the impact of brain-drain

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one part one: reading questions instruction: first, read the reading text carefully; then, use the information to answer the questions that follow. the impact of brain-drain brain-drain, which is the action of having highly skilled and educated people leaving their country to work abroad, has become one of the developing countries concern. brain-drain is also referred to as human capital flight. more and more third world science and technology educated people are heading for more prosperous countries seeking higher wages and better working conditions. this has of course serious consequences on the sending countries. while many people believe that immigration is a personal choice that must be understood and respected, others look at the phenomenon from a different perspective. what makes those educated people leave their countries should be seriously considered and a distinction between push and pull factors must be made. the push factors include low wages and lack …
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irection i: match the main ideas in ‘a’ with the respective paragraphs in ‘b’ ‘a’ ‘b’ 1. brain-drain impedes the development of sending countries a. paragraph 1 2. brain-drain has been among the challenges of developing countries b. paragraph 2 3. more actions are required to be taken to deal with brain-drain c. paragraph 3 4. two factors contributing to brain-drain as the writer’s view d. paragraph 4 direction ii: write the noun or noun phrase referring to each pronoun below; define the words in bold contextually as well (6%). 1. ‘this’ in paragraph 1 refers to 2. ‘it’ in paragraph 3 refers to 3. ‘their’ in paragraph 4 refers to 4. ‘prosperous’ in paragraph 1 means 5. ‘perspective’ in paragraph 2 means 6. ‘alleviating’ in paragraph 4 means part two: grammar in use direction i: choose one of the infinitives from the box; then, fill in the blank spaces …
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complete the following conversation using appropriate modal verbs of giving advice. journalist: the olympians who were sent to japan from ethiopia for tokyo 2020 olympic games have brought one gold, silver and two bronze medals from about 1000 medals of the competition. even in the long distance races that ethiopia had continually finished first and secured the gold medal in many olympic games, the athletes dropped out of the track. what____________________ the training be like to avoid such a problem in the future? senior athlete: there is rumour that there is a very serious corruption among some of the ethiopian sport federation leaders and clubs involving in athletics training. when there is this kind trend in the sport, it is difficult to find the right athlete. ethiopian culture and tourism ministry_________________________ interfere and try to avoid such a problem before it is too late. journalist: _______________________ letesenbet gidey take part …
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it could have been possible to stop the spread of covid 19 if the first victim of the virus ______________________________ (identify) early. 4. if you do physical exercises regularly, you ___________________________ (have) strong and healthy body. 5. if you____________________________ (miss) the classes, you could have passed the exam. direction iv: first, change the form of the verbs in brackets. then, complete the text below with the appropriate tense. since computers were first introduced to the public in the early 1980’s, technology (change) _______________________a great deal. the first computers (be) ________________ simple machines designed for basic tasks. they (have, not) ___________________much memory and they (be, not) ___________________ very powerful. early computers were often quite expensive and customers (pay) _____________________ thousands of dollars for machines which actually did very little task. most computers (be ) _______________________ separate, individual machines used mostly as expensive typewriters or for playing games. time (change) __________________. computers …
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eir muscles begin to deteriorate. they get weaker and their strength leaves them. exercise can prevent this loss. the same thing happens to people's brains when they get older. brain power and speed decline with age. reading strengthens your brain and prevents these declines. you can benefit from reading in the near-term too. reading provides knowledge. knowledge is power. therefore, reading can make you a more powerful person. you can learn to do new things by reading. do you want to make video games? do you want to design clothing? reading can teach you all this and more. but you have to get good at reading, and the only way to get good at something is to practice. read everything that you can at school, regardless of whether you find it interesting. reading expands your vocabulary. even a "boring" text can teach you new words. having a larger vocabulary will …

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one part one: reading questions instruction: first, read the reading text carefully; then, use the information to answer the questions that follow. the impact of brain-drain brain-drain, which is the action of having highly skilled and educated people leaving their country to work abroad, has become one of the developing countries concern. brain-drain is also referred to as human capital flight. more and more third world science and technology educated people are heading for more prosperous countries seeking higher wages and better working conditions. this has of course serious consequences on the sending countries. while many people believe that immigration is a personal choice that must be understood and respected, others look at the phenomenon from a different perspective. what …

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