• ☐ ☐ ☐ demand [v] - strongly ask for something
• ☐ ☐ ☐ mass [adj] - affecting many people
• ☐ ☐ ☐ starvation [n] - extreme hunger, lack of food
• ☐ ☐ ☐ latest [adj] - most recent
• ☐ ☐ ☐ a round of talks [exp] - official discussions
• ☐ ☐ ☐ court files [n] - official legal documents
• ☐ ☐ ☐ a sex-offender [n] - a person guilty of a sexual crime
• ☐ ☐ ☐ piece together [exp] - understand by collecting clues
• ☐ ☐ ☐ inscriptions [n] - words carved into wood, stone, metal, etc.
• ☐ ☐ ☐ the origin [n] - the beginning
• ☐ ☐ ☐ enhance [v] - improve, make better
• ☐ ☐ ☐ decipher [v] - figure out unclear writing or code

[n] - noun,  [v] - verb,  [phv] - phrasal verb,  [adj] - adjective,  [exp] - expression

1. The World Health Organization wants full access to Gaza to provide aid.
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2. Russia and Ukraine met for several hours to discuss peace.
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3. They made some key agreements during their talks.
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4. The White House confirmed that Donald Trump's name appears in court files related to Jeffrey Epstein.
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5. A new artificial intelligence tool may help historians better understand ancient Russian inscriptions.
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Directions: What expressions from the video have the same meaning as the highlighted expressions in the sentences below?

1. He described the situation there as man-made mass [ famine, great hunger ].

   [ starvation ]

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2. Historian face many problems in [ reconstructing, understanding ] the past from ancient inscriptions.

   [ piecing together ]

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3. A new artificial intelligence tool could [ improve ] our understanding of human history.

   [ enhance ]

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4. It could help [ decode ] damaged inscriptions from ancient Rome.

   [ decipher ]

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Directions: Choose the most natural word (only one word) for each blank.

Instrucciones: Elige la palabra más natural (solo una palabra) para cada espacio en blanco.

Instruções: Escolha a palavra mais natural (apenas uma palavra) para cada espaço em branco.

지시 사항: 빈칸마다 가장 자연스러운 단어(한 단어만)를 선택하세요.

• The head (of) the World Health Organization has demanded full access for aid into Gaza, describing (the) situation there (as) man-made mass starvation.
• (The) latest round of talks between Russia and Ukraine (has) ended in less (than) an hour without (any) major agreements.
• The White House has rejected a Wall Street Journal report that Donald Trump (was) told (in) May his name appeared in court files related (to) the dead sex-offender Jeffrey Epstein.
• Historian face many problems in piecing together the past (from) ancient inscriptions.
• They (are) usually incomplete. And also their origin and date may not (be) known.
• But now (a) new artificial intelligence tool could enhance our understanding of human history (by) helping decipher damaged inscriptions from ancient Rome.