Quiz based on podcasts

According to international news agency, Reuters, what has been the top global news story of 2023 so far?

• The war in Ukraine

• Increasing prices and inflation

• Prince Harry's autobiography

Spending a lot of time looking at your computer screen or mobile phone and reading bad news stories: d___sc_______

Saying which expresses the idea that by going through difficult life experiences, people build up strength and resilience for the future: 'W___ d_____ k___ y__ m_____ y__ s_______'

talk about something in a way that make it sound better than it really is: r_______ise (something)

compensate for something bad with something good: m___ u_ f__ (something)

(US slang) feel sick, often because of something disgusting or disturbing: f___ i__

easily available so that you can have of much of it as you want, whenever you want: o_ t__

What happened to Blake Lemoine is strangely similar to the 2013 Hollywood movie, Her, starring Joaquin Phoenix as a lonely writer who talks with his computer, voiced by Scarlett Johansson. But what happens at the end of the movie?

• the computer comes to life

• the computer dreams about the writer

• the writer falls in love with the computer

be deceived or tricked by someone: get/be t____ in (by) someone

unpleasantly surprised: b____s____