Eiken 2 Reading 3 Keeping Up To Date

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Some employees from the IT department

• have been selected to work at several job fairs at different colleges.

• were asked to give a guest lecture to computer engineering students.

• will take part in an event at a university in Petersburg

• are being sent to another department to help train new workers.

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What should staff members do if they attend the fair on February 24?

• Make a presentation about what they did at the fair to Ms. Jones.

• Take a day off during the week before the event to prepare.

• Hand in some forms at least seven days before then.

• Fill out an attendance application and send it to the university.

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What does Stan Finley say he will do on Friday morning?

• Work with two other employees to prepare for February 24.

• Give out materials to all the employees in his department.

• Make a decision about who will attend the event.

• Send another e­mail to tell the staff who was selected.

Keeping Up To Date

What is one thing that the creators of English dictionaries must do?

• Keep an eye on how words are used in the English language.

• Decide how to spell the new words that are added to English.

• Check for technological developments that could help their work.

• Make changes to words that people have difficulty expressing.

Keeping Up To Date

A new word may be added to a dictionary if

• sources in which the word is used are found to be accurate.

• the word is also being used in languages other than English.

• a large number of people are using the word in the same way.

• dictionary editors and their assistants think the word will be useful.

Keeping Up To Date

The word “cookie” is an example of an English word that

• came from a word that was used in another language.

• people can spell in a variety of different ways.

• was rejected by dictionary editors for many years.

• has gained a different meaning from its original one.

Keeping Up To Date

What is one of the roles of a dictionary’s senior editors?

• To review data about the words that people most often look for in the

  dictionary.

• To remove old information from a database so that new information can

  be added.

• To come up with ideas to make the dictionary easier for people to use.

• To make the final decision about changes to the content of the dictionary.

Marie Curie

What was one of Marie Curie’s achievements?

• She won the first Nobel Prize for chemistry.

• She found a new way to choose Nobel Prize winners.

• She received Nobel Prizes in more than one subject area.

• She discovered errors in a Nobel Prize winner’s research.

Marie Curie

Marie Curie was not able to go to university in Warsaw because

• she had to take care of her younger brothers and sisters.

• she was asked to go and work at her parents’ school.

• the scores that she got at school were not good enough.

• the university did not allow women to become students.

Marie Curie

What was one difficulty faced by Marie Curie when she studied in Paris?

• It took five years for her to become good at speaking French.

• The food she ate was not good enough for her to stay healthy.

• She needed a lot of money to pay for her sister’s medicine.

• Her university would not let her study for a degree in physics.