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4. Underline the words that gave you the answer.

1. You can insure items with standalone gadget insurance, which can be fairly cheap. Insurance2go offers policies for tablets from £2.99 a month which covers theft, accidental damage, water damage, fire damage at home and abroad.

2. To the delight of some shoppers and the frustration of others, retailers have been experimenting in recent years with Black Friday specials that start earlier for Thanksgiving. Last year, several retailers including Target Corp., Macy's Inc. and Kohl's Corp. decided for the first time to open at midnight, a trend that could eventually replace Black Friday with Black Thursday as the unofficial holiday start.

3. Tom and Kristin Moser’s new house — nearly 3,000 square feet in a development outside Tucson — has all the modern amenities, including solar panels and an open kitchen. But their house also has a feature that the builders are betting will be a hit, like the dog showers and craft rooms.

4. So more than a few New Yorkers took it especially hard Thursday when they learned that Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg wanted to take away their plus-size sodas in restaurants, movie theaters, stadiums, arenas and mobile food carts, as a way, he said, of fighting obesity.

5. One sticking point with online car purchases is that not all online sellers are able to deal with part exchanges. It is usually better to sell your old car privately. If your new pride and joy is an import to the UK, check that the specification and warranty are the same as models sold here.

6. The company currently gives new hires 16 days of paid vacation. The challenge, Harding says, will be convincing employees that the policy isn’t too good to be true.

5. B. Complete this extract from a television interview with an appropriate word or expression from the box.

entertainment • invasion of privacy • exploiting • libel • censorship

information • readership • media tycoon • paparazzi • freedom of the press

unscrupulous • gutter press •chequebook journalism

Interviewer: Welcome to today’s programme. Today we will be discussing the

1__________________________ , and asking the question: Should we allow newspapers and television channels to print or say whatever they like? In the studio I have television personality Timothy Blake and 2__________________________ Rupert Poubelle, multimillionaire

owner of the Daily Views newspaper. Timothy, let’s start with you.

T.B.: Thank you. In my opinion, it’s time the government imposed stricter

3__________________________ of the press in order to prevent

4__________________________ journalists and reporters from making money by 5__________________________ people. I have often accused Mr Poubelle’s organisation of 6__________________________ - nowadays I can’t even sunbathe in my garden without being photographed by his hordes of 7__________________________ . They’re like vultures.

And everything they print about me is lies, complete rubbish.

Interviewer: But isn’t it true that the media provides us with valuable 8__________________________and 9__________________________ , and censorship would deprive us of much of this?Rupert?

R.P.: Of course. Mr. Blake’s accusations are unfounded, as are the accusations of 10__________________________ we have received, but I can safely say that my journalists never pay people money to create stories. We are simply reporting the truth. Of course, if Mr. Blake wants to sue us for 1__________________________ , he is very welcome to try.

But he would be depriving our 12__________________________ - all eight million of them - of the things they want…T.B.: You’re talking rubbish, as usual, like the pathetic 13__________________________ you own

and use to fill your pockets with dirty money.

R.P.: Now look here, mate…

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