5. What does Michinori Watanabe's story add to the broadcast? 6. Is it important to hear Watanabe's firsthand account translated for an English audience? Explain.
7. What information does Emily Camlee-Wright provide?
8. Why do you think Shankar Vedantam includes the economist's thoughts after the stories of
people in disaster situations?
9. The central idea is reiterated at the end of the broadcast. How does the story of the fishing
villages contribute to the central idea?
10. What have you learned about the nature of survival by listening to this podcast?

Does anyone know the answers to these two? i don’t want to have to guess, you!

Read the extract below and identify the three kind(s) of bias that are apparent within it. despite being reintroduced in the 1600s by idle, muddle-headed aristocrats in order to be slaughtered for fun, all the wild boars that were brought to australia from the continent eventually died out. for the next 300 years there were no boars in australia, but in the 1980s farmers saw a chance to diversify and began to import and farm them. some of these beautiful, intelligent animals escaped and established herds of their own, once again living wild and purely natural lives. while their ideal home is in woodland, boars are hardy and are able to live in multiple habitats. a/ mistreatment of opposing views b/ positive stereotyping c/ subjective vocabulary d/ personal attacks e/statistics f/ corporate bias e/ negative stereotyping g/ offensive language

Which statement best describes the effect of the metaphor on the excerpt's meaning? o a. it compares the sloshing liquid to a river of water able to push apart the sidewalk o b. it makes the frozen crystals seem like friends to the city to contrast with what a deceitful foe they are. o c. it compares the frozen crystals to delicately lacy snowflakes having arn unexpected strength o d. it likens h20 molecules to hexagonal crystals, which are actually larger than people imagine.