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Weekly News

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 11mins

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1.

The United Nations climate summit in Glasgow gets underway this week, with world leaders vowing to reduce the emissions of planet-warming greenhouse gases.

Which of the countries below is NOT among the the world's four biggest emitters, which together are responsible for just over half of global greenhouse gas output?

(a)  

2.

Facebook, the social network giant under fire for spreading misinformation, and other issues, announced on Oct. 28 that it was changing its corporate name to (a)   .

3.

The coronavirus has been responsible for more than (a)   million confirmed deaths around the world as of Nov. 1. Experts say that is an undercount.

4.

Three of the articles below were recently published in the World section of The New York Times. One is from the satirical site The Onion. Which is the fake news story?

(a)  

5.

Hertz said last week that it would convert more than 20 percent of its rental fleet to electric cars by the end of next year, an announcement that helped propel ’s (a)   stock value beyond $1 trillion for the first time.

6.

(a)   , the gaming platform, was knocked offline on Oct. 28, sending many of its 40 million active daily users into a frenzy on social media before it returned three days later.

7.

A new online advertisement released last week by Glenn Youngkin, the Republican candidate for governor in Virginia, features a mother who pushed to have banned from her son’s English curriculum eight years ago, citing the book’s graphic scenes.

(a)  

8.

This summer, China tested a (a)   that could revive fears of a Cold War-like arms race. This week, Gen. Mark A. Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, confirmed that Beijing's demonstration of these capabilities had taken American officials by surprise.

9.

If President Biden's trillion-dollar spending bill becomes law, the United States will no longer be one of only six countries in the world without (a)   .

10.

Oxford Languages crowned “ (a)   ” as its 2021 Word of the Year, a selection meant “to reflect the ethos, mood or preoccupations” of the preceding year.