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From VOA Learning English, this is the ______________________ report. Vietnam is working to
meet goals for food __________________and food security. In doing so, the government
__________________use of pesticides and other chemicals on _________. Farmers use these
______________ to help crops grow and protect them from ________________ and other threats.
Signs along roads in Vietnam say: "Do not abuse pesticides. Think of the buyer." But the
_______________ has few rules restricting the _______ of pesticides. Some Vietnamese are so
____________ about the issue that they buy food only from _________________________ they
know. There is a _____________ that can help food shoppers. It ___________ stores in Hanoi that
sell safe vegetables. The Vietnamese buyers` group, Vinastas, set up the website in 2011. Dang
Kiem Hien is part of the _____________ that runs the site. She says stores have to meet the
____________________ to be included on the website. For example, they must ____________
they get their vegetables from __________ who do not use chemicals. Ms.Dang says a _________
will be _______________ from the list if it does not obey the rules. Eduardo Sabio is with VECO,
a Belgian non-government agriculture ____________. It supports the local website. Mr. Sabio says
_______________ misuse in Vietnam is a real problem. He says there is a ________________ to
confirm that products are free of men-made ___________. But he says it is too costly for farmers.
Mr.Sabio says the ____________ ____________ website uses what is known as the participatory
_____________system. It supervises food safety through ____________ reports from farmer
groups, traders and local ____________. The system is used in more than twenty countries around
the world. And Mr.Sabio says Vietnamese farmers keep ______________________ notes about
their pesticide use. For VOA Learning English, I`m Caria Babb.

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Worldwide, nearly _______________ as many girls are denied an education as boys. That is
______________ to a new report by the United Nations Education, ___________ and Cultural
Organization, or UNESCO. The Director-General of UNESCO is Irina Bokova. She says a lack of
education _____________ the lives of girls and women from one _____________ to the next.
Across sub-Saharan _________________, 9.5 million girls will never be in a classroom. That
_________________ to 5 million boys, according to the ____________ report. More than _____
million children aged 6 to 11 are ___________ __________ _________ across the region. The
gender gap is wider in South and West Asia, where 80 ___________ of girls will never get a
formal ____________. That compares to _______ percent of boys, according to the report. Girls
are the ____________ of the millions of children _____________ school in Arab nations,
UNESCO said. But UNESCO said exact _____________ are not available because of conflicts in
the _____________. Discrimination against girls and women drew ______________ attention in
2012. In that year, Malala Yousafzai, then _____, was shot in the head on her way home
______________ school in Pakistan. The Taliban _______________ her and her family because
the ___________ wanted better education for girls. Malala ____________ the attack. She
continues to advocate for girls education. She gave a __________ on her 16th birthday to the
United Nations. She __________ a book, “I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education
and Was Shot by the Taliban.” In 2014, Malala won the ___________ Peace Prize.

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The new SAT _____________ entrance test is in use. Last ___________, hundreds of
______________ of high school students ________ the newly designed test. It is getting some
_____________ reviews. High school _____________ who took the test say the new ___________
is more direct. The new _________ places less value on the ____________ of language. More
value is ______________ to everyday learning and ______________ thinking by students. On the
______ SAT, students lost ____________ if they estimated or _______________ the wrong
answer. On the new SAT, students _______ _________ __________ points for guessing the wrong
__________. The College Board is the __________- that produces the SAT. The new SAT
_____________ to test reading, writing and _______, with special value given to ___________
examination. Students will have to ______________ that they have an understanding of
___________ in different situations. __________, there are fewer questions, ___________ on the
new test plus one for ___________ a short story or an essay. The old ____________ had 171
questions. Students will have a ______________ about whether to write an ____________. A
perfect score is ___________ with a separate __________ for the essay. Lee Weiss is with Kaplan
Test Prep. He says ___________ should not skip the essay. Many of the top
____________________ look at the essay. Students _________ write their essay in a clear, orderly
style. The College Board has _____________ ________ with online educator Khan Academy to
____________ SAT examples to get ready for the ________ test. It is free for all students, online
at www.khanacadmey.org/

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The United States Federal Bureau of Investigation or FBI has __________ its legal action
___________ Apple. The FBI wanted Apple’s help to _________ _____________ from a locked
iPhone. The iPhone ______ been used by a __________ in an attack in San Bernardino, California
last ______________. A husband and wife killed ______ people in the _____________. Police
later killed the __________ during a gunfight. The FBI sought __________ action to force Apple
to create new ___________. The software would ______________ investigators to use a
_____________ number of passwords to ___________ the iPhone’s database. The government
___________ the information from the __________ would help in its ______________ of the San
Bernardino attack. In ____________, a judge ordered Apple to ________ the FBI. But the agency
___________ in late March that it has been able to _____________ and collect information
___________ the phone ______________ Apple’s help. It asked the __________ to cancel her
order, and she did. The FBI would not say how investigator ___________ in unlocking the iPhone
and _____________ its stored information. Lawyers for Apple say the ________________ wants
to know how the __________ was unlocked. But the FBI’s withdrawal of the legal
_____________ could hurt Apple’s ability to get _________________ from federal
_____________________. The FBI’s success in _____________________ the phone could hurt
Apple’s image. The _________________ is now more likely to question the ______________ of
security on Apple devices.

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Songs teach ________________. Consider a song __________ "Tom's Diner" by Suzanne Vega.
An ______________ teaching English overseas _________ told us that students ___________ that
song.Recently we _____________ people on the Special English Facebook ___________ to
suggest other songs __________ English ______________ might like. Noemi Nito wrote: I'm one
of ____________ English students who love "Tom's Diner." I started _____________ English with
"Lemon Tree" by Fool's Garden. Another ______________ is "Truly Madly Deeply" by Savage
Garden. ____________- person, Asi Tambunan, ________________ the song "God Only Knows"
by Orianthi. Gyongyi Jako wrote that ABBA's songs from Sweden are _____________ for class
work. Other good songs for _____________ English are __________ by the Beatles and John
Lennon, as well as Louis Armstrong's "_________________ __________________." Paul
Cifuentes says Bob Marley's songs are _____________ for teaching. Another teacher, Joseph
Deka, says ____________ by Johnny Cash have always ______________ in his classroom. He
__________ his students can _________ the words, plus the songs often have _____________. He
also likes "We Will Rock You" by Queen and "______________________ Girls" by Sean
Kingston. He says young _____________ love "C Is for Cookie" by Cookie Monster from the TV
show "Sesame ____________-." Nina John Smith ____________ these songs: "It's ____________
Life" and "We Weren't Born to Follow" by Bon Jovi. Also "Nothing Else ______________" by
Metallica.Aurelio Lourenco Costa Gusmao says he _______________ to like English after his
_____________ played the Westlife song "I Have a Dream." He wrote: That was ______ years
ago. I was in the seventh ________. And from that day on, my dream of _______________ my
English skills became ____________ in my mind. Teachers can use this ___________ to convey
the message to their _____________ that they should have their ________ dream for the
_______________. Aurelio's story was no _______________ to another commenter, Katie
Kivenko. She ______________ likes songs by Michael Jackson and ________________. She
wrote: When you ____________ to your favorite songs, you feel ______________ high and it
moves you to action.For VOA Special English, I'm Alex Villarreal. Do you have any
__________________ songs for learning English? You can share other music
____________________ for English learners at our website, voaspecialenglish.com or on
Facebook at VOA Learning English. We are also on Twitter and iTunes.

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Steven Weinberger is the _______________ of linguistics in the English _____________________ at George
Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. Students in his _______________ phonetics class are mostly interested
in teaching English as a _____________ language. They wanted to study how ____________ speakers
pronounce different ____________. "So we sent the _________________ out to record non-native speakers,
and we _______________ those speakers to each other and to native speakers of English."Professor
Weinberger wrote a sixty-nine-word _______________ for all of the _____________ to read. The paragraph
uses __________________ words but contains almost all of the _______________ used in English. Here it is:
"Please call Stella. Ask her to _______________ these things with her from the store: __________ spoons of
fresh snow _________, five thick slabs of ___________ cheese, and maybe a _____________ for her brother
Bob. We also need a _______________ _____________ snake and a big toy frog for the kids. She can scoop
these things into ____________ red bags, and we will go meet her _____________ at the train station."In
nineteen ninety-nine, Professor Weinberger put the __________________ online. The Speech Accent Archive
is for anyone who wants to _____________ and analyze the accents of different English ____________.Some
people think the _______________ would be better if it included __________________ speech -- people
talking freely, not just ________________ the same words. Professor Weinberger recognizes the
___________________ and weaknesses of his site. "The _______________ plus, of course, is that it is so
_______________ that you can ______________________ compare a Kiswahili speaker to a ____________-
English speaker. But the ________________ is that a less-than-skilled reader will have
___________________ with the paragraph that might not ________________ their true phonetic
abilities."People often use ____________ from their first language until they can ______________ the ones
used in the _____________ they are learning.Professor Weinberger _____________ he site gets a million
visits a month. "We get _____________ from speech pathologists, from computational engineers who do
speech processing, from PhD students who want to do research on bias and accent judgments, from actors
who need to learn a special part."The archive contains more than one thousand five hundred recordings.
Professor Weinberger would like more people to send in their own samples. There are about six thousand
languages in the world today. The archive only has samples from about three hundred fifty of them. For VOA
Special English, I'm Alex Villarreal.