A text begins with a concise description of a recent scientific finding, attributes information to researchers, provides background on previous studies, and includes quotations from specialists.
Which genre is consistent with these characteristics?

During a listening activity, students hear the sentence "You could have told me earlier" in spontaneous speech and report that could have sounds different from its isolated pronunciation.
Regarding listening comprehension in connected speech, mark T, for true, and F, for false.
(   ) Reduced forms may make grammatical words less perceptually salient in spontaneous speech.
(   ) Recognizing every phoneme separately is required before a listener can identify the meaning of the utterance.
(   ) Context and stress patterns can help listeners recover forms that are acoustically reduced.
(   ) Exposure to connected speech may help students develop expectations about common reductions.
Select the alternative that presents the CORRECT sequence.

The article states that there are fears that the death toll could rise further.
The modal could communicates:

Consider the sentence:
"Survivors have been taken to nearby hospitals."
Analyze the statements.
I.The sentence is in the present perfect passive.
II.The grammatical subject refers to the people affected by the action.
III.An active version could be formed by introducing an appropriate agent, such as emergency teams, as the subject.
IV.The passive construction gives greater textual prominence to the survivors than to the unspecified agent.
Select the alternative that presents only the CORRECT statements.

The text includes a headline, a lead presenting the main event, quotations from officials and witnesses, contextual background, and information about subsequent government action.
These characteristics identify the text primarily as:

After reading the article, students are asked to write a short factual summary based only on the text for a school news board.
Which version is appropriate?

The article describes Bukavu as one of DR Congo's most crowded hillside cities and later refers to safety measures being deployed nationwide.
Which analysis of word formation is CORRECT?

Consider the Ministry's statement:
"The minister offered condolences, affirmed solidarity with families, and ordered assessments of affected schools to ensure learning continuity."
Which communicative function is most clearly associated with the reference to condolences and solidarity?

The article reports the Bukavu school fire together with information about casualties, destroyed homes, hospital treatment, previous fires, and the government's response.
Considering the organization of the report, select the CORRECT interpretation.

Read the sentence from the article:
"A witness quoted by Reuters news agency said the fire had been put out by afternoon but smoke was still rising from rubble and corrugated metal."
Regarding the temporal relations expressed by the verbs, mark T, for true, and F, for false. 
(   ) Had been put out presents the extinguishing of the fire as completed before the witness's reported statement.
(   ) Was still rising presents the smoke as an ongoing situation at the reference point described by the witness.
(   ) The use of had been put out places the extinguishing after the smoke had stopped rising.
(   ) The two verb forms allow the report to contrast a completed event with a continuing consequence.
Select the alternative that presents the CORRECT sequence.