Przykładowe Materiały Egzaminacyjne JĘzyk angielski poziom 3 Czytanie
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Listening 43Burma’s decision to defer its turn as head of the association of Sough East Asian Nations, or ASEAN , next year ends a period of awkwardness for the regional group which has been divided about how best to address the issue. Our Asia analyst, Joe McGivery, looks at the dilemma ASEAN faced and the effectiveness of growing pressure on Burma’s military regime. For many months disagreement about Burma’s chairmanship has put ASEAN’s harmony under strain. Some senior officials such as Singapore’s foreign minister started weeks ago to plant the seeds of a solution by saying publicly they expected Burma to volunteer to forgo its turn. That seemed a way of spearing Rangoon humiliation whilst helping ASEAN out of an awkward dilemma. Traditionally, ASEAN always prided itself on being pragmatic not interfering in its member political affairs and arguing that economic engagement not boycott was the route to change. New members like Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos seemed eager for that principle of non-interference to be applied in this case, too, seeing it as an undesirable precedent. In fact, ASEAN’s ability to stay apolitical has increasingly been challenged as key members have become maturing democracies themselves and ASEAN’s formal ties with outside groups have grown in importance. The U.S. and E.E.U. had both threatened to boycott meetings next year if Burma took the chair. But to some ASIEN’s decision shows a lack of consistency. On the one hand, its rejection of Rangoon as a suitable chair is an implicit censor of its human rights record. On the other hand, Burma’s military regime is surviving thanks, in part, to its strong trade with South-East Asian nations as well as China which continue to undermine the economic sanctions imposed by the West. Listening 44 Children in a British primary school, just at the age when they start learning to read. Most of them will learn fairly easily, but a significant minority will struggle. Not because they’re stupid, but because they have dyslexia. The condition means it’s hard for them to make connections between the way words look and how they sound. Until very recently, most of the research looking into the causes of dyslexia has been done in North America and Europe, on children whose native tongue is English or other alphabet-based languages such as French or Spanish. And this body of evidence suggested that an underlying malfunction in one particular part of the brain was to blame, no matter what the language the reader. But a new study published in the journal Nature shows that things aren’t quite so simple. Doctor Lee Hi Taan and his team at the University of Hong Kong performed brain imaging scans on both dyslexic and non-dyslexic children whose mother tongue is Mandarin Chinese. The school children were asked to read texts written in Chinese characters while the scientists watched their brains working. Guenothe Eden also investigates the brain areas involved in dyslexia at Gorge Town University in Washington DC, and she’s intrigued by these new findings on dyslexia in Chinese.
Guenothe Eden on the all-important issue of timing. Listening 45 An outspoken aid to Russian president, Vladimir Putin, has offered his resignation. In a typical outburst last December, Andriej Ilationov broke ranks to criticize the false sale of the oil giant Jukos. For such outspokenness he was stripped of most of his duties. Now he’s announced he’s leaving his job as economic affairs advisor because he’s no longer able to express his opinions publicly. I asked our Moscow correspondent, Steven Rosenberg, if Mr Ilarionow any longer exercised any influence over government policy.
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