WE Dormitory Program

Finland Has World's Best Education System A new report (1) ____________ world education shows Finland has the best system. The global study is called "The Learning Curve" and is from the British (2) ____________ "The Economist". It (3) ____________ to help governments (4) ____________ a better education to students. The 52-page report looked at the education system in 50 countries. Researchers analysed millions of (5) ____________ on exam grades, literacy rates, attendance, and university (6) ____________ rates. Asia did well in the report, with South Korea, Hong Kong, Japan and Singapore (7) ____________ second, third, fourth and fifth. The United States came 17th in the study, while Mexico, Brazil and Indonesia filled the (8) ____________ three positions in the top 50.   The Learning Curve reported on five things that education leaders should (9) ____________. The first is that spending lots of money on schools and teachers does not always (10) ___...

  POLYGAMY The government in Kenya has (1) ____________ on a new law on marriage. It has made many female politicians very angry. The Marriage Bill (2) ____________ men to have as many wives as they want. Men will soon be able to marry other women without even (3) ____________ their wife. There was a big argument between the male and female politicians. Many female lawmakers (4) ____________ out of the debate in anger. The law was going to make it (5) ____________ to have more than one wife, but male lawmakers changed their (6) ____________. One male politician said the law was fair to women. He said that for the first time, women who get (7) ____________ would have 30 per cent of the family house and other things of value (8) ____________ to the couple Kenyan politician Samuel Chepkong'a said the new law (9) ____________ keeps alive Kenya's (10) ____________. He told reporters: "When you marry an African woman, she must know the second one is on the way, and a third wife...

Artificial-Intelligence A scientist said (1) ____________ will be more intelligent than humans by 2029. The scientist's name is Ray Kurzweil. He works for Google as (2) ____________ of Engineering. He is one of the world's (3) ____________ experts on artificial intelligence (A.I.). Mr Kurzweil believes computers will be able to learn from (4) ____________, just like humans. He also thinks they will be able to (5) ____________ jokes and stories, and even flirt. Kurzweil's 2029 prediction is a lot (6) ____________ than many people thought. The scientist said that in 1999, many A.I. (7) ____________ said it would be hundreds of years before a computer was more intelligent than a human. He said that it would not be long before computer intelligence is one billion times more powerful than the human (8) ____________. Mr Kurzweil joked that many years ago, people thought he was a little crazy for (9) ____________ computers would be as intelligent as humans. His thinking has staye...