1. Girl Back Home 7 Years After Tsunami.
A teenage Indonesian girl ______________________ Indian Ocean tsunami on Boxing Day seven years ago has been reunited with her family. Fifteen-year-old Wati was eight when the devastating ______________________ village of Ujong Baroh in Sumatra’s Aceh province. Her family survived the ______________________ little Wati was carried away. The last time her mother saw her was when the water carried the little girl away. She was desperately clinging to her three children ______________________ keep them all together, but her ______________________ as she lost her grip on Wati. Yusniar never thought she would see her daughter alive again. Wati’s family ______________________ to find her but no one reported seeing her alive.
A miracle happened last Wednesday when her grandfather Ibrahim, who lived in another town, got a visit from ______________________ was with a teenage girl. Wati had visited the old man in his coffee shop. She told him she was trying to get back to her village but did ______________________. Ibrahim ______________________ might be his long-lost grand-daughter but she could not remember any of her parents’ of relatives’ names, except Ibrahim’s. Wati’s identity ______________________ her parents several days later from a mole and a ______________________ that she got when she was six years old. It is still ______________________ to Wati in her seven-year absence. The deadly tsunami killed more than 150,000 people in several Indian Ocean nations.
2. Explicit lyrics warning on online music.
A new scheme has been put into place online to warn __________________ lyrics on music downloads. There has been a similar warning on CDs and DVDs for many years. It is __________________ songs that are available for purchase on the Internet. Apple's iTunes Store has __________________ for several years by stating whether or not a download contains __________________ for children’s ears. It places the word ‘explicit’ next to songs parents need to be warned about. It also puts the logo ‘clean’ next to songs that people __________________ being explicit. The warning for explicit lyrics will now appear next to music and video files on sites such as Amazon and Napster. This will allow parents __________________ their children’s music is too old for them.
The scheme __________________ the British Phonographic Industry (BPI). It comes after calls from parents concerned about the __________________ of songs available online that contain foul, explicit or offensive language. BPI chief executive Geoff Taylor said: “We know that the __________________ logo on CDs and DVDs has been a useful tool for parents…. We believe that parents need the __________________ when their children are downloading or __________________ or videos online, so we have extended the logo to digital music services.” Singer Jamelia said she worried about what her two children listen to online and agreed that the logo “gives parents the ability to quickly ___________________ whether a song or music video is right for their child”.
