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\(\boxed{1}\) Imagine that you are preparing a project with your friend. You have found some interesting material for the presentation and you want to read this text to your friend. You have 1.5 minutes to read the text silently, then be ready to read it out aloud. You will not have more than 1.5 minutes to read it.

It is no secret that all over the world the population is ageing. Fertility declines along with maternal mortality, people retire later and live longer. Such phenomena occur due to the absence of major military conflicts, an increase in living standards, the development of medicine and science, including due to which it became possible to practically eliminate the problem of hunger. Today we are the healthiest and most well-fed people in history.

Thanks to modern technologies that are updated every year, life expectancy is rapidly increasing even in the presence of chronic diseases. And futurologists promise not only prostheses of limbs, but also of internal organs. Thus, physically people will feel great. But what about psychological health? One of the most common diseases of our time among the conventionally young is depression, and among the conventionally elderly it is dementia. Scientists have been struggling to develop a cure for these ailments for many years. But so far without significant results.

Now choose the correct pronunciation for the words from the text.

Declines [[deklaɪn]|[dɪˈklaɪn]]

Maternal [[məˈtɜːnəl]|[mɒˈtɜːnəl]]

Phenomena [[fəˈnɒmɪnə]|[fənɒˈmɪnə]]

Medicine [[ˈmedɪsɪnə]|[ˈmedsn]]

Eliminate [[eˈlɪmɪneɪt]|[ɪˈlɪmɪneɪt]]

Chronic [[ˈkrɒnɪk]|[ˈtʃrɒnɪk]]

Expectancy [[ekˈspektənsɪ]|[ɪkˈspektənsɪ]]

Psychological [[saɪkəˈlɒdʒɪkl]|[psɪkəˈlɒdʒɪkl]]