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Q 1 READ the newspaper article about twins and look at the photos. What do you think
happens at a Twins Days Festival?

Notes from the Twins Days Festival

Jim Lodge, The Sunset Times

The opening day of the Twins Days Festival was an exciting one. Over 2000 sets
of twins arrived for three full days of fun. Everyone was looking forward to all the
scheduled events—picnics, talent shows, parades, and contests.
I found that there was a serious side to the festival, too. A lot of scientific research
was going on. One afternoon, while I was walking around, I stopped by a research tent.

Inside, technicians were photographing sets of twins, collecting their fingerprints, and y
scanning their irises.' They were using the latest face-recognition software to try to tell /
the twins apart. As one scientist explained, “Although identical twins may look the same

to you and me, a digital imaging system can spot tiny differences in freckles,” skin pores,?

or the curve of their eyebrows.”

Some twins were a challenge for the researchers. For example, it was hard to tell
Dave and Don Wolf apart because their beards covered half of their faces. I looked very

carefully at the brothers, but I didn’t see any difference at all. They seemed absolutely
identical to me. But I had the very same reaction to almost every set of twins at the

festival. It was like seeing double all the time!

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