirits are high.
/ UNICEF Ukraine
34
Aftermath of Occupation Society
Bucha
2022
4 1
Bucha massacre
Kyiv
458
summary
execution rape 9
war crime
At the very least, they need to replace Vocabulary

glass in the windows and patch up 1. aftermath [`1ft0~m1q] n.
8
holes the size of tank and artillery 2. outskirt [à8t~sk0t] n.
rounds. Tatiana shows us pictures of her 3. lifesaver [`la6f~sev0] n.
apartment’s small bedroom—destroyed 4. expose [6k`spoz] v.
in March [and] rebuilt now. Her story When the flood water receded, the damage left behind
was exposed.
is hair-raising 9 and miraculous 10 —
hunkering11 down in the basement for 10 5. deputy [`d5pj4ti] n.
days under Russian occupation. This is 6. plunge [pl9nd.] v.
The company’s stock plunged when the CEO was charged
the picture of the Russian tanks arriving with fraud.
just 15 minutes after she fled.
7. blackout [`bl1k~a8t] n.
8. artillery [3r`t6l4ri] n.
CNN
9. hair-raising [`h5r~rez6;] adj.
Riding the roller coaster was a hair-raising experience.
10. miraculous [m4`r1kj4l4s] adj.

Toby made a miraculous recovery from his injury.
11. hunker [`h9;k0] v.

Monty hunkered down in the shelter to wait out the
CNN storm.
Language Notes
1. patch up
patch
up
• The farmer spent the day patching up some holes in his

fence.
35
“When we left, they were shooting at us
from behind,” she tells me. “Now I realize
what kind of a second birthday I got—what
kind of a gift—because those people who
left right after us were shot.”
As this city tries to put the pieces back

together again, there’s another more
sensitive,12 perhaps even more difficult, kind
of rebuilding underway.13
The UN Children’s Fund—UNICEF—has

UNICEF
placed pop-up14 tents full of warmth, light
and care. All these children have been
traumatized,15 and some have been forced
to witness 16 unspeakable horrors. This is
Bucha district after all—ground zero for
Russia’s war crimes. Eugene Lopatin is the
regional manager for this program.
EUGENE LOPATIN, UNICEF REGIONAL MANAGER
They started to tell some really cruel things.

I cannot even describe how cruel they
were. Some pe[ople] … some children saw
invaders 17 raping their mother or beaten
[beating] their father.

CNN
Kisenya volunteers as a psychologist18 here,
seeing parents whose children have had
to hide with them in silence or spend long
periods with no bathroom breaks.
“And the body remembers this, and even

after reaching safety, the child cannot go
to the toilet,” she says. “It’s the same with
speech. The parents have told them to keep
quiet so the child closes his mouth and
does not know when they can talk again.”
36
Aftermath of Occupation Society
And so, they turn to these kinds of games, Vocabulary

19
and Katerina, the volunteer art therapist, 12. sensitive [`s5ns4t6v] adj.
says she sees them gradually come out of Dealing with sad people can be a sensitive situation.
their shells and start to smile and connect

13. underway [~9nd0`we] adv.
again. “They seem to forget about their
14. pop-up [`p3p~9p] adj.
inner stress when they’re making something There is a pop-up, Pokémon-themed café in the
like this,” says Katerina. department store.
15. traumatize [`tr7m4~ta6z] v.

Getting bit by a dog traumatized Willy.
16. witness [`w6tn4s] v.

Jane phoned the police as she witnessed a robbery.
17. invader [6n`ved0] n.

invasion [6n`ve.4n]
18. psychologist [sa6`k3l4d.6st] n.
UNICEF
19. art therapist [3rt] [`q5r4p6st] n.
United Nations International Children ’ s
Emergency Fund United Nations Children ’ s
Fund
Language Notes
190
2. ground zero
ground zero
• The Syrian civil war is ground zero for the refugee

crisis affecting Europe.
3. turn to
turn to
• Whenever Kristen is sad, she turns to her father for

• 450 support.
primary
health care
• After diagnosed diabetes, Billy turned to healthier
• 350 foods for his diet.
• 100 sanitation
hygiene
4. come out of one’s shell
• shell come out of
psychosocial support 220 one’s shell
•
mitigation 19 shells
• 85 • Wilma was shy, but she came out of shell eventually.
37
It really … Vocabulary
Back in the construction zone, Mykhailyna 20. harrowing [`h5r4w6;] adj.
Jess had a harrowing experience when a car nearly ran
has her own harrowing20 story of loss and her over.
recovery. She says her first husband was
killed in Donbas during the first Russian 21. beloved [b6`l9vd] n.
invasion in 2014. 22. motivation [~mot4`ve]4n] n.
motivate [`mot4~vet]
MYKHAILYNA SKORYK, DEPUTY MAYOR, BUCHA CITY
Like, when you lost your beloved,21 you have

to find the [a] new motivation22 [for] how
to live, how to go in on [and] how to feel
alive again. So, when I thought what would
motivate me to live, I decided that, look, I’d
like to have a boy—a boy called Pylyp as my
first husband wanted—and I’ve met another
man and realize[d] that plan, you know?
That’s fantastic.
Christiane Amanpour, CNN, Irpin, Ukraine.

1. How did Tatiana survive Russian occupation?
(A) She did what the Russians said.
(B) She hid in the forest.
(C) She fled the city.
(D) She stayed in the basement.
2. What is mentioned as the most difficult type of

rebuilding?
(A) Repairing the building
(B) Fixing the bridge
(C) Caring for traumatized children
(D) Getting people back in the town
art therapist hair-raising invader

miraculous plunge witness
3. The army was mobilized to fight the __________ .
4. Walking through the graveyard at night can be

CNN ____________ .
5. Millions of Americans ____________ the Moon

landings live on television.
Ans: 1. D 2. C 3. invaders 4. hair-raising 5. witnessed
38
17 TUE / Track 21 Track 22
Should the US Abandon Its Push for North Korean Denuclearization?1
2022 9
preemptive
1. be up for sth.
2. relic of the past
3. make an issue of
4. call for
5. in return for
6. on the table
43
PAULA HANCOCKS, CNN CORRESPONDENT CNN
Kim Jong Un shared his five-year military
be up for plan with the world last year—a missile and
nuclear wish list. Last month, he passed
be up for
a law making his country’s nuclear status
discussion
irreversible,2 and it is not up for discussion,
be which raises the question: Is the U.S. push
up for sales
be up for grabs for denuclearization a relic of the past?
ANKIT PANDA, STANTON SENIOR FELLOW, CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR

INTERNATIONAL PEACE
relic [`r5l6k] We simply have to treat North Korea as it is
relic of the past rather than as we would like it to be. I think
nobody disagrees that denuclearization
would be a very desirable3 outcome on the
Korean Peninsula.4 It’s simply not a tractable5
body
one.
governing body
legislative body PAULA HANCOCKS, CNN CORRESPONDENT
CNN
There’s a growing body of academics
suggesting tacitly6 accepting North Korea as
a nuclear state as in the case of Israel, which
nuclear-weapon claims nuclear ambiguity7 while believed to
states have had nuclear weapons since the 1960s,
or India—before it carried out its 1998
nuclear test.
1967 JEFFREY LEWIS, PROFESSOR, MIDDLEBURY INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL
STUDIES
In both of those cases, [the] United States

knew those countries had the bomb, but
issue the deal was, if you don’t talk about it, if you
make an
don’t make an issue of it, if you don’t cause
issue of
political problems, then we just … we’re not
gonna respond. I think that’s the same place
we wanna get to with North Korea.
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8
Pyongyang has claimed that it’s deploying
tactical nuclear tactical9 nuclear weapons to its field units—a
weapon, TNW
strategic nuclear claim that CNN cannot independently confirm.
weapon, SNW But at this point, there’s no indication10 that
the Biden administration is listening to the
growing conservative voices here in Seoul
calling for U.S. tactical nuclear weapons to be
redeployed to the peninsula …
PHILIP GOLDBERG, UNITED STATES AMBASSADOR TO SOUTH KOREA

call for All this talk about tactical nuclear weapons,
whether it comes from Putin or from Kim
Jong Un, is irresponsible11 and dangerous.

arm
… which leaves talk of a possible arms freeze
freeze in return for sanctions12 relief.
arms freeze
JEFFREY LEWIS, PROFESSOR, MIDDLEBURY INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL
STUDIES
Often when you’re dealing with a difficult

in return problem, a freeze is a really solid 13 way to
for start things out ‘cause it takes a little bit of
the pressure off, and it opens up space for
other kinds of negotiations.
pressure CNN
take the pressure off PAULA HANCOCKS, CNN CORRESPONDENT
Especially if a certain topic is on the table.
ANKIT PANDA, STANTON SENIOR FELLOW, CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR

INTERNATIONAL PEACE
on the table
There is a set of cooperative14 options which
would require the North Koreans being
willing to sit down at the table and talk
under the table about some of these things with us. I don’t
think, in the current environment, that we
are really close to sitting down with the
North Koreans.
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1. denuclearization [di~nukli4r4`ze]4n] n. 8. deploy [d6`pl76] v.
9. tactical [`t1kt6k4l] adj.
2. irreversible [~6r6`v-s4b4l] adj.
10. indication [~6nd4`ke]4n] n.
3. desirable [d6`za6r4b4l] adj.
11. irresponsible [~6r6`sp3ns4b4l] adj.
4. peninsula [p4`n6ns4l4] n.
5. tractable [`tr1kt4b4l] adj. 12. sanction [`s1;k]4n] n.
6. tacitly [`t1s4tli] adv. 13. solid [`s3l4d] adj.
7. ambiguity [~1mb4`gju4ti] n. 14. cooperative [ko`3p4r4t6v] adj.
1. be up for sth.
• Ben is always up for a game of golf with his buddies.
2. relic of the past

• The old factory is a relic of the town’s industrial
past. 1. What law did Kim Jong Un recently pass?
(A) To insist on reunification with the South
(B) To declare the U.S. as an enemy
3. make an issue of
(C) To remove all nuclear weapons
• Sandy is overly sensitive and makes an issue of the (D) To make North Korea’s nuclear status
slightest thing. irreversible
2. Which country carried out a nuclear test in

4. call for 1998?
• Activists are calling for more renewable energy. (A) India (B) Israel
(C) The U.S. (D) North Korea
3. What has North Korea lately claimed?

5. in return for
(A) It has the biggest nuclear warhead in the
• Harry gave Sarah some candy in return for her world.
helping him with his homework. (B) It is deploying tactical nuclear weapons to its
field units.
(C) It has more nuclear missiles than the U.S.
6. on the table (D) It won’t hesitate to launch nuclear missiles at
• Everything is on the table in the meeting. South Korea.
Ans: 1. D 2. A 3. B
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Phrase Me Up
lame [lem] lame duck
lame-
duck 11
1 lame-duck
session
In the News
Nicola Sturgeon urges Tories to oust ‘lame duck’ PM An LDP lawmaker told Kyodo News that if the
Liz Truss —BBC News party’s members begin to believe that they cannot
win local assembly elections in April under a lame-
BBC duck Kishida, they would try to remove him as
prime minister. —The Japan Times
White House to seek more covid funding in lame-
duck session —The Washington Post
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Mind Map
election
[6`l5k]4n]
n.
local elections
[`lok4l] [6`l5k]4nz]
participants phr. township mayor
[p3r`t6s4p4nts] [`ta8n~]6p] [`mej0]
n. mayor phr.
[`mej0] n.
candidate village chief
incumbent
[`k1nd4~det] county magistrate [`v6l6d.] [t]if]
[6n`k9mb4nt]
[`ka8nti] [`m1d.4~stret] phr.
n. n., adj.
phr.
campaign candidate roster borough chief
manager councillor [`b-o] [t]if]
[`k1nd4~det] [`r3st0]
[`ka8ns4l0] n. phr.
[k1m`pen] phr.
[`m1n4d.0]
platform
phr. facilities
[`pl1t~f7rm]
poll worker n. [f4`s6l4tiz] n.
[pol] [`w-k0]
polling place/station voting booth
phr.
suffrage [`pol6;] [ples]/[`ste]4n] [`vot6;] [buq]
eligible voter [`s9fr6d.] n. n.
[`5l4d.4b4l] [`vot0] n. ballot box pollbook
phr. [`b1l4t] [b3ks] [`pol~b8k]
expatriate voter
n. n.
[5k`spetri~et] [`vot0]
phr. seal [sil] n.
Useful Expressions
Eligible voters waited outside the polling One of the ballot boxes had been
station on election day. tampered with.
Expatriate voters were able to vote by News stations gave a platform for all of
post. the political parties.
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campaign
[k1m`pen] smear
n., v. [sm6r] n.
fundraising endorsement verbal warfare

[`f9nd~rez6;] [6n`d7rsm4nt] [`v-b4l] [`w7r~f5r]
n. n. phr.
motorcade canvass fraud
[`mot0~ked] [`k1nv4s] [fr7d] n., v.
n. v.
contribution election slogan
[~k3ntr4`bju]4n] [6`l5k]4n] [`slog4n]
n. phr.
voting election results

[`vot6;] [6`l5k]4n] [r6`z9lts]
n. phr.
cast a ballot exit poll front-runner

[k1st] [4] [`b1l4t] [`5gz4t] [pol] [`fr9nt~r9n0]
phr. n. n.
vote counting voter turnout elect
[vot] [`ka8nt6;] [`vot0] [`t-n~a8t] [6`l5kt] n.
phr. phr.
concede
teller recount [k4n`sid]
[`t5l0] n. [`ri~ka8nt] v.
n.
spoilt vote
[sp76lt] [vot] n.
There was a larger-than-expected voter Exit polls show that the Conservative
turnout in the last election. Party will win the election.
A catchy election slogan can sometimes The president conceded the latest election
make all the difference. as he was so far behind.
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SPEAK UP
CNN
bipartisan
[ba6`p3rt4z4n]
Republican Party Democratic Party

[r6`p9bl6k4n] [`p3rti] [~d5m4`kr1t6k] [`p3rti]
Grand Old Party (GOP)

[gr1nd] [old] [`p3rti]
House of Representatives representative

[ha8s] [4v] [~r5pr6`z5nt4t6vz] [~r5pr6`z5nt4t6v]
Senate senator
[`s5n4t] [`s5n4t0]
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midterm election national convention
[`m6d~t0m] [6`l5k]4n]
[`n1]4ny] [k4n`v5n]4n]
primary election general election

[`pra6~m5ri] [6`l5k]4n] [`d.5n4r4l] [6`l5k]4n]
caucus delegate
[`k7k4s] popular vote
[`d5l6g4t]
[`p3pj4l0] [vot]
elector
[6`l5kt0] electoral college
[6`l5kt4r4l] [`k3l6d.]
bellwether state
[`b5l`w5\0] [stet] battleground state
[`b1ty~gra8nd] [stet]
swing state
red/blue state
[r5d]/[blu] [stet]
flipped state
[fl6pt] [stet]
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UNIT 6 POLITICS
18-19 WED-THU / Track 6 Track 16
2022
Midterm
Election
CNN Anchor Gives His Thoughts on the Midterm Election

Electio
JOHN KING, CNN ANCHOR History tells us any president’s first midterm
My first midterm election was 1984. So, I is usually a bad year. It looked like it started
2
go back nearly 40 years covering midterm out that way for Joe Biden, but 10 million
elections, and this one, in my memory, has new jobs have been created in the Biden
3
been the most complicated. We live in an administration.7 Employment8 is [now] back
age of volatility, 4 so I’d be very cautious 5 above now pre-pandemic levels, so there is
6
about saying it has settled at the end. But it a good economic story to tell. Then, boom!
does seem … the data tell[s] us it has settled Biden gets hit with a two-by-four with
at the end into what looks like a more inflation. So, you have good news, and you
traditional midterm. have bad news.
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Political Insight Politics
11
U.S. Congress & midterm elections
verdict
Senator 6
upper house 30 9
Senate
2 100
U.S. Congress
Representative 2
25 7
House of
lower house 453
Representatives
bill resolution
amendment
2022 midterm election results

red wave
2022
50 218
50 218
48 49
49 211
213 218
221
50 1 2 1 6 18
CNN Vocabulary
1. insight [`6n~sa6t] n.
2. cover [`k9v0] v.
The reporter covers Asian news for the channel.
3. complicated [`k3mpl4~ket6d] adj.

Dr. Malcolm was puzzling over the complicated
equation.
4. volatility [~v3l4`t6l4ti] n.
5. cautious [`k7]4s] adj.
The CEO took a cautious approach to running the
company.
hit with a two-by-four 6. settle [`s5ty] v.

The civil unrest settled after the president agreed to
two-by-four 2 4 some demands.
2 4 hit with
a two-by-four two-
by-four a
7. administration [4d~m6n4`stre]4n] n.
two-by-four garden 8. employment [6m`pl76m4nt] n.
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And then, we have the Supreme
Court9 decision—the Dobbs
decision—wiping Roe v. Wade off the
books. How do you defy10 history in
the midterm election year? With new
history.
And even Republicans would tell

you, “Whoa! Whoa, this could change
the midterm trajectory.” 11 We saw
voter registration,12 especially among
women, especially in the suburbs,13 go
way up.
As we moved into October, though,

the Fed keeps raising interest rates;14
inflation keeps going up and certainly
not going down—that hur t the
Democrats. And then, just follow
the rise and the drop in gas prices—
with the president’s approval [or]
disapproval. We have seen that things
[that] may be beyond the president’s
control have shaped the president’s
fate.15
In many midterm election years, the

president and the party in power
don’t [didn’t] have much to work
with. Democrats did have things
to work with here. Abortion16 helps
Democrats in the suburbs; inflation
hurts. The return of Trump helps
Democrats in the suburbs; the crime
issue hurts. Inflation, grocery bills, 17
gas bills: damaging—in some places,
devastating 18—to the Democratic
Party.
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Political Insight Politics
Vocabulary Language Notes
9. supreme court [s4`prim] [k7rt] n. 1. wipe ... off the books

10. defy [d6`fa6] v.
The tennis player defied the odds to win the off the books
tournament.
• Harry wiped the past legislation off the books.
11. trajectory [tr4`d.5kt4ri] n.
• The workers were getting paid off the books.
12. registration [~r5d.4`stre]4n] n.
13. suburb [`s9b0b] n.
14. interest rate [`6ntr4st] [ret] n. 2. in power
15. fate [fet] n. the party in power
16. abortion [4`b7r]4n] n. • The dictator has been in power for several decades.
17. bill [b6l] n.
18. devastating [`d5v4~stet6;] adj.
Dobbs decision & Roe v. Wade
The typhoon had a devastating effect on the town. 2022 6
Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization
1973
/ / Roe v. Wade
dis-
f dif-
disapproval Joe Biden’s approval ratings

[~d6s4`pruv4l]
n. CNN
= dis- + approval
60%
55%
Disapprove
50%
45%
disgrace [d6`skres] n., v. Approve
40%
dis- + grace
35% 2022
9/23 12/15 2/16 5/17 8/3 11/7

disobey [~d6s4`be] v.
/ CNN Poll
dis- + obey
Pew Research Center

difficulty [`d6f6k4lti] n.
Gallup
dif- + ficul + -ty
Reuters/Ipsos /
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So, you had this tug-of-war19 throughout the Categories in Reuters/Ipsos’s survey on the
summer and into the early fall that made it president’s approval rating
really complicated. In the end, it looks like
Crime or The end of

people’s day-to-day lives—the price of eggs,
national
the price of milk [and] the price of gas—is
corruption
abortion
helping Republicans.
Traditionally, midterm elections are a rights

referendum 20 on the president and the
Economy,
unemployment
party in power. In the end, it seems to have
gone back that way, but again, in the age Health
of volatility, let’s count votes [and] see what and jobs care
happens. system
Environment and
climate Immigration
Public health Morality
Terrorism and War and

extremism foreign
conflicts
Vocabulary
Inequality and
19. tug-of-war [~t9g4v`w7r] n. discrimination Education
Energy issues
20. referendum [~r5f4`r5nd4m] n.
1. What is notable about 1984? cautious cover defy

devastating referendum suburb
(A) It was the first U.S. midterm election.
(B) It was the first midterm election John King covered.
(C) President Bush was elected. 3. The sanctions have been __________ to the
(D) The Republicans won the Senate for the first time. country’s economy.
2. What is true about Joe Biden’s administration?
4. The news channel often __________ affairs in
(A) It has oversaw a record decrease in jobs. the Middle East.
(B) It was criticized for not helping Ukraine.
(C) It has lowered gas prices. 5. A __________ was held in Britain to leave the EU.
(D) It has created 10 million new jobs.
Ans: 1. B 2. D 3. devastating 4. covers 5. referendum
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UNIT 7 SPORTS
20-23 FRI-MON / Track 7 Track 17
Sitting Down with Basketball Legend Shaquille O’Neal

Shaquille O’Neal
4 NBA 2000 2001 2002 2006
Shaquille Rashaun O’Neal 3 NBA 2000 2001 2002
1972 3 6 Newark, New Jersey 1 NBA 2000
Shaq Superman The Diesel 15 NBA
1992 NBA 2011 8 NBA
19 6 23.7
1 1996
10.9 Kazaam
Steel Uncle Drew 2016 Naismith Memorial
NBA NBA Inside Basketball Hall of Fame
the NBA Shaqtin ’ a Fool 2017 FIBA FIBA Hall of Fame
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BECKY ANDERSON, CNN ANCHOR CNN
1
You were drafted by the Orlando Magic
in 1992. I was living in Arizona at the
time. I was supporting the Phoenix
Suns—Charles Barkley, “Long-Range”
Ainge, KJ—a great team. It was a team Danny Ainge KJ
Kevin Johnson
pack[ed] with talent, and you put on a
show from the outset. You have had an
amazing career—MVP, championships.
Take me back. What was the highlight2
of your career?
SHAQUILLE O’NEAL, FORMER BASKETBALL PLAYER
Just being able to follow all my dreams.

I cultivated3 the character named Shaq
in high school when people doubted 4
me, and my opening statement5 would
always be, “When I …”, “When I …” And
then, my mother used to add a little
sauce on it: “Baby, make ’em remember
your name.” Then, I used to say to myself,
“I want a famous name [like] Michael
Jordan, Charles Barkley.”
My mother said, “You do have a famous

name,” but I didn’t think it was famous
until championship game at high school.
“Shaquille O’Neal! Shaquille O’Neal!
Shaquille ...” And everybody was like, “My
[Your] name is famous.” So now, I got
that out of the way.
BECKY ANDERSON, CNN ANCHOR

CNN
It sounds like you were after that fame,

but Shaq, how have you retained6 the
humility7 that everybody describes you
as having? You’re a good guy, and you’re
a funny guy, and you’re a joker. How do
you retain that?
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A Chat with Shaq Sports

Vocabulary
There’s a difference between fame and
1. draft [dr1ft] v.
wanting to be well-known for something. Many teams wanted to draft the collegiate basketball
My father said, “I’mma make you one of star.
the greatest basketball players ever.” I

2. highlight [`ha6~la6t] n.
couldn’t let him down, and with that, you
3. cultivate [`k9lt4~vet] v.
become famous. But I’ve always had certain Hugo cultivated the story while in college, but he
8 wrote it years later.
principles —you know, it’s important to be
nice, but it’s nice to be important. I mean,
4. doubt [da8t] v.
you know … The teacher doubted that her students were telling the
truth.
5. opening statement [òp4n6;] [`stetm4nt] n.
6. retain [r6`ten] v.
Frank has retained his sense of humor, despite living a
hard life.
7. humility [hju`m6l4ti] n.
8. principle [`pr6ns4p4l] n.
Language Notes
1. from the outset

outset [à8t~s5t] from/at the
outset from the
get-go
let sb. down let sb. into sth.
• Oliver knew he was going to fail the test from the
outset as even the first question was hard.
• Richie let his date • Susanne let her little
down by being late to sister into her secret
dinner. plan.
• Henry’s mother-in-law disliked him from the get-go.
2. get sth. out of the way

let [l5t]
v.
let sb. off let up on sb. • Fred got the cleaning out of the way before he
settled down to go on his PS5.
• Danny let her • The teacher finally PS5
daughter off despite let up on TJ and let
her breaking curfew. him finish detention
early. get sth. out of one’s system
TJ
• Mark got his anger out of his system by going to the
gym.
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BECKY ANDERSON, CNN ANCHOR BECKY ANDERSON, CNN ANCHOR
I get it. I’ll leave that to the viewers to figure out.
SHAQUILLE O’NEAL, FORMER BASKETBALL PLAYER SHAQUILLE O’NEAL, FORMER BASKETBALL PLAYER
Yes … you know what I meant. So, I[’ve] just Yes, but I don’t wanna say the team [as it]
always been nice, and my mother keeps me is disrespectful, but I would like to go back
9
in check. Onetime, I was real[ly] arrogant. home.
Onetime, my mother said, “Who are you?”
And it made a lot of sense. Just ’cause I have
a lot of followers and all that doesn’t make CNN
10
me the go-to guy in certain situations—
you don’t know everything. So, I just stay
in my place—stay humble 11—’cause my
mother watches TV.
Who’s the in-form talent right now on the

court, and who is that player—that truly
great player—of this era? CNN
You know, in the sport that we play, there’s

a sense that you can do it all by yourself,
but you can’t. You can’t. Giannis plays the
right way. Steph Curry and the Golden State
Warriors play the right way. You know, and
… at some parts of the game, you have
to say, “It’s me, me, me, me, me,” but when Robert Horry D.
reality kicks in, you got to kick it out to Rick
Fox, and “Big Shot” Bob, and Kobe, and D.
CNN
Wade and all these players. NBA
NBA ownership.12 I gotta ask you—where are

you looking?
SHAQUILLE O’NEAL, FORMER BASKETBALL PLAYER CNN
I don’t know if I’m allowed to say. It’d

probably be disrespectful 13 to say, but I
would like to go back home. [I] want you to
figure that out.
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A Chat with Shaq Sports
Vocabulary go back home

9. arrogant [`5r4g4nt] adj. NBA
The arrogant soccer player often mocked his opponents 97
when he scored. Grant Hill
Dwyane Wade
10. go-to [`go~tu] adj.

Roger is the go-to guy when it comes to historical
knowledge. 2022
11. humble [`h9mb4l] adj.

The musician remained humble despite her wealth.
12. ownership [òn0~]6p] n.

13. disrespectful [~d6sr6`sp5ktf4l] adj.
Fergus was disciplined for being disrespectful to his

teacher.
Language Notes
3. keep ... in check

1. When did Shaq realize he had a famous name?
in check keep sth./sb.
in check keep (A) When he made his NBA debut
hold (B) After he retired
(C) During a championship game in high school
• Luke tried to keep his laughter in check when he got (D) When he won an MVP award
told off.
2. Which player is mentioned by Shaq as playing the
• Otto keeps his brother in check when they go out right way?
together. (A) LeBron James
(B) Steph Curry
(C) James Harden
4. in-form (D) Luka Dončić
form in a
good form in-form
cultivate disrespectful doubt
go-to humility ownership
• Steve is one of the in-form players on the school
baseball team.
3. The family has had __________ of the ranch for
• The volleyball team has been in a good form lately, 80 years.
and it may win the cup.
4. Molly is the school’s __________ expert on
fashion.
5. kick in
kick kick in 5. Benjamin __________ he would finish his work
on time.
• The shock of losing his parents kicked in for Trevor. Ans: 1. C 2. B 3. ownership 4. go-to 5. doubted
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UNIT 8 SCIENCE
24-25 TUE-WED / Track 8 Track 18
NASA Reveals the Eerie1 Sounds of a Black Hole
JOHN BERMAN, CNN ANCHOR
Have you ever wondered

what a black hole sounds like? Well, … is professor of theoretical 3 physics at the City
NASA has you covered. University of New York, Michio Kaku. He is also the
author of The God Equation:4 The Quest5 for a Theory
All right. So, joining us now to make
of Everything.
sense of what we just heard is …
Professor, what did we actually just hear there?
KAITLAN COLLINS, CNN ANCHOR
MICHIO KAKU, PROFESSOR OF THEORETICAL PHYSICS, CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK
[It] sounds like my stomach
grumbling.2 Well, some people say, “Now, wait a minute. Wait
a minute. [A] black hole is an object so dense6 that
JOHN BERMAN, CNN ANCHOR
even light itself cannot escape. So, how can sound
Right, seriously.
escape when even light itself cannot escape?”
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The Noise of Nothing Science
CNN
CNN
Perseus Cluster
A Messier 87 / NASA/CXC
CNN
Black hole sonification
2020 X Chandra
X-ray Observatory A Universe of
Sound
misconception
propagate galaxy cluster
radial extract
57 resynthesize
144
quadrillion
Vocabulary
1. eerie [`6ri] adj.
Holly was scared to walk through the dark,
eerie forest by herself.
Language Notes
1. have sb./sth. covered 2. grumble [`gr9mb4l] v.

Stan’s stomach was grumbling, so he went to
cover have sb./sth. covered
the kitchen to make a sandwich.
• If you want to learn about modern art, then the new 3. theoretical [~qi4`r5t6k4l] adj.
museum has you covered.
At the moment, the scientist’s ideas are
theoretical but may be proven soon.
2. make sense of
make sense
sb. make sense of sth.
4. equation [6`kwe.4n] n.
• Astrophysics doesn’t make sense to many people. 5. quest [kw5st] n.
6. dense [d5ns] adj.
• James couldn’t make sense of the difficult math question. Scientists discovered that the planet has a
dense atmosphere.
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What you’re actually listening to is vibrations7—vibrations
created by the black hole rippling 8 through the gas
cloud. These vibrations are then picked up on the planet
Earth, massage[d] by a computer [and] amplified9 by 57
octaves10—boosting11 it so that we can hear it with the ear.
So, you’re not gonna be able to go outside and you go like

this and hear a black hole from outer space.
KAITLAN COLLINS, CNN ANCHOR

CNN
But what does it mean to scientists? To those of us
who aren’t just listening to the clip of it, what is the
significance12 of it?
MICHIO KAKU, PROFESSOR OF THEORETICAL PHYSICS, CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK
Well, it means that black holes are no longer science

fiction [and] that we can actually see these things in outer
space [and] measure them. If you want to, quote, “see a
black hole tonight,” go outside [and] look in the direction
of Sagittarius—that’s the center of the galaxy. 13 In
Sagittarius, there is a black hole [that] weighs two to four
million times the mass14 of our Sun, and we, on the Earth,
are actually moving around that black hole. And you can
see it tonight in the constellation15 [of ] Sagittarius.
/ NASA/JPL-Caltech
Black hole Q & A Q

A
Q
A primordial black hole
big bang stellar
black hole high-
energy light
accretion
disk
X
Q
A mass
20 20 Milky Way galaxy

supermassive black hole
X-1 Cygnus X-1 cave in 100
A Sagittarius A 400
/ NASA/CXC/M.Weiss
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The Noise of Nothing Science
So, this is not just science fiction anymore. Language Notes

We can actually see these things. We can
3. pick up
actually, quote, “hear these things”—if you
1.
boost the signal, of course.
• The monitoring station picked up strange signals
JOHN BERMAN, CNN ANCHOR from outer space.
Right. Don’t try to listen tonight. You’re not
2.
gonna hear it exactly. It doesn’t work quite
• Kiki the parrot picks up new words quickly and
like that. repeats them.
3.
• Dan picked up the video game where he had left off.
4.
CNN
• The nation’s economy is picking up after the election.
1. What is the sound of a black hole described as

being?
(A) Like thunder
(B) Like a stomach growling
Vocabulary (C) Like a mosquito
(D) Like an earthquake
7. vibration [va6`bre]4n] n.
8. ripple [`r6p4l] v. 2. What is said about black holes?
The vibrations of the quake rippled through Taiwan. (A) We don’t know that they even exist.
(B) One may form near Earth.
(C) We know they exist but not where they are.
9. amplify [`1mpl4~fa6] v. (D) They are so dense that even light can’t escape.
The new speakers Hal bought for his car amplified the
sound.
boost eerie grumble
mass quest theoretical
10. octave [`3kt6v] n.
11. boost [bust] v. 3. The good publicity __________ the actor’s profile.
Nathan wanted to find a way to boost the speed of his
computer.
4. The adventurers launched a(n) __________ to
find the hidden treasure.
12. significance [s6g`n6f6k4ns] n.
5. The abandoned factory looked especially
13. galaxy [`g1l4ksi] n.
__________ at night.
14. mass [m1s] n.
Ans: 1. B 2. D 3. boosted 4. quest 5. eerie
15. constellation [~k3nst4`le]4n] n.
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UNIT 9 TRAVEL
26-27 THU-FRI / Track 9 Track 19
CNN NARRATOR
A surreal 3 wonderland as far as the eye can

see: this is the heart of Cappadocia, Turkey,
where peculiar 4 rock formations, known as
fairy chimneys, dominate5 the view and where
narrow passageways chiseled6 into those rocks
might just open up to something spectacular.
The famous Dark Church in the town

of Göreme dates back about a
t h o u s a n d ye a r s. I t ’s p a r t o f
a complex7 of medieval8
Delving1 into the Ancient Cave monasteries, now an open air museum and
Monasteries of Cappadocia
2 UNESCO heritage site, but for centuries,
important traces of human history across this
Cappadocia region lay unknown.
Anatolia plateau Off the beaten path from Göreme is one of
sedimentary rock
weathering Cappadocia’s best-kept secrets.
hoodoo fairy chimney CABIR COŞKUNER, CARETAKER, KEŞLIK MONASTERY
B y z a n t i n e, n i n t h ce n t u r y — h e re [ i s t h e ]
refectory,9 dining room and school. [The] school
[was a] missionary10 [a] long time ago.
CNN NARRATOR
Cabir Coşkuner is the sole 11 caretaker here.

What’s now known as Keşlik Monastery sits
tucked12 into the rock formations on his family’s
land—a natural playground for Cabir as a child.
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Hidden Holy Sites Travel
Vocabulary
1. delve [d5lv] v.
The explorer delved into the system of caves.
2. monastery [`m3n4~st5ri] n.
monastic [m4`n1st6k]
Göreme
1985
3. surreal [s4`ril] adj.
The artist uses surreal imagery in his work.
4
anchorite 4. peculiar [p6`kjulj0] adj.
There was a peculiar bird on Frank’s garden.
troglodyte subterranean
Karanlik Kilise Tokalı 5. dominate [`d3m4~net] v.

Kilise Azize Barbara The tall pine trees dominate the park.
Kilisesi Elmalı
Kilise
6. chisel [`t]6zy] v.
The miners chiseled into the vein of iron ore.
7. complex [`k3m~pl5ks] n.
8. medieval [~mi`div4l] adj.
The medieval castle is now a tourist attraction.
9. refectory [r6`f5kt4ri] n.
10. missionary [`m6]4~n5ri] n.
CNN 11. sole [sol] adj.
Dennis is the sole employee at the gift shop.
12. tuck [t9k] v.

The shrine is tucked away in a small cave.
Language Notes
1. date back
date date back
to
• The antique sword dates back to the 16th century.
2. off the beaten path

CNN the beaten path/track
off the beaten path/track
• Whenever Rory goes abroad, he finds places off the
beaten path to visit.
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CABIR COŞKUNER, CARETAKER, KEŞLIK MONASTERY (VIA INTERPRETER) CABIR COŞKUNER, CARETAKER, KEŞLIK MONASTERY (VIA INTERPRETER)
I wasn’t even that aware of history. A kid’s In the year 1935, the state decided to sell
job is play and fun. this place in an auction.14 The auction was
as a garden, and no one knew the historic
CABIR COŞKUNER, CARETAKER, KEŞLIK MONASTERY
importance. My grandfather had many
Here [is] another church [named] Saint
children, and because people loved him,
Stephanos name—ninth century, Byzantine
they said, “Keşlik is on sale. He has many
church. Here, all design[s] [are] geometrical.13
kids, so this garden would be beneficial.”15
CABIR COŞKUNER, CARETAKER, KEŞLIK MONASTERY (VIA INTERPRETER)
That’s how my grandfather bought the place
From time to time, though rarely, like one in
in 1935.
a thousand, some tourists would come here
CNN NARRATOR
by chance. They would stop, thinking there
Decades later, what Cabir and his family
are some interesting structures here they
uncovered16 turned out to be an expansive,17
would come to see and discover. We’d run
rock-carved monastery complex with two
up and show them the church. They would
churches, a refectory hall, a winery,18 a holy
understand some of the paintings. I was
spring and dozens of cave homes.
very surprised. “What a beautiful decoration!
When is it from?” I was asking [asked] many CABIR COŞKUNER, CARETAKER, KEŞLIK MONASTERY
questions. This is one room— one big room for

sleeping. Here, one room [for] fireplace.
Tomatoes. CNN NARRATOR
In the Byzantine era from the fourth to the

CNN NARRATOR
15th centuries, Cappadocia was a center
The mystery of what remained undiscovered
for monastic life. Isolation19 was easy in the
here goes back generations.
rugged20 geography.
Saint Stephanos Church Keşlik Monastery

Ürgüp
single-nave 30
Greek cross inset
square interlocking
communal
Orthodox
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Vocabulary
13. geometrical [~d.i4`m5tr6k4l] adj.
The mansion has geometrical rooms.
14. auction [`7k]4n] n.

15. beneficial [~b5n4`f6]4l] adj.
Getting enough sleep is beneficial to your health.
16. uncover [9n`k9v0] v.

Harry uncovered the remains of an old cottage on his
farm.
17. expansive [6k`sp1ns6v] adj.

The hotel features an expansive ballroom.
18. winery [`wa6n4ri] n.

19. isolation [~a6s4`le]4n] n.
CNN 20. rugged [`r9g6d] adj.
Only the toughest hikers can get over the rugged
mountains.
Language Notes
3. from time to time

once in a while
every now and then every so often
• From time to time, the tide retreats far enough so
CNN you can walk to the island along the beach.
4. by chance
c h a n ce by
chance
• By chance, Paul bumped into an old friend of his
while at the airport.
CNN
5. turn out
S. + turn out to be + N./

adj./ it it turns/
turned out + that
• The painting that Susan bought at a market turned
out to be very valuable.
• It turned out that the butler stole the jewels all

along.
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[A] long time ago in [the] monastery,

[when there were] dangers, people
coming [came] here [and] close[d] the
door here. hagiasma
Here [is] hagiasma—holy water.
I retired, and I had started working on

this place in 2001. I believe[d] this place
needed more serious publicity 21 and
tried to be in dialogue22 with everyone
who came here, like art historians,
professors [and] archaeologists.23
CNN NARRATOR CNN
A lifetime of curiosity [and] decades of

research and restoration 24 have led to
one of Cabir’s proudest preservations on
the property.
[The] church[’s] name [is] Archangel

Michael—13th century, here. Frescoes25
[show the] annunciation, visitation,
presentation to [the] temple [and the]
crucification [crucifixion of ] Christ here.
CNN
CNN NARRATOR
Years of study allowed Cabir to identify

the frescoes blurred26 and blackened by
soot.27
It’s an important responsibility because

this is entrusted 28 to us. Our religion
takes safekeeping29 very seriously. This is
a responsibility that we must carry, and
it is what we owe.
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Vocabulary
21. publicity [p9`bl6s4ti] n.
22. dialogue [`da64~l7g] n.
23. archaeologist [~3rki`3l4d.6st] n.
24. restoration [~r5st4`re]4n] n. 1. What dominates the view of Cappadocia?
25. fresco [`fr5sko] n. (A) Rock formations called fairy chimneys
26. blur [bl-] v. (B) A beautiful lake
(C) A volcano
The CCTV footage was blurred, so the suspects couldn’t
be identified. (D) Snow-covered mountains
2. What is NOT true about the Dark Church?

27. soot [s8t] n. (A) It is located in the town of Göreme.
28. entrust [6n`tr9st] v. (B) It is an open-air museum.
Oliver entrusted his dog to his friend to look after while (C) It is a UNESCO heritage site.
he was away. (D) It is closed to the public.
29. safekeeping [`sef`kip6;] n. chisel complex medieval

safekeeping surreal tuck
Subjects of Christian art

3. Francis put his autograph collection in a storage
facility for __________ .
Annunciation Visitation 4. The sword found in the tomb comes from the
[4~n9nsiè]4n] __________ period.
5. The cute café is __________ in a corner of the

market, so many people miss it.
Ans: 1. A 2. D 3. safekeeping 4. medieval 5. tucked
Nativity of Jesus Presentation at the Temple Flight into Egypt Baptism of Jesus
[n4`t6v4ti] [`b1p~t6z4m]
Temptation of Christ Last Supper Crucifixion of Jesus Resurrection of Jesus

[t5mp`te]4n] [~krus4`f6k]4n] [~r5z4`r5k]4n]
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UNIT 10 HEALTH
30-31 MON-TUE / Track 10 Track 20
Sanjay Gupta Gets Hands-On1

with Our Most Vital2 Organ
SANJAY GUPTA, CNN CORRESPONDENT

brain bank, where they study a variety of
When I first heard we’d be visiting a brain disorders,8 including psychiatric9 illness.
bank in Denmark, I have to admit, this is
So, if you’re doing molecular 10 diagnostic 11
more what I had in mind.
studies, you’re extracting 12 small pieces of
MIKKEL VESTERGAARD OLESEN, SENIOR RESEARCHER, BISPEBJERG
material.
HOSPITAL
And this is the place we keep the frozen MIKKEL VESTERGAARD OLESEN, SENIOR RESEARCHER, BISPEBJERG HOSPITAL
hemispheres.3 Yes. Yes.
SANJAY GUPTA, CNN CORRESPONDENT SANJAY GUPTA, CNN CORRESPONDENT
Mikkel Vestergaard is a senior researcher, And today, he’s examining a whole brain from
who has been slowly, methodically 4 the modern brain bank—not yet touched,
studying the virgin5 schizophrenic6 brains prodded or poked. I’m going to show it to
from Odense, along with some of the you just as we first saw it, but I want to warn
several thousand brains that have been you because this is not something the human
donated7 here to Denmark’s only modern brain is accustomed13 to seeing—itself.
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The Brain Bank Health
CNN
Vocabulary
1. hands-on [`h1ndz`7n] adj.
You can get a hands-on experience with small animals
at the zoo.
2. vital [`va6ty] adj.

CNN A healthy diet is vital for your well-being.
3. hemisphere [`h5m4~sf6r] n.
4. methodically [m4`q3d6k4li] adv.
5. virgin [`v-d.4n] adj.
The virgin fields had been untouched by farmers.
6. schizophrenic [~sk6ts4`fr5n6k] adj.

The schizophrenic man was locked in an institute.
7. donate [`do~net] v.
CNN Rita tries to donate to charity whenever she can.
8. disorder [d6s`7rd0] n.
9. psychiatric [~sa6ki`1tr6k] adj.
There were allegations of cruelty at the psychiatric

hospital.
10. molecular [m4`l5kj4l0] adj.

Some scientists are studying the molecular makeup of
the chimpanzee heart.
prod vs. poke
[pr3d] [pok] 11. diagnostic [~da64g`n3st6k] adj.
The diagnostic machine can find out what injury a
patient has.
prod poke
prod 12. extract [6k`str1kt] v.
poke and The nurse extracted some blood from the patient.
prod prod
13. accustomed [4`k9st4md] adj.

• The nurse poked the Gretchen is accustomed to her husband’s peculiar
• The alien specimen patient with a needle. ways.
was prodded in a lab.
• Albert has been
prodded and poked ! hemisphere
p. 74
• Dave prodded his at the hospital to see
brother to misbehave. what is wrong with
him.
There is nothing left in your right brain, and

there is nothing right in your left brain.
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HOSPITAL
So, you can see how it looks.

CNN
Wow.

HOSPITAL
So, this is just in water. So, it’s … yeah.

So, this is how it looks.
This is just a remarkable14 look at the

brain. You’re looking at the left side CNN
of the brain first—front, back, frontal

lobe, occipital lobe, temporal lobe,
parietal lobe. Same on the other side.
Let me show you something very few

people ever get to see. This is the base
of the brain. This is the brain stem,
which is arguably 15 the most valued
real estate 16 in the brain. It controls
e ve r y t h i n g t h a t yo u d o w i t h o u t
thinking—your breathing, your heart
rate [and] your heartbeat.
There’s something else Mikkel has to

show me—something I’ve actually
never seen. Again, a word of caution.17
First of all, this is what a normal18 brain

should look like. You see the natural,
sort of, folds of the brain, and most
importantly, you see this white matter
area in the middle of the brain over
here. That is normal. That is what it
should look like.
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The Brain Bank Health
Human brain parts Vocabulary

14. remarkable [r6`m3rk4b4l] adj.
The paleontologist made a remarkable

brain dissection discovery.
cerebral cortex 15. arguably [`3rgju4b4li] adv.

[s4`ribr4l] [`k7r~t5ks]
grey 16. real estate [ril] [6`stet] n.

gyrus matter
[`d.a6r4s] neuron 17. caution [`k7]4n] n.
glial cell
18. normal [`n7rm4l] adj.
fold ridge The doctor said that Malcolm had a
normal heartbeat, and there was nothing
white matter to worry about.
sulcus
[`s9lk4s]
myelin
groove coordinate
brain sections
frontal lobe occipital lobe

[`fr9nty] [lob]
[3k`s6p4ty] [lob]
lobe
sight
motion
visual reception
control
visual interpretation
speech production
temporal lobe
[`t5mp4r4l] [lob]
parietal lobe
auditory [p4`ra64ty] [lob]
processing
language comprehension brain stem cerebellum touch perception
[~s5r4`b5l4m] orientation
information involuntary sensory discrimination
retrieval response
coordination
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But if you come over here, you see those Language Notes
same areas of the brain in the frontal lobe—
1. shock value
that white matter area has been destroyed
on both sides of the brain. Someone put
curiosity value novelty value
an instrument19 in there. You can [even] see
even where they put the instrument in, and • The movie featured some violent scenes for shock
20 value.
they just, sort of, scraped away the white
matter on both sides—the right and left.
[You can] see it over here as well. That is lobotomy
what a lobotomy looks like. lobotomy [ lo`b3t4mi ]
1930
Let me be clear about something. Seeing 1950
this is not for shock value. The lobotomy is prefrontal
21
cortex
an integral part of Denmark’s psychiatric
history. During the time the brain collection
was running, Denmark reportedly did more
lobotomies per capita 22 than any other
country in the world.
1. What is located at the base of the brain?

(A) The temporal lobe
(B) The parietal lobe
(C) The brain stem
(D) The occipital lobe
2. What is true about the white matter seen on the

brain?
(A) It is a sign of cancer.
(B) It is normal.
(C) It has to be removed from all brains.
(D) It is fatty tissues.
caution disorder donate

Vocabulary remarkable scrape virgin
19. instrument [`6nstr4m4nt] n.
20. scrape [skrep] v. 3. Justin __________ a bit of money to the charity
organization.
Shirley scraped the snow from her windshield before
driving to work.
4. Tim has a skin __________ that makes him itch all
the time.
21. integral [`6nt6gr4l] adj.
Roy is an integral part of the company because he is a 5. The scientist made a __________ discovery in his
great salesperson. lab.
Ans: 1. C 2. B 3. donated 4. disorder 5. remarkable
22. per capita [p0`k1p4t4] adv.
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13. debris [d4`bri] n.

15. artifact [`3rt6~f1kt] n.

17. sober [`sob0] adj.

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