B) Read the articles from ''The Daily Telegraph'' July, 2003 and match the above headlines with the proper article.

a) European Union research programmes receiving nearly £500 million from British taxpayers every year are cumbersome, tardy and unfocused, say MPs.

Britain seemed to gain more than most countries participating in "EU framework programmes", but that did not necessarily mean value for money, said the House of Commons science and technology committee yesterday. It doubted the European Commission's commitment to cutting bureaucracy.

The report attacked the Treasury for clawing back money won from the EU by British scientists by cutting the national science budget.

b) An accounts clerk was jailed yesterday for four years for stealing more than £400,000 from her City employer.

Natasha Saleh-Niessl, 32, an Austrian living in Market Harborough, Leics, and earning £34,000 a year, started a property portfolio and paid for foreign trips with money taken from the investment bank CAIB with 131 forged cheques, the Old Bailey was told.

c) A teenager appeared in court yesterday charged with the attempted murder of a policeman in Glasgow on Sunday night.

Paul Murray, 19, of Barlanark, Glasgow, is alleged to have shot Pc John Cunningham, 53, a father of two, at Shettleston police station. He was remanded in custody when he appeared at Glasgow Sheriff Court.

d) Two reels of previously unseen soundless film footage depicting John Lennon walking around New York City in 1974 sold for almost £36,000 at Christie's yesterday. The film was made by a young man who approached the former Beetle and asked if he could portray a day in his life. At the same sale in New York, Lennon's handwritten lyrics for the song If You’ve Got Trouble, which did not appear on a Beatles album until 1996, sold for £ 25,500.

a) TENleading entrepreneurs have been nominated for a business award – The Entrepreneurs' Entrepreneur – organised by the CBI and Real Business magazine. The winner will be selected by CBI members, readers of the magazine and visitors to the website of the Growing Business Awards, www.growing businessawards.co.uk.

The 10 are Charles Dunstone, Sir Alan Sugar, Selios Haji-loannou, James Dyson, Sir Ken Morrison, Dame Anita Roddick, Sir Richard Branson, Graham Wylie, Sir Tom Farmer and Philip Green.

b) SMALL companies are moving quickly to try to cap pension liabilities, according to survey results. More than two-thirds of defined schemes sponsored by small and medium-sized businesses are closed to new entrants, says Momentum, the independent financial adviser.

c) SMALL businesses are being encouraged to apply for next year's Queen's Awards for Enterprise. The closing date for the three categories, international trade, innovation and sustainable development is October 31. Contact 0870 513 4486 or www.queens awards.org.uk for an entry pack.

d) The former Tory Cabinet minister Jonathan Aitken called on North Korea to end its human rights violations and release 100,000 prisoners held in ''barbaric'' camps.

He was speaking as a trustee of the charity Christian Solidarity Worldwide, which fights religious persecution.

Mr. Aitken handed a letter and a banner reading "Respect human rights" and "Allow religious freedom" to a representative of North Korea's embassy in London.

Tomorrow is the 50th anniversary of the end of the Korean War, but Mr. Aitken said: "We also need to remember the immense personal suffering over the last 50 years in North Korea."

e) A battle between the confectionery group Nestle and its rival Mars over the use of the term "Have a break" will go to the European Court of Justice, the Court of Appeal in London ruled yesterday.

The dispute is over whether the catchphrase – used by Nestle to promote Kit Kat – is sufficiently distinctive to merit trademark status. Nestle wants to prevent competitors launching a bar named after the term.

Note. The topic of the article usually specifies what the article is about. The topic is formulated in a phrase. Some articles can have one major theme and several minor topics, which are closely connected with the major one. It may appear as a headline or title sometimes.

The main idea develops the topic and is formulated in a sentence, which introduces the readers to the essence of the article. The main idea is a sentence that expresses the most important point the author wants the reader to understand about the topic of the article.

YOUNG cyclist Luke Johnson, nine, has raised more than £200 for charity in a 27-mile bicycle challenge. Luke, a Year Four pupil at St Mary's Primary School, Chippenham, took part in the Wiltshire Heart Cycle to raise money for the British Heart Foundation. The challenge began at Lydiard Park, Swindon, and followed a circular route around the town.

Luke was the youngest person to complete the circuit, which he did in just over four hours. His uncle rode with him.

"It turned out to be an endurance test due to the very high temperature on Sunday," said Luke's mother, Rose Johnson. She said he was determined to complete the race and to help a good cause by raising as much money as possible.

The ride followed the hugely successful London to Brighton challenge last month, in which more than 27,000 cyclists took part.

3. A young cyclist participation in raising charity money in the Wiltshire Heart Cycle.

1. A nine-year-old cyclist from St. Mary's Primary School took an active part in raising charity money for the British Heart Foundation.

2. The Wiltshire Heart Cycle was organized around Swindon to raise charity money for the British Heart Foundation

3. The Wiltshire Heart Cycle was a successful continuation of the previous month challenge from London to Brighton to raise charity money for the British Heart Foundation.

CLIMATE change will extend the summer tourist season in Scottish islands and the Isle of Man and make summers in the Channel Isles much hotter, scientists said yesterday.

The report published by the British-Irish Council, created from the Good Friday Agreement, predicts warmer, drier summers and milder, wetter winters on islands off Britain. Sea levels will also rise.

The most dramatic change will be in the south, with summer rainfall in the Charm Islands falling by nearly half by the end of the century, the report by the Hadley Center part of the Met Office, predicts.

The report, which emphasizes that there are uncertain ties in the predictions, intended to be used to prepare regions for climate change, caused mainly by emissions of carbon from industry and transport.

1. The climate changes caused mainly by the emission of carbon from industry and transport may lead to the dreadful changes in tourist business.

2. The report of the British-Irish Council on possible changes of the climate deals with the changes of summer and winter temperatures and rising of the sea level.

3. The report of the British-Irish Council cautiously predicts some changes in the Channel Isles climate, which may lead to the extension of the tourist season.

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