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Exercise 3. In the box below there are some more words associated with computers and the Internet, divide the words into those you think are specifically connected with the Internet and those simply connected with computers.
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Exercise 3. In the box below there are some more words associated with computers and the Internet, divide the words into those you think are specifically connected with the Internet and those simply connected with computers.
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VARIANT 2
Exercise 1. Read the text and choose the correct answer in the sentences below.
THE INTERNET
Since the early times communication played a crucial role in human society. All the previous ways of communication set the stage for the present unprecedented integration of communication capabilities, which we call Internet. Internet revolutionized the communication world like nothing before. If you are a Netizen (Net citizen), you can consider any person on the Net your compatriot. It does not matter where this person lives. In the virtual reality of the Net you live next door to everyone. There are no borders for the Internet, you work in cyberspace. Every person on the Net can make an intellectual contribution to the global society. It means that access to the Net needs to be universal. It is a long way to go to achieve this goal, but a lot has been done in this direction already. In the United States, you can get unlimited number of hours on the Internet paying about $20. 00 a month and this cost is definitely going down. The universities provide free access to the Net for their students, professors, staff, etc. Many businesses are also connected and allow their employees to use the Net for business purposes. Most public libraries now offer free on line service through their computers. There is another process going on with the Internet – its commercialization. Businesses advertise and market on the Internet. Online catalogs and advertising provide many opportunities, and online shopping is becoming more and more popular. There are lots of companies that are trying to make profit through the Internet. The Internet owes its design to the US Defense Department's project of 1969. The Internet was designed in part to provide a communications network that would work even if some of the sites were destroyed by nuclear attack. Then people in universities all over the world started to use the network to share ideas. They used it for work and for fun. In the 1980s, people started calling it the Internet.
1. A lot of companies use the Internet …
a) to reserve cyberspace; b) to download information; c) to sell their products.
2. The Internet first started...
a) for military reasons; b) for research purposes; c) for business.
3. In the USA the cost of monthly connection to the Internet is …
a) growing fast; b) twelve dollars; c) decreasing.
4. The word Netizen is used to describe...
a) a person who has a computer; b) a person who uses the Internet and its resources; c) a computer programmer.
5. American libraries provide Internet service for...
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a) a small charge; b) a sizeable amount of money; c) free.
Exercise 2. Fill in the gaps, inserting the word that is missing.
THE FUTURE OF TELEVISION
The increase in the number of available TV channels world wide is bound to have far reaching effects. Up to now, television has been a uniquely unifying national phenomenon. (1) …………. before have so many people had (2) …………. a common core of shared cultural experiences. (3) ………… creates a durable communal bond. You (4) ………… not know the names of your next-door (5) …………, but you can be fairly sure that over the past few days they have seen some of the same programmes you have. Before (6) …………, with the vast expansion of television programming, everyone will be able to watch (7) ………… different –‘Me TV’ perhaps- just as each Internet user (8) ………… explore a different selection of websites. The television will become a personal (9) ………… of equipment more like a mobile phone (10) ………… a communal source of entertainment. But it is also possible (11) ………… on these personalized machines, people will actually (12) ………… up watching fewer programmes: that television will become more (13) ………… the movie business, with a number of blockbusters attracting vast global (14) …………. . Viewers in all countries will (15) ………… day be able to pick their programmes in a global market. (16) ………… may still choose to watch their own national programmes since programmes (17) ………… at international markets, with the partial exception of those from America, (18) ………… to have smaller audiences than do national products. But, armed (19) ………… a credit card and a remote control, people will eventually order television programmes from (20) ………… they choose. The television business will then become truly global. So, perhaps, will the cultural values it instills.
Exercise 3. Check your knowledge giving a term to the description, the figure in the brackets means the number of the letters in the word.
1. The site of a nuclear disaster in 1986 (9)
2. Relating to or determined by the Sun (6)
3. A design to make radar or sonar detection difficult (7)
4. Device for making calls (9)
5. Reddish coating of iron oxide (4)
6. A long journey, typically by sea or in space (6)
7. British-French supersonic commercial airliner (8)
8. Shape of the Earth (5)
9. Element needed for respiration (6)
10. Serbian-US engineer and inventor, Nikola (5)
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