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The plan was to sign up to Udate to research this feature. I was only trying to do my job properly. I was going to chat online, see who was out there, and maybe in time meet up with some of them. David3108 took a different approach. He meticulously went through the details of hundreds of girls,

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narrowed them down to a short list of three, and wrote to them. They wrote back. Apparently, I was the one who didn’t sound crazy. I thought he seemed nice but boring. They do say it is the quiet ones you have to watch. After meeting in person, it took six days for us to get serious, 26 days for him to propose, 0.6 seconds for me to say yes. I was engaged and still had a month left on my membership. The hardest part was telling the other nice men I met online that I couldn’t see them. “So, this thing actually works?” said one, kindly. Yes it does, and the passing weeks have only confirmed that we have made the right decision. The plan went wrong, in the right way. JM The Sunday Times

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This chip makes sure you always buy your round by Lorna Martin 1

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The old excuse ‘I’ve left my wallet at home’ will soon no longer hold when it’s your round. A nightclub is about to offer its regulars the option of having a microchip implanted in their arm that will make it no longer necessary to carry cash or plastic. Queuing for entry or a drink at the bar would also become a thing of the past when the ‘digital wallet’ is introduced by Bar Soba in Glasgow. The chip is already proving popular with VIP members at two nightclubs in Barcelona and Rotterdam. Brad Stevens, owner of Bar Soba, said his motivation for introducing the technology was to be a trendsetter and to reward loyal customers. He said he had received a surprisingly enthusiastic response from regulars. ‘There are a number of advantages, from instant access to one of our many exclusive DJ and VIP nights and not having to carry money or credit cards to letting bar staff know

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a customer’s name and favourite drink. By the time you walk through the door to the bar, your favourite drink is waiting for you and the bar staff can greet you by name.’ However, he also recognised the risks. ‘There is a danger that, if a person’s not carrying cash, they could just keep on drinking. But we’re looking at ways of setting a limit on how much can be spent.’ Steve van Soest is one of more than 100 people who have been ‘chipped’ at Baja Beach Club in Barcelona since it became the first to offer the procedure in March. He said he had no reservations about having the chip implanted. ‘It would be great if this catches on and you could put all your personal details and medical records on it. If I was involved in an accident, doctors could simply scan me and find out my blood group and any allergies.’ The chip is similar to more than 25 million already embedded in animals across the world acting as ‘pet passports’. Before being used in humans, it has undergone stringent tests and doctors say it is extremely safe. But critics regard this technology as a growing threat, giving potentially dangerous new power to businesses and government. A recent report by the American Civil Liberties Union said: ‘Scarcely a month goes by in which we don’t read about some new high-tech way to invade people’s privacy, from face recognition to implantable microchips, DNA chips, and even brain wave fingerprinting.’ www.guardian.co.uk

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The fat of the land Cristina Odone 1

The girl on the StairMaster pounds the steps, her breath short and sharp, her face red with exertion. A sweaty T-shirt clings to her – and even through the cotton you can make out the ridges of her spine. She looks like a skeleton. It hurts to look at her. Equally, it hurts to look at the man beside her. He too stands on the StairMaster, but the size of him means that you can hardly see the machine beneath his vast body. He breathes with difficulty, and sweat pours off him, soaking his T-shirt.

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As in my gym, so in life. While the alarm was raised this week about 75 per cent of Britons being obese by 2020, an epidemic of young women suffering from anorexia is also sweeping the land: one in 10 girls under 21 have been diagnosed with anorexia. Both trends reveal our unhealthy relationship with food.

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Once upon a time meals were celebrations of family closeness, individual well-being, religious rituals. Today, fewer than 40 per cent of Britons claim to sit down at a table for meals; fewer than 30 per cent cook all their own meals. The sad truth is that most Britons view food with either indifference or suspicion. No wonder. Food has become confusing in a culture that simultaneously sings the praise of a slimline aesthetic and of

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According to Susie Orbach, author of Fat Is a Feminist Issue and On Eating, obesity ‘is a response to people feeling attacked in their bodies’. On television and in movies and magazines ‘model’ men and women with perfectly trim, wonderfully toned bodies smile back at you: the frustration of not measuring up prompts you to reach for comfort food. In the face of constant – even if unspoken – criticism about your weight, a chocolate binge or stuffing yourself with a Big Mac or a Kentucky Fried Chicken wing is equivalent to sticking two fingers up at the body police out there.

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American journalist Eric Schlosser condemns those fast food industrialists who, mainly concerned about the profit margin, ignore the effect their food has on our health. Cheap to make, oozing fat, high in salt, sugar and who knows what additives, fast food emerges as the primary culprit in our criminal abuse of our bodies. Eat junk food and you risk increasing your chances of contracting diabetes, cancer, heart disease.

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More sinister still, as Schlosser shows, fast-food marketing men have seized upon children as ‘brand-loyal, from cradle to grave’: they target the under-eights with Disneyesque mascots, cartoon strips and related accessories, and bank on the child’s loyalty for ever more – or until his first heart attack.

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But big business not only threatens our health, it also shapes our body image. From the diet company that displays the ‘before and after’ pictures of a tubby housewife transformed into a slim glamour puss, to the television programme makers whose stars are all perfect size 10s, physical conformity is being pushed down our throats.

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Some experts are finding this indigestible. Last January, Susie Orbach launched a campaign called ‘Anybody’, which aims to reshape our view of ourselves – so that we can accept that within the standard of beauty, diversity is a plus. Fat, thin, plump, scrawny: Orbach and others hope that one day we will realise we are worth more than our weight in pounds and ounces. http://observer.guardian.co.uk

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Why phones are replacing cars And why this is a good thing “PARKS beautifully”, boasts an advertising hoarding for the XDA II, above a glimpse of its sleek silver lines. “Responsive to every turn”, declares another poster. Yet these ads, seen recently in London, are not selling a car but an advanced kind of mobile phone. Maybe that should not be surprising. Using automotive imagery to sell a handset makes a lot of sense for, in many respects, mobile phones are replacing cars. ▬ www.havovwo.nl

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Phones are now the dominant technology with which young people, and urban youth in particular, 16 . For what sort of phone you carry and how you customise it says a great deal about you, just as the choice of car did for a previous generation. In today’s congested cities, you can no longer make a statement by pulling up outside a bar in a particular kind of car. 17 , you make a statement by displaying your mobile phone, with its carefully chosen ringtone, screen logo and slip cover. Mobile phones, like cars, are fashion items: in both cases, people buy new ones far more often than is actually necessary. Both are social technologies that bring people together; for teenagers, both act as symbols of independence. And cars and phones alike promote freedom and mobility, with unexpected social consequences. At first, the 18 of both cars and phones was defined by something that was no longer there. Cars were originally horseless carriages, and early models looked suitably carriage-like; only later did car manufacturers realise that cars could be almost any shape they wanted to make them. 19 , mobile phones used to look much like the push-button type of fixed-line phones, only without the wire. But now they come in a bewildering range of strange shapes and sizes. It is to be 20 that mobile phones are taking on many of the social functions of cars. While it is a laudable goal that everyone on earth should someday have a mobile phone, having cars all around produces mixed feelings. They are a horribly inefficient mode of transport – why move a ton of metal around in order to transport a few bags of groceries? – and they cause pollution, mainly in the form of nasty gases. A chirping handset is a much greener form of self-expression than an old banger. It may irritate but it is 21 . In the hands of a drunk driver, a car becomes a deadly weapon. That is not true of a phone (though terrorists have been known to rig mobile phones to trigger bombs). Despite concern that radiation from phones and masts causes health problems, there is no clear evidence of harm, and similar worries about power lines and computer screens proved unfounded. Less pollution, less traffic, fewer alcohol-related deaths and injuries: the switch from cars to phones cannot happen soon enough. www.economist.com

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Is the biotechnology revolution a myth? by Robert Matthews 1

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ou might think these are revolutionary times for medical science. Now that the human genetic blueprint has been decoded, wonder cures for lots of diseases are coming on stream. Even genetic diseases have become treatable. That, at least, is the impression created by years of upbeat media coverage. But the reality is very different. Far from “decoding” the human genome, scientists have yet to establish how many genes it contains, or even what genes do. Gene therapy has so far failed to cure a single person of any major genetic disease. Paul Nightingale of the University of Sussex and Paul Martin of the University of Nottingham are the authors of a new study of this “golden age” of medical science. According to them, the idea that we are living through some kind of “biotech revolution” is a myth propelled by the need to raise money. They have assembled evidence to separate the bio-hype from the reality. The results, published in Trends in Biotechnology, are sobering. They reveal that while there have been huge advances in scientific knowledge about the processes of life, these insights have failed to translate into effective therapies. Nightingale and Martin found that so far just a dozen drugs based on biotech insights have emerged that are clearly better than existing treatments. They call for a more realistic approach to biotech, which abandons the assumption that breakthroughs in science inevitably

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lead to effective and money-making therapies. Yet the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI), while admitting that exaggerated claims have been made in the past, insists that the slow emergence of new drugs reflects the fact that gene-level pharmacology is still a new science. It often takes a decade or more to turn insights into marketable drugs. So, is the sad level of pay-off just temporary or does it signal more fundamental problems? The early indications from the research into the human genome suggest that scientists have radically underestimated the size of the challenge they face. In 2000, scientists were stunned to find the human genome contained an estimated 35,000 genes, far below the 100,000plus expected for the most complex organism on earth. Last month that estimate fell further, to fewer than 25,000. Comparisons with genomes of other organisms have revealed surprises, such as the lack of correlation between the complexity of life-forms and the size of their genomes, and the genetic similarity of www.examen-cd.nl ▬


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humans and other organisms: barely 300 genes separate mice from humans. Clearly, genes work in far more complex ways than previously thought. Last month, the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, California, showed that deleting large sections of junk DNA from mice seems to have no effect on their development, reproduction or lifespan. Such findings hardly suggest scientists are about to “crack” the human genome code, still

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less that it will lead to money-spinning cures for major diseases. At the start of the 20th century, physicists believed they possessed the insights needed to predict everything from the position of planets in the future to next year’s weather. Then they discovered how effects that were once dismissed as irrelevant can put limits on attempts to predict the future. A century later, life scientists could be facing a similar lesson. Financial Times

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Cannabis: a burning issue LETTERS ● It has been reported (mainly in the tabloids) that 80% of new psychiatric cases have a history of cannabis use. But anxiety is an early warning sign of most major mental illnesses. So, does a person develop a mental illness because they smoke cannabis, or do they smoke cannabis in an effort to calm anxiety which precedes full-blown symptoms? Cannabis might have harmful effects. But it is a matter of fact that a recreational drug called alcohol killed 20,000 people and wrecked countless thousands of other lives in the UK last year alone. Jeffrey Morgan

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here is something deeply sinister about the latest tactic dreamt up by the Avon and Somerset police for catching drink drivers. Six undercover officers, three male and three female, have been trained to mingle with drinkers in country pubs, posing as courting couples. They will note how much their fellow customers are drinking. Then, they will follow their suspects into the car park, wait for them to reach for their car keys and arrest them. “The telltale signs,” said Chief Inspector Tim Harris, displaying the dazzling detective skills that have carried him to the top of his profession, “will be if someone is slurring their speech, staggering or smelling of alcohol.” Brilliant, my dear Holmes! There are many, I know, who will applaud this police initiative. We are all obliged, these days, to say that drink drivers are the enemies of humanity, who have caused untold misery and wrecked countless lives. We are not allowed to state the obvious truth that many more than 99 per cent of people who drive home from the pub with more than the legally permitted amount of alcohol in their breath or blood reach their destinations perfectly safely, without hurting anybody. The maddening thing about this piece of political correctness is that it is so clearly justified. It really is monstrously wrong to drive while drunk, as I am ashamed to admit that I have done in my time. Almost everybody of my age (I am 51) has had

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friends, or friends of friends, who have been killed by drivers the worse for drink. The risk of causing all that misery is just not worth taking. It is a huge leap, however, from acknowledging that something is obviously wrong, to saying that any means of preventing it from happening are therefore OK. Avon and Somerset police seem to have made that leap, without a thought about its implications. Most Britons, I reckon, will instinctively have found something creepy about the idea of secret policemen spying on them in the pub. If Avon and Somerset police really want to discourage people from drinking and driving, they should hang around in the pub 34 . However, they would argue, presumably, that it is more effective to go undercover, since by this means only half a dozen officers will be able to spread unease throughout two entire counties. Nobody will know if that strange couple by the window are proper love-birds or agents of the state. I suspect, however, that the www.examen-cd.nl ▬


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force’s real motives are to meet the Government’s wretched targets by making a few more easy arrests and raising more fines. The trouble with Chief Inspector Harris’s scheme is that it turns on its head the proper relationship between the police and the public. When I was a child, there was a clear understanding that the police were public servants, employed by us to look after us. I often get the feeling now, however, that the police look upon themselves as the masters, paid by the state to keep the rest of us in order.

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That impression has been strongly reinforced by the way in which the police so often seem to regard themselves above the law. Only yesterday, it emerged that no fewer than 59 police officers in Derbyshire had been caught speeding last year. None of them was answering an emergency call at the time, and yet not a single one was prosecuted. If the police want to instil respect for the law, they should obey it themselves. Meanwhile, we must all beware of courting couples in the pub. The Daily Telegraph

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I was buying a Tube ticket this week when a quite smartly dressed young woman approached me and said: “Excuse me, do you know the date?” I told her, and she nodded, reflecting on the answer for a while, before asking, “Could you spare me some change for the ticket machines?” She was a beggar but I noted that she had cleverly framed her request in middle-class terms. The implication of her asking the date was that she was considering some typically middle-class act, like renewing a travelcard, or writing a cheque. This tactic is increasingly common among beggars, and represents an inversion of the normal approach, which is to look needy. The new type of beggar tries his or her best to look the opposite, having realised that in our society people with money are more relaxed about giving money to other people with money than to people without any. These new beggars have taken to heart the government’s claim that we’re all middle class now, so the days of “Spare a pound for a cup of tea, guv?” are numbered. Henceforth it’ll be, “Spare the price of a double capuccino and carrot cake, guv?” New Statesman

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She takes care of the elderly and supports fat cats Nowadays we are constantly asked to believe that market forces make the world go round. It is made out that money is the main reason people go to work and that all other motives are secondary. Yet a moment’s thought should tell us that if this were true we would all be in trouble. Many of the people upon whom we all

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Postcards on the Edge The digital age spells the end of a venerable vacation tradition. But are e-cards and text messages really better?

future. Tourists visiting the U.K. seem to be of a similar mind: Royal Mail statistics show the number of postcards mailed in Britain is falling by about 1 million each year – at a current 25 million, down from 30 million five years ago. The downward trend can be seen elsewhere. The Finland Post Corp. blames text messaging for the decline in the volume of postcards sent, while in Japan there are plans to axe 80% of the country’s postcard-vending machines. At this rate, postcards seem destined to go the way of the telex. The time it takes to deliver a postcard is out of sync with the way we holiday now. In the Thomson poll, 25% of respondents said postcards took too long

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known attractions and send them with your message to multiple recipients. You’ll find e-cards of everything from Vancouver’s Stanley Park (canadianculture.com) to Australia’s Great Ocean Road (southwestvictoria .com). There is one major downside of the postcard’s passing, however: it is frequently being replaced by the lengthy travel diary that your vacationing friends feel compelled to send from every Internet café they visit. Technology has suddenly made it all too easy to dispatch gushing, gee-whiz accounts of trips to the Pompidou or dives off the Great Barrier Reef, not to mention tediously unedited recollections of meals eaten on Brazilian Beaches or at Bangkok Street stalls. When several paragraphs about transport hassles and mundane hotel mix-ups are tacked on, you start to realize that whatever the postcard’s failings, it at least had the merit of brevity.

to arrive. That may not have been true 20 years ago, when people went on trips of lavish duration – a three-week meander through Europe, say, or a monthlong U.S. tour. But in these days of city breaks and three-night packages, you usually get home before your postcards do. As holiday rituals go, it’s commonly supposed that there’s nothing nicer than sitting in a Florentine café or Beijing teahouse, with postcards fanned in front of you to craft elegant missives to loved ones. But the attractions of sending your wish-you-were-heres digitally are harder to resist. Techno-hipsters post their itineraries on a Friendster bulletin board, a great way to keep peers informed and gather travel tips. Why queue in a dingy post office when you can just use your phone to take a picture of the Acropolis or the Kremlin and fire it off to anyone you like? If you don’t have a phone with a built-in camera, you can use your laptop: the Web is filled with e-card sites that allow you to click on images of well-

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Altman’s out of step The great director comes unstuck with a ballet film THE COMPANY (112 mins, 12A) Directed by Robert Altman; starring Neve Campbell, Malcolm McDowell, James Franco

DEMONLOVER (120 mins, n.c.) Directed by Olivier Assayas; starring Connie Nielsen, Charles Berling, Chloë Sevigny, Gina Gershon

LAWS OF ATTRACTION (90 mins, 12A) Directed by Peter Howitt; starring Pierce Brosnan, Julianne Moore

CONFESSIONS OF A TEENAGE DRAMA QUEEN (93 mins, PG) Directed by Sara Sugarman; starring Lindsay Lohan, Glenne Headly

MARRIED/UNMARRIED (100 mins, 18) Directed by Noli; starring Paoli Seganti, Ben Daniels, Gina Bellman, Kristen McMenamy

RE-INVENTING EDDIE (93 mins, 15) Directed by Jim Doyle; starring John Lynch, Geraldine Somerville, John Thomson

ANAZAPTA (110 mins, 15) Directed by Alberto Sciamma; starring Lena Headey, Jason Flemyng, Ian McNeice

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families, to bear on the Joffrey Ballet troupe of Chicago. Sadly the result is infinitely inferior to his last film, the splendid Gosford Park. Indeed, along with Prêt-à-Porter, it’s one of his few real duds. As chilly and slow-moving as a glacier, but rather less translucent, Olivier Assayas’s Demonlover is a business conspiracy thriller dealing in pornography. A French conglomerate is working with an American firm in the satellite TV business to bankrupt their chief competitors by acquiring a controlling interest in a Japanese manufacturer of pornographic 3-D animé. All the men and women involved are utterly corrupt, everyone is betraying or doing down everyone else, and porn is a metaphor for impersonality, the abuse of power and a blinkered morality. It’s fun for a while, but gets steadily more opaque, elliptical and annoying. Directed by Peter Howitt, who made the amusing Sliding Doors, Laws of Attraction is a comedy about two highprofile New York divorce lawyers played by Pierce Brosnan and Julianne Moore, who fight in court, bicker outside and fall www.examen-cd.nl ▬


in love. In the past it might have been the first draft of a screenplay for Tracy and Hepburn or Day and Hudson. But the five credited writers haven’t managed to equip it with five decent jokes. Brosnan and Moore haven’t got a straw to grasp, let alone bricks to build with. In Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen, also the work of a British director (Sara Sugarman), a New York teenager (the delightful Lindsay Lohan) exiled to suburban New Jersey, would do anything to attend the farewell Manhattan gig of her hero, another foulmouthed drunken British pop star (Adam Garcia). The heroine is eager to appear in Pygmalion but settles for the lead in the school production of Eliza Rocks, a musical transposition of Shaw’s play to present-day New York. On the whole a superior example of its genre. A trio of British movies, all made three years ago, are being simultaneously released by the same distributor. They are, I regret to say, largely without merit. Married/Unmarried is a pretentious four-hander in which two pairs of well-heeled young Londoners, one married, the other single, talk in

different combinations about life, love, infidelity and transgressive sex. The second British film, Jim Doyle’s Re-Inventing Eddie, has been opened up from a one-character play, but retains the frequent monologues delivered straight to camera. John Lynch, a brooding actor who exudes sadness from every pore, plays a Warrington factory worker whose two small children are taken away from him when over-zealous teachers and social workers wrongly suspect him of sexual abuse. His subsequent conduct – violent, childish, criminally irresponsible – helps to dig his grave, though the movie contrives an unsatisfactory sentimental ending. The third film retrieved from the shelf is Anazapta, a medieval tale shot in Wales by the Spanish director of videos and commercials, Alberto Sciamma, about the Black Death coming to England in the mid-fourteenth century. A decent British cast struggle with mud and terrible dialogue. The spirit of St Turgid, the patron saint of lowbudget historical movies, hovers over the proceedings and it’s to be avoided like – well, like the plague. The Observer

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“YES, IT WORKS!” (titel) Leg uit wat met “it” bedoeld wordt. “The plan went wrong” (line 28) These words refer to the fact that A David3108 took a different approach. (lines 7-8) B the writer thought that David3108 seemed nice but boring. (lines 13-14) C the writer ended up engaged to David3108. (lines 19-20) D the writer still had a month left on her membership. (lines 20-21)

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Waarvoor wordt de “microchip” volgens alinea 1 gebruikt?

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Which of the following was a reason for Brad Stevens to introduce the chip at Bar Soba? He wanted to A make it easier to keep out unwanted customers. B prevent customers from slipping away without paying the bill. C provide extra service to frequent club visitors.

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“There are a number of advantages” (alinea 4, eerste regel) Naast voordelen staan in dit artikel ook nadelen. Welke twee nadelen van de chip worden er in de alinea’s 4-8 genoemd? Which of the following descriptions fits Steve van Soest best? A He is a club owner who wants to introduce the chip. B He is a customer who is enthusiastic about his chip. C He is a patient who wants his medical data stored on the chip. D He is a researcher who is studying further possibilities for the chip. E He is a volunteer who has had the chip implanted to test it. Which of the following is true of paragraph 7? It explains that the chip was originally only meant to be used in animals. It stresses that the medical consequences of chip implantation are still unclear. C It suggests that there is little physical risk involved in having the chip implanted. A B

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What is the main aim of the article? To report on new microchip technology. To ridicule microchip innovations. To stimulate the sale of microchips. To warn against the abuse of microchips.

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Welke twee maatschappelijke problemen wil Cristina Odone illustreren met de voorbeelden in alinea 1?

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What is the main function of paragraph 3? A To elaborate the statement made in the last sentence of paragraph 2. B To give further examples of the situation described in paragraph 2. C To present a new point of view about the issues brought up in paragraph 2. D To sketch some consequences of the developments mentioned in paragraph 2.

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Which explanation for obesity is given in paragraph 4? A Fast food has a negative influence on people’s daily eating habits. B People overeat as a protest against being made to feel imperfect by the media. C The women’s liberation movement has condemned dieting as being basically sexist. D Unhealthy food products are being advertised on too large a scale.

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Welke twee kwalijke aspecten heeft het winstbejag van fastfoodproducenten volgens Eric Schlosser (alinea’s 5-6)?

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What is the tone of “or until his first heart attack” (end of paragraph 6)? A Cheerful. B Indifferent. C Neutral. D Sarcastic.

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What is big business criticised for in paragraph 7? A For attaching too much importance to the appearance of employees. B For forcing ideas on people about what they should look like. C For profiting from problems that it has created itself.

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Which of the following could best serve as a slogan for the “Anybody” campaign? A Beauty comes in various shapes. B Be smart and be slim. C Fast food is fat food. D Good looks are a weighty matter. E Size does matter.

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Tekst 5 Is the biotechnology revolution a myth? What A It B It C It D It

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“The results, published in Trends in Biotechnology” (alinea 3, eerste zin) Welk positief resultaat heeft biotechnologisch onderzoek opgeleverd, volgens Paul Nightingale en Paul Martin?

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“The results, published in Trends in Biotechnology” (alinea 3, eerste zin) Wat is volgens Paul Nightingale en Paul Martin het bewijs dat biotechnologisch onderzoek weinig resultaat heeft opgeleverd?

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Which of the following summarises the opinion of the ABPI (paragraph 4)? Biotechnological research A deserves none of the criticism offered. B has not produced any useful medicines so far. C needs more time to prove its practical worth.

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Geef voor elk van de onderstaande beweringen aan of deze wel of niet in overeenstemming is met de inhoud van de alinea’s 5-7. 1 De mens heeft veel meer genen dan enig ander organisme. 2 Het decoderen van het menselijke genoom zal veel geld gaan opleveren. 3 Het menselijke genoom bestaat uit veel minder genen dan men aanvankelijk dacht. 4 Wetenschappers begrijpen nog niet volledig hoe genen werken. Noteer het nummer van elke bewering, gevolgd door “wel” of “niet”.

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“the idea … is a myth” (paragraph 2, second sentence) How does paragraph 3 relate to this statement? Paragraph 3 A contradicts it. B sums up its consequences. C supports it. D tones it down.

“A century later, life scientists could be facing a similar lesson.” (last sentence of the text) What lesson is meant here? A One should never doubt one’s own theories. B Seemingly unimportant factors may play a very important role. C The present cannot be understood without taking the past into account.

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Tekst 6 Cannabis: a burning issue 1p

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What is the main point made by Jeffrey Morgan in his letter? A Cannabis contains a substance that seriously affects people’s mental abilities. B Cannabis may well be less of a threat to public health than alcohol. C Smoking cannabis combined with drinking alcohol is very dangerous. D The popular press has exaggerated the dangers of cannabis use.

Tekst 7 See the couple in the bar? That’s Mr and Mrs Copper “There are many, I know, who will applaud this police initiative.” (regels 22-23) Wat is volgens de schrijver het doel van dit initiatief en welk middel gebruikt de politie om dit doel te bereiken? Baseer beide delen van het antwoord op de eerste alinea.

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To which of the following does “political correctness” (line 36) refer? A “There is ... drink drivers.” (lines 1-5) B “They will ... are drinking.” (lines 9-10) C “We are ... countless lives.” (lines 23-27) D “many more ... hurting anybody” (lines 29-34)

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What does the writer mainly wish to express in lines 37-45 (“It really … worth taking.”)? A His anger at public misbehaviour. B His disgust at drink driving. C His regret at having been a drink driver. D His sadness over losing so many friends.

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Which of the following fits the gap in line 61 of the text? A in full uniform B less openly C more often D until closing time

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Which of the following can be concluded from the seventh paragraph (lines 62-74)? A The authorities are not allowed to use illegal methods to maintain the law. B The police have their own reasons for tackling drink driving as they do. C The public is well aware that the police need to work efficiently.

“Most Britons ... the pub.” (regels 54-57) Met welk ander woord heeft de schrijver dit gevoel al eerder verwoord? Citeer dit woord uit de tekst.

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Eindexamen Engels havo 2007-I havovwo.nl 1p

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What does the writer suggest in the eighth paragraph (lines 75-85)? A People nowadays need the police more than they used to do. B The police have lost sight of their proper role in society. C The police rely too much on the co-operation of the public. D The public image of the police is rapidly getting worse.

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What is the aim of the ninth paragraph (lines 86-95)? To portray the police as A ambitious. B arrogant. C concerned. D reckless.

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Welke alinea in dit artikel is sarcastisch van toon? Noteer de eerste drie woorden van deze alinea.

Tekst 8 Class conscious 1p

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What is the example in the first two paragraphs meant to illustrate? A The fact that more and more middle-class people are forced to beg for money. B The idea that homeless people are more aggressive than they have ever been. C The subtle and persuasive ways in which beggars ask for money these days.

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Welke alinea van de column van Andrew Martin is spottend bedoeld? Noteer het nummer van deze alinea.

Tekst 9 She takes care of the elderly and supports fat cats 1p

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Wat is volgens deze advertentie van de vakbond UNISON de belangrijkste motivatie van veel mensen om in de zorg te werken? Citeer als antwoord een zinsgedeelte van maximaal twee woorden.

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Geef voor elk van de onderstaande uitspraken aan of deze volgens de tekst wel of niet in overeenstemming is met de opvattingen van UNISON. 1 De voordelen van privatisering wegen zwaarder dan de nadelen. 2 Door privatisering van publieke diensten komt publiek geld bij de verkeerde personen terecht. 3 Ouderen worden onvoldoende geïnformeerd over de privatisering van de thuiszorg. 4 Vrouwelijke werknemers bij publieke diensten verdienen minder dan hun mannelijke collega’s. Noteer het nummer van elke uitspraak, gevolgd door “wel” of “niet”.

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Lees bij de volgende opgaven steeds eerst de vraag voordat je de bijbehorende tekst raadpleegt.

Tekst 10 Postcards on the Edge

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“The digital age spells the end of a venerable vacation tradition.” (inleiding) Wordt er behalve technologie nog een reden in de tekst genoemd die de afgenomen populariteit van het versturen van ansichtkaarten verklaart? Zo nee, antwoord “Nee”. Zo ja, noteer de eerste twee woorden van de alinea waarin deze reden staat. “But are e-cards and text messages really better?” (inleiding) Wordt er in de tekst een voordeel genoemd van het versturen van ansichtkaarten? Zo nee, antwoord “Nee”. Zo ja, noteer de eerste twee woorden van de alinea waarin dit voordeel staat.

Tekst 11 Altman’s out of step 1p

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Is er bij de besproken films (zie de titels links bovenaan) een film die de recensent positief beoordeelt? Zo nee, antwoord “Nee”. Zo ja, noteer de titel van deze film.

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