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6. The rate of internet use in Brooklyn is unlikely to increase in the near future

5. Michele Ver Ploeg believes the Brooklyn project website should contain additional information

4. The city government has taken a considerable interest in the Brooklyn project website

3. The Brooklyn project has experienced technical difficulties setting up the website

2. The Brooklyn project team carries out their assessment of stores without the owner’s knowledge

1. A group of professional researchers are in charge of the Brooklyn project.

❓Questions 1-6 Do the following statements agree with the information given in the Passage? TRUE: if the statement agrees with the information ✅ FALSE: if the statement contradicts the information ❌ NOT GIVEN: if there is no information on this 🤷🏻‍♂️

Paragraph 2: Experts who visited the Brooklyn group’s site were optimistic but cautious. ‘This kind of detailed information could be very useful’ says Michele Ver Ploeg, an economist for the Department of Agriculture. To make the map more helpful to both residents and policy makers, she would like to see price data for healthy products, too. Karen Ansel, a registered dietician and a spokesperson for the American Dietetic Association, found the site confusing to navigate. ‘That said, with this information in place the group has the tools to build a more user-friendly site that could be … very helpful to consumers’, she says. ‘The group also should ensure their map is available to those who don’t have internet access at home’, she adds. In fact, a significant proportion of Brooklyn residents don’t have internet access at home and 8 percent rely on dial-up service, instead of high-speed internet access, according to Gretchen Maneval, director of Brooklyn College’s Center for the Study of Brooklyn. ‘It’s still very much a work in progress’, Heehs says of the online map. They’ll start advertising it online and by email to other community groups, such as urban food garden associations, next month. He also hopes warmer days in the spring will draw out fresh volunteers to spread awareness and to finish surverying, as they have about two-thirds of Brooklyn left to cover.

Paragraph 1: The Brooklyn project differs in that it’s run by a local core of five volunteers who have worked on the project for the past year, rather than trained, academic researchers. To gather data, they simply go to individual stores with pre-printed surveys in hand, and once the storekeeper’s permission has been obtained, check off boxes on their list against the products for sole in the store. Their approach to data collection and research has been made possible by technologies such as mapping software and GPS-related smart phones, Google Maps and OpenStreetMap, an open-source online map with a history of involvement in social issues. Like Brooklyn Food Association volunteers, many citizen online map makers use maps to bring local problems to official attention, Goodchild says. Heehs, the mapping project leader, says that after his group gathers more data, it will compare neighborhoods, come up with solutions to address local needs, and then present them to New York City officials. Their website hasn’t caught them much local or official attention yet, however. It was launched only recently, but its creators haven’t yet set up systems to see who’s looking at it.

#reading - "How to find your way out of a food desert?" Ordinary citizens have been using the internet to draw attention to the lack of healthy eating options in inner cities

7. My teacher has been sick _____ last Monday

6. Lisa and Jill have been at the library _____ a long time

5. I have been calling you _____ half-an-hour.

4. She has worked there _____ she finished college

3. My family has lived here _____ last March

2. I studied for this test _____ three days straight

1. That lady has been waiting for the bus _____ noon

FOR or SINCE? 🤩 Let's test your knowledge! Fill in the blanks with FOR (how long) or SINCE (when it started). Aim for a 7/7! ✨