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1. Enrich Your Vocabulary

i. Find the similar words from the text to the given words:

beaten record discussion/meeting marked

exhaustion sufficient medicine definite

ii. Read the texts and decide whether the following sentences are true or false.

a. The botanical name of our national flower is Rhododendron
arboretum.
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b. “Nepal Beats Canada” is the top story of the newspaper.
c. Swine flu killed 10 people in Chitwan district.
d. “We’ll make a difference,” is the title of business news.
e. Gergina Harwood died in a sky diving accident.
f. Using masks and avoiding crowded places are safety measures of
Swine flu.
g. Scientists have suspected that methane can be the waste product
of certain living microbes.

3. Read the text again, and answer these questions.

a. What does ‘beyond calculations” mean?
b. What does WCL stand for?
c. Where do we find the complete news of Mars?

d. What did Dr. Grotzinger say about findings?
e. What are the symptoms of Swine flu?
f. What are the great threats to rhododendron?

g. What is the advertisement in the newspaper about?
h. What is a “rover”?

Put into Practice

a. Prepare a similar type of advertisement of any product that you
like to launch.

b. Work in groups. Prepare the front page of a newspaper with an
INSIDE section.

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